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I have some of those but I sew with them (yes, my treadle machine works, I like to restore ancient machinery  ).
A good source is an antique mall. Look for a vendor that seems to have a lot of old cooking equipment or sewing patterns, these folks often have the old bobbins in a box on a shelf marked 'sewing supplies' or 'vintage sewing' or some such. They can usually be had for 50 cents to $1 each, cheaper if you strike gold. |
Wal Mart does carry the domed ones. They are 4 for .97 cents and they work nice too. 
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Love those! But how on earth do you put the glass on the bobbins? Do you slide them on a mandrell? * having a complete HUH moment here*
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Suzanne I slide the bobbin on to my metal chopstick. It grabs on about 1/3 of the way down the chopstick and hold really well until your ready to pop it off with plyiers For the BOC space bead I wound a really small amount of glass aound a mandrel and and rolled it thin and then slide my bobbin on top of that. That works really well too
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Are the chopsticks just staineless steel ones I can get off Ebay?
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I'm still not getting it, lol. Are you making the bead inside of the bobbin on the chopstick? Wondering how you get such a nice rounded bead inside the bobbin......I am apparently clueless But I think they are awesome and am so glad you shared them!
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I love what you're doing with the bobbins, especially the UFOs!
I've only done a couple, used them as core/endcap units on polymer and glass beads for a necklace I did the the Convergence 3 exhibit. Gonna do more, they're fun to play with!
edited to add: I'm in awe of how well you're melting glass in the stinkin' things, I ruined a bunch before giving up and going the polymer clay route. Good work! *s*
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Are the chopsticks just staineless steel ones I can get off Ebay?
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Yes Chris they are stainless steel ones. Try not to hit the bobbin with the flame. I add glass just to the center of the bobbin and then push it in until it fills out the whole bobbin. Once you have the glass in the bobbin it really holds up to the heat nice. Here is a picture of my chopstick with a bobbin slid on, sorry about the blurry picture.
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I'm still not getting it, lol. Are you making the bead inside of the bobbin on the chopstick? Wondering how you get such a nice rounded bead inside the bobbin......I am apparently clueless But I think they are awesome and am so glad you shared them! |
I make them both ways. I just posted a picture of my chopstick with the bobbin on it in the above post. Now for the Beads in Space bead I rolled a very thin tube of glass on my mandrel and then slide the bobbin on top of it. Glass sticks to the metal and holds the bobbin nice. Then I load the bobbin up with glass as I mentioned above. Then I add the blue dome onto the top of the bead. I still had some of my blue tube showing so I just added to that.
They are a bit time consuming but very fun to make. I love to make seperate small cone beads for each end of the bobbin too. They really finish off the piece. I hope that helps
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I love what you're doing with the bobbins, especially the UFOs!
I've only done a couple, used them as core/endcap units on polymer and glass beads for a necklace I did the the Convergence 3 exhibit. Gonna do more, they're fun to play with!
edited to add: I'm in awe of how well you're melting glass in the stinkin' things, I ruined a bunch before giving up and going the polymer clay route. Good work! *s*
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I'm drooling on my keyboard!!! Sharon that is so SWEET. The trick is not to hit the bobbin edges with the heat until you have it loaded up with glass
Thanks Sharon!
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Thanks so much for the pictures Dawn! I can't wait to try it, I have a ton of old bobbins. They are quite dirty however - has anyone had to clean them? Maybe just Dawn dish detergent and water? There seems to be some oily residue on some of them. I purchased a huge printer's drawer chest filled with antique sewing parts - my hubby wants to toss everything, but I won't let him. But of course I have no idea what to do with them either . At least now I can use the bobbins!
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If you have feet & other parts, there is a market for them. I've bought 3 old sewing machines myself. I have a friend who bought a beautiful old Singer that is missing the foot. Lots of need for parts, especially if any of them are for the Singer Featherweight.
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Well, I made a couple of bobbin beads yesterday, it was fun! I took them out of the kiln this am and they have tiny cracks in the glass along the rim. I found it difficult to heat just the glass and not the bobbin. Whenever I tried to give the bead some good heat, the bobbin sparked. Any hints?
As for the sewing parts, the problem is I don't have any idea what machine any of these parts are for  I'll have to check them and see if I can spot a mfg name on any of them. Maybe I'll just put them up as a lot on ebay and see if anyone is interested.
