Yet another penny dropped today. I was going through all the stitches today on some scrap fabric in preparation for selling. The basting stitch has never worked for some reason. Now I know why, when it says manually change the stitch length, you actually have to lift the leaver up and move the machine
I was trying to alter the length on the panel. Another didn't seem to work until I noticed that you had to manually press reverse leaver when you wanted to change distance. Yet another one was going backwards, which it's supposed to do, if I'd looked properly on the screen.
There was a quilting stitch which just appeared like a normal stitch, I haven't fathomed that out yet, is it different when it gets on quilting fabric.
Who knows.
Went through the buttonholes and got a dodgy one, no thread in the bobbin, which it doesn't tell you, but tells you if you are not starting in the right place. Second one didn't finish off and was a bit bent, which was probably me, I wasn't sitting straight on the chair and as I've never used this particular buttonhole before, it's either not working or didn't like the scrap of denim fabric with a funny finish (which brought my neck out in a rash).
Anyway the rest works fine, maybe just needs an expert in charge and not a plonker