Help! funky bobbins with microquilter thread
I recently bought microquilter (100 wt.) polyester thread because it is supposed to be great for machine applique. Today I am finally trying it, and I do like it, but am having problems getting a nicely wound bobbin. The bobbin keeps winding punky soft, and sometimes loopy. The spool is too large to fit in my machine's horizontal spool holder area, so it sits behind the machine in a glass. I have wound a bobbin with limited success and some difficulty by increasing the tension with the thread running through my pinched fingers as well as the other couple of places it's supposed to go. With such thin thread, it really takes forever to wind it by hand, which is what I have resorted to doing, twice now.
I am open to any and all suggestions/solutions you have found when using such thin thread. It's Sunday, or I'd try phoning Superior about their thread.