Originally Posted by
cwessel47
A friend of mine gave me a huge, and I mean HUGE, cone of white thread. It is 8 1/4" tall and 7" wide. It weighs at least 5 pounds. She found it at Goodwill for $2 and thought of me. I don't think a couple of CDs are gonna weight that sucker down but I'm going to work with your idea and see what I can come up with. I want to use it!!!!
Wow, that is one BIG cone. Maybe Maggie Lou's idea of the wooden paper towel holder would work. If it should still want to topple over nail another base to it but make it bigger all around. A late member of our little group had her DH put heavy hardwood bases on all our spool holders and the wood he used came from the original cupboards in my house which is somewhere around 100 years old. Never had any trouble after that.