I loaded the Snowmen quilt onto the longarm this morning and set up a pantograph that has swirls and snowflakes. Everything was going just great. The panto was stitching out beautifully until we got to the last row when things started to go awry.
First, there was two thread breaks for no apparent reason. Then *crash* the machine made a horrible noise and stopped with a alarming icon saying the machine was jammed. The needle had come down onto the plastic cup of the #74 foot and was jammed there. Using the hand wheel I was able to lift the needle up, but the foot's cup was broken (of course it was, it's a poorly designed plastic cup and this is actually the second one I've had that has broke- at $150 each). I gave up for the day and shut it down.
I don't understand what happened. How could the needle move enough to not go down in the stitch hole, but move over and strike the cup?
Hopefully, the needle bar isn't bent or something.
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