EMPTY SPOOLS OF THREAD
#51
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Johns Creek, GA
Posts: 321
I use a lot of pearle cotton when making prayer quilts and those skeins can really get tangled when you start pulling them apart. So, when I have a new skein, while it's nice and tidy, I wrap them around an empty spool. Works great and saves a ton of time to untangle the thread.
#54
wonderful for rolling bits of lace and trim etc around. Wish I had a few dozen. I do dolls for kids with cancer and have all this trim to organize, and it is hard the right trims some times in all the bags I've put it in.
If you decide you don't want them, please send them my way. giggle
seriously, just roll bias or whatever around the spools and secure with a short straight pin
Some people decorate or paint them and make 'spool doll' arms and legs using the different sizes.
good luck.
If you decide you don't want them, please send them my way. giggle
seriously, just roll bias or whatever around the spools and secure with a short straight pin
Some people decorate or paint them and make 'spool doll' arms and legs using the different sizes.
good luck.
#56
Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Posts: 278
The serger spools make great angels. You can buy just a doll head or you can use a wooden ball that you have painted a face on. Cover the spool with a tightly gathered piece of fabric with the gather at the, attach head. Tie a ribbon around neck to cover gather, make or buy a pair of wings to attach on back. If you do a nice job you will find it on the top of the Christmas tree since the spool is hollow. I use feathers for wings. I just can't save enough spools for all those who want angels.
#58
I buy cones of threads, then my husband winds the thread with a drill onto my empty spools. Get my thread for my money buying cones.Mary
Originally Posted by irma tapia
What do you do with your empty spools of thread? I have been collecting them for awhile and I really don't know what to do with them, any suggestions :?: :roll:
#60
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Hereford, Texas
Posts: 24
I got a boat load of wooden spools, when I got my grandmothers sewing stuff. And at the time I was looking for knobs for my laundry room/ sewing room cabinets. I spray painted them in colors to match and used them as my cabinets knobs.
Originally Posted by irma tapia
What do you do with your empty spools of thread? I have been collecting them for awhile and I really don't know what to do with them, any suggestions :?: :roll:
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