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If you're anything like me then you love an old Singer sewing machine. They just seem to go and go. When I was just a teenager, I bought a used singer and really learned to sew on it. I kept it many years.
I've had several used Singer sewing machines. You can find them at yard sales, resale shops, or in the classifieds. I bought one once for only $5 and that's what I used until my latest used Singer. This one was really nice. It had a beautiful wood cabinet, was newer than any I had previously owned and even had the original instruction manual.
Since no one had taught me to sew, I didn't realize until I read that instruction book that I had been threading my machines wrong all those years. That is the downside of getting a used Singer sewing machine. The upside is that apparently it will still sew even if it's not threaded correctly.
So for everyone who chances upon an old Singer sewing machine at a yard sale, flea market or where ever you found yours, here is the correct way to thread it.
1. Use your right hand to turn the wheel on the right side of your machine until it raises the needle to its highest point.
2. Place your spool of thread on the spool pin on the top of your machine.
3. Pull the thread through the little metal loop on the top left side of the machine just right of the little arm that goes up and down.
4. Pull the thread down around your Needle-Thread tension from the right side. It is a small numbered wheel located on the front left side of your machine.
5. As the thread comes back up on the left side of the wheel, slide it on the little arm. It has a hook on the end that grabs the thread.
6. Now pull your thread down toward your needle.
7. Where the body of your machine ends will be a slot you'll put your thread through.
8. Then pull the thread to just above your needle. There will be one last slot for your thread before you actually thread your needle.
9. Leave at least a 4 inch thread tail after you thread your needle so that when you start sewing the thread won't be pulled back out through the needle.
10. Before you start sewing, you should turn your wheel a few times so your bobbin thread will catch and pull up through the machine. When you have both pieces of thread, pull them toward the back of the machine and you're ready to start sewing.
For those of you who also need some help on threading your bobbin here is the directions for that.
1. Put your thread on the spool pin on the top of your machine.
2. There is a little loop with a little round knob on the top of your machine near the front left of your machine. It is just right of the little arm that goes up and down. It is actually called a bobbin winder tension and thread guide.
3. You pull the thread around the back and left side of the round knob. The thread will come around the front and be pulled to the top right side of the machine.
4. At this point you should start the thread onto a bobbin. Pull the thread through the hole and after it has wound clip this little tail off.
5. At the top right of your machine, you will see a little bobbin winder. It's a little pin that you'll sit your bobbin on.
6. There will be some lever that can be closed against the bobbin.
7. On the right side of your machine is a wheel. In the middle of the wheel is a smaller wheel. This is the hand wheel knob. You will need to hold the wheel and and turn the knob toward you until it loosens. This will keep the needle from moving while you run the machine to thread the bobbin.
8. Now run your machine. When the bobbin is threaded the machine will stop. Remember to tighten the wheel knob.
9. For a machine that you just sit your bobbin in, you will put it in with the thread coming from the bottom left.
10. After you sit the bobbin in, take the thread and pull it into the slot available. There should also be a hole when you shut the cover that you will lay the thread through. It just keeps the thread from getting hooked up so that when you do step 10 in threading your machine it will come through the machine easy. |
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