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I have a number of "standard" size bobbins and another group of "travel" size bobbins. Is it feasible to mix these two sizes on the same project on the pillow?
Certainly possible, in a pinch. But feasibility depends on your personality and on your working habits.
As Sue Babbs'd said, the weight it going to be different, so you'll have to allow for that, when tensioning. The "leashes" will have different lengths (you want to keep all the tails more-or-less aligned, but I like to have *both* the tails and the heads level). If you tend to look at your bobbins (rather than at the threads near the pins) and if speed doesn't matter, you should be OK mixing the sizes (and, even shapes). If you watch the threads and move the bobbins more-or-less "blindly", the mix will drive you nuts.
If mixing is your only option of collecting enough for a particular pattern, try to minimise the impact of the mix: 1) the gimp bobbins can be "different", because they serve a different function, so your rhythm breaks there anyway. 2) Footside and headside passives can be "diifferent" also, because those bobbins stay put, and it's easier to adjust to a *regularly occuring* change; if you can anticipate it, it's not as distracting. Same goes for any other "static" pairs (ie pairs which always serve only one function -- either it's *always* a worker, or it's *always* a passive, and always in the same position), though to a lesser extent.
It's the bobbins which change roles -- sometimes a worker, sometimes a passive, sometimes an equal partner in the ground -- that need to be as well-matched as possible. A *random* mix in those situations can be really irritating.
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