28 | powerquilter 1650 Quilng Machine User’s Guide
Quilting With the Platinum Q|165
Preparing to Quilt
1. Make sure your machine has been cleaned, oiled, has a new needle, and that the tracks on the frame
are free from threads or other debris. If the machine isn’t already plugged in, plug it in now.
2. Select your thread and wind one or more bobbins.
3. Turn on the power switch at the back of the machine.
4. Set your bobbin tension and thread your machine.
5. Aer loading your quilt, use a scrap of fabric along the edge of the quilt backing and bang to test the
top tension. Make adjustments to the top tension as needed.
Using the Handlebar Buons
To bring bobbin thread to the top of the quilt
1. Aer the machine is threaded, move the machine over the quilt to your
starng locaon.
UP
DOWN
2. While rmly holding the tail of the needle thread, press the needle up/
down buon twice, causing the needle to go down through the quilt
sandwich and then back to the up posion. Or press and hold the up/down
buon unl the needle does a full revoluon; then release the buon.
3. Move the machine four to six inches while holding the needle thread in place. The bobbin thread will
pull up through to the top of the quilt.
4. Grasp the bobbin thread loop and pull it to the desired length. Reposion the needle to the starng
locaon, e o the threads by quilng a few stches in place. Then begin quilng.
To start or stop quilng
• Start or stop the machine at any me by pressing the Start/Stop buon
on the handlebars.
START
STOP