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How to Thread a Sewing Machine

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  • Oshie85 Flag

    Thank Thank YOU!!!!!!!!!
    I tried looking at youtube videos to teach me how to use a sewing machine and they were no good for me. I am honestly thankful to you because to me, you are very descriptive. The bobbin part was just so difficult for me to understand in the manual, thanks to you, it should be easier. Thank you!

  • kukulasto Flag

    oh i love it
    oh my god i had the same problem but thnx to u i fixed it i did not know how to use the bobbin part

  • tinka590 Flag

    You saved me
    from a fate worse than embarassment. I bought a sewing machine coz i had bright ideas (2 years ago) and promised to use it one day. That day came and i could not find the manual. Thanks to your videos I have been able to wind, thread and sew all in a hour - 2o minutes of that was finding the material. So thank you Beth - your videos are great.

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How to Thread a Sewing Machine

This video will show how to thread a sewing machine.

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Beth Bates: Hi, I am Beth Bates with sewteacher.com. Today, we are learning how to work your sewing machine. In this clip, we will be talking about how to thread your sewing machine. I am going to turn the machine like this that you can see, you place your spool of thread here on this stick. The thread needs to unwind from the front, not the back like this, at the front. Put it through this first hook, turn it again, you are going to come down through here. This machine actually has an arrow showing you. You turn this so that it comes up, you can see it and even though this seems sort of like a random obstacle course, this is all very important for the timing, bring it back down through.

There is another little hook here on the side and then you are going to actually thread the needle. Grab the tail, pull it out. Okay, now, from the previous clip, we have already wound our bobbin, hold on to this, turn your handle manually till it catches the bobbin. So you should have two threads coming out like this and we pull it to the side. Put your sewing machine back together and you are ready to start sewing.

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