Day started well - off on the bike for an hour or so. Got rained on for the last couple of miles and of course as I got home the sun came out again, but still good.
Right, got a Linus quilt to do, so let's get on with that. Fire up the machine and all going well. Then I have to change the thread. Carefully wind a bobbin to match the top thread, and off we go...and the top thread breaks. Fix that, chugging along nicely, and the top thread breaks. About the fourth time this happens, I rethread the machine and start again, except now it won't pick up the bobbin thread. Check everything, rethread - no go. Check everything, clean out the fluff, change the needle, still won't go. Fish out the practice sandwich and fiddle about with that to no avail
. Give up and stomp indoors to have lunch.
After that I returned to the fray (-ing of my temper). If I put the Aurifil thread in, it works better but not properly. If I put the YLI thread in, and can get the bobbin thread up, all I get is skipped stitches. But if I take off the BSR foot and put in the regular foot it behaves perfectly
I can only think the timing is slightly off. That will be the third time this year, and since getting it fixed the previous times meant hauling the thing into Reading (on the bus) and paying over £100 for the fixing, I'm not exactly ecstatic right now.
Anyone know how to check/fix the timing? All the manual says is 'take it to your Bernina dealer'.