Joining the club of the empty bobbin

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02-19-2011, 03:27 PM

#21

Lori S

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Join Date: Apr 2010

Location: Illinois

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I wish I was not such a potty mouth when it happens to me!

02-19-2011, 03:29 PM

#22

patchsamkim

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Join Date: Oct 2010

Location: Fox Valley Wisconsin

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I hate when that happens....if I am listening REALLY carefully while sewing, I can hear that my bobbin is about empty...sort of a metal echo sound...but if I am listening to music, or talking while sewing, I don't hear that sound, and then I often sew with no thread.

Welcome to the club!

02-19-2011, 03:32 PM

#23

Jan in VA

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Location: Piedmont Virginia in the Foothills of the Blue Ridge Mtns.

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Trudy Hughes once spoke at a guild meeting and told us she had a record of sewing the longest with no bobbin thread......45 minutes!

I swear I'd have slit my throat. :evil:

Jan in VA :lol:

02-19-2011, 05:57 PM

#24

Vivian Ketron

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Join Date: Jan 2010

Location: Mo

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Today I was sewing last border on my quilt and thought its done and I had run out of bobbin 3 ins from the top. What a shock.

02-19-2011, 06:15 PM

#25

mcdaniel023

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Join Date: Feb 2009

Location: Indiana

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You would think I would check the bobbin more often. The cover is clear. LOL! Did the same thing the other day.

02-19-2011, 06:41 PM

#26

GwynR

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Join Date: Oct 2010

Location: Spokane, Wa

Posts: 1,196

My pfaff has a low bobbin light that comes on and spoils me! Then when I switch over to a different machine, I forget to watch. Went almost 2 feet today with no bobbin thread. Just glad DH wasn't home, he would still be laughing at me!

02-19-2011, 08:06 PM

#27

Crabby Patty

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Join Date: May 2010

Location: Missouri

Posts: 695

I too have done this many times but with me it is usually with-in 1to2 inches from finish end. LOL

02-19-2011, 08:11 PM

#28

MisDixie

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Join Date: Oct 2010

Location: Hay River NWT Canada

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One of my machines beeps, the others don't. Needless to say I can be part of this club!

02-19-2011, 08:33 PM

#29

Twisted Quilter

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Join Date: Dec 2009

Posts: 3,422

I'll join! It happens to me almost daily. :cry:

02-19-2011, 09:14 PM

#30

Country1

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Join Date: Dec 2010

Location: Bowling Green, KY

Posts: 2,441

Quote:

Originally Posted by chamby

Well ladies this morning I was working hard on the king size rag quilt that my son hired me to complete for a friends birthday. I was sewing very nicely on a long row thinking I was doing well. Well to my surprise when I reached the end to snip the thread. There was no bobbin thread. I had been sewing almost the entire row without the bobbin thread without noticing. All pins were gone and rows not sewn together. What a bummer. I had to re-pin almost the entire row and start over. I sure wish I had a red light or something to warn me of the empty bobbin. So I just stopped went to Hancock for sewing machine oil and thread. Then back home to clean machine and fill the bobbin to begin again.

Been there done that, more than once.