All Packed Up

When I bought the embroidery books and hoops that I told you about in Hoop Dee Dah, I naturally bought more embroidery floss.  Well, I had to, because it was on sale.

This is the new floss I bought, twenty skeins.  Are they called skeins?  Anyhow, this is how they always start out, nice and parallel. 

 

This is what my old stash looked like when I took it out of the drawer.  I didn't try to make it messy, either!!!  No way was I going to put my nice new parallel lines of floss into the piggy drawer.  I need a new system.  But what???

This is one of the new pigs that recently joined the sounder.  He tells me he has an idea on what to do.  I'm all ears.

Sorry, I misunderstood.  I thought he meant he had an organizing solution.  We better leave this to me.  This calls for another shopping trip...

This is my 3-ring binder.  They sure make some cute binders nowadays.  I'm going to store my floss inside the cute binder, so that every time I open it, I get excited, instead of annoyed with a piggy drawer.

This is the storage solution.  You wrap the floss around the cardboard bobbin, tuck the bobbin in a slot of the plastic sheet, then file the plastic sheet in the cute binder.

Monday night I wound 58 bobbins in four hours.  (I couldn't help it; I had to keep track.)

Let me tell you why I'm glad I did this:

• I got rid of intra-floss tangles: Some of the paper on the old skeins was really stuck to the floss and pulling on the tail just wasn't working.  How frustrating that would be, to be needing another little piece of floss, and then running into a tangle when you go to get more!  It would destroy your embroidery karma. 
• I got rid of inter-floss tangles:  You were there - you saw the picture from the piggy drawer. 
• The floss is easily accessible.
• You can see at a glance which colors are heavily represented, and which aren't.  I found out I have LOTS of green.
• I learned  which colors have enduring appeal to me.  There were four new ones that were the exact match of ones I already had.

So here it is - all packed up and ready for me to go embroider.