Ah, for the month of May, I’m giving away a nice collection of fun threads, along with a couple little needlework extras…
I’ve mentioned a few times that I’m got this fiber infatuation thing going – I just love embroidery threads! Part of the fun of these stash give-aways is that you get the opportunity to perhaps try out some threads you’ve never used before. So I’ve put together a little collection of different threads here, hoping there’s something new in the batch for your own needlework experimentation!
For threads, you’ll find (left to right) two skeins of Silk ‘n Colors by Thread Gatherer, Gloriana silk, Dinky Dyes silk,and two variegated cottons from Weeks Dye Works.
Two cards of Rainbow Gallery threads are also included.
And, for those who like storage solutions for beads or for needles, how about some needle tubes? These are sold as needle tubes, but I find them equally handy for seed beads. I’ve also used them for non-needlework-related stuff, like a small quantity of balm and olive oil mixed together. No leakage – perfect little tube for traveling.
There’s the whole collection. You’ll also notice a mesh zipper bag in the background, which is great for holding threads for a project. These mesh bags are sturdy, they don’t snag on the threads, they actually have a real zipper (not ziplock), and they breathe.
That’s the give-away for May!
To enter, leave a comment below (on this post on the website, not via e-mail), and in your comment, answer the following the question:
How do you store / arrange your threads for projects? Do you use little bags? Thread rings? Do you wind them on bobbins or cards? Do you loop them through holes on thread cards? What’s your solution for keeping your threads together when you start a project?
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I’ll draw a winner Wednesday, May 20th, at 5:00 am CST, so get your comment in by then! The winner will also be announced on Wednesday – please make sure you check back to see if it is you!
My threads are stored by brand name and then color family. Each brand is in a ring binder and each color family is in a separate numbered bag.
I do not use bobbins (I fear that they damage my floss).
When I begin a new project, I put the necessary flosses together in a ziplock bag, or – if the project is big – in a hobby box with several compartments. I use an excel file as floss management, and I write some remark after the floss number about where it is used now.
If two projects need the same floss, I try to finish all of that color in the smaller one, and I store that floss with the greater.
I hope it made sense.
I use little floss bags and add them to a metal ring. It’s easy to flip through and find the color that I need. I use my P-Touch and add the number or name of the color. I do recycle the bags for new projects by adding new labels on top of the old ones.
Hi Mary,
I don’t have a lot of threads yet, but most are on cardboard bobbins and the rest just nicely arranged in small cardboard boxes to fit my shelf. I must admit the threads for a project are often just bundled up together and wrapped up in the pattern I’m following. I really enjoy your videos and all the fun projects you’ve shown us. Thanks,
Alison in Sydney Australia
Thats a wonderful gift to take.
I first select the colors of threads that I want to use for the current project and put it in a glass jar so that i can pick what I want. Also Keep papers of thread numbers etc in the same box along with the needles.
Awesome giveaway!
For storing my threads, I prefer both thread rings and cards. I have them wound around cards, though not too tight so as not to weaken the thread. Then I put them all in a small plastic box, transparent so I can always get the whole picture of colors and hue with just a glance.
When they’re not part of a project, I store my threads in a couple of drawers, in the same fashion.
I am new to the Needle ‘n Threads newsletter and am really enjoying it. thanks.
I have all of the DMC colors. I keep them in the little plastic thread storage bags and have them in number order on large key rings. This amount of thread takes up 3 rings. All my other embroidery threads are kept in the same manner on another ring. I found another ring at Hobby Lobby that has a front and back cover – something like a school notebook. I love thread. The colors and feel of the threads are addictive.
I have tried baggies, rings, cards with holes, plastic boxes with slots for plastic/cardboard bobbins and things I don’t even remember. But lately, I just dump the skeins and project into a tote and work on it when I can grab a few minutes. And I would love some of your beautiful threads to dump into whatever project I come up with next. Thanks, Lalah
Wow, yet another amazing give away! Thanks for doing this, it is very encouraging and I get many great ideas.
