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Floss Organizing System ??
"Karen C in California" wrote in message ... Lucille wrote: My problem is that I have very limited space and the cabinets are just too big. That depends on how much floss you have. If you're only separating by generic color, and not an entire drawer for each number, you can fit hundreds of skeins in one cabinet, which has a footprint about the size of a sheet of typing paper. I figure I could stack 6 of them (2Wx3H) in less room than a standard bookcase, and hold every skein of floss in the house. -- 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 www.CFSfacts.org -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf That would work very nicely if I had room for a standard bookcase. The bookshelf that's in that room holds (surprise!) books. The cabinet holds charts, fabrics, general needlework odds and ends and barely has room for another strand of thread, no less something big. The only small closet has all the rest of the needlework supplies and extra pillows and linens. Obviously this is not a very big room. Between my toys and Puff's toys, there really isn't much space. I probably could stack Darice boxes if I got rid of the plastic bags and odd size boxes that I presently use, so it looks like that's the way I'll have to go. |
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I love EasyThreads software. I originally bought it for my machine
embroidery thread, but have since added my DMC thread from all my projects. I can easily see if I have a thread "in-stock" or do a color compare to see if I have one close enough in color to use. The threads themselves are in plastic baggies in little ring binders in numerical order. Joann So what's the consensus on the best, easiest way to organize thread? This time I promise to be good and listen. Lucille |
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On Jan 29, 5:12 pm, "Lucille" lzoltynospam@now at comcast..net
wrote: I know this has been asked and answered a gazillion times, but I'm dense and I never really paid attention. I got extremely frustrated this afternoon looking for a certain color of DMC thread (I never did find it) and I decided it's time to do something about my messy system. So what's the consensus on the best, easiest way to organize thread? This time I promise to be good and listen. Lucille Systems tried and discarded: floss braided onto white plastic rings and rings placed on large metal rings - advantage to this: you can pull out one thread at a time, it's all precut disadvantage: awkward once you have a lot of floss, time spent braiding it onto the rings, no place for leftover useful bits Lo-Ran - Advantage: hmmm, I can't think of any - wait, it's precut disadvantages: time spent putting floss into system, I ended up with four binder things so it was exactly fast to find what I was looking for, no place for leftover useful bits, not a lot of room for multiple skeins bobbins - I admit I never had my entire collection on bobbins. I tried to start to use this system. Used it with a large project. I hated the time spent winding onto bobbins. Didn't like the kinks in the floss What I use now - it's not perfect - but I'm a floss-away bag person - I have all the DMC colors in bags on large metal rings and all rings are stored in one Rubbermaid tote with a DMC color chart Advantages: can store multiple skeins in one bag, place for leftover useful bits disadvantages: takes up a lot of room, sometimes have to hunt for the correct ring (it's always on the bottom) Good luck deciding! Donna in Virginia |
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"Donna" wrote in message ... On Jan 29, 5:12 pm, "Lucille" lzoltynospam@now at comcast..net wrote: I know this has been asked and answered a gazillion times, but I'm dense and I never really paid attention. I got extremely frustrated this afternoon looking for a certain color of DMC thread (I never did find it) and I decided it's time to do something about my messy system. So what's the consensus on the best, easiest way to organize thread? This time I promise to be good and listen. Lucille Systems tried and discarded: floss braided onto white plastic rings and rings placed on large metal rings - advantage to this: you can pull out one thread at a time, it's all precut disadvantage: awkward once you have a lot of floss, time spent braiding it onto the rings, no place for leftover useful bits Lo-Ran - Advantage: hmmm, I can't think of any - wait, it's precut disadvantages: time spent putting floss into system, I ended up with four binder things so it was exactly fast to find what I was looking for, no place for leftover useful bits, not a lot of room for multiple skeins bobbins - I admit I never had my entire collection on bobbins. I tried to start to use this system. Used it with a large project. I hated the time spent winding onto bobbins. Didn't like the kinks in the floss What I use now - it's not perfect - but I'm a floss-away bag person - I have all the DMC colors in bags on large metal rings and all rings are stored in one Rubbermaid tote with a DMC color chart Advantages: can store multiple skeins in one bag, place for leftover useful bits disadvantages: takes up a lot of room, sometimes have to hunt for the correct ring (it's always on the bottom) Good luck deciding! Donna in Virginia I kind of use a similar system now. Plastic Bags and rings or boxes sorted by color. I'm running out of room and it's getting messy so I decided that I need something neater. I think I'll try the bobbins and see. It's not that big an investment so I'll give it a shot. Winding the bobbins ought to be great fun. I imagine it's something like watching paint dry, but maybe that's what I need to keep me out of trouble. I suppose I'll still have to use plastic baggies for the extra skeins and I have a little cabinet with drawers that so far is big enough for the specialty stuff. I don't have a lot of silks so for now I have a very nice box that they fit in nicely. Thanks to everyone for their good advice. It really gave me incite and helped me to make a decision. RCTNers always come through. Lucille |
