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12-08-2010, 07:26 AM

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MaggieLou

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I only use Bottom Line in my bobbins
I can do a twin top with one bobbin

Where do you get the Bottom Line thread? Can you get it at JoAnn's or Hancock's or do you have to buy online?

12-08-2010, 07:33 AM

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Bottom line is polyester...I don't do polyester. Especially for piecing.

12-08-2010, 07:36 AM

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Originally Posted by gollytwo

I only use Bottom Line in my bobbins
I can do a twin top with one bobbin

Where do you get the Bottom Line thread? Can you get it at JoAnn's or Hancock's or do you have to buy online?

I get it at Joanns

12-08-2010, 08:30 AM

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I've never thought about it. Whenever I change a bobbin, I think, "Girl, you should design machines with ginormous bobbins. You'd be a billionaire."

I am still waiting for them to invent a bobbin-less machine... run the thread straight off the spool :D:D:D

Now, I like your idea best of all. Are you working on that invention... in your spare time?! LOL :lol:

12-08-2010, 08:49 AM

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I never seem to have enough bobbins filled or empty. Sandy

12-08-2010, 08:50 AM

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That's one reason I love to use Bottom Line thread from Superior. You can put so much thread on the bobbin, it lasts a lot longer. And I fill up quite a few bobbins at one time so I don't have to stop and fill one up each time I run out.

12-08-2010, 10:07 AM

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[quote=MaggieLou]

Quote:

Originally Posted by gollytwo

I only use Bottom Line in my bobbins
I can do a twin top with one bobbin

Where do you get the Bottom Line thread? Can you get it at JoAnn's or Hancock's or do you have to buy online

http://www.superiorthreads.com
some quilt shops carry it and Bob Purcell vends at the really big shows.
I see a comment that someone got it at her Joanns; mine doesn't carry it.

12-08-2010, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by pookie ookie

I've never thought about it. Whenever I change a bobbin, I think, "Girl, you should design machines with ginormous bobbins. You'd be a billionaire."

I am still waiting for them to invent a bobbin-less machine... run the thread straight off the spool :D:D:D

ABSOLUTELY!!! WHY can't that be done? I know how a sewing machine works in that the top thread goes around the whole bobbin to pull up each stitch. Seems to me that the bottom thread could come off a spool, loop around a "bobbin case" and get pulled for a stitch, then the next, and so on.

12-08-2010, 11:02 AM

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[quote=gollytwo]

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Originally Posted by MaggieLou

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Originally Posted by gollytwo

I only use Bottom Line in my bobbins
I can do a twin top with one bobbin

Our Joann's doesn't carry it either. They have other brands.

12-08-2010, 02:59 PM

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I've never thought about it. Whenever I change a bobbin, I think, "Girl, you should design machines with ginormous bobbins. You'd be a billionaire."

I keep thinking: Why don't they make a bobbin where you just use your spool of thread and run it through the bobbin mechanism. Then you'd almost never have to change the bobbin. I learned something last night: I was making a label and putting a decorative stitch around the edge. Right, ran out of bobbin thread. I wasn't easy to get my pattern lined up again so there was no break in the pattern. Moral of the story: Always have a full bobbin when doing decorative stitches. I learned the hard way.