I’ve noticed lately that quilters are talking about how their thread stashes are starting to compete with their fabric stashes. I’ve noticed my own thread collection growing—I love all the new colors, especially the variegated ones. Fortunately thread doesn’t take up nearly as much space as fabric.
We recently received 12 collections of Coats & Clark’s brand new Dual Duty XP® thread! Each collection box includes 50 spools of polyester-wrapped core-spun thread that has a strength and smoothness that works perfectly for all types of sewing, quilting, and crafting. Another great feature: The new trap spool holds the thread neatly and securely. The color assortment in the pack is amazing – it must have taken someone forever to choose 50 colors out of the 360 total colors included in the Dual Duty XP line – and the collection even includes some multi-colored spools! These collection boxes sell for $65 in stores, so getting to give one away to 12 lucky members of our online community is quite a treat indeed!
Here’s some consumer reviews of the new Dual Duty XP line of thread:
I’ve been meaning to write and tell you how very much I like the new Dual Duty thread and the new spool. The quality of the thread is better than anything I have ever used – sewing machine or by hand.
-Joan Wilson, Founder, The Fairy Godmothers of Fayetteville
I just wanted to let you I love the new way you your changed your sewing thread spools. Now all I have to do is to pull the thread and the thread comes out.
-Mrs. Ann Brogan, Allentown, PA
Being a professional seamstress for decades, I have been using and recommending the more expensive imported threads. However, recently, the store for which I am the seamstress and which is the largest fabric store on the West Coast, received your new display with all of your new threads. I was asked to give your new threads a try. So I did on some very delicate silk. I was amazed at how buttery your thread traveled through the fabric. I was immediately sold. I congratulate you for your most excellent progress with your Dual Duty All Purpose threads. The colors are wonderful and the texture is superb. I am happy to say that i am your greatest admirer and consequently, so are the customers who come to me for advice.
-Pauline Lareau, Fabric Depot, Portland, Oregon
For a chance to win a box of thread, post a comment here or on facebook by Tuesday, September 8th, describing the most unusual way that you’ve used thread. We’ll randomly pick winners to be announced later that day. Good Luck!
*Comments will be closed at 9am PST on Tuesday, 9/8/09
121 Comments
Thread.. that is becoming an issue for me as well.
I have been sewing with some unusual fabrics lately and find I could use a ploy-core as the cotton is just to ’soft’ and breaks too easily.
To win this would be wonderful… but now I know this is out there I will look for it..as a ’specialty’ thread.
I would love to win this – what a great giveaway!
I not only use thread on my art quilts but I also use it for my card making and scrapbooking….
I think the most unusual way I ever used tread was to pull out a tooth when I was little!
Great giveaway! I really could use it!
Hugs from Denmark!
Gorgeous colors!!
I think the strangest way I’ve used thread is to thread it through my earlobes and tie little loops. My mom taught me to do this when my ears got sore or irritated from cheap earrings. It gave them a break without allowing the holes to grow shut.
I would love to win this! I dont have alot of threads yet, I am still starting out. Teaching myself how to sew and quilt. Unusual way I use my thread? well I use it for my cards also. That isnt all the unusual thought lol. It sure does make a pretty piece of art work hanging on my spool holder :)
Hmm. This is a tough one! Usually I just use thread for piecing and quilting. I think the most unusual way I’ve used thread was to chop it up into small pieces and bond it under netting to a small quilted postcard.
Kelly Smith
National Quilting Examiner
I always use Dual Duty thread and I would love to win some. It works well in quilts and clothing, but even better in cutting up cinnamon buns. After I’ve made jelly roll of the dough and cinnamon, I wrap the thread around my fingers like dental floss and slide it under the dough and cut the buns into perfect circles. Thanks for the thread — it really is dual duty — in the sewing room and the kitchen
I think the most unusual way I’ve ever used thread is to have laid piles of threads of different colors and weights on a cutting mat, cut it with a rotary cutter into little snippets. Sprinkle the thread snippets on top of fabric. Place a wash away stablizer on top. Quilt heavily on top. Wash out the stablizer. And turn the embellished fabric (decorated with various colors of beautiful thread) into a project. Great fun.
