Sewing Machine Threads
Inserting the bobbin into my sewing machine and it’s jamming when turned on?
The lower sewing thread area of my new sewing machine (the bobbin thread) looks like it’s inserted correctly. However, when I try to sew a piece of fabric, the machine makes this disturbing noise and I end up getting WAY too much thread on the bottom of my fabric. (AND the fabric is stuck to the machine. *snip snip!*) Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong? HELP!!! =]
Take all the thread off the machine… top and bobbin. Dig out the manual and re-thread, following the manual entirely. Make sure the presser foot is up when you’re threading the top (raising the presser foot opens the top tension so the thread can enter that area). You can lower the foot to actually thread the needle.
— Thread loops on the bottom of fabric: top tension is set too light, dirty, or thread isn’t in the tension. (Normal tension setting for most fabrics and thread is “4″)
– Thread loops on the top of the fabric: bobbin thread isn’t in the bobbin case tension, dirty tension, or bobbin tension mis-set (normally not something a new machine needs to have adjusted).
– Thread caterpillars on the underside of the fabric, usually followed by a clunk sound, fabric getting sucked down the needle slot and much cussing: you didn’t start the seam correctly. Here’s how:
1. Pull 6-8″ of thread through the eye of the needle.
2. Fetch up the bobbin thread and pull out 4-6″.
3. Raise the thread takeup lever to the highest point of its travel — the thread take up lever is the little gadget that bobbs up and down in time to the needle, and is on the pillar above the needle. This step is not needed if you have a machine that automagically stops with the needle in a raised position each time.
4. Raise the presser foot
5. Pull the bobbin and top thread behind the foot. Use the handwheel to insert the needle into the work. Drop the presser foot.
6. With your left hand, hold the bobbin and top thread behind the work. Use the handwheel (turn it in the proper direction!) to make 1-3 stitches. Release the thread ends and continue to sew.
(Common beginner’s issues you’ll also run into: A. watch the edge of the fabric, not the needle. It knows what to do.
B. Guide the fabric, don’t stretch it front and back, or push or pull it through the needle. The feed dogs move the fabric at the proper rate for the stitch length. C. putting the needle in backwards. This is probably the commonest cause I see for skipped stitches or none at all.)
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