Why you must hold onto your Bobin thread
#24
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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!
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!
#25
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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!
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#27
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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.
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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'!
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