This Coats & Clark thread also looks perfect for a threadplay project, as well as many other projects I can think of too!
SewCalGal
http://www.sewcalgal.blogspot.com
Hmmm – I stopped using their thread 15 years ago – maybe it’s time to take another look. Most unusual use of thread – as a stand in for dental floss! I’m kinda freaky about flossing, and when I can’t find the floss – well, I’ve got LOTS of thread in my sewing room! ;-)
I’d love to try out the new thread. thank you!
I have always loved Coats and Clark threads. I have used their threads for years, for sewing garments, and now for quilting. And yes I do use it for making cards as well. I think the most unusual way that I have used thread was in baking. I needed to cut some dough once, and I used the quilting thread to slice down into the dough :-)
I love the Dual Duty thread as well! I use the white for everything. It’s nice and strong and very smooth.
I also had heard that the newest Dual Duty threads were an improvement over the originals. I’d love the opportunity to try them out!
I have put snippets of thread and yarn outside for birds to use as nesting materials. It is funny to see the colorful bits sticking out of a nest. I would love to win this! Not that I would do this with this thread! I would use it myself! LOL. Thanks!
The most unusual thing I have ever done with thread was braid my mom’s pink thread into my Barbies hair when I was 11. I was making my own Barbie extensions after reading an article about behind the scenes at a Betsey Johnson fashion show.
What a great giveaway!
The package of thread looks delicious and I would love to try it!
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I’ve been sewing for 56 years (since I was 10), but the most unusual way I can remember using thread was when I was working on a project in graduate school where I was studying for my school library certification. One of our assignments was to make something that we could use for storytime with children. I decided to make characters from felt that could be used to illustrate the stories as I was telling them. These little cut-outs were placed on a felt-covered board, and they would stick automatically, but also were very easy to remove. Anyway…back to the thread part of this comment. I stiffened thread with white glue by pulling it through my fingers and laying it on wax paper to dry. Then it was snipped into bits and glued in place on the faces of my animal characters to create their whiskers. That was 35 years ago, but I still use glue-stiffened thread for various projects. Most recently I used it on a birthday card for my grand niece to create the loopy line for two tin-can telephones being held by a couple of little mice proclaiming “Guess Who’s Two?…Claire, That’s Who!”
Can’t wait to try this new thread.
Eliece
Wow, that’s a great giveaway. I’d love to have those threads. Thanks so much!
Hmmm, I can’t think of anything unusual. I just use it in lots of different ways. I use it for sewing projects, quilting, decorating cards and even in some of my embroidery.
This looks like a great sampler. Thanks for the great giveaway.
I’ve used it for cutting cinnamon rolls, pulling teeth, nesting material for our birds and wrapping around a finger tightly to get off a stuck ring! You can never have too much beautiful thread…!
I would love to win this! I have tied presents with thread, made ATCs. Just playing around with it – balling it up and fiddling with it for as a worry stress reliever.
I’ve used thread to determine whether my little brother entered my room or not! (laid it across the doorway, gently taped)
Probably the oddest way I’ve ever used thread is to stabilize my Christmas tree. I’ve always used a heavier weight dark thread (like jeans stitch weight) to tie each branch up to the trunk of the tree, so that I could overload it with ornaments without the tree drooping as the week went on!
I’d love to win the thread! An unusual way I have used thread is to tie ivy plants up and guide them around window frames.
Coats & Clark was the only thread I knew when growing up. Since I started quilting a couple of years ago, I’ve been trying out some of the others, but I might have to come back and try this. A group of us meet once a month at G-Street Fabrics to make quilts for charity and this pack would be a wonderful addition to the thread collection we use to piece and quilt the baby/children’s quilts!
I pretty much just use thread in the usual way, piecing fabric. I do however make cards andscrapbook and I have found it fun to use different stitches and threads to embelish my paper work as well. Good luck to all!
