I have been embroidering all my life~ well, off and on. ;-) My DGM taught me and the first thing I did was sew my piece onto my jeans! Oh how I hated to have all those stitches snipped out!! :-o I think I finished the dishtowel I was working on, but didn't pick up that floss again for years! Then, when I was first married, my friend got me hooked on cross-stitching. I stitched and stitched! I still have a few things from that time~ esp Christmas ornaments--we did those by the dozens. :-) I stored my floss in these little ribbon rolls~ and it worked quite well, so I didn't see a need to change. My friend encouraged me to switch to the bins and wind my floss on the little 'spools', but I stuck with my rolls. It wasn't until one of our moves when a roll went missing that I thought again about the bin, but by then cross-stitching had taken a definite backseat to quilting. ;-) Well the other day when I went to get a few more skeins of floss for the Willowberry BOM, what hopped into my cart but the little plastic box! :-o I've been winding my floss on the 'spools' at night~ it goes pretty fast. When I mentioned to my friend that I was finally converting to a little box, she said 'oh, I have 4 of those~ I really like them!' 4??! :-) Here I thought I was making such progress with one! LOL
My friend gave me this project organizer as a gift when we stitched non-stop. It was great for cross-stitching~ a pocket for my book and hoop, the large clip for the floss to hook onto the rings,
the see thru pocket for needles and what-nots and a scissors place. But now I've converted it to my embroidery organizer. The big clip works great for the little spool thingy's. ;-) I love it!So how do you store floss? Now that I'm finally switching to the boxes, did I miss something? Is there an new & improved way? :-) Not that I'll switch again for a long time~ LOL :-)
Until next time~
Happy Stitchin'! :-)
