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1. I have always wondered what good washaway thread was. Great idea. Thanks.

   Comment by Missy — March 14, 2010 @ 10:55 am

2. Kim. is right you can get a lot more for your money if you do this. I have been doing this for several years and a good friend of mine gives me her scraps and she don’t want them back so I haven’t had to buy WSS for a long time.Guess I’m too greedy to throw away something you can use. One little tip went threading your needle don’t try licking your thread to thread the needle(guess you know what happens)Ask me how I know. It doesn’t taste very good either.
   Cloreta Logan

   Comment by Cloreta Logan — March 14, 2010 @ 10:59 am

3. You can also keep your pieces of water soluable stabilizer and use solvy topping in your hoop placed as the bottom and top of your water soluable pieces and stretch your stabilizer. In other words, place a layer of light weight topping solvy in the stack. Then place your pieces of stablizer any way just so you have your design area covered well with the layers you desire (I use two) and then top with another layer of solvy. When you wet it all goes away!

   You can also stretch your topping solvy by saving pieces of it and placing it between brown paper with edges overlapping. Iron with a warm dry iron and the edges will fuse but the topping is still good and can be reused. The only draw back with this method is that you seem to need to change your needle a little more often.

   Comment by Frances — March 14, 2010 @ 11:08 am

4. Wow!what a great idea! Saves $$ and helps those throwaways become ususable. Thanks

   Comment by KAREN — March 14, 2010 @ 12:03 pm

5. If I have enough stabilizer left after I pull it off a embroidery I take a brown paper sack like the ones you get at the supermarket large sacks, cut the bottom out and cut down the side, fold in half, open and lay the stabilizer you have taken off a embroidery fill the hole with large scraps of stabalizer I have saved and fold sack over stabalizer and iron with dry iron for a few seconds turn over and iron again pull paper sack apart and pull a whole stabalizer sheet from paper sack.

   Comment by lilyan hale — March 14, 2010 @ 1:07 pm

6. that really is a great idea. now I know what to do with all the pieces I have gathering dust! ! !

   Comment by mary — March 14, 2010 @ 3:08 pm

7. That is a great idea. I have done this several times over the past 2 years. Sometimes it puckers, so you have to adjust the tensions.

   Comment by Pat W. — March 14, 2010 @ 4:00 pm

8. This is a good tip and I also very lightly wet the edges of the water soluble stabilizers and they will stick together without any problems to your designs. I just find the longer sides of the left over pieces and stick them together until I have enough “stuck” together to go into my hoops. The pieces will lie very flat if you stick the pieces together on a flat surface. Works wonderfully and saves your left over pieces of stabilizer for a future design.

   Comment by Linda — March 14, 2010 @ 4:41 pm

9. Good idea. And if you don’t have time to sew those little guys together, you can touch them with water and they’ll stick to the piece for you.

   Comment by B Harris — March 14, 2010 @ 4:42 pm

10. I really like this tip. I’ve been wetting the edges to stick it together but that sometimes leaves a wrinkled edge. The water soluble thread is the answer

    Comment by Jan — March 14, 2010 @ 5:52 pm

11. I did not know that there was such a thing as water soluble thread, what a neat idea! I am always interested in ways to save money and make my purchases go a “longer” way!
    Thank you for the great tip!

    Comment by Yoya — March 14, 2010 @ 6:57 pm

12. I would like to know where you can buy the Water soluble thread. I have not used it, or even heard of it. The invisible thread, yes. Your help is appreciated.

    Comment by Martha Frank — March 14, 2010 @ 8:15 pm

13. Great idea!

    Comment by Pam W — March 14, 2010 @ 10:28 pm

14. I have never seen water soluable thread for sale anywhere, I live in Washington state, anyone know where I can buy some?
    Thanks

    Comment by Wanda — March 14, 2010 @ 10:57 pm

15. Since I am in the middle of my first alphabet quilt, actually my first quilt. I am making good use of the sticky stabilizer and what a great idea I read in your newsletter!

    Comment by Judy — March 15, 2010 @ 1:57 am

16. P.S.

    I also use the tip of cutting out the middle and only replacing a “window pane” worth of stabilizer instead of a whole sheet.

    Comment by Judy — March 15, 2010 @ 1:59 am

17. What a good idea! I will put it into practice at once!

    Comment by Heath3r — March 15, 2010 @ 4:32 am

18. I ususally use two layers when I use water soluble stabilizer. The first layer is a complete piece then I take a water soluble glue stick and rub on one side of the full piece. I then take my scraps and put them down on the glue side of the full piece, if I have a few pieces that overlap I also just put a dot of the glue from the glue stick there to keep the edges down. When I hoop it the pieced side goes down and the full sheet is on top that way the machine foot doesn’t get caught on any of the scrap pieces.

    Comment by Dorie — March 15, 2010 @ 7:29 am

19. I think that is a great idea. You could also so that with other wash away stabilizers like Vileen and Aquamagic. Makes your dollar go farther

    Comment by Loretta — March 15, 2010 @ 8:47 am

20. What a great way to reuse,recycle and save some well earned cash. Thank you for the great idea.

    Comment by Johanna — March 15, 2010 @ 11:54 am

21. Wish I’d thought of that!

    Comment by Juanita — March 16, 2010 @ 8:45 am

22. Thank you for sharing this great idea! It is so simple that I wonder how thick I must be not to be able to think of this myself……

    Comment by Helene — March 20, 2010 @ 2:41 pm

23. Lilyan what a great idea. I have always saved mine in a bag but didn’t exactly know what I would do with them. I had heard about using old pieces in a spray bottle with wayter to make a starch like substance.

    Comment by Margaret Mc Daniel — April 27, 2010 @ 4:37 pm

24. great post as usual!

    Comment by MarkSpizer — May 3, 2010 @ 6:24 am

25. Nice

    Comment by mbt fuaba — July 21, 2010 @ 10:47 am

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