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by lindalee757 23 Feb 2011 ( edited Mar 03'11 03:29 )
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When is the last time anybody flipped their computer/sewing chair on wheels upside down? This is what gets all wrapped up around the rollers -took me almost 2 hrs to get it all out-now my chair FLIES!!!!! LOL ~linda~

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by bevintex 23 Feb 2011
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I'm afraid to look! I have never turned my chair over. i'll do it later in my spare time
Bev
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by lindalee757 23 Feb 2011
LOL-sorry bev-a "old-timers"moment on my part
by bevintex 23 Feb 2011
It may be easier to get a new chair!
by lindalee757 23 Feb 2011
LOL-maybe easier but certainly not cheaper Bev
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by lindalee757 23 Feb 2011
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sorry-forgot to upload the picture with the comment
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by shirlener88 23 Feb 2011
This all come from the rollers on your chair?
by lindalee757 23 Feb 2011
Yup-5 wheels-keep in mind that I am at my machine(s) 10-12 hrs a day-5-7 days a week with my alterations business-my sewing room is in our basement-with all my "stuff". It's not a fancy room by any means but it is cozy-washer, dryer,lots of light, tv, computer-It's momma's escape work room
by ramona 25 Feb 2011
You need to hang on to those and add them and come up with a project! :-) If they can do something with dryer lint, you can certainly come up with something for chair wheel threads. Don't waste all that thread. You certainly do ALOT of sewing. I wish I could get half that time in. I do keep the little basket that hangs on my desk and another one on the floor. I still miss all the time.
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by noah 23 Feb 2011
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lol i got no fuzzy but if i sit to close to the edge of my chair i will end up on my butt lol carolyn
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by lindalee757 24 Feb 2011
LOL- don't do that Carolyn =O)
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by beatie58 23 Feb 2011
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OMG! don't want to look now...if that is what you get. Amazing!
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by lindalee757 24 Feb 2011
Be brave Sally-you can do it! I arm myself with pointed scissors, seam ripper and needle nose pliers-turn on Oprah and start snippin'and pullin' LOL =O)
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by anangel 23 Feb 2011
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If you capture it carefully (do not disturb the pattern)
between two sheets of plastic or glass, you will have a lovely modern art shaggy baby teddy bear to hang! A good reminder that your snippings were not in vain!! LOL
Angel
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by lindalee757 24 Feb 2011
LOL-I captured it all in one clean sweep right off the table edge right into the waste bucket. I don't save thread clippings-I have so much thread here in spools,cones & bobbins that I will NEVER run out. =O)
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by nonna57 23 Feb 2011
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Dont get booked for speeding now the restrictor has been removed "))
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by lindalee757 24 Feb 2011
LOL-I have connections Pauline-they'll just look the other way or die laughing at the crazy lady speeding in her 5 wheeled leather chair =O)
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by fannyfurkin 23 Feb 2011
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Yes I do that every few months, it is a pain in the butt. But I am now saving my snips for projects and to stop my cats from eating them. Amazing what you learn at cute.
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by lindalee757 24 Feb 2011
Haha-Alice-I'll stuff the fluff in an envelope and mail it to ya!! =O)
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by crafter2243 24 Feb 2011
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Now I am glad I don't have a chair with wheels. My daughter gave me a gadget that clips to the desk, contains a waste bag and a place for my coffee cup. The waste bag gets all my clippings to use in embroidery projects.
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by lindalee757 24 Feb 2011
I tried the the bag on the table edge-it just got in my way-I have a 13 gallon bucket at the end of my work area-sometimes clippings land in it, sometimes not lol =O)
by danababes 24 Feb 2011
Do you ever get threads in your coffee? lol I bet I would :)
by lindalee757 24 Feb 2011
No, but I have to confess-I have tossed straight pins in my coffee before lol =O)
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by sewlikedawn 24 Feb 2011
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Whoa!!! I guess I better go and check my chairs in my sewing room. I have 3 in there!
