This teaches me NOT to clean house!! UGH!!
 

So I've been feeling poorly but today feel better so I decide to do a little house cleaning. I was using my little Shark lite vac and was vacuuming around my stack of thread boxes...well I had some spools sitting on top of the boxes that I had recently used but not put up yet. Yep, the vacuum caught a couple of the loose dangling threads and I ended up with about 15 spools jumping like jumping beans on the floor with lots of thread wrapped around the vacuum bar!!!!!! So now I sit and cut all the thread off the bar!!!!

This will teach me to just let the house cleaning go, right? LOL

Yes, and I will take your warning to heart and go sew!!!

OMG! I bet you let out a yelp when that happened!

Another reason not to clean. Thank you for adding to my list of excuses...back to sewing!

That's what cleaning will get you into. Quilting time consumed by cutting threads.

ditto......lol

Thank you for reminding me of the dangers. Vacuuming the studio was on the agenda for tonight.....but I think it might not be worthwhile after all. I'll fondle fabric instead! :thumbup:

Jan in VA

So sorry!! I would stop too!! However The picture of it has me laughing out loud!:D :D :D

This work clean... What it mean? Not in my vocabulary *giggles*

Yup, picture in my head of all those threads jumping around gave me a good chuckle as well. I'll put cleaning back on the bottom of the "todo" list!

I do have to admit... the picture I got in my head...made me laugh..but then the thought made me think about a nasty date with Mr Ripper...

OMGoodness! I have a shutoff button on my vacuum. But yes sometimes you just get caught up in the moment. It happened to me and that's why I can LOL! I used my rotary cutter to cut the threads where I could then an exacto knife. DH LOL'd til he got the bill for me to replace my thread on his card. Then I LOL'd! That'll learn 'em! LOL!

To add to my post, I also bought couple more rotary blades.LOL

Thanks for the laugh! Hate when good intentions turn out poorly. Hope you get some sewing done and get to laugh at this! Can't shake the image from my head:)

thanks for the reminder that housework is dangerous for ones health. having that happen and having to cut all that thread couldn't be good for the blood preasure < LOL. that is now my story and i'm sticking to it.

Wow! My list keeps growing. Sorry it happened, but it sure gave me a good laugh.

Gosh, I can just picture that in my mind. Sorry, but it is too funny. At least it wasn't the dogs tail

I did this trick once but with yarn. After standing there looking horrified for far too long I finally hit the switch. Talk about a mess. My FIL was visiting at the time and several days later I was grumbling about how badly the vacuum worked and he piped up and said, " but it sure is good for winding yarn".

YUP, cleaning can be dangerous to our state of mine. Chalk it up to Murphy's Law and change projects at least temporarily.

In my house, I'm not allowed to use the vacumn. My feeling is it should pick up anything I lead it to- kleenex, pieces of string, little bits of fabric and perhaps a wayward cat {not really, I wouldn't hurt my boys!} When it balks at my requests I hate to admit it but I say some BAAAAAD words!

poor baby... I feel your pain!!! I once had a home ec teacher (can you imagine) tell me if there is something cool to do... leave the housework for later.

Poor baby, so sorry for you. Cleaning is not at top of my list either.

I'll bet she let out more than a yelp, more like #@%^!

I almost always put sewing ahead of cleaning. I actually took time this week to clean as I was having family for Easter. Talk about dust bunnies. I moved furniture and vacuum under and behind, washed knick knacks, dusted off pictures, really deep cleaned. I feel great now that it is done and would like to keep it up but I know the sewing/quilting will win until the next time I need to dig deep into cleaning. I tried to tell myself if I cleaned for an hour I got to sew for an hour and it helped keep me on task.

Oh what fun my cat would have had chasing all those spools around.:D. Better to quilt than to clean!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a great story!