Someone on here listed in his post that it took 5 spools of thread to complete a quilt. (Sorry, don't remember your name - just that it was a guy!) It got me thinking... how many spools of thread would I use for a project? I started saving them. Then they were just sitting there in the drawer looking not very exciting. So I covered them with scrap fabric and have them in a pretty glass bowl. I like to watch the number grow.