it has happened to me if the bobbin thread is not secure. Trying winding slowly until you know it is positioned well.

Go to google and put you machine # and singer creative touch sewing machine .Then scroll down to sew/vac doc and he should be able to help you.From what i read this machine seems to have a lot of bobbin problems.Good luck,let us know how you make out.
Kathi

I also have a Singer machine and this sometimes happens to me. I just have to watch carefully and wind the bobbin slowly. I think it is due to the machine being so old ( but I love it) that the case is a bit worn or the slider window that partially covers the case is a bit loose. I also have noticed when I buy new bobbins, the metal stick-up button in the center of the bobbin is a millimeter or so too tall and sometimes the thread doesn't catch. Make sure your thread is wound securely around the needle ...bolt?...so it is held taut when you begin to wind.

I found the link about winding the bobbin. I have a 6235 that winds the same way. Ironically, I had the same problems you had because the Kenmore wound bobbins differently and was a new learning experience.

Mine would do the same thing as yours on occasion if I let the bobbin get too full. You may be doing the same thing.

I also found that if you start slowly to make sure the thread catches and starts to wind and then increase your foot controller speed and try to keep an even speed, you save yourself a problem.

Here is a link that might be useful: 1036 threading and bobbin winding diagram

I wished that they would someday come out with a bobbin winder separate from the machines. Kind of like those old VCR Rewinders. Maybe someone's DH could come up with a model out of a used winder and make oodles of money.

clotilde sells stand alone bobbin winders.

no kidding dayenu, I'll have to check out Clotilde's web page. Thanks

I brought up the catalog site and they didn't have any listed.

yikes I must have been hallucinating. sorry.

Hi, I have had the same kind of trouble...it all started when I noticed my slider plate was broken--or,rather, one of the little plates underneath had come off and I wasn't able to position the plate exactly where it was supposed to catch for bobbin winding. You have to make sure that plate is in just the right position and if it's old, it could be getting slack (don't we all?) and not positioning just right. Getting a replacement wasn't too difficult, but they are all made in China now and are not of the same quality as the original. My replacement plate just lost a slider (came loose) and the bobbin troubles started again amid a storm of frustrated swearing! Not to be undone once again, I went to the shop and mixed up a 2 part dab of JB Weld, a metal enhanced epoxy you can get at the hardware store in the glue section. You have to be careful not to get any where the plate slides (you can tell where that is), but it works pretty well. I used a wooden matchstick to apply mine so I wouldn't put too much on. Sure beats going through the hassle of ordering a new-but-not-so-good replacement.

Does your bobbin wind on top of the machine? My mom has one that winds this way. I got a frantic call from her once, and she was telling me the same thing was happening when she tried to wind her bobbin. Turned out that when she first put the empty bobbin on the little metal thingy to wind it, she was putting the thread through the hole in the bobbin from the bottom-underside of the bobbin. If you are doing it that way, instead, pull the thread through the hole in the top part of the bottom from the underside (of the top part). Hope the way I have that worded makes sense.

My machine uses the bobbin with the little hole in the side. You have to thread the end of the thread through the bobbin from the inside of it to the outside. Wrap the thread around the bobbin a few times, put the bobbin on the winder, engage it and hold the end of the thread that comes out of that hole in the side of the bobbin. After it has a nice start, you can trim that end.

While winding hold the thread with your left hand that is wrapped around the screw at the same time lightly press your finger on the top of the bobbin Like holding it down. Slowly star winding and you stop your foot pedal an look in at the bobbin and keep going if ithe thread is not Winding underneath the bobin. You can let go of thread in left hand once it starts filling.