THREAD WALL

I know that most quilters have heard of a design wall, but what about a 
thread wall??

One day, while I was working on a crazy quilt project, I got fed up with 
all the cut extra threads I had to deal with while embroidering a square 
on the crazy quilt. I was making a twin size and was using many different 
colors embroidery thread at the same time. What to do with the extra thread
 left over after you separate the threads you need? Or what about the small
 pieces that you have left?

At first, I was putting them on the arm of my sofa as I sit embroidering. 
Well, one day my husband got up, from that same chair, with thread on his 
pants. I was also getting impatient with having to pick all the thread of 
the arm of my sofa every night when I put the project away. I didn't want 
to pay for a needle holder because all these threads didn't have needles . . . 
they were just threads that I needed to save until the next time I wanted to
 use them on this project.

Well, I finally figured it out . . . A "Thread Wall"!!

I took some scrap batting that I had left over from my last quilt. And I do 
mean scrap! It was a long strip about 3 inches wide and about 60 inches long.
 You know quilters, they save all scraps, ha! ha! ha!

Well, I cut that strip into pieces about 15 - 18 inches long and sewed them 
together with a zig zag stitch. When I sewed them together, I put them on some
 scrap pieces of fabric that I had sewed together. As I zig zaged the batting
 onto the scrap fabric, it attched it to the fabric and it became one solid piece.

I now have a "Thread Wall" that I drape over the arm of the sofa or chair as
 I work on my project. With the batting side up, all you have to do is lay 
the thread down on it and they "stick" to the "Thread Wall" until you are 
ready to use them again. When I am ready to quit for the night, I roll it 
up or fold it up and stick it in the bag of my project.

GREAT! It keeps my sofa clean and helps me clean up my mess quickly.

Oh, and it keeps my husband happy and clean!

You can make more than one of these to keep with different projects if 
you are working on more than one project.