Originally Posted by #1piecemaker

I was working on my long arm machine this afternoon trying to finish a quilt that I loaded yesterday. Everything was going along smoothly till I got to the end of it. That is when I saw that the backing was about 3 inches shorter than the top. Well, it was too late to fix it without pulling it off of the machine and adding more to it. So, I thought, I'll just cut it off and it will be okay. I decided I'll quilt just as close to the end as I could. WEll, wrong thing to do!!! I hit a pin and broke the needle. When I replaced the needle the machine would not sew backwards; only forwards. It would hang up and not go anywhere! After trying everything, I finally decided that I had knocked it out of time. So, I got the owners manual down and studied it. Then I got my screwdriver. I followed the directions but got lost in them. I finally decided to just put the thing back together. I loaded up a practice piece and started stitching. Cross you fingers!! I think I might have it working again!!!