Plastic thread spool crafts

*I'm extending the deadline for entries for the giveaway until the 7th! I'm mostly settled in our new home in Virginia. Boy, it's a lot different then living in Hawaii.... at least the weather is! But I love it! I've unpacked enough to function.... the rest can wait until I'm in the mood... I'm totally going to decorate for Christmas first! hee hee Since I've been absent for a while due to not having my household goods for nearly 2 months, I thought I'd kick off again with a winter giveaway…

Hi everyone. I think about Christmas all the time, especially tree decorating ideas. Garlands seem to be the theme for me lately! This week, I want to share another garland idea and it's a recycling project for everyone who sews! A spool of thread garland with lots of buttons...uses up lots of scrap fabric too!! I so wish I would have saved all the empty spools of thread that I've thrown out over the years!! Start saving your empty spools now. You can make a little swag with 4 or 5 spools…

There's nothing worse then sitting down to finish a sewing project only to find that you're spool is. almost. empty. I've m...

ornaments from holiday 2008 collection

I do embroidery for a living and I collect all these empty thread spools (I do a lot of embroidery!!!!). The only thing is I don't know what to do with them. I did recycle some but I would really like to use them for some decoration. I thought of small Christmas trees. Maybe adding pompoms or felt balls to create a cone and add a decoration at the top. Maybe some Swarovsky crystals. I don't know......I'm open to any idea and of course I will post photos of the finished products.…

Seamsters, don't toss your empties in the trash! There are plenty of cute and even some practical ways to reuse spools of thread.

I have about 100 old and new Thread spools to save for a craft project. In the old days the thread spools were all in wood, which you could easily burn in the fireplace

Easy tutorial for how to make this adorable upcycled thread spool ornament for Christmas! This is a cheap and easy recycled sewing ornament diy.

The Internet is full of functional and crafty reuses of vintage wooden thread spools. Let's admit, these things are cool. We certainly don't want to throw them away because they are vintage. And they don't make them anymore. Now we have plastic thread spools. But what do we do with them? I hate throwing them away because they take up room in landfills and leave a horrible carbon footprint. To put it lightly, my 4x great grandchildren could come across a discarded thread spool in the remote…