with cloth and thread you can either sew by hand or a machine
Needle and thread...
Perhaps you have the sewing machine tension too high? Perhaps you have cheap thread designed for hand sewing?
It was the Spinning Jenny that changed cotton into thread. The cotton gin removed the seeds.
The answer depends on which activity is being considered:A spindle can hold thread (spinning) A bobbin can hold thread (sewing machine)A shuttle can hold thread (weaving)A needle can hold thread (hand sewing)etc...
The "second thread in the belly of the sewing machine" is called the bobbin thread. To pull up the bobbin thread, first make sure that you've threaded your machine (correctly! <grin>). Presser foot should be up. Then pull about 6" of thread and anchor it to the base of the machine with your left hand finger. By hand, crank the flywheel one revolution and voila`, the bobbin thread will pull out. You can use a flat tool to sweep from front to back underneath the sewing foot to get the tail behind the presser foot. Sometimes it takes one or two tries to get it.
It was the Spinning Jenny that changed cotton into thread. The cotton gin removed the seeds.
Right hand thread
Prior to the invention of the sewing machine, sewing was done by hand with needle and thread. This method was very time consuming and consequently people only owned a few pieces of clothing, not the closets-full that we do nowadays.
The winder allows the machine to transfer thread from a spool onto the bobbin, which provides the underside, connecting, stitches. It does a better and more even job of it that winding the thread by hand.
The upper thread guide on a sewing machine is the markings on a sewing machine which show you how to thread the machine. It's usually indicated with arrows, dashes, and numbers, giving you step by step guides to thread the sewing machine properly.
The lower bobbin carries the lower thread and the upper bobbin carries the upper thread to use when the sewing machine is working (NOT SOWING Machine)!!! The needle carries the upper thread - NOT the lower thread - as the question asked!!