Originally Posted by angelwingz
True... Clip your thread at the spool and pull through at the needle and out. Consider it a ONE WAY STREET. It helps to floss out the tension discs and thread paths in the machine, rather than shove the lint and fuzz back into the machine. It makes sense when we look at things that way. :)
I didn't like wasting so much thread when I clipped the thread at the spool, so now I thread a needle with the piece of cut thread and use it for hand sewing or basting. Now I don't mind cutting at the spool.