Seeing the panel “coming to life” (above shows first signs of it just underneath the A where the fabric is crinkling up), increase in pressure on the foot pedal began in earnest as one of the things with any 'machine embroidery' is that once "you're into it", you just get lost as you become one with the machine as it stitches! Quite quickly (or so it seemed), all but the last two red panels were finished with thoughts of the next stages & what direction to next go. Jolting me out of thoughts, the machine thread had suddenly snapped (perhaps I should have stayed focussed on the job in hand?) & as I looked, yet again (the same as with the 1008), the thread had wrapped itself around the internal arm of the take-up lever with a short piece visible. MY COMMENT **** !
& QUESTION … WAS I CROSS? … EXCEEDINGLY
… but without further delay, off for repair it’s quickly gone!!! … & I’m just pleased it wasn’t the new machine but notice too that it doesn’t have the same hidden take-up lever linkage. Sewing since very young, I've never had this happen ever before .. so twice in a matter of weeks seemed very odd … QUESTION … is it just something with a Bernina machine? Asking in the shop about the repair, the answer was apparently some (?) Bernina machines have a tensioned spring within the take-up lever & if the thread snaps too quickly (before realising to stop sewing), it can result in exactly what happened. Likely then “it was because a very fine thread was being used while stitching was too fast” … & I can now only repeat one of my favourite sayings:
“You’re never too old to learn”!
