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This advice may be coming way too late, but at least you'll know what you can do in the future...
I buy serger thread instead of all purpose thread because it is far less expensive and works just as well. In order to use it with my sewing machine, I simply plop the serger spool in a coffee cup, place it to the right of my sewing machine and thread my machine as normal. I use the same method to thread bobbins. The only real disadvantage of the larger serger spools is, I can't store them on a board that I put finishing nails in to store my spools and bobbins on. I am considering rigging a way to use my bobbin winder or rotary tool to refill some empty spools I've been holding onto so that I can store my thread more elegantly. Have a wondrous day! On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 10:40:42 PM UTC-4, Craftsy wrote: A couple of years ago or so, I saw a sale for cones of thread at a very good price so I bought a couple. I've since never been able to figure out how to use them on my regular sewing machine. When I went around Xmas to fabric store, they told me that those were for sergers and that I couldn't use them in any way on a regular sewing machine. Well, I've never been one to believe something can't be done until I've exhausted all avenues. I _still_ may not have figured out what I can do to use the cones on the single slim spindle on my Singer but thought maybe someone here had created something that would do the job. I thought it couldn't hurt to ask. Has anyone figured out anything that works? Thanks. ![]() |
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On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 9:40:42 PM UTC-5, Craftsy wrote:
A couple of years ago or so, I saw a sale for cones of thread at a very good price so I bought a couple. I've since never been able to figure out how to use them on my regular sewing machine. When I went around Xmas to fabric store, they told me that those were for sergers and that I couldn't use them in any way on a regular sewing machine. Has anyone figured out anything that works? I've always purchased 3000-yard thread cones and use them on my regular sewing machine with the vertical spool holder. I just slip a straw over it and then slip a chopstick inside the straw. Voila - longer holder to fit my large thread cones! |
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 11:31:30 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
I've always purchased 3000-yard thread cones and use them on my regular sewing machine with the vertical spool holder. I just slip a straw over it and then slip a chopstick inside the straw. Voila - longer holder to fit my large thread cones! I have only one cone of thread. I sewed a piece of tape to the base and hung the cone point down from the curtain rod over the window behind the electric sewing machine. This exposes it to ultra-violet, but it's basting thread. I sewed a short piece of tape to the cone, then pinned that tape to a longer tape thrown over the curtain rod -- that would make it easy to swap out cones if I had more than one. Surprise extra: the base of the paper cone has proven to be a good place to stash threaded hand-basting needles and discarded machine needles. My machine has a lever on the back that has a hole in it close to the spool pin. When thread from a cone set in a cardboard box on the floor is drawn through this hole this hole, it is directed into the rest of the thread path. I used to sew from balls of thread bounding around in the box, but I seem to have lost the knack of preventing them from pulling unevenly on the thread, so I wind them off onto spools -- after putting them into a box on the floor and threading the machine as far as the take-up lever to leave both hand free for operating the winder. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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