Jaycott Sewing Machines 48 Watergate Street Chester CH1 2LA Tel: 01244
321511That's where I bought my sewing machine - £200 cheaper than my local shop! (£100 cheaper than RRP I think). I also got 100 size 70 needles from them, seems silly to pay a few quid for 5 when it's so cheap to buy 100!
Charlie.
Thanks for the link Kate, when I have more time (?) I will take a proper look. Liz
I also like to buy me needles in 100's, and as I'd have to order the
70's from my local shop anyway, I just ordered them from them amd pushed my order over the £25 limit to qualify for free postage. :) I also ordered a cone thread holder for the sewing machine. That's one thing I HAVE missed on Lily: the ability to use thread straight off the cone. It has a horizontal spool pin, and the virtical one you can add for second threads just won't take serger cones. I couldn't make one as good for less than a fiver, which this one is, so I just splashed out a little! I also bought some of that Space Tape for buttonholes just to experiment with.-- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
You reminded me that I needed to buy some more bobbins - the lady in the local sewing machine shop didn't even know that there were two types of Brother bobbin. And I just can't bear to throw good thread away...
Charlie.
Kate does quick bobbin count...
HV Lily type: 118 Singer type 15 (treadle): 28 Singer type 66 (hand crank): 18 odd ones for the school machine: 8
Sometimes it isn't enough...
-- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
They gave me four with my new machine. What the hell will I be able to do with four? Bah. I'll buy another 10 when I have the money. Full bobbins look so pretty - I just can't bring myself to wind half of one!
Charlie.
Hi Charlie,
What I do occasionaly, if I'm having an extreme bobbin crisis is to wind the bobbin thread back on to the reel of thread which it came from. You have to do this by hand, and its a bit of a pain, but does save lots of bobbins!
One other idea is to over wind your new colour thread onto a half full bobbin - I've done that before a couple of times.
I used to work on the basis that my old New Home machine took about 50m (1/2 a reel) of thread on the bobbin, and one reel of thread would do a skirt or pair of trousers - based on a zig zag seam finish.
When I bought the new machine last year it came with about 7 bobbins, and I got the dealer to throw in a pack of extra bobbins to sweeten the deal - so I now have about 15 or so bobbins for mine - which is just as well, as you have to have the *right* bobbin for a HV, you don't seem to be able to get generic bobbins for these.
HTH, Sarah
I did a quick count: For the Necchi, an even two dozen, not counting the two plastic bobbins, one dozen with thread on, if you count the bobbin with maybe a yard of size D nylon. Wait, I forgot that the ones with silk on are in with the silk threads: 31 bobbins. Then there are seven clipped to spools: 38. Then there are half a dozen in my suitcase, but one of them is plastic: 43.
I have only a few each for the MW and the White treadle.
Joy Beeson
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