Thank you so much for the best sewing trick I ever learned! I just had to change bobbin thread about five times on a tote bag I am making. (The thread really had to match the pieces.) Your trick of raising the bobbin thread by pushing top thread under the presser foot is my most favorite of all.
Rita
You are so welcome, Rita. I'm happy to have helped. I wish I'd been paying attention to myself last night. I was doing buttonholes on a size 3 pound preemie pajama (really) and failed to get and hold that rascally bobbin thread. It snarled into the worst mess you ever saw. That only happens when it really matters and there's a 'screw loose' at the controls. Polly
"Rita L. in MA" Thank you so much for the best sewing trick I ever learned! I just had
Rita or Polly or anyone -- can you explain further what you do to raise the bobbin thread. I don't "get it."
Thanks KT. in MI
Raise might have been the wrong word. I am talking about when you put a new bobbin in your machine and take a stitch to bring the thread to the back of the machine. Polly taught us to grab a good length of the top thread, hold it at its end with your left hand and at a "bend" with your right hand in front of the presser foot. Push the top thread toward the back of the machine and the bobbin thread becomes very accessible and you don't need a tweezer, paper clip, whatever to pull it back to where you want it.
Did I just make that worse?
Rita
Since Rita mentioned it, I thought I'd see what happened if I inserted a bobbin and followed my SM's directions which are to put the bobbin in the case, put the bobbin case in the SM and to use the little thread cutter beside where the bobbin case goes. ( Did you follow that?) I was only testing a stitch on a scrap so it didn't matter if that process went haywire. Actually, it worked okay Except the bobbin thread trailed along into the stitching on the backside of the stitching. Not okay. Polly
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R/Sandy
Aren't they cheerful? You just never see a gator that isn't smiling. Polly
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Oh, ok. I misunderstood. I know how to bring up the bobbin thread on a new bobbin; my Viking does it for me. I thought you were talking about bringing up the bobbin thread when both starting and stopping the stitching, like when quilting in the middle of a quilt where it's really hard to get at the bobbin thread to cut it. I struggle with that one.
KT. in MI
For stopping somewhere in the middle of a quilt (assuming you use the
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