Originally Posted by Ellen 1
The spools are mainly used for serging and longarm quilting, but sometimes "just the right color" is on the spool, so, I put a med sized (coffee) can behind my machine and put the spool in it, then thread the machine.
The spool does the flopping in the can and does not tip over and roll off the table or any of the other fancy tricks it can do without being contained.
I also have a dowel with a hole drilled in the bottom that fits on the thread holder mounted on the machine (made for this purpose), but don't use it, I like the can better.
afterthought: My Pfaff does not have a high "pole type thing" exteding above the machine to start the thread through so it feeds from above the machine, so I've taped a paper clip on the side of my machine to thread through before I thread the actual machine. The thread feeds across the top of the machine. This works very well...again I like this method better than the dowel that I have.