I found out what was wrong with my Bernina all along. It likes cones. I bought a cone of Gutermann thread and now it doesn't break ever. So I bought some more cones and it works like a dream. I'm loving my Bernina and sewing on it all the time. No problems anymore, except the one foot it won't take. But I kept theirs. Mine works, but it's open toed and it won't do the button hole stitch on it. It'll do every other stitch. So I kept theirs, which was plastic and finally broke and had to buy a new one. So, I love my Bernina now. Couldn't live without it. And all that was wrong with it was it likes the big ole cones! And I like using them better anyway. I don't run out of thread!! I wrote this post a long time ago and every once in a while it pops up in the new posts. Why? How does someone find an old post and bring it back to life? And why would they want to?