Use of Empty Plastic Thead Spools???
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Love all the ideas. My uncle used to make end tables, etc out of the wooden ones. He put a metal rod or wooden dowel thru the middle to strengthen the legs. I have a big tub of all kinds and sizes so one day I will get them out and play.
#36
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Pueblo, Co
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You can string together to make dolls or clowns. I remember my older sister would collect them, paint them and they would be clowns with a ruffle around the neck and ankles. For the head, she would use a large wooden bead on which she would draw a face and then put a conical hat to finish it off.
#37
Here's an interesting use: at a Christmas fundraiser, I bid on and won a cookie jar filled with "Amish Sugar Cookies." They were round with the most interesting raised flower. Turns out, to make the flower, after rolling the dough in colored sugar, you press the end of a large plastic spool (the kind with a hole and "spokes") in the sugar and then lightly on the cookies, then bake them... they were delicious and pretty, too!
#38
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Join Date: Oct 2011
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I thought about it for a while...last night I ended up with and empty spool finishing up a UFO from 2010 and thought I could make a binding buddy out of this. All I used was a long piece of red yarn from my Raggedy Ann makings, threaded it through the spool, taped the binding on the spool using masking tape, rolled the binding on it, and hung it around my neck. To my delight and surprise it made adding binding super easy!! It took me half the time it normally does.
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