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Floss Organizing System ??
Lucille wrote: "Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message ... On 2/20/08 11:01 AM, in article , "Lucille" lzoltynospam@now at comcast..net wrote: snip I finally decided on the floss bobbins. I'm about 3/4 of the way through winding the bobbins and I'm going crazy. It seems to me that everytime I see an end to the winding, I find another little baggie of untouched skeins. I do think I'll love it, provided I ever actually finish the winding and set up the boxes in proper order. Yaawwwnnnn Lucille You do know that you can buy the DMC numbers preprinted..... C That's what I'm using. Unfortunately the little critters refuse to put themselves on the bobbins and insist that I assist them. Then they decide to gravitate too far to the left or right. I'm getting there. I'm nearly done with green and then there's only a few more browns, beiges and gray, plus of course black and white which I might just keep in a baggie. That will depend on just how tired I am of winding. I really find it easier to label with a sharp-pointed Sharpy, *before* I put the floss on the skein. There is a gizmo for winding the floss, but I find it quicker to do it by hand. Gill |
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"Gill Murray" wrote in message news:C%0vj.11724$N95.9848@trnddc03... Lucille wrote: "Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message ... On 2/20/08 11:01 AM, in article , "Lucille" lzoltynospam@now at comcast..net wrote: snip I finally decided on the floss bobbins. I'm about 3/4 of the way through winding the bobbins and I'm going crazy. It seems to me that everytime I see an end to the winding, I find another little baggie of untouched skeins. I do think I'll love it, provided I ever actually finish the winding and set up the boxes in proper order. Yaawwwnnnn Lucille You do know that you can buy the DMC numbers preprinted..... C That's what I'm using. Unfortunately the little critters refuse to put themselves on the bobbins and insist that I assist them. Then they decide to gravitate too far to the left or right. I'm getting there. I'm nearly done with green and then there's only a few more browns, beiges and gray, plus of course black and white which I might just keep in a baggie. That will depend on just how tired I am of winding. I really find it easier to label with a sharp-pointed Sharpy, *before* I put the floss on the skein. There is a gizmo for winding the floss, but I find it quicker to do it by hand. Gill Three of the Darice boxes that I bought came with a bobbin winder. I tried it and found that doing it by hand is way quicker. I also can wind by hand anywhere, anytime and in any upright position. I'm now the proud owner of three useless bobbin winders. If they were going to give me a freebie I wish they had given me some extra plastic bobbins. I bought all the ones they had in Michaels the day I was there but I ran out and rather then wait for more to come in I'm just using the cardboard ones that came in the boxes, but they aren't nearly as good. I think I'll buy a few more packages to keep in stash and as I use up a color I'll use the plastic ones for replacement. Come to think about it I'll bet I could wind them lying down and possibly in my sleep after doing this for the last few days. lol |
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"Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message ... On 2/20/08 4:13 PM, in article , "Lucille" lzoltynospam@now at comcast..net wrote: "Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message ... On 2/20/08 11:01 AM, in article , "Lucille" lzoltynospam@now at comcast..net wrote: snip I finally decided on the floss bobbins. I'm about 3/4 of the way through winding the bobbins and I'm going crazy. It seems to me that everytime I see an end to the winding, I find another little baggie of untouched skeins. I do think I'll love it, provided I ever actually finish the winding and set up the boxes in proper order. Yaawwwnnnn Lucille You do know that you can buy the DMC numbers preprinted..... C That's what I'm using. Unfortunately the little critters refuse to put themselves on the bobbins and insist that I assist them. Then they decide to gravitate too far to the left or right. I'm getting there. I'm nearly done with green and then there's only a few more browns, beiges and gray, plus of course black and white which I might just keep in a baggie. That will depend on just how tired I am of winding. You don't have to finish it today.... C Yes I do!!! Not that I'm compulsive or anything like that !!! For real, I'm kind of sick of seeing the whole mess on top of the counter. It stares at me with it's little round eyes and keeps whispering--finish me, finish me. There's also the fact that friends of mind call me a "neat freak." I wonder why ???? lol |
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Lucille wrote:
