Originally Posted by mar32428
Has anybody used BL on an embroidery machine? It takes SO much thread. You are often using several different threads in your design and it's a pain matching up bobbin thread. And expensive.
I don't think I've ever used tried to match threads with my embroidery machine. I use a very fine white poly bobbin thread for just about everything, I tighten up the bobbin tension so that it pulls the needle thread to the back of the design.
I'm not real experienced with machine embroidery, but I think that the needle thread usually shows more on the back even than the bobbin thread does. I would think that unless you're embroidering on a dark fabric where you'd want to camouflage the bobbin thread, the white or off-white bobbin thread would work great for everything else.
If you're using your regular embroidery thread and matching it to the needle thread, then you're possibly making your embroidery too dense and as you've found, spending a lot more money on embroidery thread. The very fine bobbin thread makes the design easier to stitch and more flexible. :)