On Aug 16, 2008, at 14:52, Malvary J Cole wrote:
Wendy - I think from your description that you are doing two separate
hitches on the bobbin, if so I can understand why it doesn't unroll
easily.
Have you tried doing one hitch but with the thread going round the
neck of the bobbin twice instead of once.
That was my "diagnosis", too, since Wendy's problem was not of a hitch
slipping but of not "letting go" properly. "Two loops, one scoop" is
what I had ben using for years, on all threads. Yes, I do have bobbins
which have a separate groove for the hitch in the bobbin's head, but
suspect it can also be used on single-head ones, since a different way
of hitching -- but also with two loops -- was shown me, in Montreal, by
a French teacher from Cluny (where they don't, I think, use the
double-headed bobbins).
The only exception is wire, where a single loop is not only sufficient,
but kinder on the "fiber" as well.
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