Please help! Sewing machine frustration

[DustyOwl]

Please help! I have collected lots of projects to do over lockdown and I haven't managed to start any because my sewing machine keeps unthreading whenever I try to put it in reverse. I have lots cut out, waiting and ready and my family are sick to death of hearing me complain about it

I have tried changing the tension and the stitch but I am at a bit of a loss. Any ideas welcome!

Try pulling the top thread and bobbin thread further out so there is a long tail behind the machine. The take-up of the needle when you make a stitch, including reversing, pulls the thread up and out of the needle if there isn't enough extra.

How good are you at using aa sewing machine, begginer and this could be an issue while threading it, or more advanced and this could be a sewing machine fault?

If it's begginer then my assumption is to ask that when you've thread your thread through the needle do you then hold the thread edge, manually create one stitch to pull the bobbin thread up and pull the bobbin thread and sewing thread together about 10cm out and away from the machine? It shouldn't be able to unthread then.

Is the thread snapping rather than the needle unthreading?

You could just avoid reverse, my first machine I couldn't work out how to do it I go on just fine tying off the ends.

Hold both threads in the tail bit when you reverse.

Surely "reverse" isn't the first thing anyone does so it can't be a too short tail fo thread. Doesn't everyone go forwards a few stitches to start with?

If you can't get it to reverse, just turn the item round and sew forwards, back along the line. I do this when reverse would make it ruck up.

Thank you for all your answers. I'm not exactly an expert but I have been using a machine for years, on and off. I had definitely been unthreading, not snapping the needle. I haven't been doing my normal back wards and forwards to start as I was just practising (about a month ago the machine stopped picking up the lower thread altogether but that seems to have sorted itself out).

I will try just holding the end when I go back, or turning the fabric. It's only annoying because I have been building up to making my first piece of clothing for years and now this happens!

You should go forwards then backwards not the other way around.