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Posted on Feb 21, 2011
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How do I adjust the presser foot's height when sewing thick fabric?

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  • Posted on Apr 22, 2009

SOURCE: Presser foot adjustment for fine fabric

Hi there, On the top of the machine in the left corner, there should be a knob of sorts. If you turn it to the right, it will releases some of the tension on the fabric. But you don't want to loosen it too much otherwise you won't feed the fabric thru at all.

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  • Posted on Feb 22, 2010

SOURCE: can i raise height of presser foot

Not unless the model you are using has more than one height adjustment. This would be addressed in the instruction manual for the machine.

If you raise the heigth of the presser foot too much, the tension control will open and the thread will not form a proper stitch - you will get a loopy stitch that will not hold.

Intersecting seams where you may have 8 layers of fabric can be flatten somewhat with a nylon hammer, or lay a cloth over the seam and use a regular hammer.

I use this when hemming jeans - the flat-feld seams are super thick when turned under for hemming.

Use a longer stitch length when sewing thick fabrics.

Make a sample, replicating what you will be sewing to test techniques and adjustments to the machine before sewing your project.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Aug 04, 2008

SOURCE: Presser foot down, but still get error "E1"

I had the same problem. It started after I took the cover off to fix something else. After I screwed the cover back on, I kept getting the E1 message even when the foot was already down. I took the cover off again, and I found that there is a metal tab at the top left of the front cover, that is pushed by a metal tab in the back that moves when you put the presser foot up or down. You can see this metal tab moving in the back if you put the foot up and down with the cover off. Just putting the foot down(I think) before putting the cover back on fixed it so one metal tab is on the correct side of the other metal tab.

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  • Posted on Oct 18, 2008

SOURCE: brother LS-2125 presser foot stuck

i bought a new brother stiching machine ls2125. when i started to stich the same no stiching is coming only the mark is coming. why?

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  • Posted on Jan 05, 2009

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