On to your question:
I use the baggy system. I use the snack size plastic baggies. I use one per color and then clip them in to a notebook. This way I can see them clearly and they do not get tangled up.
I know, all too simple, but it works well for me.
Thanks again, Ren
Hi,
first of all I want to thank you for your blog, and your more than kind help for those of us who have lately discovered the pleasures of embroidery. I just find your site fascinating, and I thank you for sharing all your knowledge with us.
Now, how do I store my stuff at stitching?. I place the flosses in different small and transparent bags. All of them have a post-it on them, with the floss number and the corresponding symbol. And then I attach them all with a safety pin. Sometimes I even have different needles, with their floss ready, so I can stitch whenever, even if I only have 15min for it.
Thanks to you and your informations, I bought a week ago The New Crewel book, and I am about to receive it, so these flosses you are offering would be great to start me off with the embroidery.
And even if I don’t win, I’ll be always happy just by visiting your site.
Thanks for everything,
Marta.
mmayuso@gmail.com
Generally how I store the threads depends on the project and the threads. A monochrome (Blackwork, but not always black) project, I just carry the thread around with the project. Something with multiple threads I use baggies with the numbers or names written on them and string them up on a ring (I use the “Bag It” baggies). If the threads come on a card already (i.e. Splendour and the other Rainbow Threads products), I just keep them on those cards. Of course, sometimes I just toss everything into my current work box and root around while I’m working, especially for small projects — though I’m going to try to be better about kitting them up into zip locks, or look for these mesh bags.
When I did a lot with DMC (I use mostly silk and wool now), I had all the colors in individual bags marked and sorted in plastic drawer containers — and when I pulled something for a project I put in a 3×5 card listing what project that color was pulled to.
Mary, once again you have outdone yourself with a wonderful giveaway. So generous of you. As far as thread organization goes, I must admit that I am pretty meticulous. It drives my crazy when I can’t find what I am looking for, so I label everything, and it always goes back exactly where it came from. I begin by winding all of my thread onto the plastic bobbins, and I write all of the label information on the bobbin. They are then stored in those plastic organizers from the craft store, seperated first by type of thread (silk, metallic, cotton, etc.) and then by color. The plastic organizers stack very neatly onto shelves or cupboards keeping everything neat and organized.
Thanks again for the wonderful giveaway.
Since I am normally a very organized person, I hate to admit to this but… I have some threads over there and some this way and some are under that. When I start a project, it takes me a whole day to see what I have and what I need and I always find the thing I needed at home after I bought it again. So, after writing this, I think I will put organizing my embroidery supplies to my list of things to do. Thanks so much for you blog. I can’t tell you how much I’ve learned from you. It’s like having my own embroidery personal trainer.
Christy S.
I store mine on winded cards – in the plastic boxes. What I’ve always done with them!
And then when I need them for a project, I put the colors I need on a ring.
Works great for me!
Christine
Lovely goodies! Like so many others, I use a variety of methods. Cards with holes, small plastic baggies, metal rings and platic drapery hooks! Most importantly, I prepare a project and put it in a portable container for a quick “on the go” project. I must admit I have had my eye on a gorgeous acorn thread keeper at nordic needle! It might just be time to “pretty up” my approach.
Joan Jeffers
I store my DMC cotton and peartl cotton on the little white cards. I have not come up with a good method to store my Caron Collection wool/silk threads, DMC Rayon, and many others. Right now they are in snack size baggies, which I know is not a good thing. I just finished making a project folder yesterday. It is made of fabric that I quilted and folds in three. I sewed on 2 large ziploc bags and one small one to hold everything. This is what I will use to store my current projects. I am in the process of making a matching tote bag, just because! LOL I love the fabric I used so I want to use it up.
What a lovely give-away!
Thinking about this question, I am realizing that my methods have been changing. I store my threads in “floss-away” bags when I’m not using them. I have a lovely wooden cabinet that holds all the DMC threads perfectly.
