do you toss your thread clippings on the floor?
#171
I think we all have an opinion on this one. My sewing area is in the family room. Most of the time I am good about putting them in my thread catcher. I have two on my sewing desk, one for thread and scraps to small to use and the other for paper garbage. I work hard at being efficient so no one had to clean up after me and if unexpected company comes, they only see all my projects I am working on. Then when full, I use them to stuff inside of critters, balls, pincushions, pillows not being used to much, things of that nature so I can even recycle them. I find on using them for pincushions, if you stuff at bottom, easier to close up, more weight at bottom and then use less poly stuffing. I just can't seem to throw out those scraps no matter how small. My group calls me the scrap queen. I find a use for all of it.
#172
Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 59
Originally Posted by Rhaorth
I have noticed when I walk away from the sewing area, I am covered in thread clippings, and so is the floor... even though I have a receptacle for them...
Do you clip and toss and clean later, or do you have a place for the clippings and put them in their place?
Do the thread catchers that hang on the side of the table attached to a pin cushion help to corral the clippings?
What do you do with all those clippings over time? Toss or use in another way?
Do you clip and toss and clean later, or do you have a place for the clippings and put them in their place?
Do the thread catchers that hang on the side of the table attached to a pin cushion help to corral the clippings?
What do you do with all those clippings over time? Toss or use in another way?
#173
Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Shiner, Texas
Posts: 113
As careful as I am about putting the tread in a trash can, some still find some on the floor, me, carpet and rugs, shower curtain,etc. I read once that a new clean toilet bowl brush works for picking up thread off the carpet very far to try it and floors and you don't have to bend over very far.
#174
Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Shiner, Texas
Posts: 113
As careful as I am about putting the tread in a trash can, some still find some on the floor, me, carpet and rugs, shower curtain,etc. I read once that a new clean toilet bowl brush works for picking up thread off the carpet and floors and you don't have to bend over very far.
#175
Originally Posted by Rose L
Heavens no! I have carpet in my sewing room and it's hard to get the threads up off of it. Plus they clog up the beater bar on my vacuum and I'm not thrilled about cleaning that later. I'm pretty anal about getting the scraps and threads into the wastebasket, it saves me time in the long run so I have more time to spend sewing.
#178
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Jacksonville NC
Posts: 6,510
I'm with the cat and dog lovers. Can't leave thread around so each machine has a place to put threads- one has an old rectangle of batting, one has a cut thread bag that attaches to table and one has a small garbage can for all kinds of scraps and threads. I also have a small cute fabric bowl by my seat in the tv room so I'm pretty covered :)
snippet bag-sorry such a big picture!
[ATTACH=CONFIG]274946[/ATTACH]
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
Happy Treadler
For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
29
01-20-2012 06:47 PM
Shelbie
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
9
08-09-2011 09:41 AM