I inherited a stash oh, 20 plus years ago. Lots of thread because the quilter used different colors in her marvelous quilts. During COVID, I just started grabbing thread and using it to clean out the "thread stash". It worked, I emptied many, many spools. I filled a two quart mason jar with spools in double quick time. Now, I have slowed down on the number of quilts I do, but I still use odds and ends from my own stash or that I snatch from give-away tables, mostly Gutermann and occasionally an Aurifil. I also have a quilting friend who uses cones of thread when long-arming. From time to time she will have a cone that is just not enough to finish a quilt and in a color she doesn't care for, cream, so..... she gives the cones to me and I use them for bobbin thread. What a blessing!
I may be a confident intermediate quilter but I still struggle with some of the common skills of a beginner like sharp points and crisp matching corners. I am still working on those and getting more and more proficient. I want to continue to grow as a quilter and those two areas are what I have chosen to focus on. Others of you are following your own choices and that is what makes use better quilters. Right?
Last edited by WMUTeach; 09-30-2025 at 06:09 AM.