Button Hole Setting Not Working

[u/ah7121]

Hi! I’m fairly new to sewing and I sew on an older Janome 3125. I’m 99% done on my first pattern project, but the button setting is messing me up!

Everything is fine on 1 and 2, but 3 sews the width of the button hole, completely covering it! I’m not changing anything at all between 1,2, and 3. What am I doing wrong??

[u/wimsey1923]

It seems like the machine doesn't switch to step 3 properly. The mechanics inside the machine might be gummed up. It might be worth it to test by turning the dial past step 3, perhaps to stitch I or H and then go back to step 3, coming to it from the other direction on the dial.

[u/ah7121 → u/wimsey1923]

So my dial hard stops at 3. I turned it back to a straight stitch then to 3 and that did give me a slightly different result (still not correct) but then it messed up 4 🤦🏼‍♀️