"Debbie Rice" wrote in message m... Please hole-punch into those bags (don't keep sealed airtight or with DMC floss you court moisture damage and for some of the hand/over-dyes in Sampler and other lines you court a chemical reaction with food-grade plastic bags--ditto for fabric). I started my overdyes in the File A Floss box (item 4048 at http://yarntree.com) then my clever husband figured a couple of rods/dowels/leftover-wire-hanger-pieces into a nice, archival quality photo box would duplicate the box and I could just buy the Floss Tabs (yarntree item 8672) -- one of our local discount stores usually has 2 to 3 photo boxes for $5. I like the DMC stitch bows okay and all their accessories except for the Notebook (it's just not a good quality notebook, one of those shiny covered cardboard ones) -- and I've liked lots of other devices that have come and gone (including the floss bags). New lines of thread (like Color Variations) I've converted to the floss bows but I have yet to run across anything that's going to make me unwind and re-organize more than 450 floss bobbins in plastic case I've had for more than 30 years, "Richard Grimes" wrote in message news On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:12:35 -0500, "Lucille" lzoltynospam@now at comcast..net wrote: So what's the consensus on the best, easiest way to organize thread? This time I promise to be good and listen. Lucille If were really listening this time you would see there is no "best, easiest way" Lots of ways that lots of people prefer. I keep my floss in quart size zip lok bags. Example: 300's in one 700' in another, I have DMC and Anchor so I keep them in their own bags and then the quart bags go into a two gallon bag. These two go into my roll-under-the-bed storage tub. I have yet to organize my sampler threads.... I finally decided on the floss bobbins. I'm about 3/4 of the way through winding the bobbins and I'm going crazy. It seems to me that everytime I see an end to the winding, I find another little baggie of untouched skeins. I do think I'll love it, provided I ever actually finish the winding and set up the boxes in proper order. I have a whole bunch of skeins unwound. I don't actually wind my skeins on bobbins until after I've used them the first time. Then winding becomes part of putting the floss away when the project's done. I find it more bearable that way. Elizabeth -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~living well is the best revenge~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities. --Adrienne Rich *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* |
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"Dr. Brat" wrote in message . .. Lucille wrote: "Debbie Rice" wrote in message m... Please hole-punch into those bags (don't keep sealed airtight or with DMC floss you court moisture damage and for some of the hand/over-dyes in Sampler and other lines you court a chemical reaction with food-grade plastic bags--ditto for fabric). I started my overdyes in the File A Floss box (item 4048 at http://yarntree.com) then my clever husband figured a couple of rods/dowels/leftover-wire-hanger-pieces into a nice, archival quality photo box would duplicate the box and I could just buy the Floss Tabs (yarntree item 8672) -- one of our local discount stores usually has 2 to 3 photo boxes for $5. I like the DMC stitch bows okay and all their accessories except for the Notebook (it's just not a good quality notebook, one of those shiny covered cardboard ones) -- and I've liked lots of other devices that have come and gone (including the floss bags). New lines of thread (like Color Variations) I've converted to the floss bows but I have yet to run across anything that's going to make me unwind and re-organize more than 450 floss bobbins in plastic case I've had for more than 30 years, "Richard Grimes" wrote in message news On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:12:35 -0500, "Lucille" lzoltynospam@now at comcast..net wrote: So what's the consensus on the best, easiest way to organize thread? This time I promise to be good and listen. Lucille If were really listening this time you would see there is no "best, easiest way" Lots of ways that lots of people prefer. I keep my floss in quart size zip lok bags. Example: 300's in one 700' in another, I have DMC and Anchor so I keep them in their own bags and then the quart bags go into a two gallon bag. These two go into my roll-under-the-bed storage tub. I have yet to organize my sampler threads.... I finally decided on the floss bobbins. I'm about 3/4 of the way through winding the bobbins and I'm going crazy. It seems to me that everytime I see an end to the winding, I find another little baggie of untouched skeins. I do think I'll love it, provided I ever actually finish the winding and set up the boxes in proper order. I have a whole bunch of skeins unwound. I don't actually wind my skeins on bobbins until after I've used them the first time. Then winding becomes part of putting the floss away when the project's done. I find it more bearable that way. Elizabeth -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~living well is the best revenge~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities. --Adrienne Rich *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* That's most probably what I'll do from here on in. I started this project because space is a problem for me and the bobbins are more compact. I hope to just replace a color on a bobbin as it's used up. I'm finding lots of duplicates because I was always too lazy to go through all the skeins to find a color and just bought a new one. I'm more careful with the specialty threads first because they're so much more expensive, but mostly because they aren't available in any local shop and need to be special ordered. Lucille |
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I leave a spit of thread on the bobbin before replacing. I still have a
