Bum!
I think a service will be the way to go then .... sobs pound notes .....
Whilst I was on the phone to my local Engineer, who is very helpful and suggested one more thing to try and actively discouraged me from a service as Hes not had that much use .. Elvis beeped and told me his bobbin thread was running out mid stitch ...
Oh My giddy Aunt! That couldnt be, as I loaded a brand new bobbin the other day ... Anyhoo, much reading through the manual resulted in me finding how how to find out many stitches Elvis had done ... Noted down .. then after cancelling the design and removing the hoop, I found he was telling the truth, the bobbin was indeed going to run out !!!
New bobbin would successfully, and back to the stitch ... but of course I had altered the position of the design within the hoop ... sigh!
Multitudes of cancelling the design, then re-postitioning within the hoop, then peering at where the first stitch landed ensued until it landed bang on target ... I then took my lil numbers that I had noted down and pressed for an eternity until we were about 10 stitches behind the last ... and finally I restarted the design!
Phew! I can tell you I am learning a heck of a lot about Elvis from these problems.