quietlifeaz Posted February 5, 2012 Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 I have seen several of you mention you use magna-glide bobbins. so I got a couple to try and the come with a VERY SMALL PRINT thing on the package....something to the effect of "no check spring" and put the black ring into the case (I get that is the magnet part makes sense). My question is, do you really remove the check spring from the bobbin case when using these bobbins? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bekah Posted February 5, 2012 Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 Kelly, yes you do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quietlifeaz Posted February 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 Thanks--- just wanted to be sure I was reading the fine print correctly..............here goes nothin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barbm Posted February 5, 2012 Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 You'll love 'em, Kelly! Between the MagnaGlides and Superior SuperBobs, I haven't wound a bobbin in close to two years!:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisquilter Posted February 5, 2012 Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 What! Wind a bobbin? To me those are swear words! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quietlifeaz Posted February 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 I find I am having tension issues with my wound bobbins (even with my turbo winder)...superior it depends on the color if I have issues with tension (esp the ones on the white slick bobbins rather than the regular cardboard) ....and Eliza hates King Tutt.... which is so sad because I love the look of King Tutt (if the tesion behaves).. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witha'K'quilting Posted February 5, 2012 Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 Originally posted by chrisquilter What! Wind a bobbin? To me those are swear words! LOL Chris... you make me laugh. I have never used a prewound! I own a few...but haven't tried them yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primitive1 Posted February 5, 2012 Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 I don't think I've wound one in the last 2 years either, I mostly use magna glides now when I can, perfect tension! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonnie Posted February 5, 2012 Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 I bounce back and forth only because I haven't a huge list of colors in the bobbins, but trust me there will be a day that I won't be winding ever again. So till then two bobbin cases, one with the spring and one without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted February 5, 2012 Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 I use some prewound but mostly wind my own. I do love my magnaglide bobbins but not a fan of the limited colors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonnie Posted February 5, 2012 Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 Originally posted by hmerrill I use some prewound but mostly wind my own. I do love my magnaglide bobbins but not a fan of the limited colors. Have you looked lately.....they are up to 52 colors now. Last month I ordered some navy's and browns. Such yummy colors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkle Posted February 5, 2012 Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 Thanks Bonnie, I didn't realize they had 52 colors now! I have most of the basic (Crayola Basic Colors) but would like to add some lighter, or darker values of some of the colors. Love Magna Glide bobbins---I don't know that I could ever go back to winding my own bobbins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted February 5, 2012 Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 Bonnie I knew they had the glide in lots of colors but last I checked they only had about 8 of the classics and most of them were not colors I use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted February 5, 2012 Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 Just went to look they have 12 in the classics now. On a regular basis I'd say I use white, cream and taupe the most. I use a little black and navy. I use mostly neutrals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 I have never wound a bobbin for "gator", does that mean she's spoiled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKQuilts Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 I decided to try the glide threads and so far I have been very pleased. I love the free shipping when you order over 75.00 and the colors are beautiful. I ordered the classic bobbins to fill in where I was missing colors in bottom line. I still love superior threads but I had to try glide after reading about it here. Thanks for all the great info that is shared here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonnie Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 Originally posted by hmerrill Just went to look they have 12 in the classics now. On a regular basis I'd say I use white, cream and taupe the most. I use a little black and navy. I use mostly neutrals. My mistake Heidi.... I was talking apples and oranges. I use the Delights and that's the 52. Sorry I didn't double check to see if ALL flavors hadnt caught up with them being same. last email I got from them stated that they were all the same matching threads with bobbins. Guess I read that wrong. Okay crawling back under my rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 Bonnie no problem at all. I was excited for a nano-second because I like the thinner thread. I think the glide is not cost effective. You get a lot less thread per bobbin plus they are more expensive, not to mention that I dont' like the the thread to show in most cases. I did order some of the cream. I had been holding off to see if taupe was added. Oh well. HOpefully Superior will come out with magna core bobbins. I get very good tension with bobbins I wind myself, or at least the same as I do with prewounds but I do see a big difference with the magnetic core. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janette Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 I like using the same glide on top and bottom and prefer the thicker thread on the bottom and like the shiny thread on the reverse of the quilt too, so I wind my own glide onto bobbins with the turbo bobbin winder, I rarely have tension issues as the bobbin winder winds such a tight bobbin anyway. If the yardage of the bobbins though worked out at the same price as the yardage of the glide cones I would use them, but they are pricey by the time you add shipping and imports to UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrandmaLKB Posted February 7, 2012 Report Share Posted February 7, 2012 Any more news about the FilTec thread being tested that could possibly be used instead of invisible?? I read on an earlier post that a few of you were testing it. Got my curiosity up. I too like the magnetic core bobbins and prefer the Classic because of the amount of yardage on them. I do have some Delights for when I really need to match top and bottom. Like Heidi..........most of the time I am using cream, white or taupe. I was watching a Threadology video from Superior the other night and Bob was showing a very light silver that blended very well with lighter fabrics....almost invisible.......I bought some and it does ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharond Posted February 7, 2012 Report Share Posted February 7, 2012 I am currently using Glide thread on a quilt. Love it in the top, but tons of problems with the pre-wound bobbins. I took out the check spring, loosened the tension, with the towa guage I had it at 170. I put a little practice piece off to the side of the quilt, ended up looking like gathered fabric. Loosened top tension, readjusted the bottom tension. Still had problems. After about an hour, I gave up and wound my own, no problems with those bobbins. So now that I have all of these prewound bobbins, I need to figure out the tension problem. Can anyone give me some words of wisdom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted February 7, 2012 Report Share Posted February 7, 2012 Sharon, did you try a different bobbin case? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted February 7, 2012 Report Share Posted February 7, 2012 Vivian, I was helping test some threads from Fil-Tech. The nylon top "thread" and pre-wound bobbins not to be confused with nylon filament. I found it to be a beautiful product. It didn't shine, very soft and blended right into the fabric. However, I had problems with it shreding/parting. I think that there is going to be some more testing to solve this problem (i.e. needle size, tension guidelines, etc). Fil-Tech is waiting for more feedback from other testers (the problem could have been me). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cblevins Posted February 7, 2012 Report Share Posted February 7, 2012 We run our magna bobbins at 200 to 220 on the towa. It seems tight but that is what the box said and they run perfect that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkle Posted February 7, 2012 Report Share Posted February 7, 2012 Personally I have found the Magna Glide Delight pre wounds need to run tighter tension, not LESS on my machine. Looser top thread tension. At first I thought surely my Towa gauge was wrong---the Magna Glide tension is almost 100 points higher than when I wind my own bobbins---but, now I ignore the high Towa number and go with what i see---which is perfect thread tension, and that is all that matters. Love Fil-Tec Magna Glide prewounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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