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I love mine! In fact, I just went and bought a second one as I'm now
working on two rather complicated projects (The forest area of MLI's Queen Anne's Lace and Noah's Submarine (140+ Colours!!!!!!)) I can spend a half hour or so at the start of a stitching session and thread needles for all the colours I'm likely to need, then just stitch away without having to stop and rethread. On good days I can even get dh to thread my needles for me... and he winds bobbins.... I've got to remember to get him something nice as a surprise thank you! Heather Jenn Liace wrote in message . .. On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 13:30:23 -0600, "Patricia Rogers" wrote: I'm sure this has been discussed here before - what is a needle caddy? Perhaps the Pako organizer? I finally saw one "live" yesterday = it's about 5 inches wide by about 12 inches long. It has 50 small foam squares, 25 on each side (and no I did not count, I'm trusting in truth in advertising LOL) to poke your threaded needles into, and then a paper insert to write down the color number or symbol or however you organize. I can see this being very helpful if you're the kind of person who likes to get every possible stitch out of a length of floss and reuse long tails, or if you've got a piece with blended colors. But having younger kids and knowing the messes they can make, I'm hesitant to obtain one for myself. I'd imagine thatcertain household pets could create similar probems as my 6 year old with that kind of temptation laying around! Jenn L. http://community.webshots.com/user/jaliace http://sewu9corn.blogspot.com Current projects: Fall Harvest (Brittercup Designs) Lady of the Flag (Mirabilia) |
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Hmm! I have tried various methods over the years as well. I recently
bought a bunch of DMC Stitch Bows. I was intrigued :-) I have a sewing basket filled with unused floss, but they just seem to get a mixed up. I thought I would use the stitch bows for these skeins. I have a box full of bobbins as well - I usually wind floss onto bobbins after a project is done, not before. Just don't feel like winding a whole bobbin! That needle caddy sounds like a great idea and something I could make myself. I had a 15% off coupon at Lewiscraft and didn't know what to use it on - kind of a shame - but I bought a plastic DMC needle box along with some floss and stitch bows. Hopefully I won't lose my needles now. I went all over the house gathering them up. I recently sat on the wrong end of a needle that was in the couch cushion and it hurt! Best, Christine |
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For all you that say you hate winding bobbins, how do you do your
winding? I have a bobbin winder that slips over the edge of a Darice box and with a bit of spinning on my part I can wind a bobbin in about a minute (probably less). This is the method I used when winding my collection of all the regular DMC floss. I did between 10 and 20 every night before I started my regular stitching. I got my winder at AC Moore for just a couple of dollars. Anne (in Ellicott City, MD) |
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Am I the only one who doesn't use bobbins?
Never could understand why anybody wants to kink up their floss. I have all my DMC in 5 Loran wallets looped on to cards and you just pull one thread at a time. No mess no fuss no rewinding .... simple Carol-Ann 10 miles NW of London England |
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Anne Tuchscherer wrote:
For all you that say you hate winding bobbins, how do you do your winding? I have a bobbin winder that slips over the edge of a Darice box and with a bit of spinning on my part I can wind a bobbin in about a minute (probably less). This is the method I used when winding my collection of all the regular DMC floss. I did between 10 and 20 every night before I started my regular stitching. I got my winder at AC Moore for just a couple of dollars. Anne (in Ellicott City, MD) I used to get annoyed at the floss tangling, but when DD wanted to help, I flopped an open skein around the neck of a glass iced tea pitcher. She could wind them in a minute or so with no tangling. The pitcher is wide enough that the skein doesn't drop down further than the neck, the glass is smooth, and the skein spins around as you wind. I get the kinks out by cutting a suitable length, stripping out individual threads, and running them over a wet clean sponge (kept in a film canister). They dry over the edge of the couch in minutes. I think I first read about this 'ironing' of the floss here in RCTN from Martha Beth Lewis. Her pages are a great resource: http://www.marthabeth.com/needlework.html -- Beth Katz |
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Nope, but I am uniquer insert winky here than you two: I write the
symbol on a piece of cardstock, write the number/s under that, and then put the lengths of floss (pull the skein apart, fold it in half, fold it in half, fold it in thirds, and cut the loops) in a floss bag. On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 19:29:07 -0500, Meredith wrote: Hey, I do the same thing! And here I thought I was being anal in a completely unique way... Meredith Nerak wrote: I have tried various methods of keeping floss for a particular project, and have yet to find a way I find completely satisfactory. In addition to a bobbin for each color with the correct number (cut into lengths which are 1/8 of a skein) and stored in numerical order. I use a heavy cardboard bobbin for each SYMBOL on the chart. I write the color number on the body of the card and draw the symbol on the corner ears. I then put a length of floss on each symbol card. If it is a blended color I put a length of each color on the card. As I work, I only have to look for the symbol and can ignore the color numbers until the symbol bobbin needs re-filling. Darla Sacred cows make great hamburgers. |
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On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 15:46:05 -0600, "explorer" wrote:
Am I the only one who doesn't use bobbins? They've never seemed necessary to my personal style so I never got any. No, you're not. I tried them. Didn't like them, and got rid of 'em. Darla Sacred cows make great hamburgers. |
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On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 21:59:01 GMT, "Dr. Brat"
wrote: How do you store the skeins when you're not using them in a particular project? Isn't it a pain to go through them all to find the ones you want for the next project? They're in those nice parts cabinets available in the guy-stuff department of Wally World and similar places. I use the 60-drawer kind and put one DMC number in each drawer. They're not *quite* long enough for the skein to lay flat, but close enough, and I'm a sponger in any case, so extra curls are not an issue for me. I have another filing system for my "specialty" fibers, including the Anchor collection. Darla Sacred cows make great hamburgers. |
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"Tia Mary-remove nekoluvr to reply " wrote in message ... Of course, with projects the size of your maidens that use 90 or so colors, I don't think there *is* an easy or really efficient way to organize that much floss! I would probably arrange them in color number order and then sort them into appripriate sections (all 200's together, 300's together, etc.) and put them on the larger rings. Then you would llikely have 3 or 4 rings to deal with!!!! OY -- I get a headache just thinking about it! I would be tempted to put the hinged rings onto a piece of dowell that is suspened between the backs of two chairs or something like that but that would have it's own problems! TIA MARY!!! How could you be so cruel to unsuspecting cat owners (or slaves, as it were)! Think of one (or more) cats on the prowl for those pretty little bags--think of the havoc they would wreak! The Horror! The Horror! -- LittleBit In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. |
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