> Essentially, it's a piece of fabric, folded to form a sort of envelope,
> with the bottom part having sewn-down divisions (pockets), and the top
> forming a flap to cover them. As Weronika says, the depth of the bottom
> fold and the width of the "pockets" will vary, depending on the bobbins
> you want to use the roll for (and also on whether you want to store the
> bobbins individually or in pairs).
In pairs makes sense if you want to store bobbins wound in pairs, since the
heads normally go inside the pockets, I believe.
Another addition to my bobbin rolls is that there are two parallel ribbons on
top of the pocket section, sewn to the fabric only in between pockets - I use
them to hold little pieces of paper with info on what thread the bobbins in the
pockets are wound with. Unfortunately I didn't think of it until after I made
the rolls (using a sewing machine), so now I'm adding all the ribbons by hand,
which is tedious.
Also ribbons on the outside end (just one) to tie the roll. Slightly annoying
to tie and untie all the time, but I couldn't come up with a better method.
> I used to make my own, because I didn't like the ones available for
> sale - they're usually made of very thin fabric. My first attempts were
> in corduroy or velveteen, but then I switched to pre-quilted fabric,
> and liked it better.
I'm not sure what mine are made of, but the outside is normal non-stretchy
cotton quilting fabric (except one made of some sort of thicker fabric, drapery
stuff maybe, which works very well, and one make of stretchy probably cotton
fabric cut from an old dress, which is really annoying because of the
stretchiness). I made an inside layer of white synthetic soft fabric of some
sort to avoid contact between colored fabric and thread on the bobbins. Seems
to work.
> They're not difficult to figure out for yourself,
> just remember that bobbins take up space which isn't really there,
> between simply folded fabric. So, the depth of the fold has to be a
> little more than you want the final result to be, and the width of the
> pockets also.
Yep. I just folded up the piece of fabric and pinned it where I was planning to
stitch to see if the bobbins will fit. I didn't really use the patterns I had.
> BTW, bobbin rolls don't work very well for those of the Danish bobbins
> which are thin all-over except for the final bulb; you have to allow
> for the width of the bulb in determining the width of the pocekt, but
> that means that the pocket is way too wide for the rest of the bobbin.
I think one of the patterns in my book is of a sort of double-sided bobbin roll,
where all the even pockets open to one side and all the odd pockets to the
other, so that half the bulbs end up on one side and half on the other, with all
of the bodies together in one row of pockets. Then of course both sides have to
have flaps. I guess you'd make that from two pieces of fabric - one bigger for
the flaps and one side of the pockets, and one smaller for just the pocket tops.
I think I'll try to make one like that for my new Danish bobbins - I have a
normal roll for my large Brugge (or something) bobbins with large bulbs, and the
disproportion between bulbs and bodies is getting annoying already.
> I don't make bobbin rolls anymore... Although I still use the old ones
> to transport bobbins to workshops, at home, I just toss them into the
> whatever box happens to be on hand, when I take them off the pillow...
> :)
I made rolls for all of my bobbins this summer, since Geoffrey's mom has a whole
room of fabric and a sewing machine. But with the rate I'm acquiring new
bobbins, I'm not sure I'll be able to keep up... <g>
Weronika
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Weronika Patena
Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
http://vole.stanford.edu/weronika
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