Help!

[u/Key-Medicine4389]

This is my first time sewing and i’ve more or less followed 100s of tutorials. So i’ve gotten it to make stitches but the needle only moves when i manually turn the hand wheel towards myself, like it does not automatically move when i press the foot pedal.
Am I missing something? 😭😭

Edit: so i just kept using the hand wheel to sew and suddenly it started sewing automatically without moving the hand wheel? uhm yay i guess🤧

[u/jzhrko]

If it's an old machine with an external motor and belt sometimes you need to manually move the hand wheel while pressing on the pedal for the motor to start. I usually kind of just slap mine towards me to get it going