I really did it this time!!!!
 

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!!!

Fingers crossed! :)

Everything but my eyes crossed!!! :)

Hope you are back on track! Thread basting is preferable to pin basting. (You probably figured that out now.) :p Been there, done that, regarding the short backing. I once tried to make a quilt as large as possible, and had the backing too close to the length of the top--ended up adding a strip across the bottom. The backing will actually be a bit longer than the quilt top once it's all done, because it's on the outside of the sandwich as it rolls up. It's like rolling up a magazine and the edges of the outer pages never line up with the rest.

Fingers crossed.

Oh I hope it is ok!!!!!!!!!!

I've taken shortcuts that turned out to be nightmares also. Hope you have your problem solved and your machine in working again.

Toes crossed too!!