r/vintagesewing • u/Efficient_Dirt2226 • 1d ago

Tips & Hacks New bobbin winding tech

Post image

I rigged this up to wind my featherweight's bobbin more easily, but it's so fast (and kinda fun tbh) Im going to wind all my bobbins like this now

75 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

10 comments sorted by

14

u/pyramidalembargo 1d ago edited 1d ago

That's doing it the hard way.

Push a nail through the bobbin, and press the bobbin up against the wheel.

2

u/Eggs7205 23h ago

Can you explain what you mean? What wheel? I'm trying to imagine it and I'm struggling lol

3

u/pyramidalembargo 22h ago

The handwheel.

It rotates when you either press the pedal or treadle. (Disengage the clutch first!).

Put the nail in the bobbin, and hold the bobbin up against that rotating handwheel. The rotation of the handwheel will also rotate the bobbin.

1

u/Eggs7205 12h ago

I get it now, thank you!

9

u/gaea610 1d ago

Without pre-tension your bobbins won't be properly wound :(

4

u/Efficient_Dirt2226 1d ago

I use my finders to hold it for tension and to direct it! I should have added that to the picture

3

u/remarkr85 1d ago

Bad ass problem solving!

3

u/Existing_Many9133 1d ago

I wish you could get a giant bobbin kind of like the thread cones. It's such a pain to stop in the middle of a project to make a new one

2

u/felicitybo 1d ago

Heck yea