I was blown away by all the interesting comments concerning our sewing machine collections. I learned a bit of history and discovered that I don’t win the ribbon for having the most machines :-). If you haven’t been reading the comments on any of my previous posts, it’s really quite simple: go to the bottom of that post, and click on “comments” (the word will be in blue)!
Also, if you want to comment on my post directly to me, you can just send me an email (and I thank those of you who do). I enjoy reading these, but I often wish they had been posted as a comment to that post so others could read them too. It’s easy to make a comment to a post: once again click on the word “comment” at the bottom of that post and scroll down until you see the “comment box”, type your comment and submit.
Now for the bobbin thread tip!
When I’m quilting on a large quilt and reach the end of a stitching line, I find it awkward and difficult to reach under the quilt and cut the bobbin thread. I do have a machine with a “cut” feature, but it leaves 1″ tails. I don’t like to have them hanging around and I really don’t want to go back and trim them all off later. If you struggle with this frustration too – here’s the answer:
1. Raise the needle at the end of your stitching line.
2. Raise the presser foot.
3. Grab the thread between the needle and the quilt and pull out a loop.
4. While holding the loop of thread, reinsert the needle in the hole the thread came out of (or close to it),
and then bring the needle back out. This works great if you can just press “needle up/needle down” on your machine to make one complete stitch.
5. While still holding the original loop, raise the foot again and pull the quilt away from the needle. The bobbin thread will pop up in a small loop.
6. Cut the bobbin thread loop and the top thread close to the quilt.
Voila! It’s almost like magic 🙂.
This also works when you want to pull the threads both to the top and knot them off for burying as was discussed in my “Loose Ends” post from March 27th (click on “Loose Ends” and scroll down for that lesson).
Try it! I think you’ll like it!