Comments on: Sidewinder Bobbin Winder

By: Connie

Connie — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:32:57 +0000

Worst bobbin story–wound a whole bobbin on my machine–and it wound so tight I couldn’t get it off! So I had to unwind and rewind the bobbin by hand!

By: Carole Evon

Carole Evon — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:43:03 +0000

My grandson got a hold of some of my bobbins and made a huge gigantic mess out of all the threads. They were so dangled together and I lost a lot of thread cleaning them up. But, thats what I get for letting him play with them, but it did keep him busy for a while.

By: Helene Bjorseth

Helene Bjorseth — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:17:18 +0000

It seems to take me 6 or 7 tries to get the bobbin to start winding. I get very impatient when it doesn’t want to wind and then it often doesn’t fill the bobbin evenly; most of the thread ends up on one side or the other. . Then, it doesn’t fill the bobbin up all of the way. You would think that such an expensive machine would do a better job. But then, maybe it’s me! I would soooo love to have a Sidewinder. It would make my life glorious.

By: annemarie

annemarie — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:54:00 +0000

Tjhis notion would be great. I go thru so many bobins a day when I am on a roll. Right now I am trying to make 200 stockings for the potoloons that our parish has adopted.
Thanks
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By: Pat Taylor

Pat Taylor — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:09:52 +0000

ADHD runs in the family but I’m the first to also suffer from Explosive Bobbin Syndrome. While attempting to sew my way through a lingerie project and being new to using nylon thread, the plastic bobbin kept simply cracking and seemingly adhering it’s self to the bobbin winder. I kept thinking (through 3 exploded attempted refills) that it was me . Finally I stopped and searched out an answer. Physics was to blame (as always). Friction, heat and expansion were getting in the way of my refills. No medical intervention, just slow and I mean filling was the solution.

By: Mary Kavanaugh

Mary Kavanaugh — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:58:45 +0000

No unusual bobbin problems. I’ve had an occasional bird nest & a couple of bobbins run out of thread at very inappropriate times. The Sidewinder has to be a great timesaver. The suggestions for optimal use were fantastic. Thanks.

Mary K

By: Beth Rogers

Beth Rogers — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:23:55 +0000

I was rushing to complete my daughter’s prom dress and had taken the day off on her prom to make some 11th hour adjustments. The fabric was a turquoise satin overlaid with a matching embroidered lace. My daughter wears size 4 shoes and because we didn’t find the perfect shoes until the night before, we had some last minute hem changes to make. In the middle of trying to make a rolled edge on the satin, the thread in the bobbin ran out. My Viking machine has a lever that must be fully engaged for the bobbin winder properly work and stop the needle from operating, and in my rush, it wasn’t. My daughter’s dress was too close to the needle, and made needle holes into the satin (which is not easy to hide!) and sewing the lace into the satin.
I ended up having to recut the hem to hide the needle marks and separate the two fabrics and making a hand sewn rolled hem, barely finishing in time.

By: sue bleiweiss

sue bleiweiss — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:55:34 +0000

well I don’t have a horror story about bobbins but I do know two things about them:

1: No matter how many I have I never seem to have enough and 2: I always seem to run out of thread on the bobbin right before I finish the project I’m working on.

By: Virginia

Virginia — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:06:07 +0000

I am a busy sewer and this sidewinder would be a really needed aide to sewing for me! I make dresses for my daughter who with her family is in the Civil War reenactments and her dresses require yards and yards of fabric to be sewn and the sidewinder would be such a time saver. Thank you for this opporutnity to win one!
Virginia

By: Becky

Becky — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:41:47 +0000

I bobbin story is funny now but not when it happened. My wonderful husband Tim wanted a quilt made with camouflage materials. He cut out all the squares and put them into the pattern he wanted, with the undertanding that I would sew them together. We were going along at a great pace when the phone rang. I went to answer it. While I was on the phone I thought I heard something in the sewing room. I got off the phone and found Tim on the floor under the machine. He thought he could pick up where I had stopped and keep sewing. He did not know that with my machine you have to hold the thread when you start sewing a new seam. He had sewn about 3 inches when the machine stopped. He was uner the machine plugging and unplugging the power cord to see why it had stopped running. There was so much thread knotted underneath that I had to cut the fabric to get it out. Needless to say, Tim is not allowed to touch my beloved Bernina ever again. I would love a bobbin winder and promise not to let Tim touch it if I win.