Thread not catching to sew
Be sure to use a brand new needle. A bent/damaged needle may not connect with the bobbin thread.
If it still does not pick up the bobbin thread, your machine most likely has a timing issue (the needle arrives at the wrong time to intercept the bobbin thread). There are multiple web sites and videos that discuss sewing machine timing. Or take it for service.
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SOURCE: Bottom thread will not catch
Unplug the machine and remove the needle plate so that the bobbin case if fully exposed. Lift out the bobbin case and the cup that it sets in will be visible. Locate the "hook" on this cup. It is a finger with a sharp point at the upper edge of the cup. The hook is what grabs the thread from the needle while sewing.
If the hook passes by the needle AFTER the eye of the needle is above it, you timing has slipped and the machine must be taken in for repair.
If the hook catches the thread from the needle, put everything back together and try threading again.
SOURCE: Sewing Machine (brother XL 3200)
You may have the bobbin case in wrong. I have this machine, and I know that it is really easy to put the bobbin case in wrong. Try taking it out and making sure that the little stop is in the front and it is seated down in there and able to wiggle back and forth. My experience with this machine, until the other day when my cat knocked mine off the table and knocked something out of alignment, is that it just works. Any time mine hasn't worked, it has either been dirty, needing oil, threaded wrong or the bobbin case wasn't seated right. In other words, it has always been my fault.
SOURCE: Singer 457 Zig Zag Sewing Machine not catching bobbin thread.
There are manuals avilable online to purchase for the singer machines, SOrry I was not able to locate a site that has them for free.
.... http://sewingonline.co.uk/singer-manuals.html
SOURCE: Purchased a HomeStyle sewing machine Model
Check the needle to see if the flat side is facing to the back of the machine. This is usually how the needle should be inserted.
Thread the machine with the presser foot up.
Hold onto the thread tail at the needle and hand walk the needle down and then back up to pull the bobbin thread up.
Take both threads under the presser foot and to the back of the machine before you begin to sew.
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