Go to the drugstore and get the bandage (by the roll) that sticks to itself and you can cut it and wrap it around your thread or bobbins (which is what I use it for). It looks like the shelf web that keeps our foot peddles from running away. Only the bandage has a the ability to stick to itself and doesn't make the thread sticky. I wrap it around my spools when I am traveling and put it on my sewing machines as a marker for seam allowances as well.