Meterage & Yardage to Fill
Aero Tatting Shuttle Bobbins
by Megan Mills
megan@kiwi.gen.nz

Hello fellow crafty people. :)
If you tat with an Aero style shuttle you might wonder what it means, exactly, when directions say to "pull off enough thread to fill your second shuttle".
I gathered up all the different threads I have in my stash and hand-wound the bobbins full, but not beyond the edge of the bobbin. Then I unrolled it and measured it and kept a record. I hope the little table that results is useful for you, too.
When I hand-wind I carefully roll the thread onto the bobbin to try to avoid messing up the twist in the thread (I put the bobbin on a pen because I find that easier to "twirl" than the shuttle itself).
Enjoy!
Megan
p.s. I don't have a machine handy and I've never even seen size 90 thread so if you can send me information for any of the gaps in the table I'll fill them in.
Meterage/Yardage to fill an Aero tatting shuttle bobbin with different sized threads
| Thread | Hand-wound | Machine-wound |
| Size | Metres | Yards | Metres | Yards |
| 10 | 6.5 | 7.1 | - | - |
| 15 | 8.5 | 9.3 | - | - |
| 20 | 10.5 | 11.5 | - | - |
| 30 | 12.0 | 13.1 | - | - |
| 40 | 13.0 | 14.3 | - | - |
| 50 | 17.6 | 19.3 | - | - |
| 60 | 19.5 | 21.3 | - | - |
| 70 | 22.5 | 24.6 | - | - |
| 80 | 28.1 | 30.7 | - | - |
| 90 | - | - | - | - |
| 100 | 33.0 | 36.1 | - | - |
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