I cannot speak highly enough of the dedication and thoroughness and support of PCQ's long arm committee. They took seriously my issues with quilting the teal quilt. They scheduled a thread testing session and work day for themselves and invited me to bring my teal thread for them to test.
They tweaked everything they possible could. They got the machine to quilt perfectly and I was able to start quilting my quilt. No more eyelashes on the back!
Looking good!
Two thirds of the way quilted, and I ran out of bobbin. After inserting the new bobbin, the machine made a funny sound and acted up again. Major eyelashes. The girls on the committee tweaked some more, did a lot of testing, and after four hours that afternoon, called it a day with plans to reconvene the next morning. I took the quilt off the frame, took it home and removed the bad quilting.
Next morning the girls on the committee tweaked everything some more. They cleaned and adjusted everything again and again. They tried my teal thread and they tried white thread, same type. They tried different bobbins. They even tried a different bobbin case. Finally they were satisfied with the quilting and I was able to finish the last two passes. There were a couple of thread breaks and a couple of small birds nests on the underside, but those are small and near enough to the edge that I can unpick the bad parts and restitch on my domestic machine.
I'm grateful to the members of the committee for their dedication to solving the problem and helping me get my project quilted. I hope no one else has to deal with such problems next time they're quilting.
I have another reserved time slot on the 8th - this week! - and I'll be quilting my grandson's quilt with minky backing. Wish me luck!