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Donna wrote:
disadvantages: takes up a lot of room, sometimes have to hunt for the correct ring (it's always on the bottom) Couldn't you hang the rings? Put them in order across the bar of a sturdy clothes hanger. If you have lots of bags, buy one of those multi-level hangers, designed to hold half a dozen skirts/slacks. -- 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 www.CFSfacts.org -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf |
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Lucille wrote: "Donna" wrote in message ... On Jan 29, 5:12 pm, "Lucille" lzoltynospam@now at comcast..net wrote: I know this has been asked and answered a gazillion times, but I'm dense and I never really paid attention. I got extremely frustrated this afternoon looking for a certain color of DMC thread (I never did find it) and I decided it's time to do something about my messy system. So what's the consensus on the best, easiest way to organize thread? This time I promise to be good and listen. Lucille Systems tried and discarded: floss braided onto white plastic rings and rings placed on large metal rings - advantage to this: you can pull out one thread at a time, it's all precut disadvantage: awkward once you have a lot of floss, time spent braiding it onto the rings, no place for leftover useful bits Lo-Ran - Advantage: hmmm, I can't think of any - wait, it's precut disadvantages: time spent putting floss into system, I ended up with four binder things so it was exactly fast to find what I was looking for, no place for leftover useful bits, not a lot of room for multiple skeins bobbins - I admit I never had my entire collection on bobbins. I tried to start to use this system. Used it with a large project. I hated the time spent winding onto bobbins. Didn't like the kinks in the floss What I use now - it's not perfect - but I'm a floss-away bag person - I have all the DMC colors in bags on large metal rings and all rings are stored in one Rubbermaid tote with a DMC color chart Advantages: can store multiple skeins in one bag, place for leftover useful bits disadvantages: takes up a lot of room, sometimes have to hunt for the correct ring (it's always on the bottom) Good luck deciding! Donna in Virginia I kind of use a similar system now. Plastic Bags and rings or boxes sorted by color. I'm running out of room and it's getting messy so I decided that I need something neater. I think I'll try the bobbins and see. It's not that big an investment so I'll give it a shot. Winding the bobbins ought to be great fun. I imagine it's something like watching paint dry, but maybe that's what I need to keep me out of trouble. I suppose I'll still have to use plastic baggies for the extra skeins and I have a little cabinet with drawers that so far is big enough for the specialty stuff. I don't have a lot of silks so for now I have a very nice box that they fit in nicely. Thanks to everyone for their good advice. It really gave me incite and helped me to make a decision. RCTNers always come through. Lucille BTW, I put all the specialty flosses on big rings. My bed has a tall cupboard each side of it, by the headboard.( The lower part are drawers). I put the adhesive hooks on the inner side of the door, and hang the WDW, GAST etc all on those. The little cupboards also have shelves, and five Darice boxes fit nicely on top of each other on a shelf. For beads I bought the watchmaker boxes from Lee something ( brain fart). Each has a bunch of tiny circular tins with clear tops, so you can see the beads. I stack these boxes too. In a yard sale I found some lovely small square boxes, about 4 inches square, and the height of kreinik spools. DH is now on some sort of cream, and the inserts in the medicine box, when cut down, make wonderful dividers for the kreinik. Gill |
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"Lucille" lzoltynospam@now at comcast..net wrote in message ... "Donna" wrote in message ... On Jan 29, 5:12 pm, "Lucille" lzoltynospam@now at comcast..net wrote: I know this has been asked and answered a gazillion times, but I'm dense and I never really paid attention. I got extremely frustrated this afternoon looking for a certain color of DMC thread (I never did find it) and I decided it's time to do something about my messy system. for, no place for leftover useful bits, not a lot of room for multiple skeins bobbins - I admit I never had my entire collection on bobbins. I tried to start to use this system. Used it with a large project. I hated the time spent winding onto bobbins. Didn't like the kinks in the floss What I use now - it's not perfect - but I'm a floss-away bag person - and Lucille I have all the regular DMC colors plus extras. All are wrapped on the smaller of the plastic bobbins. They all fit in 2 "Jammers" boxes. I learned about the Jammer boxes right here on rctn. Apparently designed for a type of small toy car, they are clear plastic, double sided and a perfect fit. FWIW mag |
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Floss Organizing System ??
