Help! My wife cannot "raise bobbin thread"!

I had a singer that wound the bobbin in the lower part of the machine instead of on top as most machine and the cause was the machine had slipped a cog and became out of time. I couldn't get the bobbin to fill let alone thread it. I had no full bobbin so I couldn't try to thread the bobbin thread up. Maybe that's the cause of your problem. Lots of luck, Rollie

If the needle isn't picking up the thread then the problem is usually that the needle was put in wrong (check manual for proper set of needle).

You probably don't want to hear this, but a $100 sewing machine from Walmart is, well, a cheap machine. In my experience, most people are not happy with cheap sewing machines. They tend to be difficult to thread and adjust and are generally not very strong for mending jeans and such. If you only have $100 to spend, a better purchase would be a good, used sewing machine.

-Irene

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No one has mentioned that if you HOLD ONTO the needle thread when turning the hand wheel, you are much more likely to pick up the needle thread; otherwise the needle thread just slips through.

I concur that a $100 wally world machine is mostly likely a POS, you'd be much better off taking that $100 and buying a good used machine.