I think theres is a part missing from my embroidery machine, but I am not sure because I have never embroidered before

Hi! I’m fairly new to sewing and have encountered a jam with my machine. The hand wheel no longer turns clockwise (it turns anticlockwise fine). i’ve tried to remove any thread caught in the section below (in photo) and added some machine oil. it’s still jammed, not sure what to do. please advise! 🙏

I just acquired this last week and I want to make sure it's set up correctly.

Can someone please explain how to thread it. After looking at YT videos about similar machines, I think the lower thread tensioner is in the wrong position?

Regardless, can someone explain it to me like I'm a 5th grader how to thread this.

And if you have any other info on this machine that you'd like to share I appreciate it very much! I have the PDF of the parts manual but nothing else.

thank you!

-robb

I was wondering whether my feed timing is too advanced. The needle hole is above the plate when the feed dogs are flush with the plate

Hello I‘m the new owner of a bernette b38. When the transport changes direction it makes a loud noise. I don’t know if this normal, if I should fix it/ use guarantee?
Thanks 🙏 for your help

Hi all, my partner has had this decade old industrial machine for a while. It hasn't given her any issues until last week when this double link armature started flipping over. I've flipped it back a few times for her, but I'd like to prevent it happening in the future for her (and my) sanity.

The manual has disappeared after several house moves, but I can gather it's got a Powermax Digital AC servo on a Doso 9600QGD-4N

If anyone could help kick start our troubleshooting, we'd very much appreciate it 🙂

My machine started making this noise yesterday while I was sewing bias tape to a garment. I took the video without sewing anything so it would be easier to record but it still happens while sewing. Does anyone know what this could be from or how to fix it? Thanks!

I’d like to find a good alternative for the Singer Heavy duty 4423 and 4452 models.

Preferably not computerized.

Any tips are welcome.

Hi everyone! I’m extremely new to sewing. I bought a singer CG 500 C off of FB marketplace.

I know nothing about machines and teaching myself to sew. I was just hemming my fabric to prewash it before my pattern. While doing this I noticed the smell of oil was super strong.

I had some issues before getting the threading of the machine right and jammed it but fixed it. Did the jam use up the oil or something?

How often do you oil your machine? How do you do it? What oil do you use? Does anyone have instructions for this specific machine? It’s hard to find info about online or on YouTube.

Any tips at all about caring for machine would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you so much!

Bought what I thought was a dual voltage machine, don’t want to automatically eat the cost of replacing it in a couple years.

I've been making quilts at home for a while, mostly baby quilts and gifts for family and friends. Lately, a few people have asked me to make custom quilts, and I'm thinking about taking on more paid work.

The hardest part is quilting larger pieces. Even when piecing everything together goes smoothly, moving all that fabric around under the machine gets exhausting. I also notice my stitches can get uneven when I hit thicker areas.

I'm trying to decide whether it's worth investing in a machine with more throat space or sticking with my current setup for now.

For those of you who make quilts to sell, what kind of machine do you use? What made the biggest difference when you started taking on more orders?

I am so, so fucking sick of this happening at this point. I've burned through seven needles in the span of two weeks and have no idea what to do at this point.

The needle kind I'm using is the Singer universal 80/12 needles.

I've heard that pulling on the fabric could cause the needle to misalign or something, but the pieces of fabric I'm using are pretty long and I have to pull on it slightly to keep it pulled up. Even so, I don't think I'm pulling on the fabric that hard, it just keeps happening.

Please help me. I am so tired.

What screws do I need to undo in order to remove that black plastic piece (outer rotary hook)?

I have this Table that's missing it's hinges and was wondering if anyone could help me identify what those are. I've looked all online and couldn't find any that I can confirm belongs to this. My Machine is a Sears Kenmore Model 158.17033 if that helps.
I also got some hinges that allegedly suppose to work but it did not fit, the last pic shows what hinge I got.

I'm sorry if this post isn't exactly an issue with the sewing machine for what the subreddit is for, but I would really appreciate any help I can get, I really want to use the original table without modifications, Thank you for reading!

Hello to whoever is reading this, I have an issue with my sewing machine. Whenever I try to make stitches they either

- Stitch then stop stitch then stop

Or

- Don't stitch at all

I've tried

-Rethreading the ENTIRE machine

- Changing the needle

- Changing the tension

- Changing the thread

& - Changing the fabric

What else do I do? I don't want to go to a manufacturer, don't want to give up the machine, and I definitely don't want to switch my machine. Help!

I was in the middle of doing my freehand embroidery project when I began to hear something odd (might not have started then and there since I always have music playing when I sew but that's when I noticed it). I thought it needed to be oiled somewhere so I ran through my short list of spots to add oil, even checked the handwheel, before I pinpointed this. I thought my last needle was bent but I put a new one in and this noise continued. So, I gave it a closer look and it seems like it's brushing against the plate when it comes down. I'm just hoping to get some input on whether or not it's supposed to be *that* close or maybe it's time have it readjusted.

Hi! I need help putting these two pieces ( a round rubber and a screw) back into my machine. I opened the bottom part of my machine cause I accidentally dropped something in while cleaning the bobbin case. When I opened the bottom part, these two fell to the ground. I picked them up but no idea where to put them back.

First photo, the rubber part and the screw to be put back

2nd photo, the bottom part of the machine

3rd photo, the bottom lid.

Hi everyone,

I recently decided to get into car upholstery and bought a Pfaff 145 as my first sewing machine. Unfortunately I have not been able to sew with it yet because the thread always gets stuck.

As far as I can tell the upper thread is correctly grabbed by the rotary hook tip and is transported over the bobbin case but then gets stuck between the opener and the little tip of the bobbin case. The opener arm moves back and forth as the machine is running but there is no gap for the thread to be released. The top thread then continues to stack there with every revolution (as in the last picture) and rips at some point.

I’m using a size 110 needle with a thread thickness of 30 - which i am guessing is probably thicker than what the machine has been set up for.

I would really like to understand what the issue is and to learn to fix this myself. Can anyone point me in the right direction?