Why does the needle always stop down in the fabric?

C.NEEDLE UP-DOWN / SLOW BUTTON Pressing this button when the machine is stopped, will change the needle position from down to up or from up to down. While sewing, by pressing this button, machine will sew in slow speed. Pressing this button again, the speed will return.
I did not see in the user manual where this function will occur automatically ... the button needs to be pushed manually
Helpful??

Hello Eelee
As long as the display indicates the change, the needle will move. The needle is not moving with pressing the needle position button because the needle is too close to the fabric .... if the needle is raise up by turning the fly wheel, it will then move according to the number indicated on the display for needle position.

Please let me know how it goes.

Happy Stitching.

just select the needle to stop in the down position. Not knowing the model......

1. To solve your knotting problem. Learn to always trap or grasp your thread ends for the first few stitches.

2. When the dogs are down, sometimes you have to grasp and jiggle or turn the hand wheel while re-engaging the feed dogs.

3. It sounds to me as if you aren't making sure that the take up leaver is in the top position before you press the "foot button down" Make sure you press "needle up" before you press foot down. That way the dogs should be in the correct position for you to get the fabric under there and proceed. In the mean time... I would strongly recommend you go back to your dealer and take some lessons. It sounds to me that when you learned to sew... you were not trained the proper procedures.

ALWAYS RAISE the presser foot when threading the top thread. This releases the tension disk so the thread will seat completely.

Try an Even Feed Walking Foot for more control on thick and quilted type layers

You can't - it is only designed to always stop in the up position, then you can manually push the "needle down" button to make the needle go down while you turn a corner. The next model up the 4263 had the "stop down" option. Sorry.

Clean the bobbin area.

Thread the machine with the presser foot up - always,

Make sure the bobbin thread is feeding clockwise and through the guides on the bobbin case.

Lower the threaded needle down and back up while holding onto the thread end. This will pull the bobbin thread up. Hold onto both threads and pull under the presser foot and to the back of the sewing machine.

Hold on to the thread ends and lower the needle into the fabric, then press the foot pedal.

You may want to use a leader - a folded scrap of fabric that you sew to the edge of and then **** against the fabric you want to sew. Sew off the leader and onto the fabric and this will keep the thread from going down into the machine. You can have a few stitches between the two to make it easy to cut the leader away.

When you stop to adjust the fabric make sure the needle is down to anchor the fabric (turning corners, sewing a curve. etc).

The slightest movement of the fabric when the needle is up will sometimes cause a thread jam.

The button you have been using is for a lock stitch, try the one with up/down arrows

Sounds like your tension is too tight and the thread is pulling your needle. Also, make your that you needle position button is on center. If it is on left or right it will cause your needle to snap.