I'm sorry Darlene, this gave me a good laugh!

I can see you trying to hold it down with your finger, just so it can jump off the next moment.

I hope you will find a solution for it, I will try it too. Haven't used a big thread yet, so I don't know what would work.

Don't give up on it, people here are very helpful in many creative ways.

I just set my spool in a glass or cup behind my sewing machine, kind of at the right hand side of the machine, and it works with no problem, and best of all, NO COST!

Here is a thread holder for the cones that my son made me for a papertowel holder that I got at the Dollar Tree.

I use a cone thread holder similar to this which DH made. I think it's
important that the thread comes out the top otherwise it will drag?

http://www.thecalicocottagequiltshop...older/4822/c83

you can also use an empty spindle that CDs come on to hold the thread cone and screw a cup hook into the wall above your machine to guide the thread. Good luck!

Great, thank you all!

I taped a safety pin to the top of my machine with the circle end sticking up above my machine (just barely) to the right hand side, and set the spool on the table behind the machine right below the pin. Threaded as usual, just going through the safety pin first. Works very well, and cost zero dollars. :)

so many good ideas!!

Found the link!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g14govA4pIM

It's from a toilet tank repair kit that can be purchased at most hardware stores for a couple of dollars.

That's a cone, not a spool. It isn't meant to sit on top of the machine. Get a cone holder or rig one up, so it can sit on the table behind the machine. I bought one a Hancocks.