[ATTACH=CONFIG]607993[/ATTACH]It's a bit hard to see the thread rack in this "before" photo. While it wasn't a mess, it wasn't functioning well for me. Half of the spools were either polyester, mixed, or for hand quilting.
None of those do I use often enough to keep close to my machine.
So I re-organized it. I put the seldom-used kinds of thread in a small drawer in the closet.
Then I arranged the machine quilting spools in a ROYGBIV-ly way (Red-Orange-Yellow-Green-Blue-Indigo-Violet/rainbow order). Colors on the left, neutrals on the right, partially wound bobbins in the middle.
I use neutral thread the most often, so it's closest to my machine. (The dark frame is simply an empty frame I found at the thrift store awhile back and like how it makes the colors pop.)
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