“Unwinding” a bobbin
09-25-2023, 09:04 AM
#13
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Oro Valley, AZ
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Originally Posted by Peckish
Most attribute it to Plato.
Why is it that if you're gonna drop ANYthing during the course of the day, it's one of these 4 things:
1) A full bobbin,which then runs 25 feet away from you. I have to race the cat to get to it. And it's never an empty bobbin!
2) My sewing scissors, and they always land point down.
3) A glass, and usually it's full of red wine, not white, and of course I never drop an empty glass.
4) Dinner as you're pulling it out of the oven. I never drop it as I'm putting it INTO the oven.
Why is it that if you're gonna drop ANYthing during the course of the day, it's one of these 4 things:
1) A full bobbin,which then runs 25 feet away from you. I have to race the cat to get to it. And it's never an empty bobbin!
2) My sewing scissors, and they always land point down.
3) A glass, and usually it's full of red wine, not white, and of course I never drop an empty glass.
4) Dinner as you're pulling it out of the oven. I never drop it as I'm putting it INTO the oven.
09-26-2023, 02:39 AM
#14
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Davenport, Iowa
Posts: 3,799
First I thread the loose end on a new bobbin and place it in the machines bobbin winder as normal. Then I put the messed up bobbin on a bamboo skewer or thin dowel rod so that I can hold it horizontal at the right height to the machine. Press the "wind" button and let it spin away. Never fails to give me a perfect bobbin.
09-27-2023, 12:18 PM
#16
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: British Columbia
Posts: 2,302
This has been a timely post for me. I have never unwound a full bobbin, but will sacrifice the last couple of feet of thread rather than run a bobbin empty when starting into a longer seam. Just this morning my bobbin was sparsely threaded so I put it into the small drawer on my sewing machine table and what a quick, easy pull.