clump of unwound, extra skeins of thread to go through and that remnant thread on the bobbin makes spotting the extra skein quicker before I buy still yet another duplicate. I like the new extra-fine point sharpies for labelling the bobbins although with practice getting the tiny stickers on gets better.. Anyone else remember decades ago the "all the DMC colors" ads on the backs of the stitching magazines? My husband bought for me and it came not as full skeins of DMC but as a couple of yards of each color wound in numerical order (unlabeled) on one large card. I was so incredibly paranoid I was going to get them out of sequence, tangled, etc. At least he was thinking of my interests with the gift, but I was rather grinning-and-bearing-it trying to get through all the bobbin winding without error or having a color shoplifted by a conniving kitty. Pre-internet days without easy access to DMC color charts online. I was really thrilled having all the DMC colors (particularly with some of the patterns in those days calling for hundreds of colors at one time and sometimes only a strand or two) but wound up with a lot of duplicate skeins because I couldn't remember which bobbins were full skeins and which might only be a tiny bit of a color. That's most probably what I'll do from here on in. I started this project because space is a problem for me and the bobbins are more compact. I hope to just replace a color on a bobbin as it's used up. I'm finding lots of duplicates because I was always too lazy to go through all the skeins to find a color and just bought a new one. I'm more careful with the specialty threads first because they're so much more expensive, but mostly because they aren't available in any local shop and need to be special ordered. Lucille |
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On Feb 21, 9:16*am, lucretia borgia
wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:11:13 -0500, "Debbie Rice" opined: I leave a spit of thread on the bobbin before replacing. *I still have a clump of unwound, extra skeins of thread to go through and that remnant thread on the bobbin makes spotting the extra skein quicker before I buy still yet another duplicate. I like the new extra-fine point sharpies for labelling the bobbins although with practice getting the tiny stickers on gets better.. Anyone else remember decades ago the "all the DMC colors" ads on the backs of the stitching magazines? *My husband bought for me and it came not as full skeins of DMC but as a couple of yards of each color wound in numerical order (unlabeled) on one large card. * I was so incredibly paranoid I was going to get them out of sequence, tangled, etc. *At least he was thinking of my interests with the gift, but I was rather grinning-and-bearing-it trying to get through all the bobbin winding without error or having a color shoplifted by a conniving kitty. *Pre-internet days without easy access to DMC color charts online. *I was really thrilled having all the DMC colors (particularly with some of the patterns in those days calling for hundreds of colors at one time and sometimes only a strand or two) but wound up with a lot of duplicate skeins because I couldn't remember which bobbins were full skeins and which might only be a tiny bit of a color. Mentioning the ads made me think of maybe mid 90s when DMC added several new colours. * I have always thought of them as 'mutant' colours, they never look right, don't think I have used any of them. I bought them only because there was a deal on buying the complete pack and I think one gets somewhat anal about having the collection totally complete !- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Which ones were those? There's a really disgusting moss green I was glad to see go in the clearance bin. . . |
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I think the ad did blare "includes new 90+ newcolors".
Just a handful of years back there were new colors added to DMC line (filled in some missing purple, blue and green shades predominantly) -- most of these new ones were numbered in the 100s and I think there were about 3 assorted numbered ones. The lack of the blue/green/purple shades was why Marilyn created here Needlepaints threads. Outside the U.S. they discontinued one color number (here in US Just CrossStitch magazine created a panic in one of their opening pages) and that's why one of the skeins now has normal number and discontinued number in parentheses. At least that's the last I heard. "lucretia borgia" wrote in message ... On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:48:59 -0800 (PST), lewmew opined: Mentioning the ads made me think of maybe mid 90s when DMC added several new colours. I have always thought of them as 'mutant' colours, they never look right, don't think I have used any of them. I bought them only because there was a deal on buying the complete pack and I think one gets somewhat anal about having the collection totally complete !- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Which ones were those? There's a really disgusting moss green I was glad to see go in the clearance bin. . . They are the last ones they added - I don't think there have been more. |
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Debbie Rice wrote:
Anyone else remember decades ago the "all the DMC colors" ads on the backs of the stitching magazines? I do. I ordered it and suggested that bobbining it was within DH's (that's D for Dumb) capabilities. I don't know if he was being obstreperous because he didn't want to do anything to help me or if he really was too dense to read the instructions (which said "start with white" and numbers follow in ascending order), but he started at the 3799 end and didn't label the bobbins. Fortunately, he gave up after a couple dozen. A few years ago, Kim from Fabrics2U was offering a special, her DD would bobbin your floss for a couple cents a skein. I got her DD to do it right and even to match up the unlabelled bobbins to the color chart to label them. Best money I ever spent. -- Karen C - California Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com Finished 1/19/08 - Sesame Street group picture WIP: Isabella's Garden, MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel, Flowers of Hawaii (Jeanette Crews) for ME!!! Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel CFSfacts -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf Research blog: http://journals.aol.com/kmc528/Lifeasweknowit/ |
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