Really great idea!!!!!

Ingenious!!! Simple solutions are the best!

Thank you for this great idea, so will try it. It will really come in handy with the hand quilting.
IdahoSandy

Thanx for the tip great idea

Not CHEAP idea... INGENIOUS idea ! Hurry patent this idea before someone else does... you can make $$ off this :D

That's what I love about this group. Such clever ideas.

Novel idea! I love a cheap fix!

I have some of those already. Great idea. Get DH to punch holes in a few and I can use them for gifts. So creative.

Wow, what a great idea and a fantastic price. :wink:

an empty pill jar wouldn't help me--------it still rolls enough to get under my chair.

I have a bag full of empty pill bottles. Just couldn't throw them away. Ought to be useful. But I like the pencil box idea for the thread because it won't roll around. Use the pill bottles for used pins and needles. Thanks for sharing.

What a great idea!

I like that idea.....might need to make another trip to Walmarts :D

Love it!

clever

Terrific idea!

thanks for thegreat idea. I will have to get one of the pencil boxes.

Great idea and better yet it is easy to do. Thanks.

What a great idea! You ought to submit this to Fons and Porter and get a free one year subscription!

that is so neat!!

Opal Jane you are so clever!!!! I will surely try this one myself. And dear lady.....look at you.....congratulations on your weight loss!!! You must feel wonderful. Soon I will copy you on this achievement also. Great job!!! :-D

I use all size medicine bottles with a hole punched in top to carry along. Also at sewing table when sewing binding on hate to chase the thread.

Walmart, here I come! :-)

What a grand idea. I am going to pick one up on Friday, thanks.

Great idea. Thanks so much.

I will do that... I wasn't aware they offered a free subscription for ideas.

Thanks,

Great idea

Another idea that works for me is I thread a needle right onto the spool. I drop the spool into a ziploc bag and poke the needle through the side/end of the bag, pulling the thread out through the hole. Zip the bag closed. I then pull out as much thread as I need, leaving a "tail" of thread protruding out of the bag a few inches. Next time, I just thread the needle onto the tail and pull again.

Neat, cheap, tidy, keeps the thread from getting dusty/fluffy/dirty/whatever. The bag stops the thread from rolling away and folds up nice and tight so it doesn't take up much extra space when storing. And who doesn't have a ziploc type baggie of any sort in their home?

Tara

Great idea. Out of necessity comes invention.

Thanks so much for sharing such a great idea!!!

How did you punch the holes through?

I've done this, I took my quilting on a plane with me and had to keep in steady in something so I took a container that I was going to store the stuff in and put some holes in it. I've also made yarn cake bags that have a hole so your yarn doesn't turn into a tangled mess :) Extremely convient.


^ I personally just take a thin nail and poke it through..you can also take larger needles and poke little holes in as well.

You are one smart cookie :thumbup:

how have you lost all the weight - any particular program?

Well, I'll be!! What a neat idea. I'll have to get me one.

DITTO
Thanks!!!

Wish a solution to the large cone thread was so inexpensive. Any ideas?

Great idea. And I like the baggy idea too.

What a great idea.... :thumbup:

Quilters are so clever