[amayausers] Re: Hints for Hat sewing
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- Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 17:00:41 UT
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finally took all the notes posted here about doing hats (mostly for the
original Amaya, bear with me!) and decided to finish up an order from last
November. Mostly structured hats, and 'gasp' those dreaded FlexFit from Alpha.
Went over all the hints on hooping, holding and rubbing down hat face, lining
up carefully, etc.
Still ran into some problems with alignment-so I slowed the machine down to 400
spm and watched. Problem solved!
The hat was hooped tight, backing was firm, brim in place, BUT the right hand
'clamp' holding the CCF frame let the hat 'bounce' up when the needle plate
would run into the bent over backing underneath. Once this happened, the right
hand edgew was no longer firmly held in-and the hat had shifted 1/16th or so.
Enough to make all further sewing misaligned. So I got out the pliers, and
carefully tightened up the adjustment on that clamp until I could no longer
easily pop the hoop out from under it.
Ran the rest of the hats with no problems-other than the typical multiple
thread breaks right down the center of the front seam.
So, my suggestion to pass along...put the hoop without a hat into the hat frame
on the amaya, and push up on the 'black bar'...if it 'pops' out from one clamp
easily, tighten it up.
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