Sew Many Ways is an awesome blog. She is having another
one of her great linking parties. For the first time I am going to link. I have
seen many linking parties before that I would have loved to link too, but I am
always to late. BUT this time I am not!!
The link party is thread organization.
My craft room is still not finished so my stuff is in 4
different places. (Sons room, middle spare bedroom, living room and barn). But
my thread organization was easy enough to get to too share.
First I LOVE my Gutermann Thread. At this point I believe I
have almost every color. Ok I am missing a couple but not many. These three holders
can be found here. The only difference is my thread is 100% Polyester and the holders on the web
site are 100% cotton. I bought them a few years back on Black Friday so perhaps
the Polyester ones are only available at this time of year.
The process to organize all the thread was a pain in the butt;
however it is wonderful now that it is finished. I started by figure out how
many polyester colors Gutermann had. I visited many, many, many web sites and
got a list of all the color numbers. Then I used the cool Microsoft word format
tool and got all the numbers in order. I printed all of these numbers on label
paper and cut them out using my scrapbook cutting tools. I covered up all the
numbers in order with the new sticky numbers. Then I took all of the thread out
of the holders got all my other Gutermann thread (huge pile) and started
sliding them all into there new labeled homes.
Another thread that I have is Coats & Clark mini cone
things. When I bought my embroidery machine I got several money coupons to only
us in there store. The sales people told me that this thread is the best for my
Brother embroidery. (My machine likes the Gutermann better.. shh don’t tell the
sales people). So I have this thread and some other small spools of thread in 5
of these (also Joann's) that just sit on a shelf under my cutting table.
For my bobbins and thread that has not been put away yet I
have a wire basket that I put a piece of material in. I wrap my bobbins and other thread with baby hair ties that I
got at the dollar tree.
I just started Cross Stitching again. (Only because there is a way cute design that I need for my craft room when it is done.) So I bought a floss caddy from Joann that came with 100 floss cards. I forgot that cross stitch floss can also be considered thread.
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