Coats & Clark was a family staple in my sewing family, and I’ve noticed the new spools and tried them again lately. Very nice. I’ve used older thread to set out for the birds to use in making their nests in the spring.
Ohhh…lovely!!! I LOVE the new spools…having the special top instead of trying to hook your thread into a little slit each time is such a great improvement!
I use thread to sew, but also to embellish scrapbook pages or cards or to make necklaces or crafts with my kids. In a pinch you can even use it in the kitchen for leveling cakes or cutting dough.
What a wonderful give-away.
If I win, I’ll smile all day.
I’m pretty staid in my thread use – quilting, garment sewing, weaving… but I’m always open to new ideas!
edie
I will give it a try again since it has been revamped but the original formula broke easily and left tons and tons of lint in the machine and Bernina machines just cry about this.
I use thread not only in quilting but in arty ways on cards and in scrapbooking – making cute little tags – plus on occasion for sewing up a turkey or chicken…
Great thread! What a great giveaway.
Simplicity and Coats and Clark are names very familiar to me; many times I spent Saturday morning with my Mom at the nearby fabric store. She would give me the fabric and send me to choose buttons, zipper, and thread – only C&C thread! Nothing else would do!
I am just learning how to threadpaint and more thread would be most appreciated.
Sincerely, Suzanne Gwynne
OH MY GOODNESS!!! You have NO IDEA how much I love this thread company!!!! And unfortunately, in my neck of the woods, our one and only quilt store has like…. hmmm… black, white and beige. That’s IT!
*long sigh*
Anyhow, I’ve used thread to do a magic trick, many moons ago.
You know? Fill up a glass with water and add an ice cube. Then, ask people to pick up the piece of ice, with a pre-cut piece of thread.
It’s easy, once you know the trick! If I’m picked, I’ll gladly share my magic trick with you… if you don’t already know it. LOL
Rosa Robichaud
Saint John, New Brunswick
Canada
I have a nice little collection of Coats and Clark, it was the very first thread I used, over 50 years ago.
What a lovely lot of colours in the threads.When my daughter got married two years ago I took along several different coloured threads a needle and some little safety pins just in case. I didn’t need the thread but we did use the pins for something. I would love to restock my sewing room with these threads. I am always sewing so they will be put to use straight away. Happy days.
I’ve used thread while making my handmade greeting cards.
Today my daughter and I used some white thread to make her first sewing project- a little doll. She is only 5! It was wonderful and turned out beautiful. Thanks!
I recently used some of my colourful quilting thread to pull out my daughters first tooth. I was having trouble trying to see the floss against the tooth to tie it so I went for the thread! It worked great.
I have used some of their varigated on my last quilt and loved the way it turned out on the front and the back. I wanna win this one bad! What a neat giveaway!
I am drooling over that collection! Please enter me?
thank you!
I knit an entire scarf with thread for a theatre production. It took forever and let me just say… never again!
I have used a variegated thread to zig zag around the cut edges of old teatowels, to turn them into reusable lunch wraps for my kids. The old teatowels just had the odd hole in them – they were not all manky. The coloured zig zag made them look a little more fun.
I also display my thread in a clear box, in a spectrum pattern – it looks lovely on the shelf in my dining area, where I sew.
I would love to add to my thread collection!
I’m afraid I’m unadventurous when it comes to thread, and haven’t done much except stitch with it. But it does amaze me that so many online stores sell fabric only … what about the stuff we use to stitch it?!
When I was first married I had a dinner party for my sister and her husband. I purchased utility grade cornish hens because they were inexpensive. When I opened them up at home to cook for dinner I found that they required some major surgery to be held together.
So out came the needle and thread and I sewed and I sewed the poor wee birds back together again. I’m glad it was my sister as my guest that night because we all had a good laugh over our dinner full of thread!
What a glorious collection of thread!!
I have used thread in a couple of non fabric sewing ways. The first was using heavy thread to sew up a turkey before it was roasted.
