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Tutorial: Spooly hooks

June 18, 2010 by Denise Felton Leave a Comment

Imagine a whole row of these hooks on your studio wall — a decorative, thematic, and cheap option for rounding up measuring tapes, scissors, ribbons, anything that hangs. All you need are some thrifted spools of thread and some of these screws. (I’m a toolbox-toting gal, but I didn’t know double-pointed screws existed. Needless to say, a bunch of these babies are now rattling around in my kit.) Sew Many Ways shows us three techniques (including this one) for converting old spools into handles and hooks. See her post.

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