I gather the bags I need into (usually) just a zip-lock bag for each project. I cut skeins and use the tag that came with the thread to loop them through so I can keep track of brands, colors, and dye-lots. I’ve also been using one of those “paco” orgaznizers to keep threaded needles for the project I’m stitching with silk. That way I don’t waste a single length.
I’ve also been stitching Temari balls a lot, and for the pearl cotton for those, I don’t cut the skeins; they use up thread so quickly that I like to use longer lengths. I loop them through the paper “rings” so I know what color I used.
Reading through all the comments so far I’m amazed by the various storage systems. I too, use a number of systems, depending upon the thread. All my standard DMC threads are stored, uncut, on thread cards in 3 LoRan thread folders [4 once I can find another], with their ’specialty’ threads stored on stitchbows. Other specialty threads are stored in special zip-lock bags that are ringed together in sets according to type. The exception to this is the old threads I inherited from my Nana which are looped on tags with any details written on the tag and then the tags are put on a ring. The bags and ringed thread are all kept together in boxes on my craft shelves.
When it comes to projects, if there is a card with a kit I will tend to use it but otherwise I use the LoRan cards that you can write on and reuse when done. Most of these are then layer in pretty storage boxes with the fabric and patterns until I get around to them. My WIP is usually in a project bag at the foot of my bed where it can glare at me and remind me to do some work on it.
I store my hand dyed ribbon on rings. and I have a thread dresser like sharon boggin where I store thread by colour. I have been trying to get my thread wound on cards but I always getstarted and something interups me so I geuss I need to make it a priority before I wind up in a mess of knots.
Melisa B
I keep my DMC floss on little white cards, labed so that they fit in those flat boxes and can be pulled easily for a project. All of my other threads are sorted by color in ziplock bags, so that I can pull them and put them in another ziplock/mesh bag for the project. I then add my other sewing supplies in a separate bag, and all of the supplies end up in a cloth tote bag, because we travel a fair amount and I always have a project ready to go.
Judi
Guess I’m not as organized as most of those who comment. My cotton floss is on bobbins in plastic boxes. Kreinik threads are also stored in a special plastic box with spindels. Weeks Dye Works are on a metal ring as are Sampler Threads. Everything else is somewhere else.
Julie
The stash looks absolutely divine. For storage, I use the DMC skein holders. Just pop the ole skein on and voila, I’m good to unwind. I keep the skeins in ziplocs with their DMC numbers in sharpie on the bag. When I’m ready to embroider, I have the DMC thread bags which hold the plastic skein holders. I keep the whole project organized by slipping the whole shebang in an old plastic binder.
I stuff everything into my project bag, except silk. That I tend to wrap on thread winders–either the nice ones or fabricated ones!
I am the traditional sewer and I have all my threads on plastic cards and in storage boxes. Before I wind the threads onto the cards I cut the number off the DMC skein holder and stick it onto the card so I always know what number the threads are. While sewing I put my threads on cards with holes so I can see at a glance the numbers and symbols.
Hope I can be considered for your freebie offer.
Keep up the good work.
Gillian
Good Morning.. I have already entered, but wanted to ask. Where do you get the zippered mesh bags from? Do you make them or buy them? Thanks in advance for the info.
Mary,
I use the color card with the holes punched in them to begin with to get organized, and then I end up draping the threads on my cloth draped drawing board propped on an easel, sort of like an upright palette–works for me.
Love the photography on your blog.
Joan B
Hi Mary ……..
Your give-away always lure me….I hope one day I can get a chance to win them.
I loop my treads through holes as well as wind then on bobbins as per my convenience.
With lots of love,
Anusuya
I have my threads stored in little zip-lock bags, but for a project I use little plastic ’safety pins’ which are sold as knitting markers. The ’safety pins’ have little stickers stuck to them to identify which thread is which – which is why I use them – and attach to a thread pallet.
the flosses are tempting me like anything as they are not available in India. so usually all my projects are limited to silk threads. i arrange them shadewise in a plastic(transperent) boxes. For projects i keep the desired shades of thread in one box and little bit of thread come outside the lid so that its easy for me to pull the thread n cut the desired length.
