Originally Posted by Mazda
I found some old, old, old thread in my old sewing box yesterday. Do any of you remember TG&Y? It came from there & that place has been closed for years. Anyway, I plan to give it to a quilting friend of mine as a joke.....she knows enough about quilting that she will know not to use it!
Curiously, quilters who restore old quilts look for that old thread! Especially when it comes on wooden spools.
They unroll the top layer off, and use the thread underneath, for mending, and replacing torn pieces with antique cloth of the same age...and like to find good old thread to go with it.