I feel like this is something we have talked about before, but since I just bought my daughter a bunch of embroidery floss to go in her new sewing kit of Christmas, I need all the help I can get in keeping it (and mine, for that matter) well-organized.
30 Handmade Days uses one of those plastic organizer boxes with the little bobbins for thread, but she has a great hack for winding them all, using a power drill. So cool.
Wild Olive’s Alison slips her skeins onto craft sticks with holes punched in the end so they can be stored on binder rings. Easy, inexpensive and you can take the colors you need for a project while traveling with ease.
Make your own bobbins out of paper – and add some cat lady flair – with this tutorial from Little White Whale. My kitty-loving daughter would certainly appreciate those.
If you like your floss visible, use clothespins, nails and a frame for a stylish solution via Ameroonie Designs.
I’ve also seen the clothespins on a pegboard, or stored in Mason jars, which would be cute if you have surface space to store them in.
How do you store your embroidery floss? I’d love to hear your ideas.
[Photo: Wild Olive.]
Lucky for me, my son loves pickles, so I get the ginormous pickle jars from the grocery store. I have an old antique weaving loom, and my embroidery floss & ribbon are wrapped on dollar store clothespins and stored in the big pickle jars, sorted by colors. It’s now art and storage. Storing by color for me stops me from buying more because I don’t want to dig through the jars for the color I want. Ribbons and trims are wrapped around old peg clothespins, secured with tiny hairbands and in big cheeseball snack containers. With this system, I can see what I have.