[msdrby]

Did you ever figure out what broke your sewing machine? My mother had something happen that sounded a lot like what you went through.

Turns out she had put the needle in backwards, or something like that. Something she has NEVER done before. The bobbin tightened up, then it got difficult to stitch, then the needle broke and jammed the bobbin to hades. She thought she was gonna hafta take it in to get it repaired.

She decided to sleep on it. The next day she looked at it again, and figured out what she had done. She finagled it and somehow got it to work again. She still has no idea what exactly she did to fix it. But it works like a charm now.

[Wneighbor]

Well, mine happened when I changed needles. But, I've tried and tried to make it work again to no avail. And I did try inserting the needle the opposite way...

It was just sewing along great when a needle snapped... and it hasn't worked right since then. I am concerned that something is stuck down in the bobbin mechanism but I've taken the thing apart more than once and found nothing.

I got a new can of sewing machine oil recently and I'm gonna try disassembling and reassembling again when I get this house rederangement done.

[Wneighbor]

Kiddos... I gots to go to bed. Wish I could stay up and talk but I'm nodding off in my chair!