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1. Welcome!: Okay. Hi there. My name is Mark. Thank you for turning in my next video where I'm going to consume that
basically all the same. Discovered this while
many years ago, I worked with someone and she
asked me if I could go over and help her with her
daughter sewing machine because she thought
it was broken. And through the years, many people have said to me all my sewing machine is broken. So what I discovered when I went to visit her, how was that? For some reason, I knew that her sewing machine
was not broken. And I came back and
wondered why did I know? What I discovered was
that most of the time, the issue is with the tension. I was right about it
being an attention issue. But I also realized
when I got home that All sewing machines
are threaded the same way. That if you divert from the way that the sewing
machines are threaded, then that will
also cause issues. So I will explain that
later during the video.
2. Projects and Reviews: Hello again. It's time to talk about
projects and reviews. There's never been a better
time than right now on Skillshare to do a
project and a review. It's going to help
keep the class is active on the platform. And it also creates connection between the
teacher and the students, which I'm eager to have more of. One of the discussions and the questions I would
want to ask is, I wonder if sewing
is just an idea. But when it comes to following
through and taking action, that there are so many obstacles that people just don't do it. I mean, I've known for years that people have said
to me, Oh, you know, I don't have the
right amount of space and I have children, so it's noisy and
I don't have time. And I understand all
those obstacles. So the first project
I'm asking for in this class will be to recognize that you
have that obstacle, whatever it is, and let's
try to overcome it. So I think that the best way
would be to just find out where you're going to sell if it was a perfect world
and you had time. And if you can't get into
doing the second project, which is just using
scrap fabric and getting to know your
sewing machine by doing circles and
doing the squares. Like I talk about
in section six. That would be the
first easy project is just getting your
sewing machine out, creating muscle
memory in your brain. That says, this is what I'll do when I'm going
to start sewing. I'm going to put my
sewing machine here. I'm going to use the kitchen
table, that kind of thing. And the third one would be to do something creative
with an old shirt that you thought you
might throw away. The first shirt, It's
got stains all over it, but I use it when I'm painting. So it's got, you can see, I just like scribbling,
scribbling with thread. And when I have another
spot from paint, I'm just going to
keep sewing it. So this is the second
shirt that I just put some fabric on to save it. And another version
is I use stabilizer, which is feasible on both sides. You put it in between
your fabric and you profit on the iron. And because it has my two favorite colors,
green and blue, I made that design on it, which I quite like. And the final one is
the one that I was wearing when I made the
video the first time. And so this is actually nylon fabric
right here that was dyed. And I just did free sewing.
And I had a lot of fun. I went through
over the shoulders and made it so that the pathways continue and create
different rows on the back. And so that is really fun to do just to prevent a
shirt from going into garbage and covering
up the stain with some kind of interesting
details out. So I would really love to
see somebody do something like that for fun
just as a beginner. So are, right, so alright, well, thank you so much for listening. And let's get to discussing. And let's get busy
doing projects.
3. What's Where?: Hi there. We're about to learn
all about sewing machines. If this is the first time you're learning about
sewing machines, I hope I will be able to answer all the questions
that you might have. This is where I begin to explain what's on
the top of machines, the front of the machine, sides of the machines and
the platform of the machine. When approaching a machine
you've never seen. You want to look for a
few dials are buttons. First is to stitch length and stitch width dial or neither. You will always find
a stitch length dial. But will you find a
stitch width dial? If there is no zigzag
option, you won't. On these two machines we find obvious styles
on the front. But what do they tell you? The Pfaff is obvious
as its visual, but on the one on
the left, my Jane, there is only one dial and no width dial because it is a straight
stitch only machine. It is a semi industrial
straight stitch, which means it goes very fast. The extra features that
have or the speed and the extra long stitches
up to a seven. Mostly I use this one for sewing my staff if
I need a zigzag or fancy stitch and
my surgeries for clean finishing and my cover
stitch surgery for hemming. Next, you want to find a
needle position option. If the machine has
a zigzag option, you will find a needle
position button. If not, it is only a
straight stitch machine. The needle has no reason
to change position. How would you find the
needle position dial? This is a pretty standard visual of what it's
going to look like. The needles in the center. And then to one
side and the other. Third, you look for the reverse
stitch lever or button. How are you going to locate
the reverse stitch lever? It's going to be close
to your hands where it's easily accessible
for a quick action. Here, on the left
and on the Jane. On the side of the machine, you will usually find
the power source. And on this one we
have the light switch, the on off button, and on both of them we have the hand wheel which
lifts the needle. You see on the front
of the sewing machine. On the left, you
can see it here. The other one is here. We also loosen the inner wheel of the Pfaff, the metal center, to disengage the needle
from going up and down during the bobbin filling
process as a safety measure, sometimes you pull
the whole hand wheel out to disengage it. The bobbin filling Winder are found on the top
of the machines, which is quite common. But some of the newer machines, they may be on top but hidden in a well with a lid that
pulls up the old singers. They were usually on the
front of the machine. But the reason you
need to discover this fairly soon is that
finding it will eliminate a few possible steps in the threading root
of your machine. You will look for a little
silver spring that sits on the left top of the machine
versus the right side, where you'll find the bobbin
holder and the stopper. Right now, we're trying to locate the way that we're
going to thread the machine. So we've ruled out the bob and filming
portion of the machine. The next important
part that we need to locate on the sewing machine
is the tension dial. The little flat metal disc. That thread will slide into. The tension is commonly
found right on the front of the machine where it
is easily accessible. But on some machines
like my fast, it isn't so obvious since you can't see it on
the front of the Pfaff, then you have to
look somewhere else. If you find the thread holder
and the needle lifter, it may be somewhere
close to that. Here it is on the staff at
the side and you can tell because there are the plates
with a dial underneath it.
