Thank you to everyone who responded to my Tension Headache post. In particular, Lyn from Busy Quilting suggested “…there may be fluff caught up in the top thread guides. I have had to defluff a student’s machine exhibiting the same symptoms. If you undo the screw near the tension gauge and lift off the plate with the numbers 1 and 2 on it“.
I did just that and look what I found:
Then I gently pulled on the yellow thread. Eek! no wonder the poor machine was protesting!
Lyn says
Glad I could be of some help. I usually find rasant to be fluffier so don’t use it as a thread of first choice, but your yellow thread is a doozy.
Candy from Candied Fabrics says
Whoa! That is a lot of stuck thread! How cool that a commentor could help you out, hooray!