Help! Tension problems? (I think)

My thread is tangling underneath the fabric. I think that it is caused by tension problems, but nothing I do seems to help. This just started. The last thing I sewed was fine.
My thread is tangling underneath the fabric. I think that it is caused by tension problems, but nothing I do seems to help. This just started. The last thing I sewed was fine.
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It is possible that your upper thread is not seated in the tension disks. You don't say what machine you have, but all machines have a tension disk, even if you can't see them.
Remove the thread from both the bobbincase and the upper threading and start over, preferably with a different thread just to test..
Make sure you have it threaded correctly. It sounds like you make not have thread through the takeup lever.
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