{"id":68694,"date":"2025-11-24T06:56:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=68694"},"modified":"2025-11-20T16:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:44:40","slug":"misbehaving-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/misbehaving-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Misbehaving Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

I talked about the poor stitch quality<\/a> on my main machine the other day. I did some investigation while I was away, sort of by accident. <\/p>\n

\"Backup<\/a>
Backup machine flush in cabinet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I used my travel machine while in Portland. By comparing the two I found some very interesting behavior to be taking place with my regular machine.  I found the stitch quality on my travel machine<\/a> to be no problem. Going over thick sections of bags and hems was also no problem. The travel machine did not suck the fabric down into the workings.  <\/p>\n

\"Janome<\/a>
Janome 6600<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I got back to working my 6600 hard when I got home. I found that I had to change the stitch length to get the same sized stitch as the default on my travel machine. As I worked on the Colorblock Chubby Charmer<\/a>, I found that the stitch length didn’t really change when I got some thickness under the foot. <\/p>\n

I had this machine serviced recently and it got the all clear from Angie. However, I am not happy with what I am experiencing. I need a good stitch quality. Perhaps I will try making the same Chubby Charmer on the smaller machine and see how the stitch does? I can’t complain too much about the 6600. I bought it used at least 15 years ago and have been working it hard ever since. I didn’t think machine wore out, but maybe they do? I guess we’ll see what comes next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I talked about the poor stitch quality on my main machine the other day. I did some investigation while I was away, sort of by accident.  I used my travel machine while in Portland. By comparing the two I found some very interesting behavior to be taking place with my regular machine.  I found the … Continue reading “Misbehaving Machine”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-68694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-sewing-machine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68694"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68860,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68694\/revisions\/68860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}