An observation about bobbin thread. When I first bought my machine, I found some bargain prewound bobbins on Ebay. They were the wrong size, but I wound the thread on to my own bobbins. My machine hated the thread and it almost always pulled up to the top. (They have since found a good home with another Cutie!) Since then I have used Janome bobbin thread which is £6.50 for 800m. Now, I can get about 20 1000m reels of bog standard polyester thread for that price. Yesterday I stitched out two large designs using ordinary sewing thread in the bobbin (I chose a colour to match the background fabric.) They stitched beautifully although I did have to re-fill the bobbin more often as the thread is a bot thicker. Does anyone else do this?

I got some 'stuff' off ebay called Serafil 200/2 which was recommended as bobbin fill. Fantastic - until my machine was serviced & now it doesn't want to know!

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by deeside 06 Dec 2011

Fluff is the main problem with using ord sew thread. I wonder if running over a wax disk/candle when filling bobbin would help? Not tried it. Agree sew thread can make designs stiffer.

My Janome likes clear-glide.

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by spendlove 06 Dec 2011

Haven't seen that in UK but will look! Thanks.

I have a Janome and found that it objected to any thread other than janome. Would you sahre what the thread and who is the supplier. I'm in the UK too - it's always good to know of a good supplier.
Thanks in advance.

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by spendlove 06 Dec 2011

The bog standard thread is 3 for £1 from a market stall!

by jjjj 06 Dec 2011

WTG thats what I call value! Thanks for replying.

interesting. My new to me Brother 3100d (ULT2003) only likes Brother 60 weight thread. My Brother inovis 750 & 900 are both happy with whatever you give them. xx

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by danababes 06 Dec 2011

My Brother machine was super fussy about bobbin thread too (green label only) but I changed the bobbin tension so I can sew FSL with regular thread - mind you it took me a year to get the courage to change it lol :) xXx

When I started I use overlockthread for the bobbin and regular thread when I need black in the bobbin (for silhoutte-designs). Now I have both colors in bobbinthread. The with is Brilldor Masterfill (10.000m) and for the black still have an old one from Madeira (Bobbinfill 500m; will buy soon a big one from Brilldor in black).
I love the bobbinthread cause I hate the winding of my bobbins and with the thin extra thread I can stitch much longer ;o)
Only for itH-stuff like bookmark I use regular thread in matching colors.
Greetings, Bettina

I did some time ago , I used lockmachinethread. That's less thick as sewing thread. But I thought I had to clean the bobbinn case sooner because the bobbinthread is smoother. Hugs G.

I've used sewing thread by mistake once or twice, before I kept the bobbins in separate boxes. (I now store the embroidery bobbins in red rings, the sewing ones in blue). I found the (filled) design to become rather stiff with the thicker thread at the bottom. I buy 10,000m cones of bobbin thread for a very reasonable price (€8.95) and that works fine for me.

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by gerryvb 06 Dec 2011

kun je mij zeggen waar je die klossen spoeldraad koopt?want dat is inderdaad erg voordelig.

by spendlove 06 Dec 2011

I'm hesitant to buy any bargain bobbin thread in case I have the same problem as before.