Another Post From Me

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Okay, so I'm having a minor to slightly major dilemma.

I've been sewing since I was a kid, but I usually tended to stay away from the sewing machine. Now, I'm starting to realize the blessing and joys of using a sewing machine, but I have a problem. Sewing machines HATE me (with a fiery passion apparantely). I assume that I inherited this problem from my mother since she has the same problem with sewing machines constantly breaking on her.
I'm trying to get into quilting, and it'll be an extremely slow process if I don't get my sewing machine fixed, and I really want to do it myself, I just have no idea what's wrong with it.

The problem! I thought it was the bobbin at first (and at first it was the bobbin). The thread would get stuck between the needle and the bobbin case and it would jam up. So I left the machine alone for a month and just tonight I decided that I would see if I could fix it or something tonight.

It works fine if you just use the needle and run the machine and it's okay if you don't run the machine with thread in the needle. But for some reason, when I put a piece of fabric under the foot and try and actually sew it doesn't work. The needle will go down into the fabric and stop. It won't move an inch, and the hand wheel will just continue to turn with no action seemingly anywhere else in the machine.

I'd take it to a professional to look at, but I really can't spend anymore than $100 right now (newly rented apartment and all the costs that come along with that) and I'm afraid that I'll take it in and have to spend some outrageous costs on it. The same problem worries me with finding a new/used machine for under $100.

What should I do?!?!