How To Clean A Domestic Sewing Machine (and Why You Should!)
Regularly cleaning your domestic sewing machine is essential to keeping your machine running properly between professional maintenance. I try to clean between quilt projects, and I always clean before I go on a retreat! Keeping your sewing machine running properly between professional maintenance is easy to do, AND it ensures you have a much happier sewing experience!
Below are my 10 Simple Steps for How To Clean Your Sewing Machine.
How To Clean Your Sewing Machine
Unplug your sewing machine.
Take out the screws in throat plate.
Remove throat plate.
Remove the bobbin and then the bobbin case.
Using a brush, brush out any lint that has accumulated.
Make sure feed dogs are lint free.
Oil the machine - check your manual to see how often and where to oil.
Put the bobbin case back in aligning the red dots.
Assemble the sewing machine.
Change your needle.
Once your sewing machine is back together, make sure to check your stitch on a practice piece of fabric to ensure that everything is working properly.
That’s IT! Those are my 10 Simple Steps for Cleaning Your Sewing Machine. I hope that you found them helpful.
If you need additional help, be sure to refer to the user manual for your specific sewing machine and, of course, feel free to reach out to Zany Kreations for any other longarm quilting questions you may have!
Piece!
Sue
