Originally Posted by
ThayerRags
Sometimes I can drive myself crazy. Like yesterday afternoon, for example.
I had a little project to do with my big stitcher using black thread. I had white thread in it, so I wound a bobbin and changed thread colors. I grabbed a piece of scrap material that I had used on the machine before to give it a little test-sew.
Every stitch that I tried to make ended up wrapped around the hook in a big mess that I had to keep cutting myself out of. I tried sewing in some scrap leather. Same thing.
I was about ready to pull my hair out, when I finally noticed that I had forgot to thread my upper thread through the take-up lever.....
CD in Oklahoma
Oh CD I am glad to see I am not the only one that has done this. I got out my trusty old 66 to use and was adjusting the stitich length like I always do. Going to make some period clothes. For the life of me could not get the thing to sew right and had tangled thread all over the place. I worked on the machine for 30 minutes and it was driving me up a wall. My wife came along and said should the thread go in that thingy that goes up and down.(take up lever) Boy did I feel stupid.
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