Originally Posted by
BellaBoo
Usually it's colored thread that is left on my not used up bobbins. I pull it off and stick in a ziploc bag. When the mood strikes to be crafty, I layer the thread between water solvable web and sew it all together. Then I cut shapes out of it. Great for decorating totes and other projects.
I do this also, I keep a little thread scrap bag by my machine to put these in. Funny enough, I made a spider web for Halloween with some tulle and water soluble stabilizer, when I went to my bag to get the thread.... it was empty..... still haven't found it
but I just went to my thread collection and snipped off a bunch, especially using some of the thread I don't like (my machine doesn't like sulky particularly well, has a tendency to break and also comes apart... I buy it on sale at Joanns and love the selection of colors and price)
I collect thread the way some quilters collect fabric... but my compulsion doesn't cost as much or take up as much space. lol.