I bought a sewing machine yesterday. Haven’t used one in years, but I didn’t think I’d have that much of a problem relearning. :rolleyes:
I got it threaded all right, or at least I thought I did. Tried stitching the first seam…and immediately broke the needle. Thought it must have hit one of the pins holding the pattern to the fabric. Replaced the needle, tried again, same thing.
Replaced the needle again, and, since this is the last one, tried stitching ve…ry…ve…ry…slow…ly. Turns out, the needle is hitting the sides of the presser foot, instead of going through the little hole in the middle like it’s supposed to.
Reset the width numerous times: same thing every time. When I set the needle, it’s poised right above the hole, but as soon as I start stitching, it jogs first to one side, then the other, always hitting one side of the presser foot instead of going down into the fabric. :mad:
Either I did something wrong in threading the machine, or there’s a way to get the presser foot to hold steady that I’m not doing. The last thing I did before starting this [SDMB] thread was to take the presser foot off entirely. Needle jumped madly all over the place for a few seconds, then stopped when the thread was hopelessly snarled.
So can anyone help?