How to make a Bobbin Thread Cover

Do you ever go to your sewing machine and find your bobbin threads have wrapped together somehow? Well because I now no longer have a sewing space I am constantly moving my machine around to where I am sewing. When I am doing this my bobbins are unwinding and getting all tangled with each other. Then I end up spending a while cutting thread and untangling, it really just makes my relax time for sewing a 'ugh i have to do this again'.

Before (waiting to get tangled)

After (with clear bobbin covers)

plastic tubing and some cut rings

Well while cleaning out our basement I found some plastic tubing. I am not sure what we got it for but I got an idea. I am sure I am not the first to think of this but I wanted to try it out. I took a pair of kitchen scissors, I'd probably recommend you use sharper scissors, and went at the tube. I cut small rings, then split the rings, wrapped around the bobbin and I was done.

Split ring

For this project I would recommend 1/4" to 3/4". It was a very simple project and if you go to a local hardware store I am sure you can buy it by the inch in some, making it a very inexpensive project to. That way, if your like me, and loose them (fall off table or go into scrap fabric bag) sometimes it wasn't that expensive.

Give it a try yourself and tell me how it worked for you. I also posted a video on how to, check it out.
Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend and getting ready for spring, which still hasn't come here yet, I am hopeful.