Handy little garbage
03-16-2010, 10:22 PM
#21
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Several ladies in my quilt group just start making small pillows to stuff - leaving one side open , taping the open edge to their sewing table edge. When it gets filled up with threads, fabric and batting scraps they sew the last side closed and use it for small animal pillows. Cats love them. The shelters love them, and all it cost was the larger scrap to do the pillow square. Makes a great gift for that animal lover in your famly's pet. It's a race at retreats to get the messes cleaned up cause everyone wants to fill up their kitty bags.
03-17-2010, 03:57 AM
#23
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Location: Louisiana
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Originally Posted by vjengels
Very pretty!... So, how do you sew if you don't have a million little scraps on your table?... Can a person DO that? I clean up my little tidbits at the end of each session, or after a landslide, whichever comes first. It's like my personal stash of confetti.
:lol:
03-17-2010, 07:52 AM
#25
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Location: Colorado
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I love the idea of your thread catcher. To all of you who actually hit the thread catcher with your snippets (mine always static cling to me or the table or whatever, and eventually land on the carpet for the vacuum)
What do you do with the hundreds of snippets of thread?
Especially in the spring I throw mine out on the lawn or at one of the bushes. The birds LOVE them. Within an hour every last piece is gone.
I've been on walks and seen my horribly bright pink thread in bird nests 10 or 11 blocks away from my home.
Just a thought,
casa
What do you do with the hundreds of snippets of thread?
Especially in the spring I throw mine out on the lawn or at one of the bushes. The birds LOVE them. Within an hour every last piece is gone.
I've been on walks and seen my horribly bright pink thread in bird nests 10 or 11 blocks away from my home.
Just a thought,
casa
03-17-2010, 08:10 AM
#26
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Pacific Northwest
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Originally Posted by CasaManana
I love the idea of your thread catcher. To all of you who actually hit the thread catcher with your snippets (mine always static cling to me or the table or whatever, and eventually land on the carpet for the vacuum)
What do you do with the hundreds of snippets of thread?
Especially in the spring I throw mine out on the lawn or at one of the bushes. The birds LOVE them. Within an hour every last piece is gone.
I've been on walks and seen my horribly bright pink thread in bird nests 10 or 11 blocks away from my home.
Just a thought,
casa
What do you do with the hundreds of snippets of thread?
Especially in the spring I throw mine out on the lawn or at one of the bushes. The birds LOVE them. Within an hour every last piece is gone.
I've been on walks and seen my horribly bright pink thread in bird nests 10 or 11 blocks away from my home.
Just a thought,
casa
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