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Posted by Ron Anderson on January 27, 2007, 7:14 pm
The problem is called flagging. It is not at all an uncommon cause of
skipped stitches. What happens is the material being sewn, and ultra suede
is a great example, adheres itself to the needle. Given there is/was no
support from the foot or the needle plate the material sticking to the
needle will close the loop that is necessary to from the stitch resulting in
a skipped stitch.
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Ron Anderson A1 Sewing Machine
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> Maybe this is not earth shattering, but I thought I'd post something
> relevant to sewing besides all the spam that's showing up (M15???).
> I thought I had my skipped stitches problem fixed but it started on
> a new blouse I'm making. I'm topstitching a placket made of
> ultrasuede right next to the front zipper. I wanted the stitching to
> be very close to the edge of the ultrasuede which is very close to the
> zipper (zipper is a design element and shows), so I used a zipper
> foot. I got several places with 2-3 skipped stitches, and went back
> and tried to fill them in with no luck. I tried putting more pressure
> on the presser foot, and less. Did not work. I was really frustrated
> and put it aside for awhile. I thought about it and came back to it
> and looked closely at the adjustment of the needle to the zipper
> foot. There is a little cutout in the zipper foot and my needle was
> outside of the cut. It was where I usually have it adjusted. I
> carefully adjusted the foot so that the needle was inside the cutout
> as close as it could go without hitting the metal of the foot. Then I
> topstitched another side of the placket and the stitches were
> perfect! Such a simple thing!
> Cheryl
>
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