Originally Posted by
GrannieAnnie
...thread sliding off the new Coats and Clarks thread spools....the machine I'm using right now has a vertical thread holder.
I’m not sure everyone caught the part about “vertical thread holder”. On most sewing machines equipped with a vertical spool pin, the thread feeds off of the side of the spool. Also, I take “new Coats and Clarks thread spools” to mean the Coats XP line on new spools that no longer have the notch in the rim.
If you’re not using a felt pad under your spool, try one and see if it helps. They’re meant to limit the amount of “free-wheeling” that the spool can do when more thread is called for by the mechanism.
CD in Oklahoma