How do you store bobbins?
#41
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Delaware
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I use reinforcments ...the small circles that you put on ring notebook paper ...very cheap and you get like 50 or more in a box. Just take the end of thread and tuck it under the sticky reinforcement. No loose ends....
#43
Originally Posted by blahel
i keep my bobbins on my thread holder too but i keep the thread on it as well so they are always together so I dont have to look for the matching bobbin.
#44
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Fort Worth,Texas
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I use the paper reinforcement rings that you use on notebook paper.I lay the end of the thread over the top of the bobbin and put a ring on it, I also use them on spools of thread that do not have the locking base. Very inexpensive and works great. Carol,ibequilting1
#45
Originally Posted by Mamagus
My sis got me one of these as part of Christmas gift this year... it falls apart every freaking time I touch it! I am thinking that I might hot glue the sections together cuz I love the way the bobbins are gripped in the little holders.
http://www.clover-usa.com/product/0/...h_Nancy_Zieman
http://www.clover-usa.com/product/0/...h_Nancy_Zieman
Before I got the clover bobbin tower, I used the little ponytail holders that I see so many others use. I still use them on my embroidery thread spools. Well, I use them on all of my thread spools.
I think the doughnut, round, circle, silicone, rubber ring that everyone is talking about is what I bought from Connecting Threads, too. It's called a Bobbinsaver in their catalog. (Bobbinsaver...Lifesaver...) I didn't get the frosted doughnut with all the bobbins of thread, just the plain ones to hold the bobbins I already have. I like that thing pretty well, but I like the tower better. The lifesaver would work better for travel, though, or storage in a drawer.
I also ordered one of the clear bobbin boxes when I got the other bobbin holders. I had all my bobbins a small, clear organizer drawer with the ponytail holders around each, but I really wanted a place for them where they wouldn't move around all the time. I have been using the clear box for my regular thread and the tower for my embroidery threads. I ordered different kinds because I didn't know which would work best, but I like them all.
This link will show you the different ones I have mentioned, plus some that others have mentioned.
http://quilting-fabric.connectingthr...earch?w=bobbin
#46
Originally Posted by Mamagus
My sis got me one of these as part of Christmas gift this year... it falls apart every freaking time I touch it! I am thinking that I might hot glue the sections together cuz I love the way the bobbins are gripped in the little holders.
http://www.clover-usa.com/product/0/...h_Nancy_Zieman
http://www.clover-usa.com/product/0/...h_Nancy_Zieman
#49
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Arkansas
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I bought 2 of the round rubbery donuts that hold bobbins perfectly. Then I stack the two of them down in one of those large tomato pincushions. (The ones where the top lid is a pin cushion and the bottom is storage.) I get them at Hancock's when they are half price.....$2.99....the pin cushion. I love the combination of the storage and the pin cushion with my bobbins in place, to boot.
#50
Originally Posted by b.zang
I have a couple boxes from the fishing tackle department that are flat, snap shut and have lots of moveable dividers inside.
I put all spools and bobbins of the same thread together in a section, so I don't try to match up threaded bobbins with spools they don't belong to.
I put all spools and bobbins of the same thread together in a section, so I don't try to match up threaded bobbins with spools they don't belong to.
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