Go to your local florist, even your grocery store if they have a florist inside and ask them to save you all the flower nets. They normally just throw them away and most are twice the length you need for the 1,100 yd spools. I cut mine in half and put them over each one of the spools. The larger spools I use a full one but I think I cut that down a couple of inches to fit. I have a drawer full of these nets and their plastic so they don't unravel in time as the ones made of thread. I have both and the threaded type get out of shape after time, the plastic ones don't seem to.