Steeeeeeeks!

Ah, those last minute fine tunings! Good thing you caught it.

Whew! I think I do well to knit a sock in a week.

=Tamar MD Sheep and Wool!

Way to go Wooly, glad the sewing machine only fluked by user error...lol the times I've mis threaded one and wondered why it would work properly I have three machines....don't ask....... and all of them thread a little differently to each other... I have two electrics and one old boat shaped bobbin one, that is just the job for thick seams and woven cushion covers being as it is robust and built to last, and the plus is I can have it out in the garden under the gazebo in the summer and sew up all those cushion covers I've woven during the winter...

higz Cher

Hah, my machine wouldn't make nice stitches, the thread just looped up underneath. I finally took it in to see about getting it repaired and the guy just turned something and it worked perfectly. I asked `how'd you *do* that?' and he showed me the little knob on the side that was turned to Darning. Ooooppsss...... I forgot to look at that one or that I'd even changed it.

sue

Sue very funny,

It makes me think about a brand new stove we had, and it did not work after the second use. ( I was only 23 at the time and a brandnew emmigrant in Canada) None of the burners would get hot. The Frigidaire repairman came out and showed us the fuses behind the drawer at the bottom and back of the stove. Two weeks later we again could not get the stove to work, this time I did go on my knees and checked all the fuses, and all the fuses were fine. With a sinking heart I phoned the repair man again. This time it was the timer on the stove, I had turned by accident. Not being familiar at all with very modern American appliances. This time He laughed and told me I had to make him a coffee if he had to come back again. That was the last I every saw of him. The stove is still working, in our old house in Toronto. The woman who bought the house is still using that stove. It was a good one. Only for the darn, knobs and fuses......

Els who now alsways looks for knobs that can turn and fuses to replace....LOL

If thread is looping up underneath the work, then it is the bobbin tension, there is a small screw on the bobbin case, turn it a bit at a time, til you can hold the thread of the bobbin and the bobbin in its' case will drop a little at a time with a slight shake of the hand.

If bobbin loops on the top of the work, check out the needle is aligned properly and all is threaded properly..

D>> Way to go Wooly, glad the sewing machine only fluked by user error...lol

It was set to Darn instead of Sew. That's probably how the bobbin tension is adjusted on my machine. It's a Singer I got used 30 years ago.

sue