I had a funny half hour this week. I was quilting a new piece of work and all was going well. But very gradually a small squeak began. Nothing much, just a little noise. So I ignored it and carried on. Probably not the smartest thing to do, but I had a nice rhythm going and I didn't want to stop. Slowly the squeak became louder and louder until I realised that it wasn't going to go away, and in fact, I might be doing some serious damage to the machine. So I stopped and did the (almost) right thing.
Starting in the bobbin zone
Moving on up to the sewing head
Once I had checked that the mechanism was moving up and down freely I replaced the needle and presser foot and plugged it all back in again. To make sure no residual oil would make a mess I stitched onto a piece of scrap fabric for a few minutes - and guess what.............. the squeak was gone! Da da!!
Thanks for reading.
3/5/2017 02:18:00 pm
My mom has an older model of a sewing machine that squeaks, we thought it was because of it being old but thanks for the article, I'd better help my mom do this.
Claire Passmore
10/5/2017 11:25:20 pm
Hi Lauralee, I hope you and your mum were able to give the old machine a spring clean. Older machines seem to be so much better made than the newer models we now get. I'm pretty sure a really good clean will have it stitching beautifully again. Comments are closed.
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