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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.
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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