Originally Posted by
Rodney
You can probably make a workable cone stand out of a piece of wood for the base and an old wire clothes hanger with a small loop in one end. It doesn't take much.
Here's my most simple solution, which is extremely crude compared with Rodney's elegant wire stand:
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Spool is sitting on a paper spike, which has a weight underneath (1, which could be anything) to angle it toward the spool pin (2) which it wraps around and goes on its regular path. The cone doesn't spin (or it would obviously fall over) and thread must slip straight over the top.
Before I did this, I got a lot of twisted thread, which isn't good at all.