How many bobbins?
#51
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Originally Posted by amma
Originally Posted by pookie ookie
I've never thought about it. Whenever I change a bobbin, I think, "Girl, you should design machines with ginormous bobbins. You'd be a billionaire."
wish I knew how to invent things.
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Originally Posted by pookie ookie
I've never thought about it. Whenever I change a bobbin, I think, "Girl, you should design machines with ginormous bobbins. You'd be a billionaire."
#53
Originally Posted by Sadiemae
Just curious how many bobbins you use in a day. I don't think my bobbins are any smaller than others, and I have emptied 11 bobbins in the last two day. This is on a Viking Mega Quilter. How many do you use?
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Donnalynett, I love my Mega Quilter. I use it piece, but when I first began machine quilting, I used it for that also. I bought mine right after they were first put on the market, and I know that they have had some improvements also. Mine will sew with the pressure foot up, and if I forget it makes a mess. The newer ones will not sew if the foot is up. I need to have my auto bobbin winder fixed. I think it got bumped too hard when someone was transporting it, so it wasn't the machines fault. I just can't afford to have it worked on right now. It uses the same bobbins as my Brother, so I wind bobbins on it. I don't know about the newer machines, but this one is quite heavy. Just something to think about if you move it often. If you have any other questions, just pm me.
#55
If I'm piecing, 2-3(unless chain piecing 3-5), if I am quilting, I have used up to 13 in one day(this was on a very heavily quilted quilt). But some days I'm kinda slw, and other days I'm really in the groove, just matters how much I have on my mind. I quilt on a machine only.
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Originally Posted by tebill
I find that my mega quilter doesn't fill a bobbin fully so I seem to go through a lot of bobbins when sewing a project. It's a super machine, though!
#58
This hubby is always telling everyone--Why didn't they make
sewing machines with the bobbin thread being the same size as the sewing thread. --A spool for a spool. !!!!!
I tell him to invent one.
I have seen industrial machines that have no problem with
bobbin thread amounts.
sewing machines with the bobbin thread being the same size as the sewing thread. --A spool for a spool. !!!!!
I tell him to invent one.
I have seen industrial machines that have no problem with
bobbin thread amounts.
#60
Are you talking about just regular piecing? or Machine Quilting? I go thru many bobbins when machine quilting. 10 to 12 in not uncommon with a large quilt. It will depend on how close together the stitches are. A big meander will use less that a tight close stitch.
Also I moved the stopper on the top of my machine to make more thread load onto each bobbin, but I still have to change often. Maybe it is so we have to clean the bobbin area each time we change bobbins...
Also I moved the stopper on the top of my machine to make more thread load onto each bobbin, but I still have to change often. Maybe it is so we have to clean the bobbin area each time we change bobbins...
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