🧵 Ever wonder how your sewing machine actually makes stitches? (This Reel is part 1 of 2, so come back tomorrow for more!) It’s all about tension—literally! When you thread your machine, the thread passes between tension discs, which are like little clamps that squeeze the thread with just the right amount of pressure. As you sew, these discs grip and control how freely the thread flows. That tension—combined with the bobbin thread—creates balanced stitches as the two threads interlock in the f