Yes Margarita, little threads that come off the blocks while being pressed.

I seem to remember Ricky Tims cleaning up his design wall by ironing freezer paper on it. We get freezer paper here sometimes and I have a stash! Do you get threads on the ironing board or does it actually clean the ironing board - I don't get it?!

I sometimes use freezer paper to clean up. It's very efficient on the ironing board also. I don't know if you have access to that but think it should be among the advice for newbies

Yes, I have used masking tape too. Good info for those newbies.

Yesterday I made tiny , well 2" square half square triangles and got a whole lot of them wrong. So I had to unpick them - truly my least favourite job. After it was done I had to get all the little threads out. So I carefully placed a longish piece of masking tape sticky side up on my table and taped it down at the ends and went to work, pressing the pieces down along the tape to remove the threads. Before I have wound masking tape around my hand sticky side out but that works best for big pieces. This is good for folks who live in countries where lint rollers are unavailable or prohibitively expensive.

I keep scraps of batting and use them as dust cloths around my sewing room, quick, easy, cheap. I also cut them into rectangles to fit my Swiffer for those areas where I'd have to bend or reach. As Kaffe Fassett says, "It works a treat."

I have found this product useful for picking up threads and it also works well for "erasing" chalk marks on a quilt.

http://www.uquilt.com/Toys_detail.asp?itemID=Toys-CotPick

To pick up threads under and around my sewing machine I use a small long handle bristle brush. There are times I have thought about buying a toilet brush as with the extra long handle it would reach everywhere. The rollers are good but can go through those pretty fast.
PattyS
East TN

What a terrific idea. I'm going to get a cheapy when I shop next.

A much better activity than using it for its original purpose! LOL

I have a CLEAN toilet brush. It works great picking up threads from the floor around the longarm.
eileenkny

Dogs are just as bad. We had a Siberian Husky who "blew" his coat at least once a year. Giant fistfuls of downy hair went everyhere. It floated on the air and rubbed off on the furniture, the drapes, and the carpets...Oh my! If we banished him outside, the shrubs were full of it as it blew in the air and caught on the branches. The doberman's little short black hairs were like little pins that stuck into the carpets ans furniture and me! But they're both gone now and I still miss them

How do cats do that - poof their hair?? I agree - they are definately laughing! But i got one up on my two felines and got a special brush that does wonders on taking out extra hair, and the bonus is that both guys love it. (Kind of pricey - it's a Furminator.) Now they get brushed regularly, they love it and I love less hair floating around and landing in unwanted spots.

I swear my boy cat saves up his fur until I am making my lunch for work, so he can casually stroll into the kitchen and *POOF* expels the fur so I can find some in my sandwich! You just know that he's smiling the secret cat smile and laughing at the human who's leaving him at home, alone with his boring mama.

Jean in Windsor, ON