So let's go forth and embrace 2006 with a "never say > die" attitude and > welcome aboard all of our new list participants who > will undoubtedly ask... "I seem to be having a few too many thread breaks, > can anyone help?" > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Yes, Ed this is me. And now for another one of those questions. I have an XT and I have been having trouble with the bobbin thread being engaged at the beginnning of a color change for a while now. I initially increased my slow stitches and put it at 8. That seemed to do the trick for a while. Then I started having trouble again. I loosened the tension on my bobbin slightly--but not very much because before I was having trouble with false bobbin breaks, which if I'm right is due to too high of MT and/or too loose of bobbin tension. That seemed to do the trick for a while too. Then tonight I had more sporadic episodes of the bobbin thread just not wanting to pick up at all. I decreased my MT just for the bobbin pick up and than increased it right away for the sewout when this happened. This seems to do the trick. But I don't want to constantly or sporadically be changing the MT back and forth for each color change. Any ideas of what is happening or what I am doing wrong??? Also, my bobbin enabled to tell me to replace my bobbin after stitches. I don't think this can be right because when the message pops up I don't think even half my bobbin thread is gone. Previously I wasn't paying attention to this message because I didn't want to waste bobbin thread. But I decided maybe I would have less trouble if I replace my bobbin before it was all used up. Thanks in advance for any help I get. Susan > __________________________________ Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/