Saving the Lowly Thread Snippets

Nothing is ever simple. While tidying up my studio this afternoon, I picked up the little trash receptacle by my sewing machine and walked to the kitchen to empty it. On the way, however, snippets of thread colors jumped out at me and begged to be sorted and salvaged. Here they are, all ready for some project in the future.

Taming Wayward Threads

After wrestling to keep with what seemed a gazillion wayward threads out of the way, I finally figured out a way to keep them confined while I quilted. I pulled them into manageable bundles, twisted the bundle a few turns and then wrapped the bundle around around the pins. All these threads will need to be buried between the quilt layers, but until then, they will be corralled and will not make it necessary for me stop every few rows to bury them by hand.