The second was in a science experiment. We used to dissolve as much sugar (or salt) as we could in a glass of warm water, then suspend a thread into the glass. In the morning, after the solution had cooled, pretty crystals of sugar or salt would have grown down the thread. :)
These days most of my thread is used in piecing and quilting, or in dressmaking.
Thank you for offering such a wonderful giveaway.
Such a great parcel of threads, I’ve been using the dual duty for a while now and have to say that it’s far superior to their regular thread. I’ve used thread to floss, pull teeth (as a child) leave for birds for their nests and have even used it to tie up chicken legs when roasting a chicken.
What a beautiful selection of colors.
The most unusual way I have used thread is to take the spools -with the thread still on- and glue a large decorative button on one end. They are then slid over a nail and used to support the bar for my quilt. What better decoration for quilt art than an artfully created hang system.
Good luck to all the entrants. Robin
I would love the opportunity to win this wonderful prize!
while not unusual for the thread….I have made several kitty toys from the spools :) couple of bells and elastic through the middle and wa-la…..instant kitty toy!
This looks like a great assortment.
I guess the only thing I can think of for odd uses of thread is to make a toy out of string and button. It’s quite simple, and I remember making the button spin and hum as a child.
rsgrandinetti(at)yahoo.com
There’s going to be LOTS of comments this week, I’m sure! Since I only use Coats and Clark thread for mending clothing items, I’m kind of curious about what is “new” about the thread aside from the way it wraps around the spool for storage. So far I’ve never used it in my quilts…for piecing or quilting.
Anyway, to answer this weeks question, I guess my most unusual use of thread is something I recently heard about. Making thread bowls. You use heavyweight wash-a-way stabilizer and scribble all sorts of colors and styles of threads sewing with the feed dogs down. Make it as dense and you want and then gradually washaway the stabilizer shaping it as you go.
I used it to string birdseed balls to our trees!
Great giveaway! I’d love to win the thread!
Unusual way of using thread…first thing that pops in my mind was the first time I left Bay Area, CA to visit my DH’s family farm in Ky. You see…I’d never been to a farm before…I was a city gal! Anyway, on the farm there were these huge bugs they called, “June Bugs.” First off, have to tell you that they loved having a city gal on the farm (there are plenty of stories). They had me run in for a spool of Aunt Garnets thread….they then taught me to tie the thread to one of the bug’s legs and hold the other end of the string! Well, needless to say the June bug took off flying sporatically every which way as I held the thread dodging this bug! They sure had a good laugh that day at my expense!
Wow, fantastic prize! I’ve dabbled in using my thread scraps as ‘fabric’ – basically taking thread snips, bits, pieces and sandwiching them inbetween organza and stitching over them to make stay in place. It makes a really interesting embellishment when added to the bottom of a top.
I would like to win the threats. I only use threats in the normal way. I hope this is no mistakes in your eys and I also can win the prize.
Greeting Guilitta
One can never have too much thread! And such pretty colours!
Thank you for the giveaway!
Hi there! I’d love to win some thread. I scrapbook, and stitch on everything, therefore I need thread in every color. thank you for the chance to win!
I’ve used thread to hang Christmas ornaments on the tree. Otherwise, I use thread for the usual purpose, which, in my humble opinion, is a grand purpose!
I, too, would like to win some wonderful Coats & Clark Thread. It’s great stuff!
I use thread in 7th grade science…they look at it under the microscope and draw it…it’s very different from what it looks like to the naked eye.
What beautiful colors to use in any sewing project. I love to stitch a photograph of my loved ones on cloth for a lovely wall hanging. I guess it would be like drawing with thread. The grand kids beam when they see themselves displayed on their wall. Thanks for the nice giveaway.
Ok I have used thread to floss with. Great give away.
Please add me to the hat!
Really it’s not the most unusual way I’ve used thread, but more the current age of “no mending” when we can have so much fun quilting and crafting. But I have been mending my son’s trousers – you know how they have a pair they want to wear and wear and wear!!! So to keep them going, I have to mend!!!
I enjoy using threads, especially varigated to enhance the machine quilting I do on my quilts. I am still a beginner but the more I quilt the more I see threads as part of the process.
