I had 8 strips to sew together. I didn't have very much thread in my machine but I thought I was OK. I checked my bobbin thread and it looked OK ...

Finished the strips with thread left over - Great.

Took the strips to cut them apart and.... they fell apart. I had run out of bobbin thread :!: :oops: :!: I'll be glad when my new machine gets here 'cause it has a low bobbin indicator.

Just wanted to vent :hunf:

OH MY GOSH! Sewing machines come with low bobbin indicators????? I NEED one of those! I cannot TELL you how many times the bobbin eating monster has attacked me! I hear it giggle with every seam I sew! It usually strikes within the first three inches of a border seam...which I don't notice till I reach the end!

I had that problem this week. I was using up the bobbin thread from the embroifery machine, hate to waste it, and thought I was watching it closly. Wrong. It got me. more than once...lots more. I was sewing away, thinking I was making headway on these 2 I am piecing...oh well, I got to use up a lot of the partial bobbins anyway.

I have a Brother with the low bobbin light. It comes on when the bobbin is half empty. By the time it runs out I've forgotten is was low. I didn't really like that feature for that reason. When looking for a new machine that was not one of the features "I had to have."

I have a brother SE 350 and it refuses to sew if the bobbin thread is running out or if the top thread breaks. Love, hate that feature! Especially when I have 2 inches to go and know the bobbin thread left will make it!!

yes that is a feature that i want on my next machine..

low bobbin thread indicator, just like the low fuel alarm on my truck.
But, do we pay heed to this alarm? I am guilty of waiting till the fumes are almost evaporated before filling up. ..haha

My Janome 9000 has the bobbin indicator and I love it. It will continue to sew but give you a message on the screen every so often. If I run out, it's my own fault because by then, I've had at least 3 warnings.

I used a friend's Bernina over the weekend and she didn't have a bobbin indicator on it. I ran out of bobbin thread twice! Now I know that's a feature I can't live without.

OK, I just put the umbrella up ... you can spit now. :D

Something that is good and bad about my Viking Sapphire. When the bobbin thread is almost out, like just inches left, it loses the tension and it sews badly. I can always tell that the bobbin is about out when I say, "what the ????" because it's screwing up.

This so sounds like something I would do! lol!!!!!!

I don't notice I've run out of bobbin thread until I go to iron the piece so often that I've almost come to expect it! lol!!!!
:) :)