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I BORROWED a sewing machine. It is a Kenmore

I BORROWED a sewing machine. It is a Kenmore 12912. It is fairly new. It was sewing just fine and I had only one seam left to sew and I was done. The machine started jamming and I could not move the needle. I finally was able to remove my material from the sewing machine and rethreaded the machine and took the bobbin out and put it back in. No the thread was not matting up on me. It sounded like it might be hitting something and was really really tight to turn the wheel. What do I do now?

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The thread wrapped around the bobbin case and tangled around to mess up the tension try to readjust the tension

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