I like to use thread to draw with my free motion foot. Definitely the most fun I’ve had with thread!
Hahaha. This is timely because last week I used thread to attach a yard stick to the bottom of my 1 year old’s pack & play mattress so that he can’t pull it up, fold it over and climb over it :) Sewing makes us oh, so clever, don’t you think??
I have been saving my thread scraps from sewing and embroidery to make a scarf with dissoluble stabilizer. (This is not my idea) You spread your scraps along the sheet of stabilizer and then sandwich another piece and sew on top with various threads in random free motion. The dissolve and a delicate multicolored scarf material that you could embellish as desired.
WOW !! Who could not use more thread… I have been quilting since 1990 and it is hard to belive all the thread that you use…. I am always running to the store to get more thread, for the color I need… I also do embroidering… Thanks …. :)
Hmmm, probably haven’t used thread for anything too unusual. Tooth pulling & dental floss. Thats about it outside of sewing.
I save the thread bits and pieces and incorporate them in FSL machine embroidery.
I would love to be entered for a chance to win!
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Wow, I could sure use this, I’m constantly running to the store because I don’t have the right colors.
I love thread! Can’t have enough colors and types to please me!
Most unusual way to use thread is as emergency dental floss. A little beeswax on it and it works wonders!
My friend’s dog at a small spool of thread once. How did she know? It was trailing out of the south end of her dog! She kept pulling… and pulling… and pulling… you get the idea. Finally got all the thread out, and the spool came out in a somewhat natural way. Yuck!
I’ve six little drawers of thread, some of which belonged to my grandmother. I love the feel of the wooden spools, and I’ll keep them even if the thread is far past its prime. New thread, lots of colors–yummy!
Thirty years ago I was making needled modeled dolls and soft sculptures full time. I only ever used Dual Duty threads; the pulling and sculpting of the faces required strong thread. Because the clothes were all sewn on by hand in bright colors with surface running and quilting stitches, I also needed to to be able to find strong threads in wonderful colors–also Dual Duty.
Here’s a close up of on the last pieces I made before becoming a full time illustrator: http://twitpic.com/gbtgi
I’ve used Coats & Clark thread in Spirelli projects, because of the wonderful colors, affordable price, and it is so smooth to work with (plus, I adore the new spools!) (Spirelli is the wrapping of thread around paper or through paper, to create intricate designs)
Please oh Please pick me! I so could use this in my stash
I seriously agree with the thread collection, I can’t manage to pick up the same colored fabric twice. :) I would say the most unusual way I’ve used thread is to hang things from my ceiling-photos, quotes, etc. I wish I’d thought of using it in my kitchen!
I have used many thing for various ways other than their marketed intension. One of the odd ways I have use quilting thread for is to cut a birthday cake at work (1993 era) when no one could find the knife. After that I was the “go to girl” for un-thought of solutions.
When I was little my mom used a needle and thread to pierce my ears!
I’m afraid I haven’t done anything that unusual with thread except sew zig zags on paper. Maybe I should come up with something! Thanks for the great giveaway!
I have taken several colors of thread and braided it and tied it on the handle of my suitcase so I can easily identify mine from all of the look alikes on the carousel at the airport.
I would love to win the thread.
I have not used thread in any unusual ways, but my husband has! He’s used nylon thread to repair necklaces.
I don’t feel like I’ve done anything unusual. I have tried Spirelli and I have stitched on cards and scrapbook pages with thread.
Wow- such neat uses for thread that I have never though of! I use C&C almost exclusively, because in my area it is the cheapest. The new spool design is fabulous- no more catching on that slit and having to remember which way to load the spool.
The strangest use for me- my brother and I use to take spools of thread and weave it all around our bedrooms to make spider webs and then try to get out of the room without breaking any! Hours of fun but my mom would get so mad!
I use Coats and Clark almost all the time. Would love to have a big ol’ pile!
I lay the small pieces down on wash away stablizer and then embroidery lace over it.
