minky

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.

ShirlinAZ

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.

nanquilt

Years ago, I purchased several of the plastic boxes for tiny cars. The openings are just the right size for thread spools and they have a snap top. Each box holds thirty spools.

jgriinke

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.

ZugZug6279

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.

patchsamkim

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.

mjhaess

I have a plastic box made for thread storage. I put it in my cabinet so it gest no light or dust.