Tonight I decided to try to make a little order out of the chaos of my embroidery floss. Here's what I started with.
I focused on organizing the bobbin case 2 black plastic containers I have. I received all the bobbins from my aunt recently. Each one is clearly labeled and they were all painstakingly put into numerological order. I can imagine my aunt hunched over her work for hours organizing them, making labels, winding the floss onto the bobbin, and finding the perfect spot, constantly rearranging them if they weren't perfect. Less realistically I imagine her doing all this by dim candlelight. In spite of all this, like a naughty little child I DUMPED the whole thing!
Why, you ask? Because I wanted it to be ordered by pretty color instead of number. It started out fine, but less than half-way through I wished I hadn't done it. I know there's got to be a reason these things are numbered the way they are, and it has to work, but I just don't like it. Of course it's far from perfect the way I did it, too. I had a hard time deciding where some colors would go.
I also separated all the black, white, and gray colors since those are the ones I use the most. Here's what I ended up with!
It really doesn't look like I did much, especially for all the time it took me. Over all I don't regret it though. Next time I'll work on the bags, but I think I'm going to need at least another floss organizer to get it the way I want it. How do you keep your embroidery floss organized?
I'm half-way done with the Jack Nicholson stitch!
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