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    Old 05-01-2011, 05:51 PM
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    Never heard of that!!
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    Old 05-01-2011, 05:55 PM
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    Originally Posted by mpeters1200
    I've never seen anything like it before. 13 different colors...just so strange.
    My dad has picked up bobbins and spools of thread at the goodwill and has given some to me and on some of the bobbins there were probably ten different threads on them. And since I didn't want to use that old stuff, I started pulling it all off and thats how I found it.
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    Old 05-01-2011, 07:07 PM
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    When I first started sewing, I only had so many bobbins, so yes I would put more than one thread on a bobbin.
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    Old 05-01-2011, 07:07 PM
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    We never wound the bobbin full, just enough to do the job. any left over stayed on. Waste not, Want not. Not a bad way to be raised.
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    My sewing machine wouldn't like that much. It's grumpy enough about the bobbin as things are.
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    Old 05-01-2011, 07:12 PM
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    I've never seen anything like it before.
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    Old 05-01-2011, 07:46 PM
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    Have seen it a lot....specially if I've bought a second hand machine. Don't do it myself as it would drive me nuts, I like to keep my colours separate.
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    Old 05-01-2011, 08:06 PM
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    I found the same thing when I got my featherweight. Not 13 different colors though, just 3 or 4.
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    Old 05-01-2011, 11:05 PM
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    Yep..used to do it when I was younger. If I had extra time I would wind the thread back onto the spool over the rest of the thread. I actually still do that. But fortunately I have extra bobbins now instead of just a few.
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    Old 05-02-2011, 04:30 AM
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    I used to do that, too. To use up that bobbin thread then, I would use those bobbins when I was patching the kid's clothes. They didn't care!!
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