Hi Y’all,
I had no clue there were so many different ways to store thread…I learn so much from this site..THANK-YOU Mary!! The only craft store here is Walmart so I look online but didn’t even know some of these things existed! I really love the glass jar idea!!
Kat
Gosh, I wish I was as organized as some of these folks. I store my threads by type and then sort them by colour so that I have a plastic ziplock back of blue tones, green, etc. for each type of thread. When I come to do a project I pull out the hanks I want and they go into a large plastic bag with the project, scissors, needlebook etc. Depending on where I am going to sew, the plastic bag will go alone to the doctor’s waiting room where I might have 1/2 hour to sew. If I am going to babysit then I carry my amazing bag with loads of pockets that hold beads, threads, bits of lace etc. that I can choose if I need extra stuff. Talking about stuff, your giveaway stuff is wonderful, thanks for the chance to be in the draw.
http://dianesdecoratingdiary.blogspot.com dianematheson@hotmail.com
I love needle work, what a wonderful past time it is for me. I have lymphedema in my arm and neuropathy in my legs from chemo treatment. I did needle work when I was younger and did not appreciate it as I do now. But working with my finger still give me satisfaction of being able to do for myself. I have always placed my threads in plastic baggies and on thread cards in a box for them to stay organized. Love your page, you display beautiful and helpful suggestions and the patterns are great. Thank you so much for your web page. mj
Mary,
For now, I just use little bags the thread is shipped in. I have just become interested in CQ and embroidery. I do not have nuch of a “stash”. I only have one project started, a CQ Christmas stocking. I plan to pursue learning embroidery, so storage and project bags will eventually become a problem. I do not have a total plan, but as for skeins and separating threads, bobbins, mesh bags I will have to research and find the best way for me. Thanks for having a give-away.
June Savoy
When I look at the picture of these “goodies,” I think of candy…something I always want!
When working on a project, I sort my threads by using a piece of cardboard that comes in clothing packages such as men’s t-shirts. I punch a line of holes in the cardboard and write the color name and number under each hole and then just loop the thread through the holes.
I have just recently started doing embroidery work so I don’t have a lot of things except for my DMC floss. I have that stored in baggies that they sell at Jo-Ann’s other than that I am waiting to WIN some more supplies! I am reading through all the post to come up with some more storage solutions.
Thanks for the great giveaway!
I have only been at this about a year and intially had all the thread in a plastic container trying very hard to only take what was needed for the project from the skeen however it wasn’t working very well so I started about a month ago keeping them on the white cards and picked up a sectioned plastic container to keep them in. I leave three of the sections empty for the current projects colors and put them back in order when finished with that particular thread. This has seemed to work well for now (small projects not many threads). I see myself increasing my stash in the next year or two and looking for better ideas in this area.
I just love your website and blog. It is the first thing I open in the morning. You have so many beautiful threads, patterns, etc. I am a very beginner embroider although I have done it for several years. I also quilt. I have a learned a lot about threads through your blog.
I store my thread on the small cardboard squares you can purchase and mark them with the number and name. Recently I purchased a crafters notebook that enables me to carry thread, needles, and my work in a zipper case. I like this very much. I do recycle the plastic bags you get various things in also.
I would love to entererd in your “giveaway”. It is such a joy to get “goodies” in the mail unexpectedly!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and so many nice things with all of your “needling” friends!
Oh, Mary, you are such a generous lady! I’m very much like you when it comes to threads. I’m like a kid in a candy store! And today we are so very lucky to have so much from which to choose. Thanks so much for the opportunity to win some lovelies!
My favorite way to store threads is in those little floss bags. You can store your leftover floss so easily that way. Wrapping them around floss cards usually results in floss that’s “kinked” where it turns the edge of the card. I store my floss bags in 2 cherry wood boxes made by Sudberry which I love, but they are no longer available. I’ve never really cared for thread palettes that you loop the thread through.
