It’s Too Simple - It Will Never Work

I’ve seen the occasional YouTube or blog post that shows a little gadget used to cut threads between chain piecing.  Something I’d never worry about buying.

Then one day I saw a set up with a Clover thread cutter, that you take on a plane, or wear around your neck, sitting in a nice old rustic cotton reel.  Now, that got me thinking…..but I didn’t do anything about.

Well, the other day I was doing some chain piecing of the backgrounds for my hexies and decided to have a play.

Yes, I have lots of old cotton reels, and I have both my and my Mum’s Clover cutters, but I also had something else that happened to be sitting on the shelf above my cutting table.  Let’s have a play.

Firstly, I couldn’t quite put my finger on my Clover cutter, since our last overseas trip, but Mum’s was hanging on its leather cord on the side of my bookcase.  The item on my shelf is a glass pie chimney that came from my Grandma’s.  Why is it there?  Who knows, but it was just stashed there at some stage and I seem to use it as a pattern weight.

Ta da!  Not the most ideal, but it worked.  When I find my cutter, I will use it, so that I can leave the leather thonging on Mum’s for travel.

Anyway, it worked a treat.