Thread on 95% wooden spools
03-17-2011, 02:28 PM
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I found all this thread mostly on wooden spools at thrift shop today fro $5.50. Empty small and large spools in plastic containers were 50 cents. I paid $3.75 for plastic containers to put the spools in. Good find. Happy Dance!!!! :thumbup:
03-17-2011, 02:33 PM
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What a great find. Just be sure to check the thread to make sure it's still in good shape. If it's on wooden spools it could be quite old. A friend of mine used some old thread and had tons of problems with it breaking. She thought it had sort of a dry rot. Not that yours does, just check it out carefully first.
03-17-2011, 03:00 PM
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Some of the real small spools in the front say 100 silk on them. I haven't seen these small spools before. Thank You for this tip. I will be checking it. If thread is not good I like the wooden spools.
Originally Posted by Sandi19
What a great find. Just be sure to check the thread to make sure it's still in good shape. If it's on wooden spools it could be quite old. A friend of mine used some old thread and had tons of problems with it breaking. She thought it had sort of a dry rot. Not that yours does, just check it out carefully first.
03-17-2011, 03:14 PM
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My aunt was a seamstress in the 60s and 70s and when she died, my dad (her brother) brought me a huge grocery bag full of wooden spools. Thank goodness she didn't throw sewing things away (she wasn't a hoarder like on TV). When my daughter was small my husband made her a canopy Barbie bed and used some of the spools for bed posts.
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