do you toss your thread clippings on the floor?
#184
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I have a catcher bag, 2 waste baskets and the threads still like to get thrown on the floor.
Then, since the carpet is a thin indoor-outdoor, I have to use the sweeper nozzle by hand to get them all up. You would think I would learn by now but I have not yet.
I bought clear Christmas ornaments and stuffed them full of thread. I do a lot of embroidery with my quilting so I made an ornament for each of the G-kids using some of the emb thread from their own quilts. Used permanent markers and wrote Merry Christmas and the year on each ornament. The kiddies loved them.
Happy Quilting, Kathy
Then, since the carpet is a thin indoor-outdoor, I have to use the sweeper nozzle by hand to get them all up. You would think I would learn by now but I have not yet.
I bought clear Christmas ornaments and stuffed them full of thread. I do a lot of embroidery with my quilting so I made an ornament for each of the G-kids using some of the emb thread from their own quilts. Used permanent markers and wrote Merry Christmas and the year on each ornament. The kiddies loved them.
Happy Quilting, Kathy
#185
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Originally Posted by Sadiemae
Originally Posted by bearisgray
I don't TOSS my thread clippings on the floor - but some of them manage to land there anyway! :?
#186
I've read all of these about the cats getting into the strings, I never thought of the precious little doggys!! Oh MY!! Time to make some arrangments near the machine!! Thanks for the reminder!!
#188
Or how about it when the hitch a ride on your socks and then trail around the house, up the stairs, to the bathroom, and the kitchen. My little circle of course. I do longarm and you do not want to know how much thread hits the floor there. For the floor in there, I take a piece of cotton batting that is left over, attach it to the swiffer picker upper, poking it in the holes on the swiffer, then sweep up those threads very easily and then just toss. It makes clean up much more simple than trying to remember to throw them in the garbage. I may have to try out the toilet brush option for the carpet. And I do hear you abuot those pins falling into the carpet. My husband finds them occasionally, only by sight praise God, but hands them to me with that "look".
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