After reading about titatuim (sp) needles I felt I just had to have them. I bought 3 pkgs. Slowly I noticed my thread cutter was only cutting the bobbin thread. My needle threader didn't work. I just figured the eye of the needle was just too small. Yesterday while at the dollar store I bought a pkg. of ten needles for a dollar. You know they just have to be good. Well I just tried one. Wow my machine sounds so much better, stiches are really good, before no matter the stich length they were real tiny. My machine just wouldn't sew over the seams, does now. My cutter & threader work ( what's up with that :mrgreen: )