How do you know your bobbin is out of thread?
#1
Well it's all in the title.
I was sewing this great big long seam with lots of pins in it. I was taking out the pins as I went because my machine doesn't like going over them. And then I get to the end and the thread is just loose.
I had run out of bobbin thread. Is there a way to avoid this?
I was sewing this great big long seam with lots of pins in it. I was taking out the pins as I went because my machine doesn't like going over them. And then I get to the end and the thread is just loose.
I had run out of bobbin thread. Is there a way to avoid this?
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Unless your machine has a low bobbin warning.
I have found that my bobbin rattles a little when very low of thread, I have metal bobbins. I suggest if you have done a lot of sewing on that bobbin that you watch your sewing a little more closely. I usually catch my empty bobbin fairly quick, now. I have sewn probably a good 20 feet worth of chain piecing with no bobbin once, it was a different machine and it was 3am.
I have found that my bobbin rattles a little when very low of thread, I have metal bobbins. I suggest if you have done a lot of sewing on that bobbin that you watch your sewing a little more closely. I usually catch my empty bobbin fairly quick, now. I have sewn probably a good 20 feet worth of chain piecing with no bobbin once, it was a different machine and it was 3am.
#5
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.
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Running out is not such a big deal on short seams, but when I'm going to do a LONG seam, I always make sure to have a spare bobbin wound, and drop that in before I start. It's just too disappointing when you have no thread and you've already taken the pins out!
#9
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.
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