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Posted by lewmew on August 9, 2005, 11:34 am
OK - I have my complete DMC stash, all sorted so I can find it. But
how do you deal with your overdyes, etc.? Right now, I pretty much
have them in one box, semi sorted by brand. . .
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Posted by Sara on August 9, 2005, 12:37 pm
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>OK - I have my complete DMC stash, all sorted so I can find it. But
>how do you deal with your overdyes, etc.? Right now, I pretty much
>have them in one box, semi sorted by brand. . .
I'm floss away bag "girl" all the way. Every thread I own, save balls
of pearl cotton are in bags. The bags are all in flossaway boxes. I
have 3 boxes for DMC, 1 for Watercolours, Wildflowers, and
Impressions, 1 for all silks, 1 for Needle Necessities, GAST and WDW,
and 1 for all the other misc. threads. I need another box for my
growing collection of Anchor. My metallics are in a clear rubbermaid
box on rings sorted by color family. It works for me, but just about
everyone has his/her own system.
Sara
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Posted by Gill Murray on August 9, 2005, 12:55 pm
Sara wrote:
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>>OK - I have my complete DMC stash, all sorted so I can find it. But
>>how do you deal with your overdyes, etc.? Right now, I pretty much
>>have them in one box, semi sorted by brand. . .
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> I'm floss away bag "girl" all the way. Every thread I own, save balls
> of pearl cotton are in bags. The bags are all in flossaway boxes. I
> have 3 boxes for DMC, 1 for Watercolours, Wildflowers, and
> Impressions, 1 for all silks, 1 for Needle Necessities, GAST and WDW,
> and 1 for all the other misc. threads. I need another box for my
> growing collection of Anchor. My metallics are in a clear rubbermaid
> box on rings sorted by color family. It works for me, but just about
> everyone has his/her own system.
>
> Sara
I have all my overdyes etc on large-sized rings, sorted by number. The
rings hang on plastic hooks inside my bedside cupboard;( cuphooks would
be better, but I didn't want the holes). I MAY put up a piece of that
perforated board ( can't think of the name for it) and hang the Rings on
there.. Especially since the MIL's old room is partly for me and my
projects!
Oh. and the set of Eterna silks are all in one of thoswe plastic
cabinets with drawers from the tool department. Beads are in the metal
tins for watchmaking supplies that I bought from Lee Valley. The wound
DMCs are in five Darice boxes, and all the extra unused skeins are filed
in plastic sandwich bags, labelled and in a Christmas decorations box
from Joanns, and kept under the bed.
All items are catalogued in Excel. Wow, I do sound sort of anal, don't I??
Gillian
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Posted by Tia Mary on August 9, 2005, 2:22 pm
Gill Murray wrote:
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> ........ I have all my overdyes etc on large-sized rings, sorted by number.
The
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> rings hang on plastic hooks inside my bedside cupboard;( cuphooks would
> be better, but I didn't want the holes). I MAY put up a piece of that
> perforated board ( can't think of the name for it) and hang the Rings on
> there.. Especially since the MIL's old room is partly for me and my
> projects! .......
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> Gillian
I do the same -- ALL of my stitching fibers are in their own floss-away
bags. Everything that has a number on it is then put in numerical order
-- silks, overdyes, perle cotton, etc. I group the bags by number
families and put them on hinged rings (all the 100's are on one ring,
all the 200's on one ring, etc.). I then hang these rings -- in
numerical order, of course -- from belt/scarf rings -- the ones that
have a hanger hook on them and the ends of the ring have little plastic
thingies on them. All of *these* hang in my sewing room closet. I have
four of the belt/scarf rings now and they are ALL full! My spools of
Kreinik metallics are kept in Darice boxes and other metallics that are
skeins are in baggies. AS I buy new or replacement fibers, I put them
on a shelf in my closet; several times a year I sort them and put them
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in baggies and put them away :-). CiaoMeow >^;;^<
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PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^<
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Posted by Carey N. on August 9, 2005, 2:37 pm
"Gill Murray" wrote in message ...
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> Sara wrote:
> > On 9 Aug 2005 08:34:51 -0700, "lewmew" wrote:
> >>OK - I have my complete DMC stash, all sorted so I can find it. But
> >>how do you deal with your overdyes, etc.? Right now, I pretty much
> >>have them in one box, semi sorted by brand. . .
> > I'm floss away bag "girl" all the way. Every thread I own, save balls
> > of pearl cotton are in bags. The bags are all in flossaway boxes. I
> > have 3 boxes for DMC, 1 for Watercolours, Wildflowers, and
> > Impressions, 1 for all silks, 1 for Needle Necessities, GAST and WDW,
> > and 1 for all the other misc. threads. I need another box for my
> > growing collection of Anchor. My metallics are in a clear rubbermaid
> > box on rings sorted by color family. It works for me, but just about
> > everyone has his/her own system.
> > Sara
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> I have all my overdyes etc on large-sized rings, sorted by number. The
> rings hang on plastic hooks inside my bedside cupboard;( cuphooks would
> be better, but I didn't want the holes). I MAY put up a piece of that
> perforated board ( can't think of the name for it) and hang the Rings on
> there.. Especially since the MIL's old room is partly for me and my
> projects!
> Oh. and the set of Eterna silks are all in one of thoswe plastic
> cabinets with drawers from the tool department. Beads are in the metal
> tins for watchmaking supplies that I bought from Lee Valley. The wound
> DMCs are in five Darice boxes, and all the extra unused skeins are filed
> in plastic sandwich bags, labelled and in a Christmas decorations box
> from Joanns, and kept under the bed.
> All items are catalogued in Excel. Wow, I do sound sort of anal, don't I??
> Gillian
I have my DMC flosses on bobbins in four Darice boxes(must be missing some
colors), though the idea of hanging them on a pegboard is interesting. I
usually just take the bobbins I am using and have them in a work box that
will hold the pattern, extra glasses, scissors, etc., in case I want to take
it with me somewhere. Stitching is usually attached to a sit-on-it frame.
Work box and frame are in plastic tote bag. Grab and go; great for doctor's
appointments. Had started a box for metallics; reminds me, I need to finish
getting all those colors. Argh!!
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Carey
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>how do you deal with your overdyes, etc.? Right now, I pretty much
>have them in one box, semi sorted by brand. . .