For those of you that embroidery.....
#3
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 381
I have most of mine stored in plastic lidded boxes made for that purpose. They have pins to hold each spool. I also have an antique cabinet with 6 shallow drawers that are just right for the skinny spools to lay down in. It even has a little window on the front of each side of the long drawer that holds a little card to indicate what color thread is in their section. I probably have a thread collection that cost a thousand or more dollars. I don't embroidery nearly as much as I used to. I will admit I am lazy and hate to keep changing the thread. I have gotten in the habit of using variegated thread for most of the embroidery work I do now. My youngest grandchildren are now 16 and I have given up hope that I will have any grandchildren from our youngest daughter. Most of my clothing that I embroidered over the years I am still wearing. I actually own two stand alone embroidery machines. The first is Bernina's original one and the second is a Brother that uses the same PES format. I have a small fortune tied up in software some of which I have never used. I don't care for sewing machines that can be converted to embroidery as I can not sew while they are doing that task. With my present set up I can be embroidering two things while still sewing on something else.
#5
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Central Missouri
Posts: 715
I'm not so organized as many, uh -- most, members of the board, but I keep mine sorted by maker (Robinson Anton, Sulkey, etc.) in zip lock bags. I usually just choose colors by sight, unless I'm doing counted cross stitch.
Linda in Missouri
Linda in Missouri
#6
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Corpus Christi, Tx.
Posts: 16,105
I have only ever hand embroidered and purchase an organizer specifically for that. Tried to come up with something different but for the money and time saved, I just purchase the organizer inserts.
#7
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Central Iowa
Posts: 2,348
I keep all my threads in drawers I have a filing cabinet that has drawes in it. I keep my regular sewing thread in my sewing cabinet. I also have some plastic drawers I picked up at salvation army that I use for my quilting thread. I also keep all my fabric in cabinet or on shelves in totes plus there are doors on the cabinets and a curtain on the shelf to keep out the light.
#10
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Long Island
Posts: 24,820
they make plastic carries with slots to put your wound thread in you wrap your threads onto 1" x1" plastic bobbins and then put about 5 of theminto the slot. I got mine about 20 yrs ago at a crafatstore
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