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Futura 350-can't pick up bobbin thread and upper thread is caught

I have been using my futura 350 with no problems...until now. I don't know what I may have done, but the upper thread is catching in the bobbin area-not where the area where the bobbin sits, but the steel part that circles under it when you move the hand wheel (I hope that is clear to understand) and it keeps circling around it, getting more and more caught and tangled. The back of the shirt I am embroidering on has many tangled nests of thread-all upper thread as the bobbin thread never catches. I need to fix the machine so that it catches the bobbin thread and does not catch my upper thread. Please advise.
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