I think you are a genius! I usually recycle my plastics and keep (for what, I don't know) the old wooden ones. From now on, I will keep the large spools (yes, I'm still trying to use up all of my small spools from my garment sewing days.) to use for the binding "trick." Thanks for sharing.






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I gave mine to my granddaughters and we glued scraps of lace and ribbon on them then they strung them on shoelaces - the younger gd wore hers as a necklace and the older gd also decorated a cigar box and used some of the decorated spools as feet for the box and a tiny decorated spool as a knob on top to lift the lid

Grandson hauls them about the house in his dump truck! And what a find he thinks he has, in fact, he inspects my thread holder whenever he is here to make sure I any waiting. Now as for my old wooden spools, they are in a glass bear for decoration. This is a fun thread (play on words - lol) and I appreciate all the ideas coming forth.

I recycle the plastic ones. I'm not into saving anything like that.

I save the wooden spools for display purposes. I use the plastic spools to wind bias tape on for small projects.

debra

They amuse my kitten and she lets me sew uninterrupted (only occasionally) if she's amused. They make great cat toys!!! Kitten is my avatar pic right now. Her name is Lily. ~ Chris

OK here is the use for 1, so pick your fav. Take the spool and insert the handle end of a seam ripper into the hole, this can now be used quite effectively to cut apart chain pieced parts by slipping the joining thread down over the business end of the seam ripper. Not my idea but one I found in a book somewhere. Works great as long as the seam ripper and the spool hole match up.:D

Since I have a long-arm machine now, I save mine to roll little bits of left-over thread from my LA bobbins, then put them in with my regular sewing machine thread.

burn the wood ones and recycle can for plastic.

Me too!