sewing goddesses, I need your help!

[owlkeyme]

My sewing machine (not the serger) is being a total biatch. It sews about two stitches, and then puts on the brakes, and when I go to pull out the piece, there's all this extra thread underneath and caught up from underneath, from just two stiches. I've tried adjusting the bobbin tension, the top thread tension...the thread quality is decent...and it just keeps doing it...any thoughts?

(besides go begging Mary to borrow her machine?)

Comments

[fairephil.livejournal.com]

Get a can of compressed air and blow out the bobbin caseing under the machine. You have lint or threads that are jamming your bobbin from moving freely.

Note: Be sure to stand back cause some amazing stuff will fly out of that machine.

Good luck.
T

[tribaldancer.livejournal.com]

This may sound obvious, but have you rethreaded the machine entirely?
And check the feed dogs to make sure you don't have any fabric or thread stuck in them.

[(Anonymous)]

Try using a brand new (meaning newly wound, not the one you've been using) bobbin. That usually works for me.

Renee