I've been hearing a lot about pre-wound bobbins lately.


Comments?

What brand is good?

Thanks!

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I saw them online....was going to ask the same question. Generally use lite-med gray for piecing and keep a supply of bobbins ready to go by winding at least 2 each time I sit down at the machine.

I wouldn't use anything else. The size depends upon your machine. Janome uses "L" size.

Lanny

I use them all the time. Mine are size L and I use them in my Mega Quilter & my Designer 1 - they work great. They are the cardboard ones that I get at my LQS.

You can't use them in some machines, so be sure they work in yours.

check out Allstitch.com
and many other sites that sell NEBS.... i've had luck with them and they come in many sizes... i shared a "gross" with someone long ago and am still using.....

size "M" is for longarms...size "L" is for regular machines. HOWEVER, not all machines can take them. Berninas, Husqvarna/Vikings, and Pfaff usually can not use any of the prewound bobbins.

Signature makes a nice cotton one, and Superior threads has the Alex Anderson Masterpiece threads...LOVE them both.

I have been using the Signature ones for about 10 years now. They fit my vintage singer, my Janome Jem platinum, and my Elna with no issues!

I like them because they hold so much more thread and I don''t have to wind a bobbin so often. I embroidered a design the other evening and had to change my regular bobbins 3 times. Needless to say I replenished my pre-bobbins today.LOL

Hi Guys

Can I use them in my Janome QC4900 and Horizon. Also a brother 4000D?

Hugs

I recently bought " bobby cots" on ebay for my Pfaff and they're great. Had to buy 1/2 gross but got half white and half black - size L.

I use L bobbins all the time in my Husqvarna Viking Designer SE. I use NEB bobbins (clear plastic sides) that I found at http://www.discountembroiderysupply.com

Prewound bobbins will not work in earlier Husqvarna models, like the #1+, but they work fine in the Designer SE.

Pre-wound bobbins are the great thing since the rotary cutter.
I love using them. Even the cheap ones from Wally world work on my Baby-lock.

Love them. My Babylock has an adapter to use with prewounds.

I use them in my Pfaff 7570 all the time. No problems. I was told that in this machine I should take the cardboard ends off, so that is what I do. Works great.

I have a ton of bobbins already wound. I also have a sidewinder, a gift I love, and I can't see getting prewounds but I guess my machine can't use them anyway.(Bernina virtuosa 153 QE). I can see the sense of using them for embroidery though.

My daughter has a commercial embroidery machine and uses prewound bobbins all the time because it saves so much time. I recently got some for my Babylock sewing/embroidery machine because it winds the bobbins oddly and they sometimes jam. So...until I can get it to the shop I will use the prewounds.

Taking one or both ends works on my Pfaff too. Buy them in cream and light grey and they last so much longer than when I wind bobbins myself. Have been able to use them with Clark and Mettler top threads without any problem. May in Jersey

I am confused to how and when you would use prewound bobbins because in most of my quilting projects I find, for tension reasons, that I need to have the same type of thread top and bottom. Are they just for embroidery?

I have no problem using them for regular sewing and quilting projects. I always do a trial run first to make use the tensions are OK. May in Jersey

Since the prewounds tend to be polyester, I would only use them for embroidery.

Thanks for the info, that is what I thought, them being Poly so I knew I wouldn't use them on my quilting projects and any way I don't find winding bobbins a hassle I just, umm swear a little when they run out at a awkward place, which it the normal place :thumbdown:

I LOVE the pre-wound bobbins for quilting - I use a size L in my Singer 15's, Lady Kenmore 89, Kenmore 1802 and Kenmore 1803.

The shiny thread looks beautiful on the backs of the quilts I've used it on and a bobbin lasts a long time (a little over half an hour of steady FMQ)

I buy a gross of them for about $30 and I think I figured that with shipping, they were costing about 25¢ each. I use 6-12 bobbins per quilt. (I normally use more bobbins than that, so I think the bobbins hold quite a bit more thread than those I wind on the machine.

I'd like to find something similar with matte thread - maybe even in colors like natural, light grey and black. A very fine thread like this shiny stuff, only looks like cotton?

Anyone got a source for pre-wounds like that?

I use the NEBS plastic pre-wound bobbins in both my Husqvqrna/Viking D-1 and SE always have and I have never had a problem. Also use them in my Brother with out a problem.

Can you just use the sideless bobbins instead of taking the cardboard off?? I have a Pfaff and haven't used the prewound bobbins on it yet so I need to know the details before I order.

I have used Nebs and the cardboard ones in my Pfaff 7570 with no problem at all.

I must be doing something wrong with my sidewinder. The tension isn't consistant. Is it the type of thread I use or the operator?

Thanks for your advice.

I usually use leave the cardboard sides on but the ones I got from Superior threads seemed to need one of the sides to be taken off so it would fit easily into the bobbin holder. I like to use them when I'm doing a lot of chain piecing as they have so much more thread on them than the bobbins I wind myself. May in Jersey

Love them!!!