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    csarina's Avatar csarina is offline Senior Member
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    Default Re: didn't see that coming!

    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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    I use the wash away thread for doing machine trapunto work. The reason I asked Britt about it was that just as there is wash away stabilizer there is also iron away stabilizer so I thought maybe someone had made an iron away thread. But it seems that it is just a synthetic thread that does not like heat. A good reason to only use cotton, at least you know it won't melt.
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    Default Re: didn't see that coming!

    Quote Originally Posted by brittyboo07 View Post
    Lynn it did disappear almost completely but did leave a residue on my iron. I just looked at the spool of thread and it says 3-ply polyester so this must be old thread that I grabbed.
    I found a really old spoon of junky thread...been hauling that around for literally 20 years as I learned 20 years ago to use nothing but cotton covered polyester, told that by the sewing machine repair man!

    But i needed some thread for basting that I would be removing...and didn't want to waste my "good" threads, and found this! I used it to baste my quilt to prep it for quilting...kind of in place of pins. It worked Really Great and Now I will be basting before quilting. I even pulled the long threads out and re-wrapped them on the spoon to re use them

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    Oh man that so stinks. I would have thought I was going nuts.
    I am such a material girl!!!!! Nena

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