Setting up quilting space - pegboard
02-06-2016, 06:16 PM
#42
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: kansas
Posts: 6,407
I have a 1/2 sheet in my regular sewing room above the ironing board--holds my rulers. And in the basement with the long arm I have another 1/2 sheet and also holds rulers and stencils. Makes it super handy in both rooms. I don't hang thread cones because I have too many and don't want them getting dusty (I'm not as neat as some of you and live on a gravel road so everything is ALWAYS dusty).
02-06-2016, 09:13 PM
#43
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Albuquerque NM
Posts: 674
pegboards
This is free standing pb leaning to the wall behind your machines.
I buy 4 -2x2's and 2 pegboards. you can ask home supply to saw a 1/4" slot down each 2x2 for 50 cents a cut. then I encase one pb inside the slots. Leaving
2 long legs of the 2x2's long enough to form "standing legs for your pb.
This will leave room for your hooks or pegs.
Lay it down withe the 2nd pb on top, behind the1st pb in the frame, this is the back side.
Take a dowel stick and stick it through both pb's, you want to angle it so it at a downward angle. Nail in place.
When you flip it over the dowels will be angled up so your thread will not fall off.
You can buy a hand full of 1/4" dowels, ask them to tape them together and cut them in 6 or 8" lengths. when you slide them into both pb's it will stay put.
NO HOOKS NEEDED. THE HOOKS WILL COST MORE THAN THE PB'S.
I can't load pics.
I buy 4 -2x2's and 2 pegboards. you can ask home supply to saw a 1/4" slot down each 2x2 for 50 cents a cut. then I encase one pb inside the slots. Leaving
2 long legs of the 2x2's long enough to form "standing legs for your pb.
This will leave room for your hooks or pegs.
Lay it down withe the 2nd pb on top, behind the1st pb in the frame, this is the back side.
Take a dowel stick and stick it through both pb's, you want to angle it so it at a downward angle. Nail in place.
When you flip it over the dowels will be angled up so your thread will not fall off.
You can buy a hand full of 1/4" dowels, ask them to tape them together and cut them in 6 or 8" lengths. when you slide them into both pb's it will stay put.
NO HOOKS NEEDED. THE HOOKS WILL COST MORE THAN THE PB'S.
I can't load pics.
03-03-2016, 05:36 AM
#49
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Corpus Christi, Tx.
Posts: 16,105
I don't know that I've seen this much thread anywhere. Love it.
I have a center bearing wall in my basement (sewing room) so I threw up some pegboard on both sides to house all my embroidery threads, rulers, quilting items, etc. I'm getting ready to add a few more pegboards under the embroidery thread pegboards as my quilting company changed the size of their spools so they no longer fit in my rolling cart properly. I bought my hooks from the Office Supply Store online as I could get them much cheaper than local plus they have a number of different sizes to choose from.
Here are a couple pics of mine.
Here are a couple pics of mine.
03-04-2016, 05:49 AM
#50
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Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: West Bend, WI
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I have pegboard all over my sewing room. The middle wall has it on both sides. One side has my embroidery and quilting threads and the other side has all my rulers, rotary cutters, etc. Don't know what I'd do if I didn't have my pegboards to store stuff and still be able to see what I have. Not much wall space is open. My PC is acting up so can't upload all my pegboard photos but you get the picture. I purchased the hooks from a online store outlet as they were cheaper as I needed over 500 hooks just for my quilting threads alone and about just as many if not more for my embroidery threads.
Snooze: Do you find your thread gets dusty? I have tons of thread, too, for my embroidery machine....and need to find a better organizing solution....
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