"lucretia borgia" wrote in message ... On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:00:51 -0500, "Lucille" lzoltynospam@now at comcast..net opined: I kind of use a similar system now. Plastic Bags and rings or boxes sorted by color. I'm running out of room and it's getting messy so I decided that I need something neater. I think I'll try the bobbins and see. It's not that big an investment so I'll give it a shot. Winding the bobbins ought to be great fun. I imagine it's something like watching paint dry, but maybe that's what I need to keep me out of trouble. I suppose I'll still have to use plastic baggies for the extra skeins and I have a little cabinet with drawers that so far is big enough for the specialty stuff. I don't have a lot of silks so for now I have a very nice box that they fit in nicely. Thanks to everyone for their good advice. It really gave me incite and helped me to make a decision. RCTNers always come through. Lucille Oh dear, did we incite you ??? RDH lol Well, someone had to point out my "senior moment." Oh how I wish there was a stupidly, dumbly, wrongly spelled word check instead of just a plain spell check. It really should point something like that out with a question mark and a popup that says--Do you really mean that ???? ;*)) |
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On Jan 30, 6:15 pm, Gill Murray wrote:
Lucille wrote: "Donna" wrote in message ... On Jan 29, 5:12 pm, "Lucille" lzoltynospam@now at comcast..net wrote: I know this has been asked and answered a gazillion times, but I'm dense and I never really paid attention. I got extremely frustrated this afternoon looking for a certain color of DMC thread (I never did find it) and I decided it's time to do something about my messy system. So what's the consensus on the best, easiest way to organize thread? This time I promise to be good and listen. Lucille Systems tried and discarded: floss braided onto white plastic rings and rings placed on large metal rings - advantage to this: you can pull out one thread at a time, it's all precut disadvantage: awkward once you have a lot of floss, time spent braiding it onto the rings, no place for leftover useful bits Lo-Ran - Advantage: hmmm, I can't think of any - wait, it's precut disadvantages: time spent putting floss into system, I ended up with four binder things so it was exactly fast to find what I was looking for, no place for leftover useful bits, not a lot of room for multiple skeins bobbins - I admit I never had my entire collection on bobbins. I tried to start to use this system. Used it with a large project. I hated the time spent winding onto bobbins. Didn't like the kinks in the floss What I use now - it's not perfect - but I'm a floss-away bag person - I have all the DMC colors in bags on large metal rings and all rings are stored in one Rubbermaid tote with a DMC color chart Advantages: can store multiple skeins in one bag, place for leftover useful bits disadvantages: takes up a lot of room, sometimes have to hunt for the correct ring (it's always on the bottom) Good luck deciding! Donna in Virginia I kind of use a similar system now. Plastic Bags and rings or boxes sorted by color. I'm running out of room and it's getting messy so I decided that I need something neater. I think I'll try the bobbins and see. It's not that big an investment so I'll give it a shot. Winding the bobbins ought to be great fun. I imagine it's something like watching paint dry, but maybe that's what I need to keep me out of trouble. I suppose I'll still have to use plastic baggies for the extra skeins and I have a little cabinet with drawers that so far is big enough for the specialty stuff. I don't have a lot of silks so for now I have a very nice box that they fit in nicely. Thanks to everyone for their good advice. It really gave me incite and helped me to make a decision. RCTNers always come through. Lucille BTW, I put all the specialty flosses on big rings. My bed has a tall cupboard each side of it, by the headboard.( The lower part are drawers). I put the adhesive hooks on the inner side of the door, and hang the WDW, GAST etc all on those. The little cupboards also have shelves, and five Darice boxes fit nicely on top of each other on a shelf. For beads I bought the watchmaker boxes from Lee something ( brain fart). Each has a bunch of tiny circular tins with clear tops, so you can see the beads. I stack these boxes too. In a yard sale I found some lovely small square boxes, about 4 inches square, and the height of kreinik spools. DH is now on some sort of cream, and the inserts in the medicine box, when cut down, make wonderful dividers for the kreinik. Gill Lee Valley Tools, maybe? I think they had the watchmaker boxes in their Christmas catalogue. Louisa |
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