Well I have only used it for sewing!!! I am new to sewing just over a year and am in love. I don;t have a huge stash of thread so tis would be an awesome prize!!! Pick me!!!
would love this assortment!
teaching my 11 year old neighbor
how to sew and quilt . . .
we could sure use this!!!
hope ‘we’ win. . .
-thanks!
pick me…
pick me!!!
I used thread once as an emergency replacement for dental floss-for the record, not a good substitute!
I use thread for tatting to quilting….
would love to win this thread
I have only started sewing (a couple of months ago), so I have no interesting stories of thread use – YET.
I did, once, tie thread around my tooth and the door knob and sling the door shut so that my loose tooth came out. But that was years ago.
I still would like to win so that I can start a good thread collection.
I would love to win this! I love the C&C Dual Duty plus thread!
The thread would be great! Never enough and always need more colors.
The “unusual” ways I’ve used thread was to also pull my baby teeth out when I was younger, carefully floss things out between my teeth without cutting my gums, to sew onto cards, and to wrap designs around a pen. Well, I think you would call this thicker string I used for the pen design thread. I’m not sure. :-?
Connie Reed: I have used thread as dental floss before when I was away and had forgotten to pack the dental floss. That was probably a big no no according to the dentist.
see her comment in recent quilting tips from the tech editors post
The most unusual use for thread I have found is as a cat toy! Nothing entertains my cat more than batting around a spool of thread and chewing on the end!
The most creative way that I’ve used thread is thread-play on my Art Quilts. I have made raindrops and ripples on water using the free-form foot of my sewing machine. I can’t have too many colors of thread!
Gosh, I don’t think I’ve ever done anything too unconventional with thread, but I’ve gotten some extremely creative ideas from the comments of others. What a cool resource for thread creativity! The box of thread is beautiful; it would be like winning a big box of candy. I’ve got my fingers crossed :o)
The most unusual way I’ve used thread? hehe, I used to play with my mom’s thread spools like they were blocks – stacking them and “making” furniture for my Barbies. Of course, it was all temporary so that mom could still use the thread! :)
I ♥love♥ all the great new colours of thread and hope to be chosen!
Anne in Ontario Canada
p.s.
I hope you pick Rosa so we learn the secret of the ice cube!
I grew up using Dual Duty thread. One of my most unusual uses for it lately has been lacing together heat-fusible (Perler) beads after my daughter saw online ideas for making a basket by lacing together rings of fused beads to a solid base. The idea book suggested fishing line, but its tendency to tangle made Dual Duty the no-fuss choice for that project.
I save all my thread bits and make “material” using my leftover threads and fancy yarn and bits of material and water soluble stabilizer. While at Girl Scout camps during the years we took pine cones, smeared them with peanut butter and bird seed and strung them up in the trees using thread.
Lovely colors, and thanks for the giveaway.
I think this is the only type of thread I have in my stash! In the last few years, since I’ve been teaching high school, I’ve found myself using it for science projects. It makes great chromatin, can be used to sew small books together, and even supports a balloon to fly across the room for a physics project. Being a teacher will surely make you look for ways to use traditional items in non-traditional ways.
I have several crazy ways that I have used this thread but one of the uncrazy ways to use it is when hand sewing that ‘little’ slit left over after sewing and stuffing your floor pillows or any other slit for that matter!
I love to use this after I have cut varying degrees of a color line (little pieces of different color variations) and then lay it down on an applique of sea life, water and/or animals that is then couched down with thicker threads (30-40wt) at the top only. This makes a fine hairy look or can actually create textures and more through the naked eye appeal to the applique that is most enjoyed by children!
I have also done this same method on smaller pieces by simply tying knots leaving a loop long enough between the first knot and the next to make the hair the desired length after I finish and go be and cut it in half. Love the Blog!
I love random bits o’ thread sandwiched between two microscope slides, edged in copper tape and then made into a necklace – so very delicate and it matches anything you wear it with!
I was looking to buy this thread set online because it is so expensive in the store and then I found your post. It would be so wonderful to win this thread! I am a college student and on a rather tight budget.
