If your doing machine embroidery, and using spray adheasive or a sticky back stablizer. Putting a drop on your finger and rubbing it on your machine needle can be really helpful. Slides right through that stuff without build up on your needle. Also....for long arm quilting or if your using a thread stand, take a piece of cotton batting (a small piece) put the sewers aid on it and wedge it in the top of the thread stand so that as the thread passes through it gets a bit of sewers aid on it. Works quite well.