I put in my all purpose thread and sewed two strips together. I went to set my seam and my thread disappeared! It seems that it is not 100% cotton! That thread can go in the trash! Thought I had discovered magical thread haha!!!
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I put in my all purpose thread and sewed two strips together. I went to set my seam and my thread disappeared! It seems that it is not 100% cotton! That thread can go in the trash! Thought I had discovered magical thread haha!!!
Britt are you sure that it was all purpose thread and not dissolvable type thread used for machine trapunto type stuff. Did it leave a residue or just disappear cleanly?
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.
Glad that hasn't happened to me...yet...I'd have thought for sure I was losing my mine...:icon_bigsmile:
lol Genny! I just looked at it and then at my iron and put the iron down and actually touched the fabric and was like what in the world!
I've heard of wash-away thread, but not iron away! LOL
I know right! Crazy thread!!!!
At least you found out now before you had chain-pieced a bajillion blocks together! That would have been me.
Isn't that the truth!!! Yikes!!! This is certainly a first for me! I'm laughing at the look I imagine was on your face, Britt, when it disappeared. I've never heard of wash-away thread? That's a new one on me. I imagine that'd be wonderful for basting so it doesn't have to be removed. When else would one need to use wash-way thread? Any ideas?Quote:
Originally Posted by toggpine
Rebecca, I laughed too. I have never heard of such a thing. Thank God Britt, you did not make too many before you discovered "poof" and it was gone.
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,
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. ;)
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by brittyboo07
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
Oh man that so stinks. I would have thought I was going nuts.