Marilyn R. in Ledgewood, NJ
hellow i save my threads to make a nice tail and all project in a big zipper bag
I store my project threads using a kind of key tag. They are the ones with a white paper circle that you write on, attached to the key ring itself. I write the name of the thread and its number (if needed) and the project it goes to on the white paper tag. Then, I loop the thread through the ring itself and secure it with a loose knot.
These can be hung on thread hooks near my workstation. They are very organized and ready when I am! I hope this helps others too!
Sincerely,
Abby Ward in PA
I store my thread in plastic ziplock bags. Threads that I’m actually using, I unwind (the skeins) and rewind onto plastic bobbins after first carefully removing the ring label with the colour number on it and tying it onto one end of the skein (so that when I’m down to the last of the thread, I can re-order). I have a workbox in which I keep current project necessities, such as scissors, thread, beads, and the like. It has a pincushion for the needles, little pockets for thimbles, buttons, bead containers (such as needle tubes), and compartments, thank heavens, for the disorganized like me. Like you, I am currently suffering from a serious passion for fiber that led me to purchase several hundred dollars worth of #5 perle cotton last week. I suppose I must now find projects in which to use this beautiful thread. Nevertheless, the mere picture of this month’s giveaway fibers inspired a new flush of lust in my heart. I hope I win anyway. Thanks, Mary. Your site is a pure source of pleasure to me.
I wish my stash storage system was better than it is. I have my DMC organized by color number in the floss storage bags on big rings. Other fibers tend to get thrown together by general type — silks, overdyed, etc. or sometimes by color (metallics). Then there are several boxes of miscellaneous things I don’t know what to do with.
Hi Mary et al, Lovely threads and goodies! As to storage, my DMC floss is wound on cardboard bobbins and kept in plastic segmented boxes. The Trebizond buttonhole twist is in a big segmented basket. I have tins for metallics and a segmented drawer for perle coton. When I started doing bobbin lace I added a bunch more threads in different fibers and keep these in the Art Bins. Art Bins are a nice system for storage – they stack and I also use them for lots of different projects and stash ie cloth doll stuff, Medici wool, a hand applique project and more. (I always buy them on sale.) When working on a stitching project I collect what I need and put it in a little basket. I also like to loop my threads onto a little plastic butterfly holder that has holes in it for the different threads used in a project. (I like butterflies.) Storing threads so they do not get dirty and roughed up is the first important step in creating our precious gifts, treasures, heirlooms, masterpieces and sanity savers. Happy stitching everyone and thank you, Mary for your wonderful website! Best, Lynn Stiglich
What a fabulous give-away! Love the needle tubes as bead holders, etc. holders idea! Thanks for all you do for the love of embroidery!
Martha
Well, when I kit up a project, I try to be good and put each thread into its own floss bag, then put the bags on a ring. This is convenient because then the ring can hang on a knob on my lap stand (which I use for EVERYTHING).
Somehow, though, it often doesn’t work out that way, especially when I purchase the threads already kitted for the project (like a class piece or a canvas-of-the-month). In these cases, I rarely get my act together to put the threads in individual bags, and usually end up working from one larger plastic zip-top bag.
You know what they say about best intentions!
My method of thread storage is far from impressive- each color thread is kept in a little plastic bag, all those go into a gallon-sized bag, and that goes into a white photo box labeled “Embroidery”. I have boxes for “Sewing”, “Pens and Pencils”, “Paints”, “Random Stuff”, “Knitting”, etc, all stacked neatly on shelves.
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I am new to embroidering and I have absolutely no method of organization or storing. I have found the other comments very helpful and we have to experiment and see what works for me.
Thank you,
Nita Carroll
I am so new at embroidery I put my threads in a envelope and tag is the colors and kind. I use a ring to keep the colors apart. The project I’m working on has the threads and everything else I need to use in a basket at home, if I’m riding in the car I have a tote.
Hi Mary,
What an interesting question. I normally wind my threads on cards and store them by brand until I need them for a project. Normally I would store all of the threads and pattern in a plastic envelope whilst I am compiling them, and then when ready to start work on a project I put them all into a plastic container, very similar to the one that you are giving away. Works for me. Thanks for the wonderful site, I really enjoy reading it.
