By 4 a.m. this morning, I had a quilt in the frame ready to quilt. Stopped and done my daily house work, got hubby off to work, showered, ran to Wal-mart, came home, fixed a big pot of sweet potato chowder for supper. Then I called my sister and my son and my daughter so they wouldn't call and interrupt me while I was quilting. Started snowing, which I can see from my window while I am quilting. Perfect. Everything was ready for me to quilt away the afternoon. I came downstairs, cranked up the oldies on my computer. Stitched about 2 inches and the freaking needle broke. No problem, changed the needle, ready to go. For the last hour, I have been trying to figure out why my thread keeps breaking. I rethreaded (about a dozen times), I changed the bobbin, checked all my settings, even changed the needle again. Oh and I even changed the spool of thread, even though i had used part of this spool on the last quilt I did. I finally gave up and went back upstairs. But I was restless, I WANT TO QUILT!!! So I am back downstairs ready to try again. If we get all of the snow and the high winds they are predicting I know my husband will be home tomorrow and I will only have a few hours the whole day to quilt. If I could only get the maching to cooperate, I could be finished before he gets home and put the binding on tomorrow. I will quit whining now, I just needed to vent. I guess if I keep having troubles, I will just have to cut out a new quilt while the machine "rests" until tomorrow.

Oh no! I hate when things like that happen- I hope you get it figured out or it resolves itself!

take a deep breath...maybe there is just one tiny little thing wrong..like maybe even if you have always used that thread maybe there is a faulty section...or maybe you havent put something up or down...anyway hope you find the problem!

Don't blame you a bit for needing to vent....I had that happen once and ended up taking my machine in for service, because I had tried SIMPLY EVERYTHING! Turns out that I really needed to make sure that my needle was full in the up position before threading the machine. I have a Janome Memory Craft 4900 and there is a push button that allows you to raise or lower the needle. I finally got a tech that realized that I wasn't using the button to make sure that the needle was in the right position before I threaded the machine. He explained that because of the threading pattern of the machine, if I didn't do that, a step (internally) would be missed. Haven't had that problem since and I'm in love with my machine again. :)

I was having trouble last night with my thread breaking and I was quilting over an area that was applique with a fusible. It occurred to me to use a larger needle and the problem was solved. Maybe your solution is simple too. It will jump at you when you are not expecting it.

hope you got it all working

Finally I got it working. Not sure what the problem was. I cleaned her this morning, although I had just done that two days ago. Changed the needle, rethreaded, changed the bobbin. Then I talked really nice to her and when I plugged her in, away we went. The top is almost quilted now.

YAY! A happy ending, after all. And before hubby comes home and takes your time away!

Sometimes just patience and redoing everything 15 times will solve the problem!!! LOL

Good to hear this has a happy ending :D:D:D