Originally Posted by
Helen S
Not sure if this will help re knotting, but my mom always said to insert the end of the thread that you just cut nearest to the spool into the needle eye. For some reason unknown to me, it seems to work.
If you were to look at the thread under a microscope you could see that there is a direction to the wind. One direction (coming off the spool) the thread will lay nice and smooth. Going the other direction, the tiny little thread-barbs stick up will force the thread to go agains the grain.