Originally Posted by Barb_MO
You can learn to hear the sound of your machine when it runs out of thread. On my commercial machine and the New Home, I can almost always tell when the bobbin thread is out with in just a few stitches. But like most everyone I've sewn many feet without bobbin threed.
I notice a difference in the sound of my machine too when the bobbin runs out. Try to get in the habit of checking your bobbin thread more often... I try to check mine in intervals...after so much chain piecing, so many borders, etc... not that it hasn't slipped by me from time to time too :oops: