Originally Posted by BellaBoo
I have to shake my head at some of the guild members that use old thread, to use it up, as they say. It breaks, gets knotted and shreds but still they use it up! Also they use the crappy seam rippers that weren't even sharp when they bought them. I saw one member make four passes with her rotary cutter to make a cut because the blade was so dull. She was saving the new blades 'for good' :roll:
I've inherited a bunch of thread. Some OLD. I mean old. If it's on a plastic spool it goes out. If it's on a wooden spool I stash it in a jar just to be pretty. If it looks half way new and the price tag happens to be on it and it's below a dollar, it goes out too.
I don't have patience for old thread that breaks easily.