"Excuse Me!" ...............
 

.................... or "Thread Follies".

My wife was sewing some handles for her shopping bags she's making yesterday on her Bernina 930 using burgundy Coats & Clark's machine quilting thread when I hear her exclaim: "Excuse Me!". I came over to see what was up and she showed me this:
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Right in the middle of the spool of thread was a splice. I got a laugh out of it, but my wife didn't appreciate it. She had to re-thread the machine and then restart. She was .... um annoyed.

Joe

wow. Even my cheap cheap thread I've never come across that before!

That is most frustrating! Luckily I haven't seen it either, but not totally surprised by it. Is she going to write to the manufacturer?

can you write in chinese ??

親愛的大衣和Clarks，線程吮吸像胡佛。

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How's that?

Joe

I'm not surprise, actually. Coats and Clark has gone waaaaay down in quality and reputation over the years:< I won't use it.

The last time I sewed with Coats and Clark on my '70s Bernina Record 830, it made a mess. In other words, my vintage Bernina did not like it at all! I won't buy it anymore. Mine was purchased at JoAnn's and it said made in Mexico.

wow...that is crazy...I have heard that C&C and the connecting threads thread is really bad about splicing, but have not seen it before!

Coats & Clark IS "cheap cheap thread" now. Unfortunately, their quality has diminished from what it was years ago.

And, I've seen splices in it before. Will never buy it again. I now use the many spools I have left for basting quilt sandwiches, and zig-zagging raw edges of new fabric when I'm preparing to wash it.

Had it happen to me also. I've also seen fabric sewn together in the middle of the bolt.

You made me chuckle Joe. Very clever. Can you translate it?

A sign of the times. This happened to me on a cone of Signature thread on my longarm the other day....a real bummer.

I went to an on line language translator and typed in : Dear Coats and Clark's, your thread sucks like a Hoover.

That's what it translated it to. Supposed to be traditional Chinese. For all I know it could say hamburgers are made of sushi.

Joe

Now I am doing more than chuckling. I am laughing out loud.:D:D:D:D

I have never seen that before! Surprise!!

Many times I have bought a bolt and had it stitched together in the middle. also have had splices in my thread.

This is what is happening all over our great country! We are being spliced together by the Chinese, Japenese, etc! Americans need to wake up and start manufacturing at home again!

Yes they do, but until our government starts protecting our industries instead of sucking up to the global economy fanatics this is what we have. Although I'm curious as to where our govt thinks we will get money to buy the foreign products when we have no jobs to earn it.

Joe

I also had this happen . Mine was also in the middle of the spool. Then the other day my Singer started doin crazy things. Thread breaking and knotting up on the back side of the fabric. I changed needles , I cleaned out the bits and pieces of lint and such. Then a breakthrough. I changed thread . I had been sewing with this thread for a couple of hours, then the problem. Needless to say the thread went into the trash.

Me too. Made me mad as an ole wet hen.

J Miller I love your humor! You have a so good attitude. Why not?

I have been finding this alot lately even with Gutterman, I had one large spool, 800 miters I think, that had two knots in it. Needless to say Eloise, my Elna, was not too happy about it.

With the way the Bernina is designed the knot just came wiggling down in front of my wife's eyes. I'll bet she first thought it was a bug or something. I'm glad she saw it before it got into the tensioner or needle.

I wonder sometimes if letters to the manufacturer do any good.

Joe

One day when I was sewing with 100% cotton Gutterman thread purchased from Hancock Fabrics, it kept shredding in my needle (Size 12 sharp). I got so aggravated and frustrated that I yanked that spool of thread off and replaced it with another spool that I had purchased at Joann Fabrics. There was an immense difference in the lint and also the fact that the Gutterman purchased at Joann Fabrics did not shred. I started checking on the internet through google and I found that there are two different grades of Gutterman threads. One is manufactured in Mexico and the other one is manufactured in Germany. All of my Gutterman that was made in Mexico has sense been discarded in the trash can and I no longer purchase Gutterma thread of any kind at Hancock Fabrics.

I've never seen a splice in thread before but as a crocheter, I have come across plenty in skeins of yarn. One I know had to be a different dye lot because the color variation from one side of the knot to the other was tremendous. FYI: Dye lots in yarn is like buying a fabric one year and finding it again later only to find it doesn't match in colors although the printed pattern is the same.

Joe, yes, letters do good. I would write them and send a picture along. You never know, they may look at their quality control and maybe send you a spool of thread. But I would write just to let them know about their product, that usually makes me feel good to speak my beans. What can it hurt!

Joe, you are hilarious. I needed a good laugh, thanks.

I had a knot like that a couple weeks ago on a spool of gutterman. I was quilting on my frame, going a million miles an hour. I just happened to stop and see it. It would have been ugly if I hadn't chanced to see it.
No I didn't contact the company, didn't think of it until later when the evidence was gone.

I can just imagine the mess a knot like that would cause if it got to the needle with the machine at wide open throttle. Ewww yuck!

Joe

PREcisely:D

We on this board got Wal Mart to start carrying fabric again, after we talked about how we hated a couple of AT&t Tv. commercial's they were off the air the next day. Maybe if we all sent emails to the thread company's at the same time we could get them to wake up as to how much business they are loosing and start making a better product.

crafty pat,

I took some additional pics of the spool of thread, clearly showing the lot # and other info as well as the Bernina and the Singer Quantum Lock 5 head serger sitting besides it. All with the same thread on the pins.
I've got to compose a letter and make the pics email size before I send the letter to C&C.

Joe