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I don't know if anyone else has ever run into this, and in a way it is a lesson to be learned.. I use an office chair with rollers for sitting and sewing, the other day when I was cleaning my sewing room,(which I call my garage) I moved the chair and saw some thread strings on the bottom of the roller, so turning the chair over I saw what a mess I had, I am one that usually misses the waste basket, and never think about it, anyway the thread around the roller was a mess, looked just like the brushes on my vacuum cleaner, I spent a good hour with the scissors and tweezers getting it out of all 5 rollers, so from now on I am going to either hit the waste basket more or check the bottom of the rollers more, just which one I think of first..
#3
I have the same problem. I find that when I tape a little lunch-size paper bag to the front of the sewing table, I do a better job of containing threads. GEtting threads into the wastebasket is nearly impossible.
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I keep a roll of painter's tape handy. Roll it around my hand a couple of times, sticky side out, and stick it on a convenient place. It's easy to just touch threads to the tape and have them stick. When the roll is filled with threads I throw it out and create a new one. This works better for me than thread bags.
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I keep a roll of painter's tape handy. Roll it around my hand a couple of times, sticky side out, and stick it on a convenient place. It's easy to just touch threads to the tape and have them stick. When the roll is filled with threads I throw it out and create a new one. This works better for me than thread bags.
About the rolling chair....I thought that's what the rollers were actually for!!
Jan in VA
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I've had issues with my vacuum and threads - now I try to hit the garbage more often - and before I vacuum I pick up as much loose thread as I can. Never thought to look at the rollers on my chair - guess that is a project for tomorrow.
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guess I'm lazy, don't seem to have enough time to make a thread catcher. I put a piece of scrap corduroy on the corner of my sewing machine. static electricity holds the threads and when my project is finished I put the threads in the trash.
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