Originally Posted by sewNso
. yes, it was doing fine till i dropped the bobbin into the bottome of the machine, and when retriving it i retrived it with a spring lose, and evidently it was srung or something. straight sews good, but not with the quilting foot, now. i will not give up. and yes, it is threaded correctly. got a vcr tape, and a dvd. with it.
This is probably over simplifying, but since you can sew straight but not with the quilting foot, did you put the plate over the feed dogs before you tried to freemotion? There's no way to drop the dogs on this model so you need the cover plate.