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Way cool! After I used the thread I would find a project to use them in. I've seen little Santa faces carved into wooden spools for ornaments. They make nice ends on 1/4 inch wooden dowel for wallhangings, legs for doll beds and of course put into a jar for display. The little wooden boxes are cute too!
If they came in the boxes the thread is in, that's a great find too.
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Yes I do!! Have one that was my Mothers, she used the thread to sew things on my Dad's Navy uniform during WWII They make great knobs on sewing cabinets in your sewing room. I also put them in baskets with old scissors and sewing things.
I have a collection of spools in jars but now that I'm in a smaller space(sewing) I can't display them. Some of them have a 05 cent price still on them I also had a collection of ric rac that sold for .15 cents.
Kathy Osterby
i collect old spools of thread. i was lucky enough to get them from 3 grandmas. along with them, the jar contained other notions of the time...snaps, needle books, loose pins and needles...and buttons!
I do, i do. I would love that!!!!!! Love those colors, so awesome. Ive got about 4-5 spools. Trying to get more.
the minute people hear im collecting them they want to charge me $5 a spool. Crazy. Wanna swap something???????
Ive been haunting yard sales for them
Yes I do. I have the little Santa carved from a spool and can't for the life of me remember where it came from. I keep the spools in a jar for display. Some of the thread is so old it's not good anymore.
I have a Coats Clark spool cabinet that I keep machine embroidery thread in but recently I spotted a spool cabinet for Belding thread that was a vertical cabinet with lots of glass. Really neat antique I that I had never seen before. very expensive too. I do remember using Belding thread which was very good.
What kind or ornaments are you making, im nosy, and i love ornaments.
I collect them, have a couple of old gallon jars full. Most of the thread is still good. I have used a couple of the large spools with not so good thread as door nobs for my fabric cabnet. Just coated the thread with Elmers glue, let dry. drilled hole in door and ran a 3 1/2 inch bolt through the spool and door. Works great and another deco for my room. LOL
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