Thank you thank you thank you for all the great idea. I'm sure they will help to solve the problem.

Thank you so ever much.

Pam

any tricks for a longarm?

B, do you want to cover one, or stretch one? :mrgreen:

I use a drop of Quilter's Aid on every thread I use. I think it makes a world of difference when winding bobbins. I use it on my computerized machine and vintage machines. It keeps the friction down so not as much lint from the cotton threads. My machine guys says my machines never have a lint build up. As for the transparent thread, poly is the best, not nylon. Nylon stretches too much and will break.

i'm using poly now and it's wrapping itself around the spindle. there's no room on the sled for another thread holder. any suggestions?

bw, I use a fairly loose fitting net on mine.

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thanks.

You can place the spool in a cup or jar behind the machine and just thread around the spindle as if it were part of the thread path. What can really help in this situation (aside from a thread net) is an "outrigger". This is just a plastic stick with a hole at one end allowing it to slide onto the spindle and another hole -- at the other end, of course -- through which you pass the thread. This feeds the thread so it has no chance of wrapping around the spindle.

If you don't have an outrigger, tape a closed safety pin on the back of your machine so the round hole sticks up above your machine on the far right. Place the thread in a jar behind the machine and thread through the safety pin circle, ignoring the spindle.

the way the lizzie is set up, the thread comes off the spool, straight up, through an arm that has a hole for the thread, and then forward through a series of threadways on the way to the needle. since the thread is already going straight up through a hole in an arm, what else can be done to keep it from wrapping? it doesn't happen with any other thread.

To keep from chasing the thread ends, that I have trouble seeing, I use a piece of transparent tape and when I finish the seam I tape them down before I cut them. Then I always know where they are.