Recently I've had a real bad case of .....SQUIRREL! And then I'll start working on something else and ......SQUIRREL! By mid afternoon the studio is a mess and I....SQUIRREL! ...I gotta clean up this mess and focus on one project. So that's what I was doing when it occurred to me(squirrel!) I need a thread catcher. The new studio layout doesn't allow for a trash can beside the sewing table. Laying the little snips of thread on the corner of the sewing table isn't working. They eventually ended up on the elbow of my shirt. So I grabbed a little piece of white flannel and stuck it under the pin cushion. While it's functional, it's not cute.
I made this one years ago and really didn't like how the thread was hard to get out of the basket. So I trashed it after a while.
After a little brainstorming it became clear to me, I like the flannel idea. It just needs a little something to spruce her up a bit. I could add batting and backing, kinda make a little quilt. EH...that's to much effort. I could just add binding to the flannel but I think the binding would be too heavy for the flannel. Then I remembered the self binding receiving blankets. That could work. It would be smaller but doable! A quick little Google search to refresh my memory of the tutorial and I was ready to make my mini receiving blanket thread catcher. Here's the tutorial I used for reference.
Pinning the little squares was quite the trick. The red fabric had been starched quite heavily in a previous project
For some reason this gave me a chuckle.
Slow and steady on the itty bitty corners.
Well it's not as cute as I had hoped but it does look better than a plain ole piece of flannel. Maybe I should have made the red fabric a couple inches larger. For now it works until something else......SQUIRREL!......
