Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Organizing Embroidery Floss

My daughter likes to make friendship bracelets.
This is what her stash of embroidery floss looks looked like.
 I was wasting time on my new favorite website (pinterest.com),
and I saw a photo of embroidery floss wrapped around clothes pins.
I just happened to have two packs of
clothes pins from the dollar store (30 pins for $1)
I used two packs.  $2.00
Looks so much better, don't you think?
I guess I didn't totally waste my time.

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27 comments:

simply brookes: said...

yeah! love this post. guess who is going to be digging out her clothes pins (yes, i too have some on hand) and winding my way through an organized pile of string? me.

thank you, h, for this grand idea.
l. o. v. e. it

Martha said...

Mrs. Jones? You have the best ideas!!!
xoxox,
martha

Felicity said...

Genius idea - am inspired to a little of my own sorting.

x Felicity

Unknown said...

this is fabulous! What a great job! I downloaded wee illustrated bobbin type organizers for embroidery floss but it looked like far too much effort. Think I did about four colours and got bored lol

nova said...

That is really smart! :)

Jann-will said...

Oh that looks nice :-))

noodleBubble said...

YES. ADDICTED to Pinterest and have pinned this to my 'fab ideads' board!


noodleBubble x

drea_dear said...

This is making the rounds again on Pinterest, and I've shared it on my blog. Thanks for the idea!

Annica Svarvar said...

I'm also on Pinterest and I pinned this on my board stuff for school. I so look forward to have it this way, rather than spending a lot of time "de-tangling" the wanted color.Great idea, thank you for sharing!

Anja said...

What a great and colorful idea! Mine are stuffed in away in a box, a waist of all those beautiful colors. :-)
I discoverd pinterest a while ago but just started my own pinboards.

Anonymous said...

Just spent the last hour doing this to my threads... Yay for organisation! :D

Dori said...

Using clothes pins to organize floss is brilliant! So glad I stopped by. Thank you for sharing. Oh! I just spotted the corgi photos. : ) We have our third. Love them so!

Peace Troubadour said...

Verry beautiful!! Found this pic on pinterest and caught my eye.

Greetings from the Netherlands! xx

Jennifer Cleaver said...

So, so smart! I love the idea and I am definitely going to have to do this!

Knitella said...

great idea! and it looks so pretty <3

Anonymous said...

Do you remove the metal springs in the middle?

Mrs. Jones said...

Anonymous: no, I don't remove them. I just wrap away.

Anonymous said...

What a clever idea! Love this!

Meghan Davis said...

I love this idea! Very clever!

Squeeze Cuddles said...

Heather you inspired me to organise my embroidery threads. Here's my blog post (including an image and link to your blog)

http://squeezecuddleshandmade.blogspot.com.au

Julia

elm said...

LOVE this. So does my 10 year old. Now she has something to occupy herself instead of fighting with her 8 yr old sister. These girls have been up together since 6 am - too excited to get to go to a sleep-over tonight (with their future aunt!!). I think 5 hours of velcro time together has been toooo much. Thanks for the cute idea - busy her, happy me!!! :)

Anonymous said...

Thought it would be a good idea to write the color number on the clothes pin for matching purposes.

Caroline said...

This was really helpful, thanks. It's very therapeutic wrapping the embroidery thread around and satisfying seeing it all neat. I have included it in my blog: https://carolineburton4.wordpress.com/2014/06/15/organising-my-craft-supplies/

neelum ahluwalia said...

Very good useful idea. Thanks.

Coral Dee said...

I create jewelry. I think this will work for small pieces of chain left over. They are all bunched up in a jar right now

Unknown said...

Buenísima idea todos están con nudo

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