Originally Posted by
Onebyone
Not true anymore. Prewound cotton or poly bobbins are made for piecing and machine quilting. Most LA buy them by the gross.
Yes I know, I am a LA quilter and do buy magnaglides by the gross in the colors they offer in that kind of quantity.
I guess I should have worded my reply to use the word "initially" instead of typically, also I was pretty much referring to the specific Guterman prewounds referenced by the OP. I found only one type of prewound on their website. The link I provided was specifically geared to embroiderers. Pretty much all prewound bobbins were introduced for embroiderers. Even Glide thread, while now marketed mostly to quilters was developed and initially marketed to embroiderers. It was Karen McTavish who broke them into the quilting market.