Almost Wasted Money
#11
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Rhode Island
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If you have a local Dollar Tree store, check there. I bought a whole bunch of those little jars with the handles that have screw-on lids. They were selling them as salt & pepper shakers, even though the tops don't have any holes, and there are no inserts inside with the holes (like you find in spice jars). Of course, the display comes from China also, so that might explain it LOL.
#13
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Martensdale, Iowa
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I store my bobbins in pill bottles by color with label of color on top and they are stored in my sewing machine drawer. My spool of threads I store in zip lock bags by colors in drawers. My drawer cabinet is a old night stand that has three drawers in it that sits buy my sewing machine.
#14
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
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I have a lot of the jelly handle jars for ice drinks and hot drinks too. Honestly I bought them filled with jelly and washed out the jelly. When I was a kid we had snuff glasses to drink out of. Every old woman dipped snuff! My grandmother didn't but had many save her the jars. She would go gather them and we kids had to wash them in a big wash tub outside.
#15
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Join Date: Feb 2013
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those little toe seperator things that you use when you paint your toes [at the family dollar store] you can get single ones they work great to hold the thread on the bobbin so it doesn't unravel and then i put a golf tee in the spool and bobbin to keep them together
#17
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Carroll, Iowa
Posts: 3,482
I tend to take things from one room and make use of them in other rooms. I have a mason jar holding my markers, rotary cutter, pencils, etc. I use an "L" ruler and the old time wood yard stick when quilting from time to time. Its amazing how we can find things that aren't quilt related but can be used nicely in our sewing room.
#18
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Join Date: Oct 2012
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I have always saved pretty jelly and jam jars. Time to put them to better use. As for using the straws, I think I have some of the larger ones that I bought for Mason Bees to set up housekeeping in. I have been using pipe cleaners to attach the bobbin to the thread spool, then pitching them back into the plastic tub.
#19
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Houston, TX
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I used the cheap little pigtail holders. They are small and padded and colored and work great to keep the thread on the bobbins. I have a ton of old mason jars that my mom had collected. I just put the bobbins in there according to which machine they belong to. I usually just sit the jar behind the machine, but sometimes I put a piece of paper inside the the name of the machine on it. You can curve them around so they show from the outside.
#20
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Join Date: May 2017
Location: Sunny Florida
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I use the small woven pony tail holders for bobbins. I don't keep them with spools of thread. For my sewing box, I use one those notebook rings that snap open. The rings hold about 6 bobbins. Pre-wound bobbins are a ring also. Other bobbins are kept in either a bobbin ring or bobbin holder.
Bobbin notions here.
http://www.nancysnotions.com/categor...ies/bobbins.do
Bobbin notions here.
http://www.nancysnotions.com/categor...ies/bobbins.do
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