To start sewing on a sewing machine, it should as simple as, threading the machine. Putting your fabric under the machine foot and then placing your foot on the peddle to start sewing.
Yet doing this can make your machine more stop working and threads to become tangled. See below for tips about how to start and end sewing correctly.
How to Start and End Sewing
To help your machine have less chance of getting tangled, follow this step by step process before sewing.
- Thread your machine correctly, ensure needle is raised.
- Put your fabric into the machine under the lowered foot.
- Hold the end of the top thread and turn the handle forward.
- To lower and raise the needle once, in and out of the fabric.
- Once the needle is up, gently tug the top thread.
- So the bottom thread comes-up through the fabric.
- Gentle pull both the top thread and bottom thread.
- Pull them out to the length of approx 10cms.
- Lift the machine foot and slide both threads to the back of the machine.
- Under the machine foot, the foot may have a little gap to do this.
- Then again lower the needle into the fabric, leave it in this time.
- Then start sewing, simple!
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