LA's empty or buy more bobbins?
#31
I have several customers who hand quilt. They bring the quilts to me to place on the long arm and baste them together. I use odds and ends of bobbins for this. I just use the biggest stitch length I can and run a straight line of stitching across the quilt and the next row is about 6 inches from that. The thread color doesn't matter because it's taken out after its hand quilted.
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I must have a hundred partially filled bobbins (M size). I use them as is on my home machine..just like a spool of thread...don't even rewind them onto anything else...unless I need bobbin thread..then I wind from the big bobbins, if the big bobbin contains sew fine or 60 wt thread. Both my machines are sewing/embroidery, and regular 40 wt thread does not do well in the bobbin cases of those machines. I do use the 40 wt poly threads for embroidering monograms, etc...small items. I've been so busy though...no time for much other than quilting.
I have been doing LA quilting for a few years and I have thrown out a lot of thread from unwinding bobbins to use for a new color. So, my question to others is what is more cost effective unwind bobbins or buy new more bobbins. I use Aurifil so it is quite expensive to throw so much thread.. just thinking??
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