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People always ask, do I have to hold onto my threads when I start to sew? With these
new machines, most of the time you don’t, but if you do find yourself with thread, you
do want to make sure that it is underneath the presser foot and either at nine o’clock
, ten o’clock, eleven o’clock, twelve o’clock, either straight out the back or
it can be right out here to the side.
Once you start stitching, the foot’s going to hold it and it’s going to go ahead and
sew without any problem, but, this is why it works. This take-up lever, which is right
down in this area here, when you stop the machine with the needle in the highest position,
this is also at the highest position. You can’t see it unless you peek inside there,
but it is, and that means that the stitch is complete.
You’re going to find that when the stitch is complete and you pull the fabric out and
you go to start again, the thread is right where it needs to be, and on older machines,
it would pull out of the needle, you had to hold them if you did, well, that was because
you were turning the hand wheel and not making sure that that take-up lever was at the highest
position every time you started to sew.