Kathie S.

Is sure looks like it. Not only that but, that is my area also. I am keeping mine. Kathie

Miz Johnny

And if you go away for a few days, you return to a HOUSE FULL!!

Candace

Nancy, just because a sewing machine can sew with it, without thread breakage doesn't mean it's the best option to use for a project;>

Mizkaki

Miz Johnny,

If you think the machines are fast breeders you should see the
buttonholers in my garage. They are out of control. Good news
though, is that the young ones bring in a small income for me.
Says she with the da tongue in da cheek. VBG
Cathy

BoJangles

LOL! I think it is great that Joe has found a way to use all those cones we all have tons of for our sergers! But OK I confess even if Joe gets by using the serger thread I would never try using it to piece with. I know the serger cones are a much weaker made thread and I just can't see taking the chance after all the work, time, and expense that goes into a quilt top. But, I am anal and I know it! It is great to see people can go outside the box - I am just not one of those people! Besides, I took too many classes on thread and how thread is made. I also won't use the cheap Walmart type thread either because it is what the thread companies refer to as 'medlings" (spelling?), which is the thread that is swept up off the floor when making good thread - then made into thread. I will probably really get dinged for throwing this out there! I will hold some armor over my head before you all start yelling at me!

Nancy

J Miller

Nancy and Candice,

The small spools with the large hole is actually a machine quilting thread, so I don't think there would be a problem with that. The large serger cones full of thread, would not be used for a bed sized quilt, but I am making a cover quilt, or better yet a quilted cover for one of my treadle machines. So the lesser strength would not be a problem.

I wonder since this thread is so much thinner and lighter if I could run two cones at once through this machine even though it only uses one needle?
Hark another experiment has just been born!

Joe

irishrose

Nancy, it's the vertical face plate that won't go back on straight. I'm going to put on crooked and leave it until McGyver Jr (my son) rotates home again. He has a knack for such things. I had to laugh watching him Jerry rig my TV on the wall, but it's up and up to stay. I found the belt last night exactly where I had put it so I'm ready to sew. The first time plugging in is always done with a little trepidation with these old girls. Wish me luck. I wish I had an instruction book on using the fancy stitches, but I'll just have to experiment.

Greeter Eva

Hi, I really find this thread very interesting. I wish I had room to get more vintage machines. I have two Featherweight Singers & my Janome. I named my Featherweights after my grandmas. Anna & Maria. Lately I have been thinking of a machine I had years ago. My ML was a great seamstress , so when we were married , my DH thought I had to sew too. I don't regret that he had this idea, as I have done a lot of sewing, but quilting in later years. In 1959 my DH baught me a brand new Domestic at The T. Eaton co. As years went by companies came out with fancier machines, & guess what? I thought I had to have something newer, so got rid of the Domestic. Now I'm so sorry I did , & would just love to see one.My Domestic was green & kind of a bronze color, & I believe it had about 10 disks , for some fancy stitches.I hope someone has one & can at least show me a pic. Thankyou so much in advance. Eva

vintagemotif

Heehee....Okay Nancy knows from the last mini TOGA at Cathy's home that I'm a person that thinks outside the box and has the attitude of it looks good enough to me.

I'm enjoying this conversation on threads. Sometimes I just love to tests the waters or push that box, as I'm presently doing by experimenting with a thread for use in quilting.

I pieced the quilt I'm presently working on with the proper thread for the piece work. But, when it came time to match the right color grey thread to the fabric, all I could find is the Gutermann Toldi-Lock which is that thin thread you are talking about. I know it may not hold up in the quilting. I hemmed and hawed over should I use this or not, and my stupidity took over and won. Yes, I could have gone with a different color thread, but that was not the look I wanted. So, now I'm using this thread in my quilting. I'm running straight lines with two lines being about an 1/4 inch apart. This is a lap size quilt that will be used during the winter holidays only.

I figure worse comes to worse and the thread doesn't hold, I'll just re-quilt the dang thing.

Somewhere in any quilt's life the fabric and thread wears down and breaks, and then repairs need to be done or the quilt gets shelved away.

I don't want it to be next winter that I'm repairing this quilt; but if so, I'll let you all know.

J Miller

Speaking of quilt repairs, some nearly 29 years ago my wife and I received home made quilt for a wedding present.
We used it for years and years and years and as things do it got tattered and worn and started to come apart in places.

So, now that I'm officially learning to sew, I want to repair it. How best to start? Machine stitch the repairs? Pull the backing off and repair the front, then replace the backing and re-quilt it. That is "if" it was quilted originally. I can't remember. I haven't seen it in years.

When my wife gets home I think I'll ask her where it's at and dig it out and see.

Oh, we'll be married 29 years this Feb 26th. Where in the world does time go?

Joe