Hey Everyone!
I'm Sarah with Sewing Parts Online.com and we're going to talk about the stand alone
thread holder.
This is an Alphasew Universal Spool Stand to work with your sewing machine or serger.
Basically it's a giant spool pin.
Just like the one your sewing machine.
Sometimes you have one or two depending on what machine you have.
But this one goes on the side, it can lay down.
basically it helps with feeding thread.
so, if you find that your thread is breaking, or if you're finding your stitches are skipping,
a lot of the times it's because the way your thread is coming off the spool.
When your thread is coming off the spool, the spool shouldn't move.
Only the thread should be moving as it comes off.
That's how ideally, how it would work ideally.
But sometimes it gets stuck or it gets snagged.
So this, the idea of this is to prevent that.
Now, we you get it, it comes in this package.
It has a nice little spiel on the back talking about what it is and a little bit more information.
It comes with 3 types of caps - and - well 2 caps and one adapter.
So, this is a large one.
These are just like your regular sewing machine caps.
Same rule applies, you want to use the spool cap that's just a little bit over the edge
of your spool.
You want the thread to guide along the edge of the cap, not along the edge of the spool.
Same thing over here, the small one, small cap, small thread spool.
This is an adapter for your cone threads.
So, this - I would not normally be able to use in my sewing machine, as you can see.
Now, I've tried to use it up here before and it was awful, so thank goodness for this.
So, the benefit is that you can buy the large spools of thread or you can use your serger
thread for your sewing machine and your sewing machine thread for your serger.
You can go bother ways.
So, it really saves you on having to buy multiple spools.
So, let's go ahead and use the pretty variegated.
This is the little adapter.
Pop it on here.
It's really snug, that's okay, it's suppose to be.
Pop it on here like this.
There is little gold hole right there you want to slide the thread through.
It's not super small, you don't need a magnifying glass, thank goodness.
It comes up through.
And this little arm is moveable.
Which you may want to play with a lot, because it's kind of fun.
But anyways you can adjust it to feed better.
So, kind of every maker is different.
Every thread feels like it feeds differently, so it really gives you that option to make
sure it comes off exactly how you want it to.
See how this comes off nice and smoothly.
That's exactly what I want.
And when I'm ready to use it in my sewing machine, all - I do is thread it exactly the
same as the spool - I already have on.
So, right here my purple thread is starting right there.
I would just come up, probably move this back a little bit like that.
And I would pop it in here.
Start it, come down there, down there, all the way down to the needle, just like I would
normally thread it.
Same goes for a bobbin, if - I wanted to use this and put it on the bobbin, same rules
apply.
Just pop a bobbin in here and thread it exactly the same.
It's literally that easy.
It's super easy and saves you a lot of hassle.
Another benefit of this that I really like - because it feeds better you can use these
spools of thread that you literally have just a little bit left of but they don't feed exactly
the way you want off here.
For this one, I hadn't been able to use back on my sewing machine because it kept getting
stuck for some reason.
Possibly because of the angle, I don't really know.
But I can use it on this.
So I would just take off this serger one, well cone thread adapter, pop that off, put
this in, put this is, don't put it all the way down.
you want a little bit of 'wiggle' room, and then I could thread this normally and it would
feed to my sewing machine perfectly.
So, you can see how you can really, put this through the little arm, now it feeds well.
Whereas when I had it on here it wasn't really feeding, same goes for tinsel thread, metallic
thread, monofilament thread, if you're having a lot of trouble, the stitches are breaking,
its jamming, use one of these it really does make the difference.
I don't know what magic it is, but just feeds better, it makes a really big difference in
your sewing, it can be use with sergers, it can be used to refill bobbins, you'll love
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