Sunday, November 03, 2013

I am a tosser. And you?



 I know I know. One can lecture me over and over again but I can't break my habit.   I've tried many different strategies. 

I toss my threads on the floor.   

I toss them with attitude. Tossing them gives me a bit of relief when I'm in the quilting zone .  It actually feels a bit bad and rebellious.  I know I should have a little thread catcher or a pocket in an apron but I just can't.  

I hope this doesn't give anybody the impression that I'm a slob or I'm not organized because on the contrary , if someone was to come to my studio right now they would see that I'm probably too organized.  You see, I dislike clutter.   It really distracts me.  I don't have many tchotchkes cluttered on my shelves.  I don't collect lots of fabric or tools or quilting items. The only clutter you may find is my collection of mints ( have you tried altoids liquorice?!) stored in a bowl in a drawer.  

and my thread mess under my machine. 

So I want to know:  am I alone ? Am I the only tosser around here or are there others like me?  




16 comments:

  1. Your not alone! I'm a tosser and I enjoy picking up all my threads off the floor when I'm done the quilt on my machine. I hate clutter too and everything I own has it's spot, my space is usually very neat.

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  2. I am not a thread tosser because I really dislike dislodging the threads from the vacuum cleaner beater bar--broke my best seam ripper trying to dislodge those bits that get twisted around it!

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  3. I always thought you had to be a man to be a tosser but maybe it doesn't have the same meaning in Canadian English ;-)

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  4. Totally a tosser over here ...its not good for the vacuum cleaner either!

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  5. I toos like it's my job. Who has time to "catch" those threads. I can get them when I am done:)

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  6. I'm a tosser! Yes, I am : ) Actually laughed out loud when I saw this post. When I saw the title, I wonder if it referred to tossing threads. I guessed it right : ) LOL!!!! You are not alone.

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  7. I'm a tosser too. that's what a vacuum is for.

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  8. I used to toss all the time. But I recently got a really cute hot pink trash that can sit on my work station. So now I don't toss so much.

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  9. Tosser!
    :-)
    Long live the vacuum cleaner.
    Esther
    esthersipatchandquilt at yahoo dot com
    ipatchandquilt dot wordpress dot com

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  10. I toss, I brush and I pick threads off of my pieces and myself all onto the floor. Far easier to let fall and sweep up!

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  11. I think I'm too lazy to 'toss', that would mean I'd have to clean it up after.

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  12. I have a little container beside my machine. I have been saving my threads for a while and now I have enough to use in an upcoming class to make a picture wall hanging. So no I am not a "tosser" I am a "collector".

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  13. Toss, altho I have leader/enders always going so threads are a minimum and I have a lino floor and sweeping is ever so much easier than hoovering.

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  14. I'm a bit of both . . . I have little garbage cans at each end of my machine (I move them dependant on the size of the quilt) to drop the thread into, but if I'm in a hurry, or in the middle of the quilt - I toss, toss, toss and clean up when I'm done.

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  15. I'm with Little Island Quilting - I nearly choked on my Diet Coke reading the title! lol.

    I try to keep as much of the threads off the floor as possible.Fabric crummies? Not so much. I also keep a wastebasket within arm's length at all times while sewing - I had to learn the hard way.

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  16. I do the same thing. My poor family walks around with threads eternally stuck all over their socks!

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