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Needle Stops with Thick Material?

I recently acquired a Singer 319W. I was sewing 2 pieces of fabric together and it worked fine. Then I doubled up the fabric, but when I started to sew, the needle stopped when it hit the fabric, but the wheel kept turning. When I went back to the original 2 pieces of fabric, it was fine. Help!

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By Kris

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November 28, 20140 found this helpful

Your machine may not be designed to sew through 4 layers of some fabrics. You can take the machine to a repair shop for an explanation of just what the machine is able to do and if a repair will help.

 

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December 4, 20140 found this helpful

Hiya from Scotland, Kris, where I teach sewing and do some vintage machine repair for my students - mostly on Singers!

Your Singer 319W Swing-Needle machine should be able to take that thickness of fabric as it was built to handle everything from chiffon to farm weight (leathers, heavy duty feed sacks, etc) - since it isn't, there may be several reasons why it isn't:

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Did you adjust the feed dogs for the extra thickness?
Did you adjust your upper tension?
Are you using the correct needle and thread for the weight of the quadrupled fabric?

*Solutions for all of the above are listed in the user guide (owner manual), here's a link to a free download if yours has gone walkabout:

www.singerco.com/.../8831ff975559db4967c61611a81fa4ec0253dd97...

And here's a neat free download of an actual scan of an original (ignore the K designation, all it means is that machine the manual was printed for was built here in Scotland at the Clydesbank factory - have a look and you'll recognise all the same parts as on your W, depending on model year, the slight differences are mainly cosmetic only:)

ismacs.net/.../singer-319k-sewing-machine-manual...

 

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