Originally Posted by
amyjo
HA HA, I can't remember what all mine look like either, and I am over 60. I can remember some stuff better than others, but seem a little confused on remembering all the photos. I guess I quialify in the tooooo many machines category too. I have one that is for looks only unless I find parts for it. Got fromSteve here on the board and my is she pretty. She will be front stage and center whenever my new room is up.
When I want to remember what something looks like it's easier to find a picture of it on my computer than to go and look at the actual thing. I think I have too many things.
Originally Posted by
Jeanette Frantz
That size of thread spool is hard to find -- no regular thread spools I know of are that small. What I have discovered is that the small size spools which are found in "sewing repair kits" are exactly the same size as the wooden spool I found inside my machine. ...
The bobbin can looks like it will hold a fairly big spool. I saw an old ad in which National boasted it could hold a 200 yd spool. I also found someone's blog where she said she found wooden spools of the right size at Michael's, or hobby lobby or someplace like that, and wound them herself. (I don't have a Two Spool but can you tell I want one?
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I have a bunch of old wooden spools, and the size of a 100 yd spool is often the same as a 200 yd. The 200 yd is just cut deeper. Wooden spools are nice, but some of them were made of maple, in an era when we were cutting down our old-growth forests like mad. Many of them are cut really shallow and don't hold much thread. I guess wood was cheap and thread was expensive. The "bow tie" shaped spools hold a lot.
I re-found the National ad:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...1662%2C6209536
Here's part of a fun article about vintage spools:
http://info.fabrics.net/thread-spool-sizes-and-shapes/
more:
http://info.fabrics.net/thread-labels-page-4/
there are more photo galleries if you click on the links at the bottom of the page