Is This Normal Behavior ????

Years ago I saw this really cool idea and started to keep all my snippets of floss from my cross stitch projects.  A couple years went by and I had stopped stitching but there sat the jar of little snippets.  Okay some were not so little since I had to frog some projects, imagine that, lol. 

A few years later I started to sew and quilt.  And lo and behold, I started to put those little snippets of thread in an old Mason jar of my Great Grandma’s.  I think the jar of cross stitch floss and filaments was also a jar from my Great Grandma’s jars. 

Next thing you know, I have a bowl with thread snippets beside my recliner where I do my hand work on the quilts. 

So now there are 3 places that have these snippets.  My husband stopped asking why I was keeping them but it always raises eyebrows when someone first notices two of them in close proximity to my recliner.  During one visit, my mom takes notice of these jars and asks what is up with them.  I tell her oh it’s for some cute ornament project I saw years ago.

I do not recall where I saw or heard about this snippet collecting.  For one year you were supposed to keep your snippets and then right before Christmas you would put them into the clear glass ornament and label it with the year and place it on your tree hopefully with some of your completed cross stitch ornaments. 

It is the start of 2013 and only the collecting part has occurred.  Now that I think of it I bought a pack of 4 large glass ornaments so I could complete the project. 

Then was browsing a couple of blogs and found that my little snippets are also known as ORTs (Old Ratty Threads).  They are the useless pieces of floss or filaments that the needleworkers discard.  The typical needleworker will throw these out.  Okay so I’m not ordinary but never said I was.  But I think I have now found a bunch of kindred souls, who will be posting pictures of their ORTs on the New Moon of each month.  So I’m a couple days sort this month, but I must join because it is obvious that I am one of them, lol.  So I am joining the Total Useless Stitch-A-Long (TUSAL). 

Since I am starting late, I took pictures of my current ORTs that I will pull out and start fresh for 2013. 

Welcome to my craziness…