#sewing machine help

You bought your fancy new machine and now your decorative stitches look weird, it won't zigzag, and it won't change the needle position? Or you're trying to sew with the start/stop button on the front and the screen keeps displaying e08?

Tap this button and see if everything suddenly gets better.

This machine has a slider on the front. Under normal situations, the slider controls the maximum speed on the machine. When you press the button, you activate a setting where the slider on the front controls needle position or zigzag width. This setting overrules all other position/width settings, so it will affect your straight stitch, your decorative stitches, and your zigzag stitches. It also will not allow you to use your start/stop button, because that setting needs the speed control to operate normally, and activating this setting deactivates your speed control.

I'm trying to buy walking feet for a few of my machines. Both singers were easy to nail down what I needed, but I'm struggling to figure out what I need for my vintage pffaf. It's a pfaff 1035 tipmatic. It looks to be low shank. This machine has the most neck space out of all of mine, so I really want to get a walking foot to quilt easier.

If your machine is doing something you don't understand, engage your bobbin winder, and then disengage it.

This will probably not do anything. However, it's fast, it won't hurt anything, and a surprisingly large percentage of the time, it's actually the solution.

Notable cases: Baby Lock and Brother machines where the button turns orange. Janome machines where the LCD says "SP" or gives you a display that looks like "] [". Viking Emerald 118's where the button on the front stops working. Bernina machines where you turn it on and immediately hear a noise of a motor running. Mechanical machines where you step on the foot and hear the engine running but nothing is turning. Probably more, that's just what's in my head right now.

It's the solution rarely enough that you shouldn't expect it to fix it, but it's also the solution often enough that it should absolutely be part of your troubleshooting procedure. Go through the steps to engage your bobbin winder, make it turn for a couple rotations to make sure you've engaged it properly, and then disengage it.

Ok I am making this post to kinda half brag, half ask for help.

I thought she came with a old manual to help with figuring out how to care or fix her up.

BUT! Though it did. the manual is, let's just say, not usable. To delicate to falling apart.

First of all, do not put oil in there. In the last year, I've seen 5 machines where this would have worked, except that someone decided to drown the circuit board in oil. Basically zero parts of an entry level computerized brother can be fixed with oil. Put the oil away.

See how there's nothing stopping the oil you put on your feed teeth from going to your main circuit board? Don't do it.

See that combo of that little black gear and the white rack? That controls your feed. Sometimes, your machine gets stuck in reverse because the rack overshoot the gear, and then there's no connection to get it back down.

You can see this rack by taking off your stitch plate, and usually access it by poking at it with tweezers. Push it down a little bit, if it's going in reverse. Push it up a little bit if it's stuck at almost 0. Make sure you have theachinevturned off and unplugged before you dick around with this stepper motor, or the machine can get confused, try to fight you, and break itself more than it already is.

Stick it back together, and see if it's feeding now. If it is feeding semi-properly, try adjusting your stitch length.

Okay, so I just sold one of those to someone whose other machines are a Hello Kitty Janome and a vintage Singer in a table, and I had to immediately check if you and them were the same person. So if you're Singer in a table is a 201, you should really meet my other customers.

Also quick note to everyone who is interested in this machine: you can buy it from the company that I work for. It's an internet model, so I can sell it to anyone in the USA. I can price match anyone else selling it. If you buy it from me, I get credit for the sale and I make commission (but it doesn't cost you anything). So if you want a Bernette b79 Yaya Han edition, or probably any other sewing machine, please shoot me an ask and I'll give y'all my work email or my sale code.

So I personally don't like Yaya as a person, but the B79 is a pretty good deal if it's what you're looking for. The fact that it's got embroidery and it has the digitizing software is really the thing that pushes it into the really good price point. On the sewing side, the foot kit is a really good perk, especially because not a lot of places keep feet in stock that work with the dual feed.

But if you're really not interested in the embroidery, I'd suggest just getting the Bernette b77, which is the sewing-only version of the b79 (if you want the embroidery-only version of the b79, you're looking for the b70Deco). It's going to be about a thousand dollars cheaper. It, sadly, is not purple, but that's nothing a few stickers can't fix. My store's current price on the Yaya 79 is $2499 and our price on the b77 is $1499, so it's literally a thousand dollars.

(Or, if you're absolutely insane, you can get some Cricut infusible ink paper and an EasyPress mini and sublimate onto the front of your machine. It's the kind of plastic that takes sublimation. Isn't that absolutely bonkers wild?)

That said, if you're willing to spend the extra money, you would be getting embroidery with a very large hoop size (for a beginning sewing machine, anyway), the foot kit, the built-in stitches and designs, and Creator9. I tell creative people who are interested in embroidery machines that you should not consider embroidery software to be optional. There's a lifetime worth of fun premade designs and projects in the hoop, and most people are happy to jut use those, but most of the people who are in my age range would not feel like they're getting everything out of their embroidery machine if they can't digitize goofy ideas from scratch. Creator 9 is like a thousand dollars normally, so it's what I find really pushes the price of the Yaya machine into the "really good deal" range, if you ask me. But, if you're not interested in embroidery, it's not really worth paying the extra money.