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Posted by Mary Fisher on November 21, 2007, 5:08 pm
"SewVeryCreative" <ConnieATsewverycreativeDOTcom> wrote in message
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>> "SewVeryCreative" <ConnieATsewverycreativeDOTcom> wrote in message
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>> >... mine was manufactured by Janome and gets cranky if I don't use
>> > "cross-wound" thread. Tangles, tangles, tangles!!
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>> What's 'cross-wound' thread?
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> Thread is wound onto the spool in two ways (that I know of): "Cross-wound"
> and "level-wound" ...
>
> Coats & Clark is "level-wound:" you can tell this by how when you look at
> the view from the side, the thread's wound level with the top of the
> spool.
> Gutermann, Mettler, and Metrosene is "cross-wound:" you can tell that by
> how
> when you view the spool from the side, the thread has an "X" pattern.
Ah, I see, thanks. It's the first time I've heard the expression although of
course I've been familiar with the different windings for decades.
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> For whatever reason, my machine gets cranky and the tension gets thrown
> off
> when I use level-wound thread ... also, level wound thread has the thread
> coming off the spool on the "top" of the spool (when you hold it
> horizontally) and "cross-wound" thread comes off the spool on the
> "bottom."
> THAT really sends my machine into a tail-spin!!
Oh dear! I don't use he machine, Spouse does and he's never had a problem.
Yes he WOULD tell me - whether I wanted to know or not :-)
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> Did that make much sense?? We've got my MIL coming for Turkey Day tomorrow
> and I've been inhaling cleaning liquids ALL day!! LOL!! :)
I don't have that problem any more - that she did come often. When the
children were small they used to ask if Grandma (my mother) were coming when
I tidied the house. She usually was ... Now I'm the mater familias and I was
shocked when I walked in on a daughter in law as she was Hoovering. As if
I'd have noticed!
Have a good day and use legal substances rather than cleaning liquids :-)
Mary
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