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!