{"id":34411,"date":"2015-07-01T01:04:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T05:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=34411"},"modified":"2015-07-01T00:03:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T04:03:14","slug":"quick-tip-thread-spools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/01\/quick-tip-thread-spools\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Tip ~ Thread Spools"},"content":{"rendered":"
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These are a few of my thread racks. Can you imagine the mess if each spool had a loose tail?<\/p><\/div>\n

Like most sewists, I love threads–never met a spool or color I didn’t like.\u00c2\u00a0 My sewing room is stocked with every thread weight from 12 to 80, some 2 ply and some 3 ply.\u00c2\u00a0 There are thread fibers from cotton to silk to rayon, poly, linen and monofilament.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s a lot of thread.<\/p>\n

And while no one would ever accuse me of being a neat freak, I do like my threads to be in order.\u00c2\u00a0 With no loose tails.\u00c2\u00a0 So what are we to do with those mini king spools and others without a slot to secure the loose ends?<\/p>\n

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My solution is an old Olfa art knife and a sharpie pen.\u00c2\u00a0 (In a future post, I will share the wonder and uses of my newer, sharp Olfa art knife.) When I get new thread, I carefully make a cut in the spool, noting the direction that it unwinds.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, to ease the strain on my “mature” eyes, I mark the slit with a sharpie pen.<\/p>\n

It is so quick and easy to snap the thread tail into place and just as quick and easy to locate the cut because of the black mark.<\/p>\n

If you have other solutions, please share. Inquiring minds want to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like most sewists, I love threads–never met a spool or color I didn’t like.\u00c2\u00a0 My sewing room is stocked with every thread weight from 12 to 80, some 2 ply and some 3 ply.\u00c2\u00a0 There are thread fibers from cotton … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":34414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1011],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34411"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34411"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34420,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34411\/revisions\/34420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}