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Hello all again!
I was wondering if maybe I am pulling my quilts too tight, when I have the top and the bottom and then I try to snug them up for quilting, the top bars seem to bend in the middle, and I am wondering if anyone else has this type of problem? Thanks for your help!!
Make sure that your backing is perfectly straight. I've found when there is selvage edges on the sides of the back, it will not give and makes the center looser which could cause the quilt to sag in the middle making us want to tighten everything up and maybe making the polls bend. Remember to put the smaller sections of polls to the left and the larger toward the middle. I think there are two 4 foot polls and one 2 foot poll that came with the machine. When reading some of the problems with sagging polls, the ladies said that they had the 2 foot section in the center. Good luck.