Many thanks,
Jet
I have a large plastic tackle box that has 4 plastic boxes (that are meant to hold lures) but perfectly holds my DMC thread wound on cardboard bobbins. I keep them numerically in the boxes and have a reference card with all the numbers on the top. When I take a DMC color out, I erase the checked number so next time I go for that color I can see in an instant whether it is in a box or if I need to restock it. The top of the tackle box has a large area that allows me to store my speciality threads, sissors, needles, needle threader, name tag, small reference books of stitches and my wallet. When I travel to a large seminar I take the entire tackle box. When I work on one particular project I simply move the materials I need to a smaller tackle box. It is painful for my son, who loves to fish, see me use tackle boxes in this manner – LOL. I also use clear 35mm plastic film cases to store buttons and beads. I like to recycle and reuse in creative ways.
Colleen
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Lovely threads as usual….I take my present in a chocolate box.Its nice and handy and I can store buttons,needlebook,smal scissors et al there until I finish the project. The threads are usually the skein if I use Anchor cotton skein. i choose a chocolate/biscuit tin as per the need of the project.people traveling always bring home some chocolate or assorted biscuit tin and I have a few to choose from for the new projects.
regards
Leena
How do I arrange my threads for projects? Actually, I don’t have a system. I might put them in a plastic bag that goes into the project bag (or box, or basket), but more often than not, the threads are just loose in with the project, hoop, and tools, etc. I don’t use thread rings. Or bobbins or cards. Nor do I loop them through thread cards. I have been thinking about thread rings. Yep. I have been thinking about thread rings.
Katrina
Hi Mary I keep my threads by brand in little snack baggies/ This way I can see them and they are not all bunched together. And really using the snack baggies there is no extra bulk….
I was so fascinated of the threads, that I haven’t seen the questions and have read about them only today… So about my tries to organise my threads, materials etc. Mostly I put all the things I need for my project to some box from the sweets (sometimes I buy some chocolates only for the box
) Of course, sometimes it is a problem using the same thread for few projects. Commonly I buy another thread because I think that I do not have it (it is simply in one of the boxes…)But I am known as making many different projects at the same time and somehow I find the threads (but is is mistery for me how). I guess, I should try to make some order. But it is more interesting and much easier to buy another thread and to stitch (as I say: my threads do not ask to eat, so let they stay at home, one day I’ll find them and use)
new skeins in a house shaped box given me when I moved here, special colors for projects to be worked in a lovely black walnut jewelry box with 6 drawers made by my father. WIP’s in a case that has pages with 8 plastic zipper spaces so the thread colors can be seen. Needles in a CQ needlecase that I received in a Swap, all other sewing items, scissors, thimble, etc. in a round sewing box, the top of which I hand painted. Projects in a small zippered case made for needlework.
For me, I organize threads differently for each type of embroidery. I work mostly in perle cotton, so I tend to ball it up or leave it in the skein if I can. When working with other threads, I’m known to spool delicate threads or put them in baggies. With embroidery floss I either put on a punch card or in baggies, especially if I’m using more than a few colorways.
I don’t like to use bobbins because it can leave such creases in your floss. I avoid that if at all possible.
When I am getting ready to start a project, I organize my threads by loop tying them onto an embroidery hoop that was passed down from my great-grandmother to my grandmother to me. I have other little items of theirs: scissors, needles etc. that I use and some of their completed needle works that inspire me and bring back good memories of time spent together. I store left over threads on bobbin cards. Debbie Fair Oaks, CA
I am new to embroidery. I originally cut my threads 18″ long; attached them to a 3-ring binder card that had holes down the side— and braided them. This quickly became messy, so I wound all my threads on little cards, stored in plastic boxes with dividers. This works okay for DMC, My spools of pearl cotton are in a round tin. Beads and other threads are in a rubbermaid box. I’d love to find a better organization method.
Linda Sch…..
