To get started, begin by plugging in the power cord and foot control.
It’s all in one.
Go ahead and put your foot control on the floor and then let’s go ahead and find our
on/off switch on the side of the machine.
When this machine was opened up it has thread in it so I’m going to lift up the pressure
foot in the back and then pull this out and cut the thread.
We want to pull out … I see red thread in the top.
Might be wrapped around, there we go and I’m pulling it all the way out and I see I’ve
got yellow thread in the bobbin.
First thing we want to do is show you how to thread the machine and use a … We’re
going to need to put a spool cap on.
Our accessories will go through but they’re in the little front little slide o extension
table here.
I’m going to get a bobbin out and a spool cap here.
One bobbin and a spool cap.
When you’re working with thread you do want to pick thread that is of a quality type.
If it’s older, it’s been a sewing box for years and years that's something that's
really not going to serve this machine well.
It really deserves, and so does your project, good quality thread.
When you have a thread that you’re laying down like anything that's cross wound, that
needs a little spool cap.
That's why I wanted to reach in there and get that.
Now, for winding a bobbin what we’re going to do is we’re going to follow the directions
for going around with a dotted line here.
The dotted line is going to take us around the pretensioner.
Now this is something we use only for winding bobbin, we don’t use this with the regular
threading of the machine.
Go ahead and go all the way around and then take your bobbin and we want to go through
one of the wholes from the inside out.
I have threaded it from the inside and thread is coming out the top.
Go ahead and put that bobbin onto the bobbin winder.
Engage it and hold the thread above it with your fingers and step on the foot control.
As you wind, this red will break off and then you don’t have to hold it any further.
It will stop when the bobbin is full.
Just go ahead and wind a nice full bobbin across.
That way we cannot run out in the middle of our projects.
Definitely a good thing to have there.
One it kind of stops spinning then you can go ahead and clip that off and then slide
it back.
Lift your bobbin up and then let’s go ahead and thread the machine next.
We’re going to undo it from the pretensioner here.
Come across, there's a guide kind of right in front of the spool cap that's on the machine
and then go ahead and come under that back little guide.
We’re coming toward us.
We also want to make sure that the pressure foot is up when we’re threading the machine.
Come underneath where the white arrow is.
Then next we’re going to go in on the right side, all the way to the back and down on
the left side and that's going to hook it in.
If it doesn’t make sure your take-up lever’s all the way up the highest point.
That makes a difference.
Then slide on down.
There's a guide right at the top of the needle and then just cut yourself a nice little straight
edge.
Then for a little extra help I always lower the pressure foot and then thread the needle
through.
Notice there’s a light part on the back of the foot that will help you see the hole,
which is really nice.
Lift up the pressure foot.
Next, we’re going to go ahead and take this little table off.
It is a place where all the accessory is stored, which is kind of nice and then pull out the
bobbin case.
The bobbin case is great when you use it with your left hand.
This little latch is perfect for lefthanders.
If you’re right handed, become left handed while using this machine.
That keeps the little fingers straight up and down when we go to put it back in.
As we switch on over to our green thread of our bobbin, the key is making sure your bobbin
is coming or the thread is coming off the right site of your bobbin.
Drop it in and then find on the side of the bobbin where there's this little groove.
Your groove is going to drop down just a small amount and then you want to run the thread
beside the bobbin case and all the way down into this little C area.
Once the thread is there it doesn’t matter which side of this little finger it sits on
but once you get ahold of this latch, watch.
It locks it in so your bobbin won’t fall out.
Always use the latch, this little handle and then make sure it goes straight in.
That little finger has a little home at the top so make sure that it is pushed in all
the way.
That that finger has kind of clicked in.
It doesn’t always click in but it just sits in there and make sure that it doesn’t fall
out.
Now to bring that bobbin thread up, hold your top thread and turn your hand wheel toward
you, always toward you.
Bring the need up and then bring the take up lever all the way up to the highest position.
We’ll talk about that why it’s so key that if you start and stop with this at the
highest point when you take your fabric out when you’re done with your seam, everything
will work perfectly when you’re sewing.
I remember that was the first thing my mom taught me when I went and started learning
how to use a sewing machine.
Okay, let’s just test this out.
Lower the pressure foot down.
We are on a straight stitch with the center needle positon and we’re ready to sew.
If we want to use a reverse button just hold that down and once we release it it will come
on up.
When the needle stops down just turn the handle, bring that to the highest point.
Lift up the pressure foot and you have a little cutter on the side of the machine.
You use it from front to back or from back to front.
Whichever is easiest for you.
Now when your seam is sewn if it looks the same on the front as it does on the back,
you have done it correctly.