To get a guarantee that your machine will work with fabric, you'll need to order the Fabric Adjustment with your machine and mail in a sample of the fabric you wish to use. If you do not do this there's no "guarantee" that it will work.
However, from personal experience, I'm pretty confident that most of our machines will do just fine. I've made fabric buttons on all 8 of our display machines and haven't encountered a problem I couldn't work through yet.
So - if you're crafty and into experimenting, I'd say just get a machine and go for it. If you run into problems, try some of these techniques:
- Use thicker fabric
- Add a couple more layers of fabric
- Add a layer of paper under the fabric
- Put mylar on top of the fabric
On the other hand - if you're going into business doing monogram buttons or something and need to make 1,000 fabric buttons in 2 days, you should go ahead and get the fabric adjustment.
You can get the fabric adjustment done to a machine you already own, but you'll also have to pay to ship it both ways so that can be pricey.
See this post for more fabric button info and a tutorial.
1 comment:
Hello, have you tried making fabric buttons using your 7/8" machine without adjustment? Also, would the machine still work with paper once it's adjusted for fabric? Thank you! :)
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