Please tell me I'm not alone
02-21-2013, 01:33 PM
#41
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Originally Posted by Sarah in Brooklyn
It's hard to explain - the thread wasn't in the right little grooves. It takes talent to mess that up!!
Thanks! Oh, that I understand. I've got a plain mechanical machine------------it doesn't much care how the thread gets on the bobbin or which direction I put it in. I do know about missing the groves. Haven't done it often, but I have a time or two. I was picturing a machine that had a fancy bobbin, unlike mine.
02-21-2013, 01:35 PM
#42
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Originally Posted by MargeD
You're definitely not alone, and to take it one step further, I've been sewing right along before discovering that I ran out of bobbin thread several feet ago. Yup, been there, done that and more than a time or two.
Just several feet? How about yards and yards ago. And that is usually when I'm chain piecing and have removed all the pins. @@
I still do it, but I watch a lot closer.
02-21-2013, 07:41 PM
#44
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I have not had a problem with the bobbin that I didn't recognize immediately. However I did take my sewing maching to be repaired because it wouldn't sew. The reason it wouldn't sew was that it was still in bobbin winding mode.
02-22-2013, 01:32 PM
#46
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you are not alone. I don't know how many times I tried to bring my bobbin thread to the top on the quilt I was quilting and it just would do it. Finally took the bobbin out and saw that I had not even pulled the thread throug the guide and catch.
02-24-2013, 07:43 AM
#49
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Originally Posted by Sarah in Brooklyn
I can't be the only one who does things like this: spends 90 minutes and wastes miles of thread before realizing that the problem isn't the machine tension, it's that the bobbin is threaded wrong. D'oh.
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