i did that with a spool of thread, but this was for my long arm quilter and the spool was $22. man i looked and looked for that. i went to car many a times and looked , the next day i went back to the car cause i was still looking for it and i move the newspaper and there i was.l was thinking it was big enough that if it was under the paper i would be able to tell. guess i dont know evey thing lol