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#11
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Colorado mts
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I saw where someone took photo storage boxes and glued golf ball tees into the bottom to set there spools on. Thought it was a cute idea. They had shelving they stored them on, labels with what color was inside, etc. I ended up with a plastic storage cabinet with drawers on wheels. It fits under my cutting table. Give me more room in a small crafting room.
#12
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Prescott Valley, AZ
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I cut peg board to fit in the bottom of desk drawers next to my embroidery machine. Then I cut 1/4" doweling into 3" lengths and put them into the peg board so the thread can't move around too much. There are 1/2" wood strips under the pegboard and the doweling goes through the pegboard 1/2" so everything stays in place. Nothing is glued together so it is all re-arrangeable when needed. I have about 120 mini-cones of thread in each drawer and all I have to do is open a drawer to see all the thread in it. I use madeira thread and right now only fill 1 drawer so I keep it arranged by color number. When I expand to 2 drawers I may want to rearrange by color group, but I mostly use emblibrary designs so color numbers work great for me.
#14
I bought on of thos rolling carts from JoAnn's, with the different colored drawers. It's the shorter one with side by side drawers. Yup, the red threads are in the red drawer, green threds in the green drawer and so on. Not super tidy in the drawers, but very easy to just pull out the drawer to pick my colors.
One drawer has my varigated threds in it.
It works for me.
One drawer has my varigated threds in it.
It works for me.
#15
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Join Date: Apr 2015
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I did the "photo storage box with upside down golf tee's in the bottom" method and it works great (no dust/no light) and they stack neatly. However I do like the idea of the peg with re-arrange-able dowels.
I store my normal sewing threads in a tackle box that allows me to rearrange the sections. This lets me make the section big enough for the spool and my matching bobbin. But with the dowel method ShirlinAZ mentioned I could combine the two since the dowels would be long enough for bobbins on the top.
I store my normal sewing threads in a tackle box that allows me to rearrange the sections. This lets me make the section big enough for the spool and my matching bobbin. But with the dowel method ShirlinAZ mentioned I could combine the two since the dowels would be long enough for bobbins on the top.
#16
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Fox Valley Wisconsin
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I have some hanging on the wall...the colors I use the most. Other threads I have plastic boxes sorted by colors for the cotton thread, and also boxes sorted by type of thread for specialty threads....machine embroidery, wool, quilting, metallic, rayon, etc.
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