Ok. I'm fighting my new machine and I just know that you who remember my troubles with the Baby Lock quest are going to roll your eyes and say it's gotta be user error. but gosh. the dealer has to special order the foot control cause it's missing when I take it home, and then it takes me plus friends and family to finally get the grace frame assembled, during which time a plastic part breaks and has to be replaced, and weeks later, the frame is loaded, the electricity is hooked up, the machine is threaded and I finally get ready to quilt, and no matter what needle I use, at any speed, the top thread continually breaks. Panic is touching the edges of my consciousness. Rethread the machine, rethread the bobbin, change the needled, lower the top tension - all multiple times. no luck. Yes, I pulled the bobbin thread up from the bottom and laid both threads under the darning foot. Yes, I put the presser foot down before starting. So I called the dealer and they tell me that the Janome 1600p takes a special industrial needle called the dbx-1. ??????????? so I said, "Don't take this the wrong way, but why didn't you tell me that when I bought the machine and drove 60 miles home?" "and why wasn't the right needle in the machine when I took it home? It was the floor model, after all?" uummm. hhhmmmm.
What's the deal? Any Janome 1600P owners out there who can give me some tried and true tips to try with my own machine? Anyone want to come to Charleston IL and teach me how to machine quilt? hhhmmm?
Musicmaker