Are we ready to get started?
Start off by plugging in your machine, underneath the power on-off switch, and go ahead and
turn it on. I will also plug the foot control in, right here, along the edge. By the way,
when you do travel, you're going to wrap your foot control cord up clockwise, and it has
this really nice little place that will catch. You double back here, and here, and then take
the cord and slip it right into the edge of the machine, or into the foot control. That's
where it all stays.
You can uncoil as much as you need so you don't have extra cord running around. We also
want to make sure that you plug your machine into type of surge protector or even a battery
backup. That's going to really make the difference. By the way, there' s a little lever right
below where your foot control plugs in. That's for lowering your feed-dogs. You can push
that all the way in or all the way out, depending if you want them up or down.
Okay, here we go. We'll turn the machine back around, and then go ahead and turn it back
on. Here she comes.
First thing we want to do is peel off some of this plastic here. We don't need this on
our front of our machine. Then there's also a little piece here covering up the door for
your bobbin, and one more piece of Styrofoam for when they ship that out. We'll just toss
that away. All right.
We're going to start off by getting a bobbin and we're going to fill up the bobbin up here
at the top, and in our accessory box, what we're going to do is take a look at our spool
and pull out the medium size spool cap, and an empty bobbin here. The reason for this
is because when we put it on, we want to be able to just match the size of the spool that
we're working with. Go ahead and slide that on. This is a cross-wound thread, so we want
to lay it down on, so it comes off the end. It does not matter which way this thread comes
off. It doesn't matter from the front or the back. We're going to slide it across. There's
a guide right here at the top, at the back of the machine here. We're going to come underneath
that so the thread comes straight across, catches that guide.
Now right up here is the pretension or for winding a bobbin. There's a little arrow that
even shows us which way to go around it. Go ahead and go around it. You can do bobbins
one of two ways. You can actually take the thread and from the inside to out, so see
how I'm pulling this thread out the top? We can thread it through and then put it onto
the bobbin winder up here at the top. I can hold my thread straight up from there. We'll
go ahead and do that. Then we can just engage it. Or, if you want, you can just take the
thread, because there's little ridges in here, go ahead and wrap it around multiple times,
and here's what I do, there's a little cutter right underneath this bobbin winder. When
I put my thread underneath it, you can just tap it and it will turn it on.
The bobbin's going really slow right now because the speed is actually close to minus, so we're
going to speed it up. That will fill that nice big bobbin up perfectly, stopping when
it is full.
Now if it doesn't fill nice and even, kind of up and down and nice and tight, you don't
have it in that little pretensioner here, where you have wrapped it around. Make sure
it gets in that little spring part of that area. When you're done you can just lift straight
up and then go ahead and just use the thread cutter once again. Take your bobbin around
the back and it will cut it right off for you.
When we are ready to thread the machine, we undo it from the pretensioner. That is not
in use when we do our threading for the sewing machine. Be sure your presser foot is up at
this time, so when you thread down, we're coming down. There's even a little arrow pointing
you to each direction. Come up underneath this silver kind of cover. You're going to
come all the way in on the right side, and then come down on the left. It needs to hook
into that little eye. You'll see it, but you don't have to actually thread the eye, it
just goes up and around and drops into it. Make sure it drops all the way down.
There is a guide right at the base of the machine head, so go behind it, coming in from
the right side. Then there's one guide at the top of the needle. Make sure you catch
that one, too. Then we will use the needle threader. I'm going to go fairly fast here,
but we will do a video that actually shows the use of the needle threader. But boy, once
you get used to a needle threader, you kind of are glad it's there, whether you can see
or not.
Okay, for putting your bobbin in, we're going to take our blue bobbin that we've just wound.
You want to hold this bobbin so the thread is coming off the right-hand side. Go ahead
and drop that in. You should see the hole spin clockwise. That is very important. Go
ahead and bring it over. You're going to see a little groove on the side here. The little
groove, drop it down there. Then I always hold the bobbin at the top, so it doesn't
spin. It puts a little resistance. You're going to bring it down the side, see where
that little C area is? I'm going to click it in there. It can sit right in that spot.
It doesn't matter what side this is, but I will tell you, once you get your bobbin in,
I'd like you to become left handed. Use your left hand index finger to pull this latch
out.
When you pull this latch out, that prevents the bobbin from falling out while you're trying
to put it in. If you're trying to get it out, let go of the latch, and it will just drop
right on out. When you hold it, then this little finger is straight up, and then it
will go ahead and fit easily down in the machine.
Now, there is a thread cutter right here on the right side. Drop the thread down that
side and just close the door. You can forget about it. We're going to take our thread,
underneath the presser foot, there is a groove on the right side, look for that. Then you
can just set your thread out. Let's go ahead and just make sure everything is threaded
up, and then we'll get into a little bit more close up on how we use the needle threader
and how that bobbin works and so forth.
When you turn the machine on, it's just ready to go at a straight stitch. You'll usually
hear a little bit of an initiation stitch, so it sounds a little bit louder than when
you sew, so just be aware of it. It's every time you turn the machine on. Oh, how smooth
does that sound? When you're done, the needle will stop up. Lift up your presser foot in
the back, and the thread cutter on the side of the machine works from front to back. When
you drop your fabric down that side, a lot of times that thread will be held up here
for you, so you just can let it be. Then when you go to sew again, that will come up and
be ready to sew.
We'll talk about not having to hold onto these threads, how easy it is. We're going to get
into all the buttons, all your stitches, and how to move around your screen, and pick all
the decorative stitches. Every page in the manual, we are going to feature how to specifically
use that particular technique.
Let's keep going.