catladyquilts

I have a basket with different sizes of the old bobbins in it, some still had thread on them. they are fun conversation pieces

Fabaddict

I bought a large one at a museum in MA, and have made a lamp with it

homecaregiver

I am also addicted to garage/estate sales I find some great deals. Just Saturday I bought a singer sewing machine in a cabinet with a stool. Only thing is my neighbor (who had t he sale) did not buy it for a sewing machine but for a night table and she painted it black and painted the top shut but hey for $5.00, I can fix it up. She had never even looked at the sewing machine when she bought it. Hooray for me.
Pat

carolknows

I made the cutest pin cushion. I cross stitched a primitive design, made it into a yoyo type ball,(but higher), glued it to the top of one of the spools. I crocheted a tiny little shell stitch and glued it(I guess you could sew it, too) around the bottom of the pin cushion, to hide the gluey part. I used a very fine linen to stitch the design. Sorry, I would like to show it to you, but I've yet to tackle the picture sending computer task. This one stays by my bed. I use when I cross stitch. It's a good height for that. I have three different heights for spools I use to look like a bookend. Aren't they cool just to look at?

wvdek

What great old spools and they are in such good condition.

Leave them the way they are and incorporate them into your fall decor with bittersweet, pumpkins, and a homespun tabelrunner.

nena

Paint them black and rip a piece of homespun fabric thin and tie a bow around them and place a pillar candle on them.
Just a thought.

Bluebonnet Sue

I think they would work well as candle sticks on a dining table perhaps.

Lucy90

They are spools from fabric factories.

ladypetite

Could you use them to wind your binding on? (I am new and that is one of the things I heard referenced about the bindings becoming twisted.)

vic

You can put on a board and use them as a rack.