Wow last week I was working on a baby quilt went to change my thread and the spendle that holds my thread broke right off. It was the horizontal one on top of a machine. Well Had to set my project aside until I could get somewhere to buy the cone holder. This was driving me crazy and sitting there one night I made a sandwich out of some scrap fabric, threw my thread in a pint canning jar and started quilting. Worked wonderful. Just had to go for a test drive to make sure it would feed out ok. I won't be buying the cone thread holder, my jar works just fine