Thread: Long Arm Rookies Need Emergency Help...Stat!!! Please....

My cousin and I made a tribute quilt for the family of a young man that was killed while towing a car off the interstate. The center was designed by his young daughter. We started quilting it without problem and are about half down. Suddenly the needle broke and we replaced it. Then we promptly got a thread snarl underneath. We are using a Baileys home quilter 17 Pro. We have changed bobbins and needles and thread and are now at a complete loss as to what to do next....oh and we have to have it done by Friday.
Any advice is much appreciated. This is the first quilt we have quilted on the Bailey, although we did a practice one that worked fine.

What a great quilt! I am sorry that I know nothing that would be helpful, but I am sure there are those here who do.

Dina

Thanks.. I wish it wasn't for such a sad reason.

Think we have it fixed, by lowering the upper tension drastically. Lower than I would usually but it seems to be working.

Thank you all so much for the responses. We think we had something in the bobbin area, after completely disassembling it,the machine came through for us and the quilt is finished. We also think that our thread was problematic in that it kept twisting around the thread guides, knotting and generally causing havoc. We have thrown it far, far away and replaced it with brand new high quality thread. Thank you again!

Oh boy... re threaded and changed needles again then the thread started breaking about every 14 inches of sewing and then we broke another needle! Hopefully its not the timing... any other ideas?