1. Parts of the Bernina 240 Sewing Machine Dalton- Clothing Instructions: Please go through The Parts of the Sewing Machine and explore each part on your sewing machine so you become an expert on the sewing machine parts. Complete the Word Document, Parts of the Sewing Machine Assginment. You may use the power point for help. Complete the Parts of the 240 Sewing Machine Excel Quiz. You may use the power point for help. When you have 100%, e-mail the results to Mrs. Dalton at ldalton@tooeleschools.org With a partner, play the Sewing Machine Jeopardy game. When you have finished come give Mrs. Dalton the results of the game. Make sure you know how many points you have scored.

2. This is the machine cover. It should be on the sewing machine when you are not sewing. The cover has 3 pockets, the following are the items that are allowed to be in the pocket. Any other equipment should be put away in the closet: power cord, foot pedal, sewing machine instruction book, 1 spook of thread, tape measure, seam gauge, seam ripper,table,fabric shears, paper shears, pin cushion, your own pattern or fabric.

3. The bobbin holds the lower thread. It goes inside the bobbin case in a clock wise direction.

4. The bobbin case holds the bobbin which holds the lower thread. There is a special way the bobbin goes into the case. The thread needs to turn clockwise.

5. The bobbin case with the bobbin in it goes into the machine bobbin case. The latch to open the machine bobbin case is an indentation on the right side.

6. The silver plate below the presser foot is the needle or throat plate. The lines are a guide to help you sew the correct seam allowance or width.

7. If you put your finger under the presser foot and feel, you will feel the teeth of the feed dog. The feed dog feeds the fabric through the machine. If the feed dog is not up, the machine will sew in one place and will cause a big knot. Before you begin to sew turn your hand wheel toward you until the take up lever is all the way up. If you feel the teeth, the feed dog is up. You should do this every day you begin to sew.

8. On the right side of the sewing machine is the feed dog control lever. It puts the feed dog up and down. Make sure the feed dog is always up.

9. The sewing machine needle is used to loop the upper and lower threads to create a stitch to hold the fabric together.

10. The needle clamp holds the needle in place. To replace a broken or bend needle, unscrew the screw toward you until the needle comes out. When replacing the needle, the needle goes flat side to the back and screw the screw as tight as you can away from you. Try replacing the needle on your machine. Just put the same needle back in.

11. This is a needle threader. If you pull it down, it will put the thread through the eye of the needle.

12. The presser foot holds the fabric in place while you sew. Have you ever written on a paper without holding the paper with your other hand? Does the paper move all over the place so your hand writing is sloppy? The same thing happens when you sew with the presser foot up. The seam allowance is wrong and your stitches are not straight. Always sew with the presser foot down.

13. On the back side of the sewing machine on the left is the presser foot lever. It lifts the presser foot up and down. The presser foot should be down when you are sewing and up when you are not sewing.

14. It is hard to see, but on the left side of the machine is a thread cutter. Just take your thread over the top and it will cut.

15. This is the reverse lever. When you push this lever in the sewing machine will sew in reverse. When you let it go the machine will sew forward again.

16. This machine has 2 spool pins. The spool pin holds the spool of thread or upper thread. You can use either spool pin. The spool pin on the right rotates up and down towards the back of the machine.

17. This thread looper holds the thread coming from the spool or upper thread.

18. The take up lever pulls thread from the spool of thread. The take up lever should always be in the up position(like in the picture) when you start and stop sewing. Use the hand wheel to move it.

19. These arrows shows the direction the upper thread goes when threading the machine.

20. This is the machine thread tension control. It controls how tight or loose the stitches are formed. If you are using light weight fabric you need a tighter tension. If you are sewing heavy fabric you need looser tension. You will be sewing medium weight fabric for this class so the tension needs to be on 5 or on the red line. This dial needs to be checked to make sure it is on 5 every time you start sewing.

21. The bobbin winder spindle is used to wind thread onto the bobbin.

22. This arrow shows which direction the thread should be wound around the bobbin winder spindle.

23. This is the bobbin winder spindle lock. This lock, when pushed to the left, makes the bobbin winder spindle spin. It also tells the machine to stop moving the needle up and down. If your machine is not sewing, check to make sure the lock in not on (pushed to the left). There is also a thread cutter on the right side of the bobbin winder spindle lock.

24. This is the bobbin winder tension. It controls how tight or loose the thread is wound around the bobbin. If the thread is not wound around the bobbin correctly, the stitches will not look good.

25. This is the stitch width selector. It controls how wide the decorative stitches are. The top scale on the computer screen shows how wide. If you don’t change this to a bigger number when sewing a decorative stitch, the result will be a straight line.

26. This is the needle position control. The needle always needs to be in the middle of the presser foot when you sew.

27. The stitch length selector controls how long the stitches are. The right scale on the computer screen shows the length. Normal stitching should be done at 2.5. You are required to learn the basting stitch which is a 5 stitch length.

28. These buttons are for decorative stitching. You are required to make a button hole. The arrows are pointing to the buttons used to make a button hole.

29. The hand wheel moves the needle up and down. If you needed to, you could sew without power by moving the hand wheel toward you. The hand wheel also moves the take up lever. The take up lever needs to be all the way up when you start and stop sewing. You turn the hand wheel toward you to move the take up lever up. ALWAYS TURN THE HAND WHEEL TOWARD YOU NEVER AWAY FROM YOU. Practice turning the hand wheel toward you.

30. This is the power/light switch. Make sure you turn it on to sew and off when you are finished.

31. Power cord plug in. You will have to plug the cord in every day.

32. This is where you plug in the foot pedal. The foot pedal is like the gas pedal in a car, it makes the machine move or sew.

33. There is a table you can connect to the sewing machine to give you more surface space to sew.

34. This is the sewing machine handle. Always carry the sewing machine using this handle.

35. DONE! CONGRADULATIONS Now remember to: Complete the Word Document, Parts of the Sewing Machine Assginment. You may use the power point for help. Complete the Parts of the 240 Sewing Machine Excel Quiz. You may use the power point for help. When you have 100%, e-mail the results to Mrs. Dalton at ldalton@tooeleschools.org With a partner, play the Sewing Machine Jeopardy game. When you have finished come give Mrs. Dalton the results of the game. Make sure you know how many points you have scored.