[1] Preparing for threading

1. Turn off the machine.
   

   Before threading the needle, be sure to turn off the machine. If you accidentally step on the foot controller and the machine starts to sew, you could be injured.

2. Raise the presser foot lever to raise the presser foot.
   

3. Raise the needle to its highest position by turning the handwheel toward you (counterclockwise).
   
   (1) Turn toward you so that this mark points up to the highest position.

[2] Threading the upper thread

1. Pull up the spool pin as far as possible, and then put a spool of thread on this pin.
   
   * Make sure that the thread unwinds as shown.


2. While holding the thread from the spool with your right hand, pass the thread toward you, in the groove on the thread guide.
   

   (1) Thread guide

   (2) Spring

   * Make sure that the spring in the groove catches the thread.
    

3. Feed the upper thread as shown in the following illustration.
   
   (1) Thread take-up lever
   * Make sure you guide the thread through the thread take-up lever from right to left as shown in the following illustration.
    

4. Slide the thread behind the needle bar thread guide.
   
   (1) Needle bar thread guide

[3] Threading the needle

1. Lower the presser foot lever.
   

2. While lowering the needle threader lever fully  , hook the thread onto the guide  .
   

3. Push back the needle threader lever until it stops  , and pass the thread in front of the needle. Make sure that the thread is under the hook that has come through the eye of the needle and the hook catches the thread  .
   

4. Return the needle threader lever to the front slowly  , and then release the lever slowly.
   

5. Carefully pull the loop of the thread through the eye of the needle to pull out the end of the thread.
   

6. Raise the presser foot lever.
   

7. Pass the end of the thread through and under the presser foot, and then pull out about 10 cm (approx. 4 inches) of thread toward the rear of the machine.

   (1) 10 cm (4 inches)

    

Threading the needle manually (without using the needle threader)

When using specialty thread, such as transparent nylon thread, a wing needle or a twin needle which cannot be used with the needle threader, thread the needle as described below.

1. Thread the machine to the needle bar thread guide.
   For details, refer to "[1] Preparing for threading" and "[2] Threading the upper thread".
    
2. Insert the thread through the eye of the needle from front to back.
   
3. Pass the end of the thread through and under the presser foot, and then pull out about 10 cm (approx. 4 inches) of thread toward the rear of the machine.

   (1) 10 cm (4 inches)