Today I saw a post about making a thread catcher. Something to keep near you when doing any sewing, but it comes in especially handy when doing hand sewing. It gives you a place to put all your cut threads so they don't end up on the floor or all over your clothes. The tutorial along with a video is on All People Quilt and I made two of them with scrap batting and scrap fabric.
Here is a link to the tutorial.
And here are the two I made. I "roughly" followed the sizes they used, but you can make them any size you might want or the size of your scrap batting. I left the cardstock out of the second one, as I wanted it more flexible for travel and didn't want to have to bend the cardstock. I don't know if it will matter either way, but wanted to try it both ways. I used scrap batting and fabric for both.
This one I used card stock.
This one I just used batting and fabric.
I could have used one of these when we were on our trip and I was working on my hexagons. I didn't have a place to put my cut threads, and so I just put them on the table, and cleaned them up later. But a little square like this would have made it so much easier to keep them under control, and not get on the floor or on our clothes. Now I have one to put into my hexi bag.
The second one is going by my machine, so that when I have cut threads, instead of them ending up on the floor, because they just don't quite make it to the trash can, I won't have to worry about thread getting wrapped around the wheels of my chair, or around the head of the vacuum cleaner.
As easy as they are to make, if I find other places where I could use one, I can make them as needed, instead of taking them from one spot to use in another spot.
I hope you give this quick project a try, and if you do, share it with me, so I can see your thread catchers.
Until next time... Happy Crafting!!!
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