Sounds like it is not trimming. If it is going to another part of the design even if quite close and it has not trimmed..........that is what it will do because the thread is tight. It is the Peach -----Original Message----- From: amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Body Cover Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:37 AM To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [amayausers] Breaking thread question I have one of my 4 machines that is so much more temperamental than the others, well, lately she has been giving us fits. we have a problem that when she sews everything is fine until we come to the end of an element and it starts to sew another section like the next letter in a line. and then after 1 maybe 2 stitches you hear a loud pop and the thread snaps at the needle as if it were pulled tight and suddenly trimmed and springs out of the needle eye and usually the first two eyelets also. any ideas? it seems random but when it starts we have issues for the better part of a couple days. no changes, no unusual digitizing, no bobbin thread changes, no ideas... Thanks all. Ron Vinyard Body Cover / Magic Stitches 1-888-435-0176 541-471-1504 fax 471-0427 420 SW H street Grants Pass, OR 97526 info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.bodycoverdesign.com