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minstrel 11-29-2009 07:12 AM

Amazing...always wondered exactly how that worked.

Gilla 11-29-2009 08:02 AM

Now I would like to meet the guy who invented the threading of a Serger. Only an engineer would come up with such a hideous way. I brt he never used one.

carrieg 11-29-2009 10:52 AM

Thanks for posting that! That is way cool! Now we know why we have to keep the lint out of the bobbin area. I didn't know the thread went completely around it like that.

Lostn51 11-29-2009 11:33 AM

His was different from the image that is shown but that gives a good idea of how it works. His was a chain stitch and did not use a bobbin thread.

And just think they did all of this engineering with out a computer it was all trial and error, paper and pencil!

Billy

mountain-moma 11-29-2009 12:25 PM

Thanks,for posting thats so cool to watch

LucyInTheSky 11-29-2009 02:54 PM


Originally Posted by carrieg
Thanks for posting that! That is way cool! Now we know why we have to keep the lint out of the bobbin area. I didn't know the thread went completely around it like that.

Ditto. I always thought that the piece that goes around just sat there, maybe going back and forth a little, but not all the way around...

I might have to start watching the bobbin casing as I sew... that can't possibly turn out bad for the quilt, right? :shock:

NiceNCLady 11-29-2009 03:02 PM

Lucy, If you start watching the bobbin while you're quilting, how about letting us know how that works out for ya? lol

butterflywing 11-29-2009 07:38 PM


Originally Posted by Moonpi
Elias Howe actually came up with the idea from a nightmare in which cannibals were after him with spears. Each spear had a hole in the pointy end, to hold thread.

And people think MY dreams are odd!

no, Moonpi, people don't think your dreams are odd. people think YOU'RE odd :roll: that's why we love you. :lol: :lol:

JudeWill 12-01-2009 07:50 AM

Well, I guess I'm dense, because I still don't see how just one side of the loop (yellow) gets around the thread and I'm getting dizzy watching it!

Lostn51 12-01-2009 08:05 AM

The hook is tapered so that it brings the thread to the side of the other before it releases it.

Billy


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