4. My Discovery : Now that we found
the tension dial, I drew a diagram of my discovery
showing that the thread will always go down
and up and down again, either from right to
left or left to right. It'll never go sideways. It goes from the spool
holder then right through the tension
dial and the two disks. Then you're going to see
that there's a spring just to top that is natural
for it to go through. And you're going to see
that there's a hook naturally decided that
it will go through. Then you're going to apply
the up and down motion again. All the steps after that
are pretty evident. And there's a hook just
above the needle that you hold the thread taught
to slip it behind. Now I'll show you
on my staff how the threading pathway is found, apply the same principle
from the spool holder. And then surprisingly, if you searched for the tension
dial and found it, you'll figure it out that it
goes through the separation between the top and lower
part of the machine, through the middle silver
discs straight over to a place that will then
make it fall downwards. So again, it's pretty
natural because you now know that it will go up and down if you never saw
this machine before. Next, you could look for the needle lifter
which is above. It won't go sideways. It'll be up and down and through some pretty standard slots and hooks than the little hook
just above the needle.
5. Filling Bobbins Pfaff and Jane: Alright, let's fill
Above and I will show you exactly how it's
done on this machine. And the other, which will show
you the similarities again between almost all
sewing machines work, you'll feel a couple of Bob and before you start your project, you can use the
extra bool holder without interrupting the other threading so you can
locate the little disk. I was telling you about
that the thread fits between on the top of
the machine and you guide your thread over to the place where the
bobbin sits here. And this is a stopper so that it doesn't overfill
and it stops it. It's got a little
bit of an angle. Now, you want to
feed the thread from the inside of the bobbing for
the small opening upward. Leading the thread
right now around the inside where it fills. Then you sit the bob and onto the holder and lock it in place. You'll hold the
thread tight when the winding begins
until it breaks off. Unlock the mechanism to prevent the needle from
going up and down. So you hold the
outside part here, click and you turn it
towards you to unlock it. You're going to watch it fill times when
it's all like this, you have to just
make adjustments. So I'm just going to
keep it in position. And it will auto and
cut your thread. Separate them. Well, basically the jane
is the same process, so I'm going to use the
second spool holder and I've located the disks are here just a little
different design. They still go right under. The different thing is
that this gives you an extra safety lead. You put the thread
under under there. I'm not sure why really. So there's already a little
bit of thread on this bobbin, but there's still enough
room that I can get the, that I can get the
thread through that little space in order to sit it where
it's supposed to go. So going to feed it through. If I can't get it through, I can just wrap it wrap it around what's
on there already. In the same direction
it's going in, it will fill over top of it. So I'm just gonna
do that this time. I'm not sure which
direction it's going to fill when I get it on here. But there's no little groove on this one that it sits into. This time you just lock it
in position with this arm. So this one, there is no way
to lock the hand wheel in. The action of this arm. Locking the bobbin
in automatically disconnects the needle
from going up and down. So I don't have to even and thread the
needle on this one. You just have to watch and
see if this is going to thread properly by pushing
my foot on the pedal. So let's just see what
happens when I leave it itself has to have worked. Okay. And it's filling up, the arm will snap open
when it's finished. And of course it's not
going to work today. I have no idea why just
giving me a hard time. I guess it's
something's going on. But anyway, I felt it. So there we are. Alright. That's how you do.
6. Bobbins and Bobbin Case: Now there's a couple
of things you need to know about the bombing itself. Some of the time,
the thread should go clockwise when you put the
bobbin into the bobbin case, then the opening of the
bombing case is at the top. And you sit the bomb
and into the case. The thread will naturally be at the place where the
little angled opening it. You lead the thread
through it until it fits under the
little curved hook. You'll see that it is a metal plate with
a small wheel on. This is the Bob intention. You should never have to
touch it. The thread out. So you have a good
few inches before you put it in the
bottom to begin sewing. Putting the bobbin case in the machine is
facilitated by holding the little handle on
the bobbin case with your finger and your thumb because it locks the
bobbin in place. Have a bobbin in there and
I've pulled the thread through the little slot and I'm going
to put it in the machine. And there is actually
a little spring built in so that when you hold
the little handle tight, bob and doesn't follow. So she got how it works. And that's why you can put it in the machine and then you
hear it snap and it's in. Now, what's the
difference between a metal and a plastic bobbin? I remember about 25
years ago or so. You could go to a small
store and find bobbing for sale that claim to fit
a few different companies. Maybe at that time they were pretty standard or
the companies were manufacturing machines under different names
or were related. But nowadays, the manufacturer
provides their own Bob. Maybe it depends on
the type of machine. My family uses plastic
and my Jane uses metal. But surely the manufacturer
wants you to go to their store to get their
bobbing way to draw you in. I have a good hold of the bobbin case held by
my thumb and fingers. So the bobbin is locked in place and I'm just going to
place it into the middle. You'll notice that it
doesn't sit exactly straight across at
the 03:00 position, but sits lower than that. Next, your upper threading
must be complete. And you hold your finger on the upper thread while
you turn the hand wheel, one full rotation towards you, starting at the top
and ending at the top. Once. You might or might not see the bobbin thread appear
as the needle lifts it up. But if not, pull the upper
thread until you see it, pull it up and put both threads
behind the presser foot. You're ready to sell. How exciting is that? I love to? So I think it's very exciting. See you in the next video.
