Originally Posted by janRN
OK. 2 hours and 5 broken needles and lots of swear words later it's still shreading the #$#@ thread!! I works for I guess 6 inches and at most 10 inches of sewing and then there's that glob of thread behind the needle, one ply of thread into fabric and then it breaks. I think I have to take it in for a check up.
One nice thing about top stitch needles is the larger eye--much easier to thread.
I quit for today-going to watch soaps or something LOL!
Are you making sure that the thread is not catching on the spool, perhaps in that little slit for fastening the thread? Broken needles would come from that.