Originally Posted by QuiltingHaven

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.