Invisafil Thread!
03-26-2012, 06:01 AM
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Try wrapping a piece of tape around and lift off gently. It should pull the starting thread out. You may have to press it on with your finger nail then pull, sometimes it take two or three tries but it works for me.
03-26-2012, 09:26 AM
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I have this problem all the time! Thanks for the tip about using tape. Next time I'll try that. Now what do you do when the beginning of the tape is stuck to the roll and you can't either find it or get it loose? (Please don't say you wrap your thread around it - I'll be caught in an endless loop!)
03-26-2012, 01:46 PM
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03-27-2012, 06:31 AM
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I had three new spools of thread I could not get the plastic wrapper off the spools. It was shrink wrapped so tightly I ruined one spool trying to get wrapper off!
I sent the spools to the headquarters of the thread company and asked them if they ever used their own products. I never thought I'd receive an answer but felt better about sending it anyway. About two months later I got a big box in the mail. It was a 60 pieces spool set of thread from the company! All shrink wrapped just as the ones I sent back. LOL DH figured out to twist the wrapper very hard to break it and then peel it off. I never could twist it that hard.
I sent the spools to the headquarters of the thread company and asked them if they ever used their own products. I never thought I'd receive an answer but felt better about sending it anyway. About two months later I got a big box in the mail. It was a 60 pieces spool set of thread from the company! All shrink wrapped just as the ones I sent back. LOL DH figured out to twist the wrapper very hard to break it and then peel it off. I never could twist it that hard.
03-27-2012, 07:25 AM
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I had three new spools of thread I could not get the plastic wrapper off the spools. It was shrink wrapped so tightly I ruined one spool trying to get wrapper off!
I sent the spools to the headquarters of the thread company and asked them if they ever used their own products. I never thought I'd receive an answer but felt better about sending it anyway. About two months later I got a big box in the mail. It was a 60 pieces spool set of thread from the company! All shrink wrapped just as the ones I sent back. LOL DH figured out to twist the wrapper very hard to break it and then peel it off. I never could twist it that hard.
I sent the spools to the headquarters of the thread company and asked them if they ever used their own products. I never thought I'd receive an answer but felt better about sending it anyway. About two months later I got a big box in the mail. It was a 60 pieces spool set of thread from the company! All shrink wrapped just as the ones I sent back. LOL DH figured out to twist the wrapper very hard to break it and then peel it off. I never could twist it that hard.
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