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newbee3 08-26-2011 11:12 PM

How do you keep your bobbins from becoming a big mess of tangled threads???

MelodyWB 08-26-2011 11:15 PM

You know the little rubber things you buy to put between your toes when you do a pedicure..I use them for my bobbins !!

sueisallaboutquilts 08-27-2011 03:27 AM

Melody- that is such an awesome idea!!!!!! Thanks :D

mmdquilts 08-27-2011 03:30 AM

That is such a great idea Melody! I use the tiny rubber bands for kids hair.

Glassquilt 08-27-2011 03:39 AM

I have a bobbin box I bought.

Cybrarian 08-27-2011 03:49 AM

I buy the inexpensive bobbin boxes from Joanns (use the coupons unless on sale) and the cheap tiny stretchy hair bands. Big bag at Walmart a couple dollars and I can at least color code by general color. I use white ones on my multicolor ones.

dd 08-27-2011 04:29 AM

I use the tiny hair bands to color coordinate but the dr. I work for uses rubber bands to keep the bobbin with the spool. Not exactly sure how. I think she puts the rubber band thru the bobbin hole loops it then puts the big loop around the spool, I think. I said it can still unravel but she says it doesn't.

sewmuchmore 08-27-2011 04:51 AM

Hubby bought a round clear tube something you would out on a small water pump. I cut it off the size I need small enough to fix inside the bobbin then cut it open side it on the bobbin. :P

auntpiggylpn 08-27-2011 07:00 PM

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I use Bobbin Mates and Bobbin Wraps as I put my thread on spool racks that hang on my wall. I got mine at Clotilde.com but they are available everywhere on the internet

These keep the bobbins attached to the spools
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Tartan 08-27-2011 07:29 PM

I put mine on the shelf in my Bernina case. You can also just gently pull about a 4 inch tail piece of thread down along between the bobbin side and the thread mass. It will stay in the valley until pulled out again.


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