I am very glad that you have it figured out pam. I bought one of those plastic ones and had more trouble making it sit still. I thought I would weigh the bottom down with a block of wood and screw it down to the bottom of it. But, my brother made me a wooden one and it works great. I kept breaking needles using the thread in a glass method. It jumps around and gets hung up.
Now my serger took a dump a couple weeks ago and I had to buy a new one. Before trashing the old one, I removed the four-thread holder with one screw and I plan on attaching it to a block of wood to weight it down like the other one. It is great because it has four thread spools and a periscoping thread loops feature at the top of it. We will see, but I am thinking it will work great for this.
Last edited by RedGarnet222; 06-03-2012 at 08:53 AM.