I found a simple way to keep my spools of thread from unraveling and causing a mess. I normally keep my embroidery thread on a spool rack (see my avatar). But, I am traveling now, and they sure don't sit tight in a box. At Walgreens I found small polybands (for ponytails). They are clear bands that fight perfectly around the embroidery spools and work great. I got 100 large ones and 150 smaller ones for $5. You can barely see them on the spools so will look nice even at home on the rack.
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Good idea.
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Great idea! Thanks, I needed one! :D
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Great idea! Those wayward threads drive nuts..... ;)
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great idea
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super, thanks!
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That is an excellent idea, something so simple and affordable.
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Originally Posted by Bonbonary
I found a simple way to keep my spools of thread from unraveling and causing a mess. I normally keep my embroidery thread on a spool rack (see my avatar). But, I am traveling now, and they sure don't sit tight in a box. At Walgreens I found small polybands (for ponytails). They are clear bands that fight perfectly around the embroidery spools and work great. I got 100 large ones and 150 smaller ones for $5. You can barely see them on the spools so will look nice even at home on the rack.
They can dry out on your thread! At our $ store they had the cloth ponytail bands that make great bobbin bands! |
I just bought a big bag of them at Dollar Tree and they are cloth also in cute colors. They make great gifts to quilters. I hate tangled threads. So glad you found them. Thanks for sharing. Enjoy your traveling.
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yep, Featherweight turned me onto those.
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when you use those little bands on your bobbins, they're called bobbin bikinis .....
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How cool is that?!! I love unexpected notion ideas....just bought a couple of doorstops at the dollar store to raise the back of my machine!! Got that idea from this board...love the adjustment!!!!
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