My daughter's suggestion solved all of my problems with thread. I put my spool on an upright thread stand, and the thread feeds through easily in my machine. All this time I thought it was my machine but it was the thread on the spool was wound just too tight for my machine. I've also put the larger spools of thread in a heavy large mug and that seems to work as well. Sometime, we can learn from the youngsters. :-D :-D