I use origami boxes for everything. I make cute boxes and keep things in it.
Hi Mary. I love your blog. I read you every day. I keep my threads wound on card and stored in a plastic box. I have some gold threads and someone said I should keep them in a box lined with black. I guess this is to stop them from tarnishing. I hope you will start the pulled thread sampler again soon.
Pam Paice UK
I store all threads, regardless of type, by color in ziploc bags.
When I start a new project, I pull from my storage places and place all supplies in a plastic container with attached lid — this keeps everything together until I’m finished with the project and then I can “re-file” it all…It’s the re-filing that trips me up every time…
When I prepare for a project I collect all the threads I think I’ll use, wind them around the plastic holders (sold for embroidery floss) or around empty thread spools…My beads are in old medicine bottles, buttons and silk ribbons are put into little plastic baggies. I have active project containers (shoe boxes with flip up hold tight abilities) where I put my supples in for safe keeping..Skye
I have always stored my DMC by wrapping them around empty regular sewing thread spools. Some I’ve had so long they are wrapped on wooden spools.
Now that I’m into Brazilian Embroidery I use the 16 slot plastic tread organizer.
When I go to a Brazlian
Emb. meeting or class I carry my threads and other supplies in an old brief case which is great to place on a table and it opens up for easy access to my “tools”.
i use biscuit or toffee tins to store the threads and the cloth. This keeps it clean and handy. the numbers are left in the thread for identification
Hi
I am only thirteen and live in England – Manchester – I have always been amazed with embroidery but never really took it to be my thing. However your website has encouraged me to such a great deal that I have persuaded my mother in letting me take embroidery classes very soon. I know that I have no chance in winning as I am only a beginner and stash all my (very few but greatly cherished and kept safe) threads in my mini pink box my grandmother once gave to me when she realized I liked to sew little bags (this was at the age of 6-7 and my grandmother is with us no more). However, although I will always use my grandmother’s gift for my most beloved possessions, I am saving up for mesh bags, tubes for my sequins and much more. In the time being they are all individually rolled onto separate colours of card (matching the colour of the thread) that I cut out at home. I hope to hear from you personally as you are my role-model in embroidery.
Hi, Nasreen! Thanks for your comment! It sounds as if you are well on your way to becoming a Very Talented embroiderer! And I’m glad you’re finding it to be more “your thing”! It’s fun, isn’t it? If you have any specific questions you want to ask, or just want to strike up a conversation about needlework, feel free to contact me through the “Contact Us” form, and then I’ll send you an e-mail so you have my e-mail address.
You’ll have to let me know how your class goes!
I like the idea of your little treasure box from your grandmother! Good way to keep your things and to remember someone you love, all at the same time!
Drop me a line!
Best,
Mary
Wonderful giveway! I have done embroidery for a while so i have every color of DMC thread. I have used all differnt forms of organization. I finally settled on using two tackle boxes to hold all of them on plastic cards that fit right into the slots. They are then in numeric order. I am just beginning to dabble with the other threads, so they are in simalar boxes jsut not wound on bobbins. I feel they are too delicate to wind some of them. So I have in the little squares areas with the tags noting what they are. Thank you for having this drawing!I just found your site about two months ago and loving every day! Have forward to so many friends! May God continue to give you creative strenght for a very long time!
When storing my stash of floss I place one skein on a bobbin with its color number then place the bobbin in a bobbin box arranging the bobbins numerically.
When working on projects, I place the floss on a punched thread card. I keep the card, needles, pattern, and fabric together in a metal tin or plastic zipper-seal bag.
Again a wonderful drawing! I noticed that my stash is kept like others, the DMC goes on flat bobbins and filed numerically in large flat boxes. For each project I sort the thread bobbins into a smaller (5×7)box with needles, scissors, pin cushion and watercolor pencil. I use a separate needle for each color and keep the needles ready for use.
My grandmother (in 1966) taught me to wind my thread on matchbook covers with the thread label glued/stapled on a corner. Just about the same size as those DMC bobbins.