Sewing Machine Keeps Breaking Needles

By Brenda from Somerville, AL (Guest Post)

Thank you James. I will be sure to do what you suggested. I put my sewing machine away and have not used it since I posted the first time. I tried all the suggestions from others but none of them worked. By the way, you can contact me at brenest(at)aol(dot)com (replace (at) with @ and (dot) with . ) I can explain this a little better in email. Thanks again, Brenda

By James (Guest Post)

Brenda
The feed dogs on your machine maybe have come loose I see this alot. Check the screws in them.
If not the needle bar or feed dogs one have jumped time not that big of a deal oh by the way I also live in Somerville Al

By jeanette (Guest Post)

Memere are you from louisiana???

By

pinellas

Oh and..

is it a zigzag machine? Did you doublecheck to see that needle position is set properly for the stitch you are doing?

By

pinellas

You may simply have the wrong type of needles in your machine.Did you check the manual?

Other possible reasons may be:

As stated above - bent needle or needle inserted improperly (or crappy needles)

Plate is loose or crooked

Too much upper thread tension - or thread is caught elsewhere & not coming off spool properly - check threading

Too much bobbin tension - or bobbin is in backwards or upside-down

Thread is too thick

Fabric is too thick for needle

If you haven't trouble-shot all this stuff yet, check it out.

HTH

By Brenda (Guest Post)

Thanks Cookwie, but I have replaced the needle with new ones but that is not the problem. The needle hits the plate when it goes down. I made sure I had the right needle for my machine and made sure it was inserted properly. I guess I will just have to take Memere's advice and save my pennies so I can take it to a repair shop. Being disabled, it takes a while to save those pennies though and I was really hoping to sew some things for my granddaughters for Christmas. Thanks also to Cindy in AL. and to Memere for taking the time to help. God Bless you all.

By

cookwie

That can happen when the needle gets too old. Replace the needle with a new one. This action solved the problem for me (because it's what I was told to do at sewing class years ago).

By Cindy in AL (Guest Post)

Make sure the needle is pushed all the way in the holder for it.
I had to have mine fixed once because it did not reverse. They did a cleaning and that fixed it. It only cost $40. I did get a recommendation from a sewing shop, tailor, as to wear to go for repairs. I used the person's name who refered me, if that made a diffence to the repairman.

By Memere (Guest Post)

Sorry, but your machine needs a professional adjustment. Do not continue to use your machine untill you have it repaired.....you could do more serious damage to it. A new machine would be more costly than repairing yours. Get a free (or low cost) estimate, then save your pennies. It might be less expensive than you think.