I know the other day there was a thread going around here that was talking about thread getting stuck in the notch. I was just searching ALL over the house for my spool cap when suddenly I walked into the laundry room and looked on the little ledge right by the furnace unit (its a collect all for little stuff ya never know what your gonna find there) and there were two rolls of.......PLUMBERS TAPE! I thought to myself...if I can't find that stupid spool cap I will just wrap a couple rounds of plumbers tape around it! I did find the cap however I tried the plumbers tape and it worked way better than any other real tape would have EVER worked. Just make sure you pull it taught when wrapping. Check the local dollar tree type store they normally have it cheap!

Now if I could just find that quilting foot I would be in BUSINESS!

hmmmm, thanks. so far i've taken my scissors and run the blade edge over the spool cap area and smoothed it that way. I hate those notches.

If you have a horizontal spool pin make sure the thread comes off the back and over the top. This put that little notch to the right instead of the left. If it is a vertical pin have the thread come off the right side of the spool, this puts the notch on the bottom. Every spool of thread with a notch is always on the same end. It works every time no matter the manufacturer.

What a simple solution. Now if only I can retrain my lefty brain, because it insists that the thread must come off the left side, which of course puts the notch on the top every time!

all you have to do is turn the spool over put the notch at the bottom and that plumbers tape it toxic

I've used a nail file to smooth them down also.

That's what I've done, too when I get a spool that is notched on both ends or a thread that won't behave when I put the spool on any other way.

Isn't it amazing what we find that will work as well as all the little gadgets we have bought? I have all kinds of tools out of the kitchen and DH's garage in my sewing room. And I found a bunch of stuff at Harbor Freight tools that work great and cost about 1/4 of what the equal would cost at the LQS.

It pays to improvise!!! :-)

Just to add to your post. If you put the notch on the bottom the thread will come off the spool clockwise. Big deal some say? By coming off the spool in that direction, the spinning action of the spool is tightening the spindle. I don't know if anyone has ever been sewing a hundred miles an hour and all of a sudden your spool and spindle become dangerous projectiles. You might wonder what just happened as well as adding a few well rehearsed bad words. As you were sewing, the spinning action of the spool was now unscrewing the spindle. In another post someone had said that all spools are wound that way. I agree. When you are done with that spool, you still have the notch to secure the end into, unless you like that tangled mess that festers when more than one spool is left unharnessed and they decide to have a dance. :lol: