Thank you to a few people who have answered this one for me in various ways.
I have chosen this email and the group to answer this morning to let you
know that the 'crisis is over'.
I was using Broder Machine 50 which is quite fine (although not as fine as
many of you use). It is the same
Dear Jeri.
This is something I never thought before. I used to contemplate the
twist of the thread when winding bobbins, not when sewing...
A big thank you again, your knowing and help to this list is invaluable.
Kind regards from a sunny and very hot Barcelona, Spain
Carolina de la Guardia
Dear Sue,
Not sure, but it is possible you are sewing against the grain of the
thread. Have you tried threading your needle from the other end of the
thread?
You may remember that Barbara Ballantyne, the Australian crochet expert,
and I wrote a lot about thread problems at the time