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Has anyone ever MacGyvered way to have regular sewing machine hold thread cone?
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Has anyone ever MacGyvered way to have regular sewing machinehold thread cone?
This advice may be coming way too late, but at least you'll know what you can do in the future...
I buy serger thread instead of all purpose thread because it is far less expensive and works just as well. In order to use it with my sewing machine, I simply plop the serger spool in a coffee cup, place it to the right of my sewing machine and thread my machine as normal. I use the same method to thread bobbins. The only real disadvantage of the larger serger spools is, I can't store them on a board that I put finishing nails in to store my spools and bobbins on. I am considering rigging a way to use my bobbin winder or rotary tool to refill some empty spools I've been holding onto so that I can store my thread more elegantly. Have a wondrous day! On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 10:40:42 PM UTC-4, Craftsy wrote: A couple of years ago or so, I saw a sale for cones of thread at a very good price so I bought a couple. I've since never been able to figure out how to use them on my regular sewing machine. When I went around Xmas to fabric store, they told me that those were for sergers and that I couldn't use them in any way on a regular sewing machine. Well, I've never been one to believe something can't be done until I've exhausted all avenues. I _still_ may not have figured out what I can do to use the cones on the single slim spindle on my Singer but thought maybe someone here had created something that would do the job. I thought it couldn't hurt to ask. Has anyone figured out anything that works? Thanks. D |
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Has anyone ever MacGyvered way to have regular sewing machinehold thread cone?
On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 9:40:42 PM UTC-5, Craftsy wrote:
A couple of years ago or so, I saw a sale for cones of thread at a very good price so I bought a couple. I've since never been able to figure out how to use them on my regular sewing machine. When I went around Xmas to fabric store, they told me that those were for sergers and that I couldn't use them in any way on a regular sewing machine. Has anyone figured out anything that works? I've always purchased 3000-yard thread cones and use them on my regular sewing machine with the vertical spool holder. I just slip a straw over it and then slip a chopstick inside the straw. Voila - longer holder to fit my large thread cones! |
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Has anyone ever MacGyvered way to have regular sewing machine hold thread cone?
On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 11:31:30 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
I've always purchased 3000-yard thread cones and use them on my regular sewing machine with the vertical spool holder. I just slip a straw over it and then slip a chopstick inside the straw. Voila - longer holder to fit my large thread cones! I have only one cone of thread. I sewed a piece of tape to the base and hung the cone point down from the curtain rod over the window behind the electric sewing machine. This exposes it to ultra-violet, but it's basting thread. I sewed a short piece of tape to the cone, then pinned that tape to a longer tape thrown over the curtain rod -- that would make it easy to swap out cones if I had more than one. Surprise extra: the base of the paper cone has proven to be a good place to stash threaded hand-basting needles and discarded machine needles. My machine has a lever on the back that has a hole in it close to the spool pin. When thread from a cone set in a cardboard box on the floor is drawn through this hole this hole, it is directed into the rest of the thread path. I used to sew from balls of thread bounding around in the box, but I seem to have lost the knack of preventing them from pulling unevenly on the thread, so I wind them off onto spools -- after putting them into a box on the floor and threading the machine as far as the take-up lever to leave both hand free for operating the winder. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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