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by katydid 18 Oct 2010 ( edited Oct 26'10 23:13 )
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Do not try to re use a pre wound bobbin this is the result. I was going to see if I could re wind it.

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Comments (22)
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by mariahail 18 Oct 2010
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WOW...that sure is a mess!!!!you deserve lots of stars to feel better!!*****************************************
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by katydid 18 Oct 2010
I just wasted this much bobbin thread.
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by caroldann 18 Oct 2010
+6
Oh my, what a mess! Well, at least you learned something new today! Something I would have tried, so thank-you, now I know not to do that! Carol
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by katydid 18 Oct 2010
I know this was stupid, but since they hold more thread than a regular bobbin, I thought I would try it. well the end popped off and flew into never- never land.
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by mysew1325 18 Oct 2010
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looks like it was a paper sided one... I rewind the plastic sided ones .. works fine..
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by katydid 18 Oct 2010
Now you tell me!!! The paper end popped off!!
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by dlonnahawkins 18 Oct 2010
+5
I always use pre-wound bobbins, unless I am doing FSL. My machine does not like the cardboard sides, so don't use them. Good luck rewinding them.
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by katydid 18 Oct 2010
Let's just say, that I will not try it again.
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by shirlener88 18 Oct 2010
+4
Oh yes, re-winding pre wound isn't a good thing - usually. Hope you can save some of that thread. Thanks for sharing.
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by katydid 18 Oct 2010
You know me, I'll try.
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by 1ladyb 18 Oct 2010
+5
I can reuse the plastic pre-wound but the paper sided ones don't refill. Sorry you had to find out the hard way. I hate it when I waste the thread. Here's a flower for you since you had a bad day with bobbins. *
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by katydid 18 Oct 2010
Bad Bobbin Day!
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by rwalden 18 Oct 2010
+3
Oh my... what a mess. So sorry this happened to you.
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by katydid 18 Oct 2010
Yesterday, I was mad, today, I laughed.
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by lenamae 18 Oct 2010
+2
Kay I never tried it so now I know not to. but I have has the plastic ones to break and do the same thing
Lenamae
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by katydid 18 Oct 2010
good heads up!!
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by pcteddyb 18 Oct 2010
+3
Sorry for your troubles - I use the plastic sided ones and rewind on them for FSL so I have lots of bobbins for the different colors.
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by katydid 18 Oct 2010
good idea.
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by stickmuster 18 Oct 2010
+3
It is good to know what can happen. Katy, thanks for the warning.
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by katydid 18 Oct 2010
That's why I shared this so others will not try it.
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by airyfairy 18 Oct 2010
+3
What an awful mess and what a waste - so sorry.
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by katydid 18 Oct 2010
I haven't tackled trying to salvage any yet.
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by airyfairy 18 Oct 2010
+3
Shame, what an awful mess.
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by katydid 18 Oct 2010
You said it!
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by stitchnmouse 18 Oct 2010
+3
I have rewound the plastic sided bobbins--a couple have broken but on the whole haven't had a problem.
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by katydid 18 Oct 2010
Thanks
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by katydid 18 Oct 2010
+2
Thank you for the tips to try rewinding the plastic ones instead. I am not quite in the frame of mind to try yet!!! Maybe later. Flowers to all. Kay
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by starlet2653 18 Oct 2010
+3
Lots of thanks for this warning.
Starlet
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by katydid 19 Oct 2010
you are welcome.
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by ramona 18 Oct 2010
+1
What a mess. Hope it didn't destroy your project. Great lesson to pass on. Thank you
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by katydid 19 Oct 2010
No harm done. Just wasted bobbin thread.
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by lflanders 19 Oct 2010
+1
Oh, What a mess! I am so sorry! I have never used a prewound bobbin. I wind the bobbin on one machine while I am sewing on the 2nd one. The babylocks take the same one and my Singer embroidery machine is different size but the same size bobbin as my normal sewing machine. I bought 3 sep. rubber divided containers and wrote the machine names on the front and try to keep them apart. I use embroidery thread/bobbin thread in the embroidery machines and totally different in the reg machine. I have lots of colored spools of thread for the serger that i paid nearly nothing for and I hate to change the serger so badly that I just use white on everything or use the reg sewing machine. I am sure that alot of it is no good as long as I have had it. I paid something like .50 a cone for the extra from the salvage store in Sandersville before the owner had a wreck and her son(grown) closed down the place. She was on up there in yrs and lived in the Atlanta area and they had a Salvage store in Sandersville and in Cummings, Ga.
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by shilly 19 Oct 2010
+1
Makes me nervous just looking at the picture- at least you were not hit by a flying bobbin,* to cheer you up.
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by gerryvb 19 Oct 2010
+1
oh my, sorry for you .I've never used pre wound bobbin, and to take a look at this, I think I just keep making the bobbin my self.
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by lbrow 24 Oct 2010
+1
Uh Oh!
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by marymadeit 26 Oct 2010
+1
I use the plastic sided ones but have had this happen to me with them. First few I did were great. Then..........had this happen to a few. The next few I did were great again. Finally started looking at the bobbins. The ones that had a small stress crack near the center were the ones that would break. Decided it was less expensive to just buy them prewound, and if I had to have matching bobbin thread jus go ahead and buy a few more of my machine bobbins and wind them with the thread. May not be less expensive but it sure saves on my flustration level. Sorry this happened to you.
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by marietta 26 Oct 2010
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Oh my gosh, but it realy made a big mess. Thanks for showing all that it does not work.