You can use it as a basting thread or hem things in those colors. I mostly
throw it away. I used to stash it in its own bag with thread nr but I never
used it. The thread is so cheap in view to all the work you put in a piece
of lace that I consider it a waste to keep it. But there are always
different opinions. And even if there are a lot of thread on one bobbin you
have to roll it on to two if you don�t make lace where you start with a
knot, and then the thread is sooo much shorter (found out the hard way with
a lot of work winding new bobbins!) on two bobbins.
Depending on what kind of lace you are making I was taught to measure the
lace, take that measure three times and add for the piece of thread from the
pins to the pillows apron so you will have a bit of extra, and I have found
out that the thread is "longer" than it seems to be when you are coming to
the end of the lace, even if it looks like it won�t last it always has :-)
Just my point of view, I guess you will have more suggestions,
Yours
Ann-Marie, Sweden
http://community.webshots.com/user/annma1
>
> I have a question which has been bugging me for a long time...
> Whenever I do a lace project, I end up with lots of thread left on the
> bobbins.  I generally do small projects, so the bobbins with leftover
thread
> accumulate fast - right now pretty much all of them have some.  There's
> quite a lot of thread on some of them, so I don't really feel like just
> throwing it away, but it's hard to come up with a project to use it up,
> since it's all different sizes and colors and lengths.  How do you deal
with
> this?  Is it possible to figure out how much thread a project will take so
> that not much is left over?  Or do you just discard all of your leftover
> thread even if there's a lot?
>
> Weronika

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