I think a string quilt is when you take strips and foundation piece them to paper shapes (rectangular pages or star points) and use up your left over pieces of strips. I don't think you actually use the threads. I have a thread catcher at my sewing machine and cath all the snippets. Then I take them and use my rotary cutter and cut them up in smaller bits and put them out for the birds. I don't want anything too long that could get caught and hurt them. :?: