Welcome to Machine Sewing!Parts of the Sewing Machine

Home & Careers 7Mrs. Hayes

Chatham Middle School

SEWING MACHINE PARTS:

• Needle stitch plate: plate under presser foot with stitch guide lines

BobbinThe bobbin is essentially a second spool of thread.

A stitch is formed buy looping the bobbin thread and the needle thread together like this

Needle

Bobbin

Fabric

Feed Dog System: • Feeds the fabric through the machine

Don’t fight the Feed Dogs!

Presser Foot: • Raises and lowers, puts pressure on the fabric.• Do so gently- no slamming!

Presser foot lifter: raises and lowers the presser foot

• Bobbin case: holds the bobbin

• Spool pin: holds thread in place

Upper thread tension:

• Guides the upper thread• If not adjusted properly, stitching will appear

uneven and puckered

• Thread take-up lever: moves the thread through the upper thread tension discs

• Foot pedal: controls the speed at which the fabric moves through the machine

Aka

Gas Pedal

• Hand wheel: (which way do you turn it?) • Turn it towards you. Allows you to manually

move the needle up and down.

Sewing Machine Needles-• The flat side of the machine needle goes

which direction when being replaced? • Towards the back of the machine

Hand Wheel

Reverse Lever

On/Off Switch

Needle

Presser Foot

Feed Dogs

Label Parts of the Sewing Machine

• Find page 4 in Binder• Use todays notes

and classroom poster to label

the parts of the sewing machine.