One more comment... One of the most memorable visual lessons I ever had
on the subject involved a roll of toilet paper! The teacher had someone
hold a roll on a stick, perfectly still, while she (the teacher) wound
the TP around another stick. Each wrap around the stick produced a
twist on the paper between the two sticks!! When the paper was rolled
onto the second stick by turning the stick, no twists occurred. Now,
imagine how much twisting (or in this case "untwisting") happens over
the course of winding a bobbin the wrong way!! By the time you have
finished winding the bobbin, the threads have given up a great deal of
their twist, and are very weak and vulnerable. That's why they "part
with a sigh" instead of snap off clean.
Clay
On 2/4/2010 6:23 AM, Jean Leader wrote:
My suggestion would be first to make sure that you wind your bobbins by
turning the bobbin, not by wrapping the thread around it which could add or
remove twist (my website has more about this). And then see which way you need
to twist your bobbins to tighten the thread and make a point of doing this
every now and then while you're working.
Jean in Glasgow where the ground is all white again.
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