One of the most unusual ways I have ever used thread is to hang up a calendar in my dorm room. The walls were made of cinder blocks and the calendar wouldn’t even stayed taped up. So I ended up looping thread around a pipe on the ceiling near the top of the wall and then threading it through the hole on the top of my calendar.
I also recently wanted some bamboo placemats and decided to make my own. I cut the sharp ends off of a bunch of bamboo skewers and decoratively wove then together with thread. It took a bit of work to figure out the best way to do it but they turned out really nice! and it only costs $1 for 100 skewers, so this is perfect for a girl on a budget!
If I won this thread I would put it to good use on my latest project – making zippered make-up pouches and pencil cases.
I love this thread. What fantastic colors. I am crossing my fingers!
I would love this thread collection! My favorite thing to do is go to the fabric store and let my 5 year old daughter pick out fabric and then matching thread from the Dual Duty display, for a simple project. We sew on Mondays with Mom, since there will be no Kindergarten on Mondays this year in our town – budget cuts!! We will be learning lots of math and technology while we sew totes, skirts, small quilts etc!
I go through thread like water – I make fabric baskets, fabric belts with decorative stitching on them, box bags..on and on. I could really use this!
I *love* Coats & Clark thread!
Over 55 years ago I started my lifelong journey of sewing and creating…
I used my mother’s old sewing machine, scraps of fabric, and her Coats and Clark threads (jewels of delicious colors, on little wooden spools!)… to sew clothes for my dolls! As my skills and experience developed, I began to sew my own clothes… first play clothes (shorts and tops), and then the skirts and dresses that became my favorites to wear. By the time I was in high school, I made all my junior prom, prom, and special dance dresses, too.
Coats and Clark was always there, as the “always reliable, always the best” thread to use for *all* my sewing.
There were some “unconventional uses, growing up, too!! There was the “discovery”, *long* before I ever heard about dental floss, of white Coats and Clark getting little bits of popcorn, etc., out from between teeth! There was the experiment with Coats and Clark thread and a doorknob, to “help” out a loose tooth! There were paper-mache-wrapped balloons hanging by Coats and Clark thread, drying. There was the science fair model of the solar system, complete with styrofoam balls (the planets!) hanging by Coats and Clark threads. There was the precious, *never to be forgotten* crochet lesson given to me by my Grandma, with red Coats and Clark thread!!!
After I was married, but before my children were born, the Coats and Clark threads I used to sew all my clothes for teaching now came on the hard foam spools. (How *very* sad I was when my mother-in-law’s dog got my precious bag of new Coats and Clark threads, and chewed them all up!! Apparently he thought these “doggy chew toys” were wonderful to chomp on! I don’t think I ever forgave that dog!!… sigh…)
After my children came, all sewing was for them… baby quilts to toddler clothes, to school dresses, to prom gowns!! What a delight it was, to teach them to sew!!… And, *now*, my grandchildren are learning!!
…And, always, Coats and Clark was the thread that was there, through it all!!
As I said…
I *love* Coats & Clark thread!
Blessings!!!
Pat
I haven’t tried they thread. Why? because our shops doesn’t sell it :S But i love to try, I have read lot of good about it
I’ve used tread as a fishing line, tied to a magnet to get a metal item out of a tight spot I couldn’t reach any other way.
I’m starting to build my theard collection & this would be a great help.
What a great giveaway…thank you!
The most unusual way I used thread was during a science unit we were studying spiders. For a hands on activity I had my little spiders make their own web. Each child was given a brightly colored spool of thread that they used to spin their own web. The room was filled with their colorful creations!
I admit it – I have used thread to floss my teeth when I ran out of my usual floss. (Hangs head in embarrassment…)
This would well used at my house. My Mom and I both sew. Mom is 83 and still sewing.
I tried all day to think of something clever I had done with thread, except organizing it all by color :) I would love to win though! I am forever in search of just the right color – the fabrics I choose never seem to work with a simple black or white. Your post did make me wonder about how the thread has changed – I bought a new spool and pulled out an older spool of C&C and I do like the new XP! The new spool design is neat too!
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