I also have 4 Featherweights (don't ask, it was a phase) that I need to sell as well - we're going through a major de-cluttering of the basement. Uggg.
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Are the chopsticks just staineless steel ones I can get off Ebay?
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You can get them for cheap at an asian market, stainless steel, save shipping and you get them NOW.
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Wow what a great idea! Thank you for sharing!
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2011-08-08, 11:04am
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Well, I made a couple of bobbin beads yesterday, it was fun! I took them out of the kiln this am and they have tiny cracks in the glass along the rim. I found it difficult to heat just the glass and not the bobbin. Whenever I tried to give the bead some good heat, the bobbin sparked. Any hints?
As for the sewing parts, the problem is I don't have any idea what machine any of these parts are for I'll have to check them and see if I can spot a mfg name on any of them. Maybe I'll just put them up as a lot on ebay and see if anyone is interested.
I also have 4 Featherweights (don't ask, it was a phase) that I need to sell as well - we're going through a major de-cluttering of the basement. Uggg. |
Donna use a smaller rod of glass so it melts faster and you can direct the flame right onto the rod of glass right above the outside of the bobbin edges. Warm the rod of glass up about an inch or two before you start too. If you are seeing sparks you have the bobbin in the flame which is not good. I wind my glass up above the bobbin edges and then roll it on my marver to push down the glass into the bobbin. Once you get close add a little glass at a time because you don't want to over fill the bobbin.
I have two (YIKES) Art Shows in the next two weeks, after that I will sit down and make a picture tutorial. For me a picture is worth a thousand words
Dawn
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Thanks, Dawn! I'm using my marver as well, but I think you have something there on using thinner glass - I was using thick rods thinking they would fill up the bobbin faster I'll try thinner tonight
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Dawn - Your space ship beads are just too cute for words!! Very clever!
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Thanks Lisa!
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these are beautiful, what a great idea. I am going thru all my sewing boxes. Thanks for sharing
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Thanks so much for sharing such a brilliant idea Dawn. 
I managed to get a box of 100 good stainless steel bobbins (I still have some antique metals ones from my grandmother that don't fit my machine, but I want to leave them along for now!) and I got them from a sewing machine repair place. In bulk they only cost me about 15c or so each bobbin, so I don't mind killing one or two in experiments.
Here is a pic of my first ones (sorry inside with the flash at night and a terrible pic). The first two are on the left and the second two I decided to install a mandrel bail so I could wear it sideways with the bobbin showing and I quite like them and are wearing one on a chain right now .
I have another couple in the kiln in different colours just for some fun.
Oh, and the pics on here of the bobbin beads are lovely, those spaceships are fabulous and Sharon's polyclay necklace is gorgeous!
thanks again for sharing such a great idea and providing us all with some inspiration.
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ps. I used clear that I pushed into the base of the barrel with the end of a small graphite reamer, then worked my way out to the edge and added colour.
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Nat I LOVE THEM!!! Thank you for sharing as well. What a great idea to add on the bail  I would love to see what you have in the kiln I think I will have to go find my local sewing shop... I'm not too much of a sewer, more like a hot glue gun/duct tape gal
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How cool! I love it! So sweet of you to share Dawn!
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Thanks heaps Dawn!
Heres the ones without bails from my two sessions (which I am going to string flat onto some silk I think) :
Here is a pic in the sun of the ones with bails from the two sessions:
I had a bit of an experiment with showing black clear and white through the holes in the bobbin and I much prefer the clear closely followed by black, but maybe that is me. The bloke at the sewing machine repair shop had those bobbins that have no holes in them as well, so I might have to get some of them for a play as well, although I quite like the holes.
It was a bit of a trial to get the first layer of glass down inside at first, but if you get it in loosely then press it in it was fairly easy like you said Dawn.
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Love what all of you have done with bobbins! Great inspiration....
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Dawn this is the coolest!! Nat LOVE yours and such a cool idea to put it to hang straight! Everyones are so cool..........
I pulled out my spare bobbins and can't wait till I can get on the torch again to try them!!
Thanks for sharing Dawn!!! I just LOVE them!
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I love these new bobbin beads and can't wait to try it!
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Nat I love them! Thanks for the pictures I can't wait for my Art Show next week to be done so I can play at the torch again!
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I got to try some too, loved it! Here are my first two, I'm certain there will be more
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