What do you do with your empty thread spools????
#91
While it hurts, I now toss them. I tossed one out yest. but still looked at it twice before it hit the wastebasket.
I used to be a big crafter & just knew I could create something with everything. Now that I consider myself a quilter, I've had to stop saving all of that "trash to treasure" stuff.
My big prob. was with picking up pinecones in the woods. My husb. would ask "where are you going to put these? With the other 3 bags you already have"? Such a funny guy but he was right. I still have a hard time tossing them out.
I used to be a big crafter & just knew I could create something with everything. Now that I consider myself a quilter, I've had to stop saving all of that "trash to treasure" stuff.
My big prob. was with picking up pinecones in the woods. My husb. would ask "where are you going to put these? With the other 3 bags you already have"? Such a funny guy but he was right. I still have a hard time tossing them out.
#92
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Originally Posted by AlwaysQuilting
Originally Posted by Scissor Queen
I throw them away. I don't have space to keep things like that.
Judy
#93
Originally Posted by #1piecemaker
Do you chunk them in the trash? Or do you recycle them in some way? I just can't seem to throw mine away. I know they used to make dolls out of the wooden ones for the kids to paly with. And I've seen them used as drawer pulls. So, what do you do with your empty spools?
#96
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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Someone on here listed in his post that it took 5 spools of thread to complete a quilt. (Sorry, don't remember your name - just that it was a guy!) It got me thinking... how many spools of thread would I use for a project? I started saving them. Then they were just sitting there in the drawer looking not very exciting. So I covered them with scrap fabric and have them in a pretty glass bowl. I like to watch the number grow.
#98
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Location: new zealand
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Haven't read all the messages but I use my empty spools for putting embroidery threads on.... I have a pile of wooden spools with sewing threads still on them... can't throw them away either... maybe a museum might like them.... yes, I am old.... !!!
#99
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 282
I also put mine n old mason jars...along with a few full
of old buttons. They decorate the top of my fabric
cabinet. Still have some more, like a lot of you, keep
thinking something wonderful will pop up to use them for.
Oh, yeah. I have a gallon Mason jar that is made into
a lamp. I have it 3/4 full of buttons. You could also
fill one with the empty wooden spools, if you have any use
for a lamp.
of old buttons. They decorate the top of my fabric
cabinet. Still have some more, like a lot of you, keep
thinking something wonderful will pop up to use them for.
Oh, yeah. I have a gallon Mason jar that is made into
a lamp. I have it 3/4 full of buttons. You could also
fill one with the empty wooden spools, if you have any use
for a lamp.
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