Pat1969, I rarely have issues with any thread on my Innova machine but this one has given me fits from the get go. When I took a break for almost 2 years and the got back to quilting, then thread that had been sitting on the machine all that time kept snapping on me so I put it into the freezer that night and the next day everything was right as rein so thought it would work this time. I'm changing the spool to the other one plus I checked my other brand of thread for a similar shade of blue in case the 2nd spool doesn't work either. Hopefully, if I have to change brands, it won't be too noticeable to the receiver.