that is also a reason i never leave my machine unattended, what can go wrong will.
bev

I must say that I have never had that problem, which surprised me because I can usually manage to get most things to go wrong at some point. I am glad you have your machine back.
Alice

Glad it wasn't major!

Read something that said never to get further away than two feet from your machine. I gather stuff to do while waiting for a design to finish so it isn't wasted time.

When my machine was new this happened to me - fortunately no major damage - Bernina sorted it chop chop - at an unecessary cost - so all extra spools stay far away.

Perhaps you should make some bobbin thread covers.

Go to the local hardware store, buy a length of the 5mm "Clear Vinyl Tubing". It is 5mm (2") in CIRCUMFERENCE not diameter.
Using a very sharp knife (I use large Friskars soft touch scissors) cut off narrow circles thin enough to fit INSIDE your bobbins.

Then cut an opening, diagonally across each circle, (so you can open it) then place the circle of clear vinyl around the thread on your bobbins making sure the loose end of thread is not hanging free.

Bobbin mess solved!
Hope this saves you from ever having to go through that trauma again.
hugs n roses, Meganne

I forgot to mention how lucky you REALLY were!
Someone once told the horror story that the thread had been sucked inside the handwheel, down into the main drive shaft, which caused it to seize and the whole computer unit burnt out.
Hugs n roses, Meganne

That sounds awful - glad you have it back now.

Glad that your machine is OK. It is interesting that small things can cause problems for us

Same happened with my sewing machine. Now I have to give her a kick with the handwheel to start sewing and for a long time the needle also moves when I spooled bobbin thread :o(
Greetings, Bettina

A friend of mine had a whole stack of extra bobbins on the spool holder. The tails of all those threads got pulled with the thread going into her tension and completely seized up the machine. This was a regular sewing machine, and again not a huge fix, but a lesson to be learned just the same.

Wow what a lesson learned the hard way. I don't have a multi spool holder but I can soooo see myself doing that. Looks like a good bobbin holder to me--not. Thanks for the warning.

I have a Viking Diamond, and when it was very new I had an extra spool of thread on the right of the holder. It unwound into the wheel as well. The machine kept saying "motor overload" and I kept trying to find out what was wrong. Finally went to dealer. He took one look, popped off the wheel cover and laughed. I have been sewing since I was 4, and am now a senior, and I never would have known to look there. Am much more careful, but have learned to "listen" when my machine talks to me! I can tell when a thread breaks before the machine tells me now. The regular tick tick tick is just different. I, too, do other projects in the room while I ME, because too many times I have heard it and stopped the machine (broken needle, etc) before it became a major problem. I like the tubing cover idea, but don't know if i would ever find one on the floor if I dropped it (lol).
Linda

Don't you just hate it when we get our machines sick. Glad you got it taken care of. Frustrating to have it down during any time of year but especially now.

I did the same thing, but was sitting at the machine and was able to stop it fairly quickly. I still lost a lot of thread. Yuck!

Glad you have your baby back home. Helen