Organizing thread and other stuff

Today's (15 Jan 2013) Superior Threads Newsletter included a tip on using milkshake straws --soda straws are too thin-- to keep your spools and bobbins together.

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I stopped embroidering in the late sixties or early seventies, so I don't have a lot of thread colors, and of the threads stacked on chopsticks between a user's manual and a one-volume set of Shakespeare, only five have associated bobbins, so those little plastic-clip thingies work fine. Since the spools are stacked on chopsticks, some of the bobbin holders aren't even shimmed with snippets of fabric to keep them from falling out of the spools.

But I do organize the threads that go with current projects. Somewhere I obtained little re-sealable bags less than three inches wide and five inches deep. Into each goes a wound White bobbin, a wound Necchi bobbin, a threaded needle or a needle woven into a snippet of wool, and two spools of thread. Two spools partly because I sometimes set up both machines at the same time, and partly because the thread comes on rather small spools and I tend to run out at awkward moments.

A snack bag --an abbreviated sandwich bag-- is the perfect size and shape to contain my collection of hem gauges, but I doubt that enough people inherited a box of bias-tape cards to make hem gauges out of for that to be a generally-useful suggestion. But the bag does contain other small, flat tools that I used to have to hunt around in the drawer for.

And just today I discovered plastic bags to organize my pockets: It being cold, I took a jersey with a leak in the back-right pocket off the mending pile to wear over my regular jersey. Concerned that my keys would poke through the hole and tear it bigger, I put my key ring into a Baggie. All of a sudden, it's a *lot* easier to find my lip salve!

Perhaps I should make a little key-ring case. I had quite a lot of black ripstop left after I made my new emergency-tool case.

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Joy Beeson
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Or mend the cardi? ;)

My thread storage solution:

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Kate XXXXXX

:But I do organize the threads that go with current projects. Somewhere :I obtained little re-sealable bags less than three inches wide and :five inches deep. Into each goes a wound White bobbin, a wound Necchi :bobbin, a threaded needle or a needle woven into a snippet of wool, :and two spools of thread. Two spools partly because I sometimes set :up both machines at the same time, and partly because the thread comes :on rather small spools and I tend to run out at awkward moments.

With the exception of buttonhole twist, I simply don't buy thread in spools less than 1000m, and only rarely less than 5000. Not worth the bother of running out, and thread is cheap if you don't buy little spools from a retail outlet. Wound bobbins go on a rubber bobbin saver ring, which has the thread stand assembled around it, so it can't walk off, unless it learns to use a screwdriver. When I mend or do something quick, I can easily find a suitable bobbin, or know I need to wind one. A garment sized project gets a couple wound before starting.

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David Scheidt

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