I use wash away thread to join together bits of romeo when I am embroidering free standing lace, romeo is quite expensive and its easy to waste quite big bits. Once you have finished the embroidery you cut it out and soak it in water, the film disolves away leaving the lace slightly stiff, so often there are quite big bits of unused film, I sew then together to make bigger pieces, some times they look like patchwork!! LOL but it saves me quite a lot of cash.
You can also use it for basting, but its expensive thread $15 for a large spool in the US. We can only get it on diddy spools here which makes it very expensive to use. I was very lucky the other week at I at a local fabric shop and I made a general enquiry, the chap had bought up the contents of a haberdashery shop that was closing and in the contents were 2 spools of wash away thread, he sold them to me for the price of one reel....nice man,



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