What do you do when you have a lot of bobbins with bits of thread?
11-04-2012, 09:05 AM
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You can use it up on a multi color project. My mom used to wind more thread on top of a bobbin with a little bit of thread - I don't know why - you can't get at the underneath thread anyway. But I use them up on piecing a project. I've started to put my threads and the corresponding bobbin in a little zip lock bag so I don't have a lot of rogue bobbins around to use up.
11-04-2012, 09:56 AM
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Usually it's colored thread that is left on my not used up bobbins. I pull it off and stick in a ziploc bag. When the mood strikes to be crafty, I layer the thread between water solvable web and sew it all together. Then I cut shapes out of it. Great for decorating totes and other projects.
11-04-2012, 10:55 AM
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Buy more bobbins, sadly! I try to use a limited range of colours for quilting, so that I can use up the leftovers fairly quickly. I keep part used bobbins with the thread, so that I can easily locate top and bottom threads. In the main, though I use about 6 colours frequently: this means that I don't usually have lots of leftovers.
11-04-2012, 10:56 AM
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I just use them up piecing a scrap quilt. I do this several times a year. You can either put the bobbin in your top thread and use it that way or just use a grey thread and use up the bobbins in the bobbin case. I don't ever pull it off the bobbin unless there is only like a yard left. Thread costs a lot. Why waste it? This is also a great way to use up any kind of partial spools.
Yes, I agree, I mostly use shades of grey and taupe for piecing (and black or white when appropriate), but my quilting threads vary. Once I have finished quilting a quilt, I use all the leftover in scrap quilts since I don't usually have enough of any one color to do another full-sized quilt (my most typical size).
Yes, I agree, I mostly use shades of grey and taupe for piecing (and black or white when appropriate), but my quilting threads vary. Once I have finished quilting a quilt, I use all the leftover in scrap quilts since I don't usually have enough of any one color to do another full-sized quilt (my most typical size).
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11-04-2012, 11:49 AM
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If you are not going to use it for sewing projects another use is to cut into shorter pieces and place around your yard in the spring. Birds love it for making their nests. Yarn and string also work.
11-04-2012, 12:59 PM
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Usually it's colored thread that is left on my not used up bobbins. I pull it off and stick in a ziploc bag. When the mood strikes to be crafty, I layer the thread between water solvable web and sew it all together. Then I cut shapes out of it. Great for decorating totes and other projects.
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