How to: Threading a Sewing Machine 1. Turn power off. 2. Raise needle. 3. Raise presser foot. 4. Raise spool pin and place felt and thread onto spool pin. 5. Pull thread into thread guide. 6. Follow arrows, guide thread into threading channel and up to take-up lever (1). 7. Thread take-up lever eye (1). (Take-up lever is slotted for easier threading). Pull down 6"-8" of thread. (Thread should be more difficult to pull). If thread is difficult to pull, tension discs are threaded properly. Continue to step 8. If thread pulls the same with presser foot up or down go back to step 6 and rethread ensuring thread is pulled into tension disc channel (2). 8. Pull thread through thread guide. 9. Thread needle from front to back.