My boyfriend's mother was cleaning out her attic, and she sent me this! Particularly excited about the thread shelf!
Posted Jul 21, 2014, 4:06 PM UTC
1869
Some of the notions included that I didn't have before were: pinking shears, tracing wheels, hook and eye closures, and lots of embroidery tools!
3
I thought I saw a scrumptious set of pinking shears. Probably made in USA even. And the thread holder, nice. You lucky duck!
2
[deleted]
3
Lots of people here saying that the vintage thread is probably too old. No! It often makes fantastic top stitching thread. It's usually all cotton and great colors that you can't find now. Just don't use it for any structural seams. If it's a poly blend, it's probably not worth keeping.
3
Love the thread rack. Great haul!!
2
I ended up with some antique sewing supplies and about a jillion and a half sew on snaps and hooks and eyes from my GREAT grandmothers sewing stash.
I ended up with an entire shoe box of wooden spools of thread (that I'm going to throw away the thread on them) that I will use to decorate with.
2
Typically, thread on a wooden spools is to old to use. If you pull and it snaps with little or no effort, don't use it.
1
When I stumbled across a thread shelf in a friends attic, I was like a little child on Christmas getting that bike they've been dreaming about that their family couldn't afford. Until one Christmas the family was able to scrounge up enough money to get the bike. It was a glorious day, the day I found my thread stand. [5]
1
ooOOoooo love stuff like this! Only thing is the thread might be too old to use. :/
Yeah, it's all from the 70's and 80's - I think I'll try and do like u/EmbroideredLexicon said and use the thread on practice things :)