My sewing machine is making a mess underneath, what is going wrong? It is threaded right by the way?
Underneath there is all sorts of extra thread and it pulls out (if you pull on it) (which is not supposed to happen) (which is bad). It is a really old Singer, but it still works just fine- besides what’s going on right now. Yah, it just uses WAY too much thread and bunches underneath (not the fabric). As I said, it’s all threaded correctly. It might have something to do with the tension, but I don’t know. Thanks for the help!
It could be that one of the tensions is not right, but my money is on what was always wrong *for me*, and thank goodness that’s simple to prevent!
The trick is to make sure you always hold the tail of your top thread *out of the way of the needle* when you first begin to sew. Otherwise it can get drawn down under the plate and plays heck under there, and you’ll end up with a frozen machine and a wad of messed up threads on the bottom side of the fabric.
To loosen the thread when this happens, so you can pull the fabric out far enough to clip the messed up thread, push the wheel back and forth a little while pulling gently on the fabric… at least that works for me. Each little push-pull allows the thread to release just a bit, till eventually there’s enough thread out to snip. (Then don’t forget to open the bobbin and make sure no excess thread is there, before starting to sew again).
(You can clip the tail of the upper thread after you’ve taken a few stitches unless you’re sewing straight backwards so you’re sure it won’t have a chance to get in the way).
Wish someone had told ME this when I first started sewing!!
ADDED LATER:
Someone mentioned the threading being exact, and that is another thing that happened to me… somehow the upper thread was jumping out of the lever-thingie that goes up and down… never knew why, but that would make it freeze!
HTH,
Diane B.
Sewing Help : Sewing Machine Problem: Thread Bunching Under Fabric
