cowgirlquilter

I toss them--smiling as they float.... :-D

GladGrams

Toss? I kind of "brush" them off the top and then sweep up at the end of each day.

justflyingin

I try to throw them towards the trash can. :)

schuffle

I have a catcher bag, 2 waste baskets and the threads still like to get thrown on the floor.

Then, since the carpet is a thin indoor-outdoor, I have to use the sweeper nozzle by hand to get them all up. You would think I would learn by now but I have not yet.

I bought clear Christmas ornaments and stuffed them full of thread. I do a lot of embroidery with my quilting so I made an ornament for each of the G-kids using some of the emb thread from their own quilts. Used permanent markers and wrote Merry Christmas and the year on each ornament. The kiddies loved them.

Happy Quilting, Kathy

MadQuilter

Yep - that's what happens in my room too. And for some reason I am often very colorful when I leave the house because some of those threads seem to survive laundry and some simply hitch a ride on my clothes.

Momma_K

I've read all of these about the cats getting into the strings, I never thought of the precious little doggys!! Oh MY!! Time to make some arrangments near the machine!! Thanks for the reminder!!

penski

yep !!! mine go on the floor and everywhere else they fall !! then wheni get tired of looking at them i sweep them up

QuilterMomma

Or how about it when the hitch a ride on your socks and then trail around the house, up the stairs, to the bathroom, and the kitchen. My little circle of course. I do longarm and you do not want to know how much thread hits the floor there. For the floor in there, I take a piece of cotton batting that is left over, attach it to the swiffer picker upper, poking it in the holes on the swiffer, then sweep up those threads very easily and then just toss. It makes clean up much more simple than trying to remember to throw them in the garbage. I may have to try out the toilet brush option for the carpet. And I do hear you abuot those pins falling into the carpet. My husband finds them occasionally, only by sight praise God, but hands them to me with that "look".

wraez

That's my system too.

Tweety2911

I wear mostly cotton or jersey tops and just stick the threads onto my shirt. The threads stay in place until I am ready to discard them.