Know Your Machine via *ZOOM (2 Parts)

Skill Builder: Know Your Machine
Experience Needed: None
Format: Offered via zoom 
Lecture/Demo
Part #1       
Part #2       

Whether you are sewing on a new highly evolved machine, thinking about purchasing a new machine or using a machine with some history, you are sure to learn important information about how a sewing machine works! Arm yourself with information and make working with your sewing machine a partnership instead of a frustrating hassle.

Part#1
In class, we look inside a machine to learn how things really work. Why are these parts sew important?
Some of the items we will look at are:
* Hand wheel
* Take-up lever
* Tension Disks
* Feed dogs
* Presser foot lifter
* Presser foot pressure

Let's get it right
* Threading Pathways
* Thread spool placement
* Winding your bobbin

Part #2 
* Threads
* Needles

Keeping your machine running
* Sewing Do's and Don'ts
* Machine Maintenance
* Changing your needle
* Troubleshooting common problems

Your machine does not need to be present during class.

*Log-in info with a code will be sent, via e-mail,  to you prior to class. The code is needed to be admitted to the classroom.
You will be admitted to the classroom 5 minutes prior to the start of class.