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CHOOSING AND USING NOTIONS TIP
Mark Thread Spools to Remember Settings

Most sewers usually have many works-in-progress, and change the sewing machine thread several times a day. For easy readjustments, note the tension settings and needle sizes that were used on the end of each spool of thread with an indelible marker.

-- Cynthia Dunn


Adapted from Tips department, Threads magazine, October/November 2004 (#115), p. 12.

© 2004 The Taunton Press, Inc.





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