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Sewing Machine Troubles... PLEASE HELP!!?
so i got this great idea i wanted to sew, so before i commited to buying an expensive machine i went yardsale'in...found a singer 2517 in the box barely used for fifteen dollars with the crap manual. ha. so me being a beginner knowing nothing about sewing looked up instructions, found some awesome ones on singer.com.
i figured out how to thread the machine, wind the bobbin, load the bobbin, but my problem is when i bring up the bottom thread and start to sew, it sews my fabric to my machine. so please any advice or thoughts from someone more advanced and knows what they are doing. i have SO many great ideas i wanna do, but i can't even get the machine going. please help!!!
thank you!
Let's try some troubleshooting -- though I think you've probably got the stitch length set too short or you're misthreading the top a bit.
Unthread the machine completely. Top and bottom.
Find a piece of paper -- one of those magazine blowin cards does well for this -- and put it under the presser foot. Set up the machine for a straight stitch, length about 2-4mm or 6-8 stitches per inch. Drop the presser foot and sew. If the card moves forward under the presser foot, the feed dogs are up and working. If it doesn't, look in the manual or on the website for how to drop the feed dogs on this machine, and do the opposite.
Clean the machine as recommended by the manual. Use a brush and vacuum, not compressed air, which just blows lint in farther. If the manual recommends oil, use only sewing machine oil, not 3-in-1 type oils (they goo up and eventually freeze the machine) nor WD-40 type products (solvent, not lubricant, and when it evaporates, the machine freezes). $2 will get you a lifetime supply of sewing machine oil at Walmart or just about any fabric store.
Put in a new size 80/12 sewing machine needle, needle system HAx1 or 130/705H. Make sure it's right way around -- backwards needles won't pick up the bobbin thread. Damaged needles won't pick up the thread or do so intermittently, or cause all sorts of crazy machine problems that are a pain to find a fix. Needles need replaced every 2-8 hours of actual sewing time.
Rethread the machine from scratch, following the manual. Make sure you thread the upper portion of the machine with the presser foot up, to allow the thread to enter the upper tension.
Set the top tension to 4.
Fetch up the bobbin thread and pull about 3" of both top and bobbin thread under and behind the presser foot.
Now you're ready to test sew:
1) Put a double thickness of muslin (shirt weight cotton fabric) under the presser foot.
2) Use the handwheel or the needledown mechanism (if there is one on this machine) to drop the needle into the fabric.
3) Drop the presser foot.
4) Holding the tails of the thread behind the presser foot, take a couple of stitches.
5) Drop the thread tails and sew normally.
Those 5 steps are going to be used on each and every seam you sew.
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Now examine the stitching and tell us what it's like... see if any of it looks like the samples at
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/21916693 or http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/21916617 or http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/21916554 or http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/21916693
The last one is good stitching. The other three are all the result of me deliberately misthreading a nearly jamproof sewing machine...
Feel free to drop me an email if you need more help troubleshooting.
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