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Show Your Sewing Machine Well-finished clothes depend on proper use of the sewing machine. ma-chine. Here are some minor difficulties dif-ficulties which can be corrected easily. If your machine skips stitches, one of the following may be responsible: re-sponsible: needle improperly set in bar; needle too short or too long; needle bent or blunt; needle too fine for the thread you are using. Puckers in the materiad may be caused by tight tension, a blunt needle, too long a stitch on fine material, or a fabric which is too light to carry over the feed. In the latter case, use a newspaper news-paper or tissue under the fabric. If your bobbin or shuttle thread tends to break, look to one of the following for the reason: incorrect threading of the bobbin; bob-bin; tight lower tension; bobbin wound too tightly or unevenly; bobbin wound too full. |