CREATING BOBBIN WORK; Positioning the Fabric and Sewing; Place a lightweight tear-away stabilizer on - Page 9

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CREATING BOBBIN WORK

Positioning the Fabric and Sewing

a

Place a lightweight tear-away stabilizer on 
top (wrong side) of the fabric.

b

Using an awl, punch a hole in the fabric at the 
beginning of stitching so the bobbin thread 
can be fed through the fabric.

c

Use the presser foot lever to raise the presser 
foot.

d

With the wrong side facing up, place the 
fabric with stabilizer under the presser foot.

a

Wrong side of fabric

b

Stabilizer on wrong side of fabric

e

Turn the handwheel toward you 
(counterclockwise) to feed the needle into the 
punched hole. Position the upper thread over 
the presser foot and lightly hold then, lower 
the presser foot.

a

Punched hole

b

Upper thread over the presser foot

f

Pulling the upper thread gently, turn the 
handwheel toward you (counterclockwise) 
until the mark on the handwheel aligns with 
the center top of machine.

→

A loop of the bobbin thread comes up through the 
hole in the fabric.

g

Raise the presser foot lever, and then use 
tweezers to pull up the bobbin thread and 
bring the end of the thread to the top of the 
fabric.

Note

• Be sure to sew trial stitches using same fabric and 

threads as your project in order to check the sewing 
results.

• The bobbin thread may become tangled due to the 

type of pattern and thread that are being used. Since 
this may cause the needle to break, immediately 
stop sewing if this occurs. Turn off the machine and 
cut out the tangled thread with scissors. Then, clean 
the race and bobbin case as described in “Preparing 
the Bobbin Thread” on page 4.

Note

• Pull the thread while holding down the fabric so it 

does not move out of place.