Never heard that before, it would be interesting to see if it works!

I have never heard this. It sounds like a lot of work to make your own stabilizer. Waiting to see others response.

well...start with eating the peanuts...lol....and than...I realy don't know..hope someone can help you with it...good luck

I would be afraid to use something like that on my machine. It might be inexpensive now but who knows what it may do to your machine in the long run. What kind of stabilizer were you needing? Our machines are an investment and we spend too much on them to experiment with the untried. This is just my opinion and I hope I did not ruffle any feathers.
Bev

Is this where you read it? If so I don't think they mean they used it for stabilizer.
Alice

I've never heard of this but I have read that if you save your WSS scraps you can disolve them in water and use as a spray to stiffen your fabric instead of spray starch.

The link that fannyfurkin gave you is correct but if you read it there is a bit of misleading there, they are talking about 2 different things. One is disolving them for stiffening things, then they said to try that with your scrap wss, meaning add a bit of water to a bunch of you scrap wss and you can use it on the item you are embroidering.

Have you put them in water too see if they actually dissolve. All the ones I have ever seen are some type of polyester that lasts in the landfill for years and years.

found some great info on cheap stabilizers be sure and read comment #6 and just look at what people are using. Anyone ever try any of these?
http://www.designsbysick.com/articles/alternative-stabilizer-cents/

They do have a biodegradable packing peanut that will dissolve with water, however I thing that the person who wrote this was suggesting that if you add rubbing alcohol to it, preventing it from getting gunky and thinning it out enough to be used as a spray stiffner. But if you use a lot of water, it will completely dissolve.

If they don't dissolve use them in the bottom of planters for drainange. They are lighter than rocks or clay pieces. Somehow I can't believe that they could be used as stabiliziers even if they do melt.

Some packing peanuts are supposedly made from potato skins and you can actually eat them.
Yes, I tried them.
But only because my dog kept eating them every time I dropped one. LOLOL!!!

Anyway, if they ARE made from potato skins, it stands to reason that they would contain a natural form of starch,,,,

but I'm thinking of the glue we used to make from flour and water and how it used to go mouldy,,,,,,,

NAH! I don't think I'd like to use packing peanut starch on my valuable projects.
But if you try it, let us all know how it goes, won't you? :-))))

Hugs n roses, Meganne

Personally, I do not think that would be a good idea.

I never have tried using them for stablizer but I have used one with unruly or bottom of the spool thread. Just take a regular sewing needle and thread it with your embroidery thread, then thread it through the packing peanut, take off the regular needle and thread onto your embroidery machine as usual. no more spinning and knotting!!!
Works great with metallic thread too.
I have tried to use my WSS scraps by wetting them together but have been very unsuccessful at that one HA!

What are packing peanuts ? I have never heard of them until recently & thought they must be some sort of small styrofoam shape used for packing around items in parcels but reading this seems to put an end to that theory.