I bought a vintage sewing machine (Pinnock SewQueen) from an auction a couple of years ago. Paid virtually nothing for it and typically for machines of that era (1950's?) it's all metal. However, I'd struggled to sew with it, kept jamming up, so I haven't really used it a great deal (wanted it for the zig-zag capability). It has a delightful feature that when you turn the dial to adjust the stitch length, a sample of actual stitches appears in a little window - it's very cute.
Decided to play with it today and realised that I'd been threading the bobbin wrongly - there's a tiny hole in the location finger and I'd always assumed the thread was supposed to go through it, but the manual doesn't mention that and trying it without it's not only much quicker to thread, but it doesn't jam up! Can at last sew my bartacks that my industrial machine can't do
Decided to play with it today and realised that I'd been threading the bobbin wrongly - there's a tiny hole in the location finger and I'd always assumed the thread was supposed to go through it, but the manual doesn't mention that and trying it without it's not only much quicker to thread, but it doesn't jam up! Can at last sew my bartacks that my industrial machine can't do
