Originally Posted by Judy sevigny
My sisters and I put our thread cones in a coffee cup.Works great.
I've used a cup for my thread cones at my sewing machine for a long time and it does work great. This morning while practicing on my long arm I used up a spool of thread and needed to switch to a cone but the cup will not fit on the side of my long arm. The empty spool was styrofoam so I trimmed away the upper edge of the foam spool and stuck it up inside my thread cone. It fit tight as a glove and now I can place the thread cone directly on the thread pin of my long arm, it will also fit on my domestic machine. To reuse I can just stick a pencil down through the top of the thread cone to pop the styrofoam spool out and then place it in another cone...coffee mug no longer needed!