Hi my friend, well I never thought I would be giving some advice to you. I do a lot of lettering and I find with small letters it helps to lower the speed. I would also use a ball point needle.
I know your machine is a multi needle. I also only use prewound but I find there is no weight in the bobbin. I now wind the prewound on to a plastic bobbin and it works brilliantly.
I use a ball point 75 large eye titanium and no show mesh stabilizer for knit shirts. Usually works great . Let us know what works best for you. Kay
I feel your pain! Try using a 60 wt or 80 wt top thread and an 80 or 100 wt thread in the bobbin. Using standard #40 thread with a #9 needle can cause problems as the thread takes up too much of the needle eye with small stitching too....RNK Distributing makes a micro-tech thread just for small lettering...
I wondered if it needed a finer thread......will check this out. I can't change my bobbin as I buy the prewound ones, with this multineedle machine I don't have a way to wind my own.
Vicki, will you machine take a metal bobbin? Mine uses paper sided prewounds Size L, but will also use a metal size L bobbin that I can wind myself with a stand alone bobbin winder...
Definitely using bobbin weight thread on top for tip stitching is the answer. I helped a friend do small lettering on a quilted jacket and we had the same issue until changing to the finer thread. Sulky has a line of this type of thread in different colors just for this application. Hugs. Nan W
Thank you so much, Nan........I will look into this finer thread for sure.....
Hi Vicki, great suggestions below, I've not done much stitching on those polo type fabrics, but what about a ballpoint needle? I know some fabrics require different needles and also threads differ! Love Chris
P.S. They look great, but I can see what you mean by the thread breaking, what a lot of frustration.
A thread conditioner??
A different brand of thread. Floriani thread does this to me. It is wound one way Isacord is wound the other and does not shread.
A finer weight - I have a thread for text or script that is finer than my standard embroidery thread.
A needle with a larger eye - top stitch or metalic?
Sometimes one works sometimes another.
That is alI use is Isacord thread, I did wonder if I needed a finer thread for thus small of text...
I have this problem too, especially with small letters and especially with candlewicking when using my Bablylock, but not on my Bernina. I find that using a topstitch needle instead of a sharp helps. Also, slowing down the speed. I can't get the Babylock to stitch slow enough, but my Bernina can go quite slow as it is an older machine. I hope someone else will have a better answer for the both of us!
Thank you.....I did slow machine way down and didn't make a difference.....