Miles and miles of binding

Or at least it sure seemed like it while I was making the binding for the lone star quilt!

I usually grab one of my pattern weights (that’s the pink center you see in the middle of the binding roll) and wind my binding around it as I go.

I’m not much into bed sized quilts, in fact the lonestar is the largest quilt I’ve made to date, and so I have a lot more binding too!

Which begs my question… is there some amazing tool out there that I don’t know about, to wind your binding up on to keep it tame while you’re woking with it?  My roll starts out neat and managable, but I guarantee at some point I will drop it, and it will unroll and get tangled up in my chair!

I have to call APQS today and speak with one of the technicians.  I have done something to my tension spring on the head of my Millennium and I can’t figure out what!  When I pull my thread through it, it’s “snaggy” as if it’s catching on something.  I still don’t know this machine well enough to do much tinkering  on it.