The white, heavier and starched test piece was the first. The second test piece is the blue fabric. I will upload the last test piece (limited number of uploads)
My hunch is at some point the upper thread tension dial was removed and not properly seated back on since I have been fiddling quite a bit between 5 3/4 isn to 7. At one point, there were some bobbin issues on the blue fabric but I removed and reset the bobbin thread. Seem to have helped. Although I can manage to get the bobbin thread to look half decent, the top thread is still funky.
I am giving up for the evening, but not defeated. I really would like to get this machine into the queue of machines for projects.
Will upload the two red pics shortly.
Deb