You could put an emergency £20 note in there, if you folded it very small - but would the reel then fit onto the sewing machine? You might have to use a colour that you were never likely to want to sew with.
Good for you Bradford, good for the environment. Are we the last generation who remodel things and reuse? I turned some lovely heavyweight curtains into covers for my dining chair seats and am very pleased with the result.
Mamacaz perhaps you could suggest that to them as a marketing ploy Of course you could just hide them in your sewing box, no one every looks in mine.
In the light of this formerly occult knowledge, I dashed to my Gutterman's and just about broke my damned fingers trying to get the needle case off the reel.
In the end I had to use the butter knife to prise it off. I don't wonder it's a secret!
Another secret to share. I did an experiment the other day.
Someone gave me a beautiful blouse in deep reds and golds and blacks. It fit me but for the fact the sleeves were a bit snug on my fat upper arms.
It's a summer blouse but has long sleeves; I never wear long sleeves in summer so I chopped them off at the elbow and - here's the experiment - I sewed a triangular piece into the seam of each sleeve using 99% feel and 1% murky sight And it worked. I'm quite proud of my persistent old self.
I certainly had no idea either, but when you have a whole boxful of different coloured threads, how would you remember which ones had needles stored in them?
I did always wonder why one end of the reel seemed to have an extra plate to it.....
Well I never! Why wasn't I taught this in needlework classes at school?
I have loads of Gutterman reels (which I have just checked, of course), and am now wondering what wonderful things I could hide in them. Tell me, do they make an extra large reel that would hide my emergency chocolate stash?
Oh dear! When I follow it it takes me to a picture of Gutterman's thread. I just copied it into Google and it did the same. Sorry, don't have a solution