OT, sort of - stitching problem with Bernina 440QEE

Posted by Maureen Wozniak on November 13, 2009, 8:57 am

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:10:12 -0600, Carole-Retired and Loving It wrote

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Oh, I understand your frustration. I know you've rethreaded, but sometimes
it is just so easy to overlook a little guide or spring or miss the tension
disk. You think you are doing it right, but if you miss that one little
spot, you get problems. Can you take the machine to the dealer and have her
watch you thread the machine? She might spot you're problem right away

Maureen

Posted by Carole-Retired and Loving It on November 13, 2009, 3:40 pm

PROBLEM SOLVED!!!! :) I did have to take the machine down to the
Sewing Center, and luckily the repairman was there and looked at it
right away. He had to do some "surgery" on the bobbin case. The
spring wasn't correctly seated and was about to fall out. Once he did
that, he sat down and sewed some beautiful straight lines. Then he
had me totally re-thread the machine to make sure I was doing it right
(I was) and had me sew for a bit. It worked fine.

So now it's back home and set up again. I've started with another
thread, another freshly wound bobbin, and it still works! I even
played around with a lot of the decorative and specialty stitches, and
the small alphabets. Total success.

Next step - adjusting to use Bottom Line thread in both top and
bottom, as that is how I was already quilting the quilt-in-progress.
I'm straight line stitching some of the motifs, so I'm going to try
out the walking foot.

Step 2 - Experiment with free-motion with the BSR.

Step 3 - Open the box with the embroidery module and experiment with
that.

These steps may take weeks or months! :)

Carole D. - Retired and loving it in the foothills of NW Georgia

My quilts, crafts, QIs, and more - http://home.windstream.net/caroledoyle

Posted by Sandy on November 13, 2009, 4:57 pm

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Hurray, Carole! :D I'm so glad for you! You may want to join (if you
haven't already) a Bernina Yahoo group at
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they're full of great information, especially if you're getting into
embroidery. I'm pretty quiet there, since I don't have the embroidery
module, but I still get quite a bit of useful information from them. :)

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Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
sw.foster1 (at) gmail (dot) com (remove/change the obvious)
http://www.sandymike.net

Posted by Carole-Retired and Loving It on November 13, 2009, 5:40 pm

Thanks for the link to the Yahoo group. I had found one just for the
440 but it seems to be inactive at this point. I've signed up for the
one you've given the link to and am waiting on moderator approval.

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Carole D. - Retired and loving it in the foothills of NW Georgia

My quilts, crafts, QIs, and more - http://home.windstream.net/caroledoyle

Posted by Sandy on November 13, 2009, 10:12 pm

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And I've now seen and replied to your message there! :) I hope you can
get as much out of that group as I have. For one thing, when my BSR
started going a bit whacky, they had the answer -- and my tech was able
to fix it in less than a day. :)

--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
sw.foster1 (at) gmail (dot) com (remove/change the obvious)
http://www.sandymike.net

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