How to Thread a Sewing Machine: Part 2

Video Transcript

"On behalf of expertvillage.com my name is Neal Jones and I’m with A Perfect Fit Alterations, 102 Main Street, Burleson, Texas, our phone number is 817-447-3522. Continuing with our threading of our basic machine, we were able to get the thread positioned on the top of the machine and of course the emphasis here is on making sure that the thread flows smoothly from the spool and into the machine. Now in order to accomplish that, there is a small tension bollard right there that is able to keep a little bit attention on the thread to stop it from becoming tangled. Now the first thing that we go through on this would be the tension dial, now the tension dial although it’s over here, the thread would pass over here which the mechanism joins underneath here so that you’ll be able to do that. Now this is the upper tension for this thread that we’re putting it and it has a fairly, the numbers that are in heavy print there are the ones that are the norms, we normally have a fairly 4-5-3, so 4 would be your mean adjustment for the tension on the top. So we would go through the tension disks, now the pressure foot control which we talked about when we were looking at the back of the machine, also releases the pressure on this mechanism here, so when we have the pressure foot in the up position, we always do that when we’re threading the machine so that when we put the thread through here it falls easily into the disks that will create the pressure. Now we talked about the door earlier and we can open the door to help us do the threading, there is always a guide on the front of the machine that will...an arrow that will show us in case we forget where it needs to go, there’s a slot that goes all the way down here. We come down to the bottom and we’ll make a turn and there’s an arrow there that’s telling us to go back up, it’s not absolutely essential to open that door but it does give us a little clearer picture of what’ s going on. Now the next part of the threading to make sure that we have it in the right position, there’s a little spring-loaded mechanism in the bottom there as it comes up, it needs to click into that little spring-loaded mechanism and what that does is as the stitch is being formed at the bottom, it actually that little spring in there, pulls and makes the thread tight as it’s working at the bottom. The next thing is the take up arm, now the take up arm has a little slot on the back of it and the thread goes over, goes over and comes back toward you and goes into the little slot at the bottom here, as the thread goes down, it is very important to follow the guides, the guides go down through, there’s a metal guide here, a guide here and the last guide is right above the needle and then we would go down here and then the thread would go through the needle. "