Thread The Needle Day 2024 is on Thursday, July 25, 2024: Thread gets jammed in feed dogslower bobbin area?

Thursday, July 25, 2024 is Thread The Needle Day 2024. Threading a needle day Threading A Needle Day is July

Can you stitch? Thread The Needle Day is a possibility to obtain dirt off your sewing abilities, or to discover exactly how if you don't know exactly how. Why not plan a sew-a-thon, or sewing lessons with friends to celebrate?

Have you broken any needles? If so, there may be a burr that's catching thread. Stretch a piece of pantyhose nylon or polyester or silk lining fabric tightly over your forefinger and feel for burrs on the presser foot, needle plate, feed dogs and sewing hooks. On a garage sale clunker, I'd then suggest that you polish out any dings you find with a little emery cloth, but this is a new machine and you'd probably void the warranty doing that.

Pull the needle plate and clean, especially around the feed dog areas and in the bobbin case area. You're looking for a little scrap of thread that could be keeping the bobbin case from seating correctly. Reassemble carefully. When you're in there, also look for tiny needle shards from broken needles. Vacuum out detritus -- don't just use canned air to blow it in further.

Put a piece of paper under the presser foot, drop the presser foot, set for a long straight stitch, and, with an unthreaded machine, turn the handwheel and figure out which direction causes the paper to be transported from the front to the back of the machine. Write that direction down on a piece of paper and tape it to the machine. (I think of the two possible directions as "push" or "pull", based on what I'd be doing with my hand on top of the handwheel).

Set the upper tension on 4. Thread the top of the machine (yes, yet again!) with manual in hand and with -->> presser foot up<<-- When the presser foot is up, the tension disks are open, and there is no tension on the upper thread. When you drop the presser foot to sew, the tension disks close, giving you upper thread tension. (Newbie tip: even though it sounds dumb, I suggest reading each step in the manual out loud before you do it. Seems to slow the brain down enough that the fingers catch up and it gets done correctly.)

Thread the bobbin (yes, reading out loud again), and fetch up the bobbin thread. Make sure the thread is evenly wound on the bobbin, the bobbin is in the case correctly, and the bobbin is right side up, so the direction of thread inside the bobbin case is correct.

Pull about 4" of top and bobbin thread under and behind the presser foot.

Each and every seam you're going to start like this:

1) Use the handwheel or the needle up/down control to drop the needle into the beginning of the seam. Start at least 1/8" from any cut edge of the fabric. You must turn the handwheel in the direction that will cause fabric to move from the front to the back of the machine.

2) Drop the presser foot.

3) Hold the bobbin and top thread behind the presser foot, taut, for the first couple of stitches.

4) Drop the bobbin and top thread ends

5) Finish sewing the seams.

More on how minor misthreading can make a good machine do crazy stitching:

Needle and thread test?

The needle and thread test told me that we were having a boy. Ive had two ultrasounds since 20 weeks + both tell me it's a little girl. Definitely incorrect for me. But it could work for you! :o) Most of the old wives tales were wrong for me. I crave spicy foods and have no morning sickness, which most of the time means boy.. but nope-she's a she! :o) OR I at least hope that the ultrasounds were correct. If not, he's gunna have lots and lots of pink clothes & have a lady bug themed nursery. We'll find out in about 9 days. Hehe. <3

How much do sewing thread and needles at walmart cost?

Standard spool of Coats dressmaker thread (the poly-core poly-wrapped version) they carry is about $1.50; hand sewing needles are about $1.20/pack, machine needles about $4.

Walmart is doing its best to kill the sewing department in most stores, so you may not find what you need. I stopped at one the other day to pick something up and thought I'd grab another bottle of machine oil -- $2 before Christmas, gone now. One pack of hand needles, and the sorriest collection of fabrics I think I've seen.