Yes, Dorothy. I had my thread with it going away from me, until I glanced at a picture that shows it should be the other way, so I switched it! First chance I get, I'm going to switch it back again before I start taking it apart again lol. If that does the trick, maybe us owners should contact Brother, because the manual is wrong! LOL
My old machine is a Brother too and threads "away", so I threaded my SQ 9000 the same way not thinking and only switched it because the manual said so, not because of any problems.