I put the cone of thread on the floor to the right of my machine. The thread comes up to the edge of the desk/cabinet and up to the spool pin. I was afraid of catching the thread on something, (I once dragged thread from the sewing room all the way to the ironing board in the laundry room. Oh, no!) so I rigged up a half a plastic bottle to hold the spool, and put a wire on that to hold it near the top of the desk. The wire is around the right arm (?) of the machine. Works well.