Automatic Needle Threader

The automatic needle threader function on your machine is a great feature to know how to use. It allows you to thread the needle perfectly and easily every time. And this feature is going to work pretty much the same across any machine brand that has it built into the machine. The lever that pulls your automatic needle threader down might be in a slightly different place. I've seen machines with it up here, but you can consult your machine manual right down here is a fairly common place for it to be.

So this little flange comes down and it brings your automatic needle threader uh mechanism down and the, the flange will come down to a point and it kind of stops and then you have to push it down a little bit more and this bit swings in and some automatic needle threaders will just be a little tab, you pull down and you have to manually swing it in, but this one will swing in on its own. And there's a little wire attached to this piece that swings in and goes through the eye of your needle. And we have two metal pieces that go one on the left and one on the right of the needle. So the needle is kind of nested in between those forks. And to use this, we have our, our needle thread threaded through our machine down to the very last point before it goes into the needle.

So I'm going to hold on to my thread and then with my other hand pulled down on my needle threader for the wire that swings in to align perfectly with the needle eye. You want to make sure the needle is in the highest position and it's in the center position. And as it goes down, I'm going to wrap my thread over this little finger, this little metal bar over here and you can wrap it over, you can wrap it under, it doesn't matter. And then we're going to press down so that wire goes through the eye of the needle. And then I'm going to push my thread in between those metal forks.

And I'm going to kind of use an upward motion with my thread to make sure it gets hooked in that little metal hook. And then I don't want to hold my thread end too tightly because I'm going to let go of my needle threader flange and let go of the thread and it pulls the thread through the eye of the needle in this little loop and then you can just pull that out and your needle is threaded. Now, if you're using a very small needle, has a very small eye. Sometimes this threader has a little bit of a hard time pulling two thicknesses of thread through. So you might have to hold onto the back of the needle a little bit as you let go to make sure that that needle isn't bending backward.

Now, if you're using a thicker thread, or if you, if you're using a very, very small needle and then the eye of the needle is so small, you might just not be able to use this automatic needle threader because it's putting a wire and two thicknesses of thread through the eye. And if it just doesn't fit, you'll have to thread it by hand. But otherwise this automatic needle threader over here is a quick and simple way to make sure you painlessly get your needle threaded perfectly every time.