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by lindalee757 24 Feb 2011
LOL-have fun Dawn!!
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by kttyhwk4 24 Feb 2011
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WOW...thats a lot of thread. Hope you're tearing it into smaller bunches and placing it in your yard in places that the birds will find it and use in their nest building I also do this with dryer lint....the birds seem to love it.
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by lindalee757 24 Feb 2011
I did do that for the birds in the past until they started making nests in the supports of our carport-I would see the thread,yarn and lint dangling down from the beginnings of their nests hanging down off the supports-(I did the dryer lint and our yarn clippings too).Sorry, I love the birds, but not nesting in my carport-where of course, my car is parked. I thought is was so cute one year and the baby birds hatched- until I saw the mess the poop makes of the beams-plus it can rot the wood and paint-not to mention the "pooping" in flight on my car.
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by airyfairy 24 Feb 2011
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Linda - I cannot believe that all of those threads were in the wheels of your chair. I have checked mine and found nothing!!! Don't know whether to feel guilty or not LOL!!! Sarah.
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by lindalee757 24 Feb 2011
LOL-guess that makes me some sort of slob from the comments I am getting-oh well, so it goes. Actually Sarah-I think the reason I get so much caught up in them is because I have those foam interlocking blocks on my floor(it's concrete because it's a basement) and my floor mat only covers about a 4ft.square area in the center of my sewing area-I move my chair off the mat alot going back and forth from machine to machine and computer-these wheels cover alot of area in a days time LOL ~linda~
by ramona 25 Feb 2011
Going on and off the mat is so annoying. I had to get a larger mat to give me some relief.
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by pldc 24 Feb 2011
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I have had this many times in my sewing room! Thankfully not in my computer/office! I have a mat there though sew shouldn't have the thread here!
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by lindalee757 24 Feb 2011
I don't have an "office"-so my computer is in my sewing area-I have my laptop and printer on a stand right next to my sewing table. I don't even use our desktop computer-which is in the family room(my husband keeps hounding me to try it out and learn to use it-we got a new IMac for x-mas-I am not interested in it at all at this point lol)
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by capoodle 24 Feb 2011
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Took 4-H for a couple years and the lady teaching us became a millionaire when Anheuser-Busch brought their farm and land. They moved to a amazing home with a sunken living room with white carpet. She had a room set up for us to do sewing and crafts and insisted that we count every pin we used. As for thread we were not allowed to toss the clippings on the floor. She trained me so good that I still get down and pick up the little bits if I miss the trash.
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by rmj8939 24 Feb 2011
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WOW, I am afraid to look at mine now. ha ha
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by jjjj 24 Feb 2011
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Now there's a novel to place to have a secret stash!!!
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by lindalee757 24 Feb 2011
LOL
by ramona 25 Feb 2011
Way too funny!
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by dlonnahawkins 24 Feb 2011
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Oh my - mine was not that ba, but bad enough. It is a wonder it would roll at all. DH complains that I track threads all over the house.
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by windsong1 24 Feb 2011
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I do that every October when we come home from up north. That and change the smoke alarm battery.
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by danababes 24 Feb 2011
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Gasp! I dont have a chair next to my embroidery machine - its on a high table so I have to stand to watch it stitching so I can clip threads which go straight into a zippy bag pinned to the mat I sit the machine on coz I'm lazy (its a pain to pick threads out of the carpet heh)... but my office chair hrm, I brush my hair here, I'll bet I have a few hair balls in the wheels...maybe not tho since I tend to swivel rather than roll. lol sounds like a dance. :) xXx
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by lindalee757 24 Feb 2011
LOL-happy dancin' Dana =O)
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by katydid 01 Mar 2011
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WOW!!!
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by dilceia 01 Mar 2011
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Hehehe...It seems a little bird nest!
...Flowers
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by moyed 03 Mar 2011
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I definately need to take a look at the wheels on my chair. Helen