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Lucymae 02-02-2011 04:53 PM

Oh I wish it would!! Yesterday finished a difficult seam only to find the bobbin ran out 14 inches before! ugh :oops:

EdieClay 02-02-2011 04:57 PM

My Pfaff doesn't ding when it is running low on bobbin thread, but a little light comes on to warn me ... very nice feature.

eb in calif 02-02-2011 05:12 PM

I have a vintage machine that takes a whold spool of thread in the bobbin - a feature that somehow got lost. Why can't they design the machines to take an external spool and bypass the small volume of a bobbin?

Cheshire Cat 02-02-2011 05:14 PM

mine beeps and I ignore it

Berta48 02-02-2011 05:17 PM


Originally Posted by BarbaraTX
My car "dings" when I'm down to 1/4 tank of gas. Why don't they make sewing machines that "ding" when your bobbin thread is down to a few yards of thread? (or do they?)

My Janome doesn't ding but it shows up on the sewing machine screen (bobbin is low!)

JUNEC 02-02-2011 05:19 PM


Originally Posted by Tropical
My machine doesn't ding (it would annoy me), but it does have a tiny red light above the needle that blinks on when the bobbin is low. I have learned approximately how much further I can sew when that happens. I like that tiny red blinking light.

What kind of machine do you sew with.

jpthequilter 02-02-2011 05:22 PM


Originally Posted by BarbaraTX
My car "dings" when I'm down to 1/4 tank of gas. Why don't they make sewing machines that "ding" when your bobbin thread is down to a few yards of thread? (or do they?)

Because your sewing machine does not have a way of knowing when the the thread is almost to the end, it can't tell you.
If there was a way to put a laser in the works ,
so that it saw the shiny (non thread) surface of the bobbin stem, when it appeared, and beeped.
...that would solve the problem
Inventors hear this! Jeannie

IBQUILTIN 02-02-2011 05:45 PM

My Viking has a bobbin warning, and it stops on me too, I love it

sylvia77 02-02-2011 05:54 PM

Mine does!

bamamama 02-02-2011 05:59 PM

My brother quattro warns me when the bobbin is low....sometimes. I've noticed that on rare occassion I do not get a warning. Not sure why. It also automatically threads the needle and cuts the thread when I'm finished sewing so I'll forgive its occassional forgetfulness. Its an awesome machine.


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