7. Maintenance: Hi again. We're
going to talk about all the removable parts of the machine so that we can
go in and do maintenance. I call this the platform. And in particular, this
one is called a free arm. It's made to be small
so that you can place a sleeve or
a pant leg onto it while you so usually a machine will also
come with a table, a piece that can be added on to give you
more room to sell. First thing to do for
safety before doing any maintenance is to unplug the machine and
remove the needle. Your machine will come with
at least one screwdriver, which will help to undo
the knob above the needle, or it will just loosen or
tighten without the need. The needle has a flat
side and whichever way your machine was
manufactured will tell you whether it goes to
the back or the side. These two machines
are different. The fast is front-to-back, whereas the jane
is left to right. Because of the flat
side of a needle. You can't put the needle
in the wrong way, push it right to the top and tighten it when
you're replacing it. Also, remove the
presser feet and anything else that may
inhibit your space. Use a screwdriver to undo the screw or screws
on the throat plate. So you can lift it off to expose all the dust and possible
thread that can collect there. If there is threat stuck
that jams or machine, you'll need to do this and open the bottom where the bobbin
fits to see what is visible. The little brush that comes with the machine is very good
at getting the dust out. If you get thread
caught in there because the tension was too
loose and it got jammed. Just hold this red in the bottom and turn the
hand wheel back-and-forth, pulling the thread and it
will eventually come out. Sometimes you don't know why your machine is
skipping stitches. This is where to look. Most manuals will tell you a number of troubleshooting tip. I was told years
ago to listen for noise as the indicator that this is when
you need to oil it. Drop one drop of oil on any
moving parts such as here on my staff or wherever your machine tells you
to. In your manual. Gains manual indicates about
four spots on top to oil it. And I put a small black
dots beside each one. Wouldn't have to
pull up the manual. In order to update this video. I pulled out my five and the hand wheel
wouldn't move at all. I knew it had been sitting for a number of months and just needed oily because I
can take the top off. I did that and put a couple more drops
of oil in the spots, I thought could use it. It's running like a charm again.
8. A Tip to help you relax: Do you remember what it
was like when you first learned to drive and you had your hands really tight on
the steering wheel until you became comfortable with the car and with the driving experience? Well, you're sewing
is probably the same. And so I'm just going to show
you a little tip on how to relax when you're
solving the first time. This is just a great exercise to teach you about the
sewing machine. And for you to become one with the sewing machine and the
processes suddenly, so. Alright, here's what you do. We're going to put
a piece of fabric underneath the presser
foot needle in. Hold the threads so they
don't get pulled back into the machine as
it begins to solve. And then other hand is free. And just let your son machines so don't touch it
at all pan screen. You can see that it's
getting close to the edge. But I would do is
try and go fast. Try to go slow. That used to the speed. Get used to your control. If you want to change direction, you keep your needle in. Let's go this way now. And then your control only has to be the corner
of the fabric. So just turn, just pulled the corner a
little bit so you get the feeling of what
it's like to change direction and to have
control over the top. A little tug in the corner. Go slow enough that
you can control it. But also try it fast. Sometimes you have more control when you're doing it quickly. And that's how you play
and get familiar with your machine and become one with it so that
you're comfortable. So have fun doing that, alright, and you can show
me what you've done. I agree. We'd like to see it.
9. Conclusion: Well, thank you for
watching this video. This is the conclusion of the sewing machine basics video. And if you are a returning
student looking for something that used
to be at the end of this video but is
not any longer. It's because I've taken
out a portion of it. That was all about
the tension issue, and I've made it a
video on its own. I've also taken out the
part of the video that was about the tools and
other tips that I had. And I'm going to
soon create a video also with that all
on its own as well. So just keep looking
for my videos. And if you need
some information in the meantime that you saw there and you
couldn't find right now, please feel free to contact me and I will help
you out with it. So please review this video. We really need to have
the reviews nowadays and please do a project that
really helps, helps me. My projects are very easy so
that I can encourage you to just get involved and to promote communication
between us. Happy sewing, as I
always say, have fun. Bye.
Marcy Newman, SewwwMuchMore!
