Floss organization

A list of embroidery floss organization methods! Includes printable bobbins, thread organization DIYs and floss organizers you can buy.

A quick start to the week here, with a little “hack” for embroidery floss organization! This is a terrific idea from Brenda, a reader who sent along some photos of how she’s been keeping her collection of DMC floss organized for some 30 years. If you have a large collection of floss – say, a ...

How Do You Keep Your Floss Organized? My first experience with floss was a tangled up mess of embroidery thread in my mother’s sewing bask...

1. Because I have always done it this way. Not the most glamorous answer, but a truthful one. 2. They make it easy to take inventory of what floss I already have and what I am running low on. Keep in mind that I own a minimum of 1 floss skein of every single DMC color. And many of my most commonly used colors, I h

I use my card catalog as embroidery thread storage but had to make a few custom sleeves for organization - come see how I did it!

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For years, I've been storing my different brands of hand-dyed/over-dyed floss in gallon size ziploc bags according to manufacturer (GAST, ...

Cross stitch threads bleach, they frey and they can be a knotted mess. We talk about the best ways to store your cross stitch threads to avoid this!

During the posting of my backyard studio photos, my blogging friend, Sheila, asked about my DMC thread collection I had mentioned being stored in the three drawers shown above. I said I would tell about that in a future post. So, here is the story: A few years ago, during a particularly trying set back with pneumonia, I was told to get some bed rest. Something I don't do very well. (And, by the way, the old navy man and I both had pneumonia AT THE SAME TIME!) So, while trying to recuperate…

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