That's always a stopper .... If you do not have the sewing machine manual handy.

love the marker idea. Sounds like you are really smart, not stupid. And should I say that was a clever way to get your machine cleaned and overhauled.....LOL

My mother tells a story from back before I was even born.

At the time my dad was a lowly rank in the RAF. In those days it was frowned upon for the wives of higher ranks to associate the wives of lower ranks (some kind of 'class' thing, I suppose). Anyway, for some reason mum passed on a good sewing machine to the wife of a high-ranking officer. After a week the lady complained that the machine was faulty, making insinuations about the lower-rank riff-raff cheating her.

So mum went over to the officer's house, and checked out the machine. The first thing she did was check the threading.

It turned out that the officer's wife had previously had a machine where the needle threaded from the side. The 'new' machine threaded the needle from the front. So the wife had removed the needle from its housing, rotated it 90 degrees and reinserted it with the hole on the side. So of course it wasn't going to work!

I suspect that my mum gloated about the idiocy of officers wives for quite some time, considering she still remembers the story 50+ years later.....

K

Don't feel stupid my friend. This is a learning experience. Bet you will NEVER thread it wrong again.

One of those lessons in perserverance that all of us have dealt with. I think we all find these experienced once in a while. Please don't use the term 'stupid' because it is not a characteristic that applies to one who is working through a problem.

Can you make a tiny little arrow out of adhesive tape and put it somewhere on your machine to remind you which way to thread the machine? May sound silly, but some of us have multiple machines, and may thread in different directions.

About 70 years ago, I was told to thread the needle from the side that has the last thread guide. This is always true. I have two machines that thread really differently around the tension discs. But the thread goes through the needle right below the last thread guide.

Most of the time, if the needle hole is facing front- it threads from the front, however ,If the needle hole faces to the right of the machine,as my feather weight does), then it is threaded from the right side .Hope this helps.

Oh my, no reason to feel stupid. I have more than 1 machine so I took a Post It note & wrote which direction the bobbin gets threaded & which way the needle gets threaded. My Juki machine is opposite of the others that I have so it saves me from forgetting & I just check my note & voila, no more problems.

Oh my goodness! That was an easy fix. I've done the same thing, as well as other not so smart things, so just move on and sew!