Abstract: A small, flat and elongated tool is provided, with a hook at its distal end, for inserting between stitches and sliding under the threads of a serged sewing seam. The tool, held between the thumb and finger of a user, is effective to grab the tail threads from the serger seam and to pull them back into the seam.

Abstract: A device links thread spools with matching bobbins, using a rubber band. A cap or head extends down through a center bobbin hole and has a hook at its lower end. The rubber band is connected to this hook and extended down through the center hole of a thread spool. The rubber band is then spread open, stretched around the spool and over the top of the bobbin, and slipped into a groove at the top of the cap or head, thereby retaining the bobbin against the top of the spool. Provision is included for curtailing the length of the band when needed for a shorter spool. This can be a bead slidable on the rubber band, or multiple parallel grooves on the top of the cap, to take up some of the length of the band.

Abstract: A thread spool holding device has a plastic base plate that holds a series of preferably soft plastic spindles that can be introduced or removed from the base and can be arranged as needed by sliding along a slotted track of the base. Each spindle can hold a threaded spool and has a cross sectional configuration for gripping the center hole of the spool. The spindle ends can also hold a bobbin in tandem with a thread spool.

Abstract: A thread spool holding device has a plastic base plate that holds a series of preferably soft plastic spindles that can be introduced or removed from the base and can be arranged as needed by sliding along a slotted track of the base. Each spindle can hold a threaded spool and has a cross sectional configuration for gripping the center hole of the spool. The spindle ends can also hold a bobbin in tandem with a thread spool.

Abstract: A thread spool holding device has a plastic base plate that holds a series of preferably soft plastic spindles that can be introduced or removed from the base and can be arranged as needed by sliding along a slotted track of the base. Each spindle can hold a threaded spool and has a cross sectional configuration for gripping the center hole of the spool. The spindle ends can also hold a bobbin in tandem with a thread spool.

Abstract: A greeting card has on its front surface a picture frame formed of a single, integral piece of magnetic sheeting. The magnetic sheeting picture frame is held to the front of the card by adhesive which will release the frame when the frame is pulled away with a small amount of force. The one-piece integral frame has a central opening for cropping and displaying a photograph or other picture on the front of the greeting card, inserted between the front of the greeting card and the back of the magnetic frame. The releasable adhesive can be in contact with the back surface of the frame along three legs but not along the fourth, so that a purchaser of the greeting card can slide a picture down between the card and the frame. Alternatively, the adhesive can contact all four legs of the back surface of the frame, with the frame to be pulled off and replaced by the purchaser to retain a picture behind the frame.

Abstract: An enclosure for a rectangular magnet is formed by injection molding of five fixed sides in a rectangular box-like configuration, with a sixth side formed as a door on a plastic hinge. The door has a series of catches so that, with the magnet inserted in the enclosure, the door can be snapped shut permanently.

Abstract: A holder for flaps of corrugated cartons is designed to temporarily hold carton flaps either in the fully opened position, for loading or unloading, or in a temporarily closed position. The device acts as a clip, with two flanges between which one or two layers of corrugated board may be engaged. The clip preferably is formed of one integral piece, with one flange being substantially the size of a large central opening in the other flange. The inner flange may have a rest position which extends slightly through the opening of the outer flange, so that the clip always tends to spring back to this position and will exert a clamping force on the carton flaps.

Abstract: A stabilizing device for infant pacifiers is constructed of an elongated generally tubular bean bag, closed or closable at two locations to form a central and two outer bean bag sections. On the center section is a fabric tab for inserting through the ring of a pacifier and then securing to the bean bag with hook and loop fasteners. The bean bag sections lie on the infant's chest or shoulders or on a surface to retain the pacifier within reach even when it is not in the baby's mouth. With adjustment of the positions of the two outer bean bag chambers, a variety of configurations can be formed to stabilize the pacifier in different positions of the infant.