Sewing Patterns & Supplies

What is wrong with my sewing machine?

Every time I stitch it gathers at the bottom like this:

There is nothing wrong with the machine.

Remove the bobbin and bobbin case and make sure this area is clean.

Lift the presser foot and thread the machine - do this each time you change the thread.

Put the tension back to the setting reccomended by the mfg (see instruction manual).

Holding onto the thread at the needle, lower the needle by rotating the handwheel by hand to catch and bring up the bobbin thread. Pull both under the presser foot and to the back of the machine.

When the machine is threaded with the presser foot down, the thread does not drop into the tension and slips around like a wet noodle.

When the machine is threaded with the presser foot up, the tension control function opens and the thread can enter....and then when the foot is lowered the tension control can do it's business in controlling the amount of thread that is fed through the needle.

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