needle plates

There is message on another list about needle plates, & I wonder if
anyone has had the same trouble with fabric going down the slot.. and
did buying a single hole plate for embroidery solve the problem ?

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There is message on another list about needle plates, & I wonder if
anyone has had the same trouble with fabric going down the slot.. and
did buying a single hole plate for embroidery solve the problem ?

IME it won't - you need to hoop the fabric and/or use a stabiliser,
depending what you're doing, and what you're doing it on.
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AJH
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A single hole for embroidery would not work as most use a zig zag stitch. As
the other poster suggests proper hoop fitting and perhaps stabilizer is the
answer.


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There is message on another list about needle plates, & I wonder if
anyone has had the same trouble with fabric going down the slot.. and
did buying a single hole plate for embroidery solve the problem ?

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There is message on another list about needle plates, & I wonder if
anyone has had the same trouble with fabric going down the slot.. and
did buying a single hole plate for embroidery solve the problem ?

Couldn't really use the decorative or even the zigzag stitches with the
usual single hole plate. A piece of tissue paper on both top and bottom
of the work solves that problem.

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There is message on another list about needle plates, & I wonder if
anyone has had the same trouble with fabric going down the slot.. and
did buying a single hole plate for embroidery solve the problem ?

I haven't tried doing embroidery, but for normal sewing the single hole
needle plate helps tremendously in preventing the fabric going down the
hole.

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In article , Kathy Morgan of
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I haven't tried doing embroidery, but for normal sewing the single hole
needle plate helps tremendously in preventing the fabric going down the
hole.
Until, as mentioned by others, you need to use other than a straight
stitch. If, on a basic straight-stitch seam, it keeps happening, I'd be
looking at tensions, stitch length etc, because there's something adrift
with what you're doing
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AJH
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Hi !! To all who answered.. Many Thanks. I was using a hoop, I was
using stabiliser ( 2 layers of iron on ! and one on top of solvy..! on
a tee shirt , using a Husqvarna Designer 1 which had just been
serviced.. If the hoop does the moving and the needle remains
stationary, it should be OK on an embroidery machine.. or does anyone
know different ?

On basic sewing it is fine.. it just occurs sometines =BD way through a
complex embroidery design.. very annoying, as it happens os fast and
then makes a hole in the fabric

On 3 Jun 2005 02:52:47 -0700, wrote:

On basic sewing it is fine.. it just occurs sometines ½ way through a
complex embroidery design.. very annoying, as it happens os fast and
then makes a hole in the fabric


Occasionally this has happened to me when I'm doing a design with very
dense stitching. The needle seems to get "stuck" in the stitches and
pulls the fabric up into the needle plate hole. My suggestion is to
check the design and adjust the density of the stitching.

wrote:

Hi !! To all who answered.. Many Thanks. I was using a hoop, I was
using stabiliser ( 2 layers of iron on ! and one on top of solvy..! on
a tee shirt , using a Husqvarna Designer 1 which had just been
serviced.. If the hoop does the moving and the needle remains
stationary, it should be OK on an embroidery machine.. or does anyone
know different ?

That should be OK. The question is why the fabric is getting caught in
the first place. We have a Husqvarna Rose, in use all the time, and no
fabric has ever been caught in the needle plate during embroidery.

Is it possible that the tshirt fabric isn't taut enough in the hoop?
What sort of thread and needle is being used? What sort of thread in the
bobbon? New needle for each project? Remember the needle goes through
the fabric thousands of times. Experiment on a scrap tshirt of the same
weight.