Abstract: A sewing machine having the usual type needle thread taking up lever and the path through which the needle thread travels almost unrevealedly nested within a housing defined by the end face of the arm and a cover to be attached for safety purpose and additionally neat appearance purpose. The sewing machine is further characterized by provision of a separator within the housing in parallel with an internal front face of the cover so as to provide the lever with a space of suitable volume for preventing a loop passing through a thread guiding eye of the lever from being fallen off the eye when the lever is on its slackening stroke.