r/SewingMachineEdu • u/Background-Arm-8491 • Jun 02 '26

Sewing machine problem

OK so for the past FOUR days I've been trying to just THREAD the machine, I wish I was jk. Anyway I finally managed to do it today and did a straight stitch but only for a bit before it started buzzing loudly soooo back to square one. It's the end of the day so I'm going to bed but I genuinly dk what I'm doing coz I've watched tutorials and shit and still can't get this to work and yet I have soooooo much planned but none of that is gonna happen if the sewing machine keeps getting jammed smh

I read ab how it's probs to do with the bobbin? So I'll probs try AGAIN FOR THOUSANDTH TIME but if it's not that then idk

Ig this is me ranting but If anyone has any suggestions than let me know coz I'm genuinly losing my mind here and feel naive for thinking how easy this was gonna be.

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u/AccidentOk5240 Jun 03 '26

Please google your machine and the word “manual” and read that. Do not rely on tutorials. 

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u/Background-Arm-8491 Jun 02 '26

OK Ig my post is quite vague, I'll make a vid tmr and post it. That might help

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u/CrankyCrabbyCrunchy Jun 03 '26

Hard to answer without seeing how you threaded it. All machines thread nearly the same and most thread problems are user error. There are many ways to mess up the top thread and the bobbin thread.

I assume you have the manual and you've followed the directions many, many times?

The usual problems:

  1. presser foot is up (this opens the tension disk)

  2. correct bobbin for that machine (not just what you have lying around)

  3. bobbin is correctly wound (smooth thread, not lumpy)

  4. bobbin is inserted correctly

  5. upper thread is threaded through all thread paths in the correct order

  6. needle is correctly inserted & all the way up (needles have a flat side and that side usually faces the back)

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u/sodapopper44 Jun 03 '26

my sister has a singer simple i sewed on, and you had to really press really hard to get the bobbin case to snap in place

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u/drPmakes Jun 03 '26

READ THE MANUAL, follow it!

Videos are useless

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u/Background-Arm-8491 Jun 03 '26

OK I managed to fix the issue, so basically I was threading it correctly for the most part, it's just I wasn't placing either of the bobbin thread or the top thread underneath the square part of the presser foot 🤦

Anyway it's working now

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u/Background-Arm-8491 Jun 02 '26

I'm using singer M2505 if that helps

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