Originally Posted by
TeresaA
What I did do, however, was before throwing in the dryer, I detangled all snarls and I trimmed the major threads off (not everything, just the bad guys. And I saved them all! so now I have a huge ziploc bag full of lovely clumps of thread. Someday I'll lay them all between twin pieces of soluble interfacing and will sew a network of thread over them to hopefully create a new piece of "fabric".
I save mine, too, for art quilts. It's called 'Thread Junk'...something I learned from Terri Stegmiller.
http://stegart.blogspot.com/2011/03/...y-told-me.html