Rolling needles

Thank you AHaron , please put your hat back on your head:>:>: in what honor do you take it off ??? I read your description of organizing your needles with great interest. mirjam

Why not do something like the sewing needlebooks, but on a larger scale? For instance, instead of lining your needlebook with flannel, you could use somethng like monkscloth or aida, which is sufficiently coarse to allow you to slip the needles in between the weave.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

Aaron, I saw a way of storing needles in a knitting store. You cut a long rectangular piece of material and you sew pockets on top of it, with little plasick tubing stuck in each pocket. Line the material first so it is neatly finished. Each pocket will hold a set, or depending on the size of the diameter of the plastic tubing, many needles of the same size. Attach a couple of loops or rings along the top edge of your material and hang it on the wall or roll it up and stand the whole thing in a large container. You can mark the size of the needles at the bottom of each pocket. So you can stop being a Gopher...LOL

Els

I was in the Thrift Store the other day and found some really nice woolen twill material, and a nice old but worn linen table cloth to use as lining. After, I get the design worked out, my needles get a nice set of matching suits with their names embroidered on them : )

I got my wife going on this, and she is a much better sewer than I am and she has a better sewing machine.