We have thread collection winners! Congratulations to Jona, Anita, Claire, Paula Antes, Paula Bohan, Carol, Kathy N, Cookie Kenney, Pati Shambaugh, hands of gold, Carole Whitridge and Kimberlee. These 12 lucky winners will each receive a box filled with 50 spools of Coats & Clark’s brand new Dual Duty XP® thread. How awesome is that?
Thanks for all your many comments posted here and on Facebook. Wow, there sure are many unusual uses of thread! We heard about using thread under microscopes, in earpiercings, plucking teeth as well as flossing with, cutting pastry dough and birthday cakes, sewing poultry, dog food (ugly scene to follow), for bird nests, cut up in crafts, knitting, hanging solar systems, even tethering june bugs. What I would like to know is how the heck can you pick up an ice cube with thread? Please tell us your magic trick Rosa Robichaud!
Thanks for participating everyone and thank you to Coats & Clark!
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Thank you!!!
Thank you!! I’m so excited to win!! :D
Congratulations to all the winners! I hope Rosa leaves a comment with the ice cube trick! LOL
Congratulations to all the winners. Enjoy these beautiful threads.
SewCalGal
http://www.sewcalgal.blogspot.com
That’s really awsome.
*VBG*
When you’re sitting at a dinner table and everyone has a glass of water with ice cubes in it… this is the perfect time to do this trick. Young children (8 years old and older) can perform this trick and impress the adults, even! LOL
Pass a 6 to 8 inch piece of thread to everyone around the table and ask them if they can pick up an ice cube with their thread.
Obviously, they won’t be able to….
Now, once everyone’s given up. You try it.
(BTW – I had read this in a trick book when I was a pre-teen, tried it and had impressed some adults, too!)
Take the thread and lay it across the ice cube – that’s in your glass. Take the salt shaker and add a bit of salt. You might want to practice at home before, so that you can gauge how much it will take and how long.
If memory serves me correctly, if should take about 15 to 20 seconds.
The salt will make the thread adher to the ice cube and you can (gently) lift up the ice cube. *VBG*
Easy smeasy!
Rosa Robichaud
P.S. I just Googled this and found this neat video:
http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-lasso-an-ice-cube-out-of-a-drink-3112/
Oooops… it’s early morning here and I was so excited about sharing my magic trick that I COMPLETELY forgot to congratulate the winners!!
*drum roll, please*
Happy Winnings to you, Happy Winnings to you… Haaaaa-ppeeee winnings to you… Twelve….
Haaaa-peeee winnings to you!!!!!…..
And may you sew in culll-eeeerrrrr!!!
(last word is “color”, but draaaged out, as you sing the whole song, to the Happy Birthday tune)
LOL
Rosa
FUN!
Thanks Rosa!
;oD
I’m so thrilled to win one of these sets! Thanks so much!
I can wait to see all the colors. Heehee!
I remember the ice cube trick! It was in an old magic trick book my elementary school had….I won’t tell you how long ago that was. Cool trick! (Pun intended!)