Recently bobbin winding was mentioned, and I think I remember a comment about
thread not being very neat when wound using a string to turn the bobbin.
For newer bobbin lacemakers, the thread on a bobbin is not supposed to be wound
neatly with the threads next to each other. The thread should
I wish I had known this before and it makes lots of sense. I have been
trying to wind in a tidy fashion but obviously will go for the diagonal
method more in the future. I have just wouud silk onto 40 pairs and
started the first little tiny bit last night. They would very nicely and a
...
When I wind bobbins, I lay the first layer (only) tightly side by side down
the thread area to give a solid base to the windings. All the rest of the
layers are at an angle, up, down, up, down, etc.
If you have had any trouble losing your hitches into the thread, give this
winding method a
Patricia Dowden pat...@netwiz.net wrote:
I do have to laugh, though! For the first class I ever took, I wound my
bobbins fanatically even, like a spool of store bought thread. Unfortunately I
wound them in the wrong direction and couldn't keep them on my pillow! Had to
rewind the whole
