Pennyhal

I found that if I use the bobbins that have crosshatching on the center post, the bobbin thread does not do that when it runs out.

Lilrain

Have had this also. One time got a thread lock on a Featherweight to the point the machine had to go to the repairman.

Gee Hope

Me, three...and I'm not much of a surgeon!.

RosaSharon

I use leaders so the nest stays on the leader not my fabric piece. Most of you probably use leaders too. (It wouldn't have worked for this picture though.)

The tip I want to give is this. We get so many little perception bags from the drugstore. I tear a pinch off and use it for a leader. After 2 or three times I stick it in the waste basket. I was using fabric leaders as so many do, but I find using the paper is faster, easier, and I don't have to search for little pieces of fabric that maybe I can use in a crumb quilt.

Now I am tearing a whole baggie at one time and putting the little leaders in a pretty glass bowl so I an grab and go!

Friday1961

Me, too! Nests I could not pull out without making the throat plate come away with it. Nests that required surgery, as Tartan says. Nests that a bird could actually live in!

donna13350

Me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ctrysass2012

Mother taught me to hold the ends when I started sewing & I never really knew why until I started quilting. I never seemed to have a problem when making garments. But surgery on the machine has happened here also.

Aurora

I just cannot get use to leaders/enders. I was taught to hold the thread and that is so much easier for me. My vintage machines and I have an understanding.

sewbizgirl

One of the wonderful things about my Juki2010 is that you don't have to hold any threads and they never make a 'nest'! I get so spoiled by just shoving the fabric under and hitting the foot control that when I switch to one of my vintage machines I forget to hold threads and get the 'nest'!

fish92241

My machine does that too. I try to use a leader cloth. Saves frustration!