Whew! That actually might be too scary to know.....LOL

If I can't have a BIG bobbin or thread-fed, how about a beep when the bobbin is out?

My Brother tells me when the bobbin is low it will actually stop the machine, sometimes I wish I could shut it off because I know I can get just a few more seams out of a bobbin.

AMEN!

My Janome beeps to remind me the bobbin is almost out but I really need one that SLAPS me so I will pay attention to the beep and not just keep on sewing!! ;O)

One that makes a cup of tea every hour? I keep forgetting to hydrate. Daft me!
Annie

I figured out the "mileage" on several cones of thread, so that when they were finished, I would know I had sewn AT LEAST that far!

Amish hand quilters charge by spools of thread. Depends on the size of spools, I guess.

I'd buy whatever machine that worked on... You guys are in business!!! :D

well you do...it is called the bobbin...all you have to know is how many yards of thread on the bobbin, then can convert yds into feet and feet into miles...

what machines really need is something that tells you how many HOURS you have on it...it needs, cleaned and timed according the hours of use! Especially the newer machines that you do not oil, but they have the lubricant in them. That goes away after sew many hours of use and only repairman can re-lube it properly!

Indeed! I've always thought that that there ought to be a way to set the spool on the back of the machine and run the thread through a little channel which had a thread tension and pick-up lane. With modern technology, why has this one feature remained the same?

I just got the HQ Sweet Sixteen sit-down quilting machine. It has a count of the number of stitches that keeps track overall but also can have a "trip" odometer that tracks for a single project. Pretty cool! I'm also amazed at the bobbin. I am about 1/3 way through quilting a queen sized quilt and still on the first bobbin. I think I'm in love.

I agree. It seems if the top thread can come off a spool or cone, the bottom thread should be able to as well. Seems like a feature that draw lots of sewers to buy a new machine.

I think this is the things that all quilters and sewers would love!!!

That would be great!!! I hate filling bobbins.

Considering the top thread has to go around the bobbin underneath, can you imagine how BIG the machine that took a cone in the bottom would be??? EYEROLL

Love to be the inventor of that product

My sewing machines count the stitches they have done ,
so you know how many hours you have been at the machine
also helps when you want to sell a machine you can prove how much it has sewn. Cathy

I have been working in the shoe industry for 30 years now;and every one of my coworkers have said the exact same thing!You really notice it when changing a bobbin cuts into your piece-work money.Cuz when you aren't sewing some piece of prduction -you aren't making any money!

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oh that would be wicked!

oh that would be wicked!

I'm not sure I want to know.. :)

There is an odometer on our machines - it's called a spool of thread. My spools are the 1200 yard spools. When that spool runs out I've sewn almost 2/3rds of a mile or more

Until such time as that million $ invention of the bobbin thread feeding from an external source couldn't we just have ALL machines have the same type of bobbin so I could go from my Bernina to my Pfaff to my Singer to my New Home using just one type of bobbin. I spend way too much time hunting for the "right" bobbin. At my age, I often forget which bobbin go to which machine.

we can keep track of hours. like when we need to tell someone how long we worked on pcing or hand quilting. and each spool of thread tells how much is there; that translates into yards/miles lol. details . . .bit of pain but doable.

Or sewing in a piece wrong-side out......seems to be my trade-mark!

I still have my singer that does that! I got it the year my son was born so that's 30 years old. I LOVED being able to fill the bobbin with the same thread spool I was sewing with without unthreading the machine!!

I am with you, i hate winding bobbinseven if my machine does it for me. It seems I always run out of bobbin thread half through a seam!

wow...would love that! :XD:

Yes, that will be the day!! Seems odd it hasn't been done by now.

WOW, great point, why can't the bobbin just rewind itself when it starts to run out???

I solved that problem with fingernail polish. I have three different machines and I put a dab of red polish on one, gold polish on another, etc. That way I always know which machine it goes to. I also have bottom embroidery thread bobbins and I have those color coded too.

I agree about bobbins. I would have to buy more thread, so I would have a cone in each position, but it would be well worth it.

My guild buys LA thread in pairs of cones so that additional bobbins can be wound (on a winder) without unthreading the machine.

Almost all of the thread I use comes in cones, which makes it easy to compute the thread milage in a given quilt, or my milage over a year's time. Add up the cones x cone size /5280 feet per mile. Aren't calculators great? One queen sized commissioned quilt used 3.5 miles of thread.

Wouldn't it be great if there were a need for a calorie counter on our machines?

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how about one that would prevent you from sewing wrong sides together. I did that last year during a mystery class. Bad machine, bad machine. lol.

Bigger bobbins would help, but I would really rather be able to put a cone in there.

The bobbin on a Bernina 830 holds twice as much as the small machines I love it . Then again I just love this machine.

lol oh ya

My Bernina has one and the service guy told me he could tell I had sewn quite bit. I think it tells you the number of stitches.