Stitch problem Singer 201-2
 

I was chain piecing a quilt and after I had sewed about 15 pieces my machine seemed to forget how to make a proper stitch. I didn’t change anything... just sewed along and all at once I had massive tangles of thread building up on the back sides of my pieces and the machine started to bind up. So I removed the bobbin, cleaned out the housing in case there was any lint or something else that could be causing the issue. I get everything all set up to start sewing again and now I’m getting nothing but the tangled mess every time I go to use it. Any thoughts on what the problem might be?

Welcome to the board. I am not very experienced myself but wonder if it is tension, could you have bumped a knob? There will someone on here soon that will know probably immediately what your difficulty is. Hang in there.

If you are getting bird's nests on bottom it means your tops thread is the problem. Is the needle installed correctly, with its flate side to your left? Is the needle bent or blunt maybe? Or it could be that your top thread isn't sitting between the top tension discs correctly.

Did you remove the bobbin case? If so, it sounds like you didn't get it put back in correctly. If you didn't remove it, lint trapped under the bobbin case can cause all manner of issues like this.

Cari

Looks like the thread slipped and got funky in the tension disk. So far it seems to be working correctly. Thanks for the replies.

There are some really good people here.

Some times it pays to pull the thread off, take the bobbin area apart and clean. Then re thread. Some times it’s all it takes. You might never know what is wrong. I have a SINGER 115 that likes to snatch up thread with the tensioner spring and make an extra loop or some such once in awhile - what a mess she makes. I really have to keep an eye on her. Grabby little thing.