Dear Liz and other friends,
I, too use spangled bobbins, and usually put the hitch on the thread.
I find that when the thread is gettin run-down, and mustly used up,
then the hitches don't hold. Then I either push the thread up to
the neck, or, if it is too tight to move, I pull most of it off,
and rewind it near to the hear, and then the hitch holds.
Otherwise, I wrap twice around the neck of the bobbin then add the
half-hitch, and that usually holds well. If that turns out too
tight, I delete one of the winds around the neck.
I can see that tomorrow I am going to have to closely examine and
diagram exactly how I do my hitch, for I never have trouble with it
lengthening. It's now so automatic that it's difficult to write about
without actually doing one. I can tell you that it is a single hitch
made on the thread. In fact I often feel sorry for our beloved bobbin
turners who go to so much trouble to make that little groove in the
head for a hitch when I never use it as such.
Will get back to you about it
David in Ballarat
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