Thread Rack Tutorial from pegboard to hang in your room

http://craftedition.blogspot.com/201...-tutorial.html

Wood Thread Rack Tutorial

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=318652.0

Thanks for the links both are great ideas

You are very welcome, I like both of them, will have to give a job to hubby to make for me

Glad I could help you and others!

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

About 6 years ago,I asked my husband to make me one of these thread holders to put into a drawer of a table that belonged to my mom.It really has been a blessing to have and the threads are all so easy to get to and out of sight.

My husband made me one of these a few years ago. I love it. It helps keep it all neat.

These are great ideas but, I've always wondered.... if your house is anything like mine, especially with four cats, won't the thread get dusty and eventually dry out or fade?

I use a stack of plastic thread containers from Joann's to hold all my thread. They each contain a type of thread or different thread manufacturer, for example, Coats & Clark, Mettler, variegated, etc.

Or, is it that you use your thread so fast it doesn't have a chance to dry out or get dusty?

Wow! Great idea!
And to think I just found a pegboard with hangers for $1 at a Garage sale 2 weeks ago. I don't have near that much thread (not from lack of trying) but it is big enough that I can use it for a dual purpose. Thread storage and tool storage. :-D
Now to get hubby to help me put it up. LOL!
Thank you so much for the link.

To double the rack you have now storage, slip a plastic drinking straw over the peg. Put two spools of thread on one peg. Cut the straw to the length you need. I do this to hold bobbins with matching thread with the spool.

I drape thin fabric over my hanging thread racks to keep dust and light off.

Thanks for the links. I want to make the peg board one. Been wanting one for awhile but the ones pre-made are really expensive.

What a coincidence. I found this website earlier this month and my husband & I made one of these using a 2' x 4' piece of pegboard and 1/4" dowel rods long enough for matching bobbin to sit on top of spool. There are 165 pegs for spools of thread and I still have about 1/3 of the board left that I used pegboard hooks to hang several items, including some of my longer rulers. It was easy, fun, and relatively inexpensive.

Very nice. Hubby and I got mine up today and it doesn't look nearly as well as yours does but I also don't have everything on it either. I didn't glue dowels on it as I hung a june taylor spool rack that I already have from the pegboard.I am hoping it will be easier to cover the thread from dust and light this way since I don't have that much thread.
I think he was looking lovingly at it with tools in his eyes though... lol

Thanks for the link. Soon as I get my fabric and such in a better storage system, I will have wall space enough tfor my design wall and thread rack.
Wow Martha that is awesome. Do I see alot of Connecting Threads thread?

Thank you. No, those are spools of Floriani and Robison-Anton embroidery thread.

Wow, this thread has taken off, great, I am so happy that I found the links for us, if you make one please post a picture here on this thread for all of us to see

Thanks and have a great day!

Awesome! I had hubby make me two smaller ones several yrs ago, but I thought instead of using dowels, why not buy the more expensive peg hooks! Don't know what I was thinking, but they don't work as well. Will probably convert to dowels soon. Does anyone know if the dowels will hold the large cones comfortably?
I use the second one for my cutters, scissors, and small rulers and mats that don't fit in the holders and will hang up!