This blog is intended as a bulletin board to show the quilts I've been making on my vintage and treadle sewing machines. My husband and I collect antique and vintage sewing machines and I use them to make all my quilts. Here are some of the results.
Monday, 9 May 2011
Thread Catcher
I made another thread catcher this weekend and finished stuffing the pin cushion today. I found enough Kaffe Fasset selvedges in my collection and had solid lime green to go with this fun print.
This snippet catcher will be donated to the Canadian Quilter's Association Committee for the Quilt show being held here in a few weeks.
Very Pretty colors! I always laugh when I see the thread catchers because years ago, before I started quilting (many, many years ago...lol) I was a surgery nurse and we had thread catchers in our packs. of course they were just paper but they were made this same way and we put snippets of suture in them. Donnie
4 comments:
The thread catcher looks great...I love the fun green fabric.
I'm curious what you use to stuff the pin cushion part? Is fiber fill heavy enough, or do you put something else in it?
Very Pretty colors! I always laugh when I see the thread catchers because years ago, before I started quilting (many, many years ago...lol) I was a surgery nurse and we had thread catchers in our packs. of course they were just paper but they were made this same way and we put snippets of suture in them.
Donnie
LOVE your thread catcher. Clever use of selvages!
Hugs,
/;-)
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