HELP with my sewing machine! Mommy desperate to finish quilt before Christmas!?
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at
2:04 pm
I have a Kenmore 385.12102990 sewing machine and my top thread is getting cut every time the needle goes down. It is getting stuck on the removable piece that goes in before the bobbin. I’m making a quilt for my daughter & for my niece for Christmas and it is a borrowed machine. Any help is appreciated since it is so important to finish these gifts. Thank you!!!!! God bless!
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Sounds like it needs a good cleaning and a new needle.
The 10 minute fix for most of what ails most sewing machines:
– Dig out the manual. Take all the thread out of/off of the
machine. Pull the needleplate and the bobbin case if it’s
removeable. Clean and oil per the manual’s recommendation. Use a
brush and vacuum, not compressed air (which blows lint in
farther), and real sewing machine oil, not 3-in-1 type oil (it
hardens and freezes the machine) nor WD-40 type stuff (it’s a
solvent, not a lubricant).
– Put in a new needle of the correct point style for the fabric
you’re sewing (ballpoint for knits, sharps for wovens) and the
right size for the thickness of fabric (10/70 for shirting weight
fabrics, 12/80 for heavy shirtings or light pantsweight. 14/90
for medium to heavy pantsweight, 16/100 for very heavy fabrics.
Make sure the needle is in right way around — a needle in
backwards will skip stitches or not stitch at all.
– Rethread, with manual in hand. Make sure the presser foot is
UP when you thread the top — it opens the top tension so that
the thread actually gets in between the tension disk (loops on
the bottom, not enough tension on top).
– Fetch up the bobbin thread. You need about a 4" tail of thread
top and bottom. Run both threads under the presser foot and
behind it.
– If you’ve been playing with the top tension, set it to 4. If
you’ve been playing with the bobbin tension, let me know and
we’ll try to rebalance it, but you’re likely to have to take it
into the shop.