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Hi. Back stitching again after 10 year absence. Looking for more Floss Pockets like I bought 10+ years ago. It was clear plastic pages with 7 pockets to hold floss in original shape, without rewinding on a bobbin. If you know where I can find these, please reply. Thanks.
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That sounds just like Thread Beds, from Organized Stitching. 1-888-222-8250. I’ve started using these, and I like them better than bobbins for long-term storage. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi. Back stitching again after 10 year absence. Looking for more Floss Pockets like I bought 10+ years ago. It was clear plastic pages with 7 pockets to hold floss in original shape, without rewinding on a bobbin. If you know where I can find these, please reply. Thanks.
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I use Popular Mechanics 50 drawer storage cabinet. I have 6 of them. They stack two high very well. They hold all my floss with some storage drawers left over, and I can always expand. For each project I have a small plastic case that holds bobbins and small items, such as needles and scissors, and is portable. These are my preferences, but look around at what is out there. A lot has changed in ten years. Deborah
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Mark, I went to K-mart and bought two "chests" with 60 small drawers each from the hardware department. I bought a package of sticky "dots" in the stationary section. I labeled each drawer with what floss colors were in it, and had plenty of extra room for blending filaments, overdyeds, and button/charm/bead storage. I keep them on a bookshelf, I just adjusted the shelf depth so they would fit. Catherine
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I refuse to wind any more floss bobbins! How do you like to store your floss? I like to be able to see the colors readily and have them in numerical order. I am thinking of something like File-a-Floss boxes or the ThreadBed notebook system? What do you like?
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I’m using those little Ziplocks that go on a ring or two. [Well, I've divided mine into two "booklets" because the collection's getting too big for one.]
I use the Floss Away bags, too, but I put mine in the cardboard Floss Totes made by the same people. A full set of DMC fits easily into 2 boxes. Kreinik metallics, however, go into a plastic box I found at Ben Franklin; it has lots of compartments, and the spools stand on end so I can read the names. Kathy K — X/USA/S/-/-/-/27B/Monolog in Blue, various little things/X,Bw,D,P/E,L/D,S,Od/:-P~ /S/M+/B/b/R-/S/K-/E+/L/G-/Wo/Sam Elliott/David Weber/pizza
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I refuse to wind any more floss bobbins! How do you like to store your floss? I like to be able to see the colors readily and have them in numerical
I have heard the Thread Bed system recommended, looks very nice. I keep my skeins in zip lock baggies, quart sized and labeled, say 1 to 50, 51 to 100, etc, then these are in a couple gallon zip locks. Not the most convenient, but cheap and easy. Richard
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I went to K-mart and bought two "chests" with 60 small drawers each from the hardware department. I bought a package of sticky "dots" in the stationEry section. I labeled each drawer with what floss colors were in it, and had plenty of extra room for blending filaments, overdyeds, and button/charm/bead storage.
I use the same system for my DMC floss, but I have my "parts cabinets" mounted on the sewing room wall, and have 1 color per drawer. Specialty flosses (overdyeds, variegateds, silks, etc) are kept in zipper-style floss bags, with ‘puter-generated paper labels tucked inside, and those stored by colorway in cardboard "dressers" I bought at The Container Store. Kreiniks and embellishments are kept in plastic divider boxes from The Container Store. Materials for WIPs are in zipper-style floss bags with cards showing the symbol and the floss number (and sometimes notes for where it’s used), and are kept in rectangular plastic trays/baskets. Darla Any idiot can face a crisis–it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out. –Anton Chekhov remove clothes to respond
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I refuse to wind any more floss bobbins! How do you like to store your floss? I like to be able to see the colors readily and have them in numerical order. I am thinking of something like File-a-Floss boxes or the ThreadBed notebook system? What do you like?
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I am thinking of something like File-a-Floss boxes or the ThreadBed notebook system?
The F-a-F boxes are very attractive indeed — but the lone thing that I dislike about them is that they do *not* store 100 colors of floss per box — not even close. Now, I have multiple skeins of most colors — anywhere from 2 to 20 — and that is probably a large part of the problem. But I had to buy 17 boxes to hold my entire fiber collection, and they’re fairly pricey. It’s a lovely lovely way to store them but the individual boxes don’t hold a whole lot. FYI. Elizabeth WIP: Antique Doll Sisters from Lanarte "Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity…"
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I always leave them in the skein with wrapper. barbara – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I refuse to wind any more floss bobbins! How do you like to store your floss? I like to be able to see the colors readily and have them in numerical order. I am thinking of something like File-a-Floss boxes or the ThreadBed notebook system? What do you like?
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Years ago, before there were Thread Beds, my sister and I devised a system for storing floss. We got the sheets from the photography shops that are for storing negative strips, and we used a pencil with an eraser on the end to push/pull each skein into its little ’sleeve’. It was time consuming at the beginning, but aren’t any systems? I have the entire set of DMC filed in four large binders on the book shelf. They are all filed in numerical order. Gillian – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I refuse to wind any more floss bobbins! How do you like to store your floss? I like to be able to see the colors readily and have them in numerical order. I am thinking of something like File-a-Floss boxes or the ThreadBed notebook system? What do you like?
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Sorry—didn’t finish the thought— then they are organized, not in plastic, in drawers of a large box in numerical order. I am moving them into my new cabinet when it comes, It ought to be larger than the one I have which is more like a colonial spice box. barbara – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I always leave them in the skein with wrapper. barbara I refuse to wind any more floss bobbins! How do you like to store your floss? I like to be able to see the colors readily and have them in numerical order. I am thinking of something like File-a-Floss boxes or the ThreadBed notebook system? What do you like?
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I refuse to wind any more floss bobbins! How do you like to store your floss? I like to be able to see the colors readily and have them in numerical order. I am thinking of something like File-a-Floss boxes or the ThreadBed notebook system? What do you like?
I’m using those little Ziplocks that go on a ring or two. [Well, I've divided mine into two "booklets" because the collection's getting too big for one.] — Seanette Blaylock X/USA/H+/-/-/1C(HFM Felix)/1B/Cat-a-Tudes "Priorities", Janlynn/XNCr/-/-/-/S/-/-/-/ Bombeck, Jeff Foxworthy/CHOCOLATE! 
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I refuse to wind any more floss bobbins! How do you like to store your floss?
I use the Floss Away bags and use a red and white checked box called a Floss Tote that is sold by Nordic Needle. It holds about 300 of the bags and is really cheap. Right now it is on sale (page S7 of the new catalog) for $6.36. The bags stand on end and I used return address labels to make my own DMC/Anchor floss labels (you can buy these from NN too). I put them at the end of the bag (not on the while place it is supposed to go) and then I can see the numbers very easily. When I’m doing a project, I pull the bags and keep them on a ring. I have a Gazelle floor stand and the ring goes on a little peg. However, since I just bought one of the needle organizers from Herrschner’s, I may not put them on a ring — just leave them in the box until I need to rethread needles. I’ll have to experiment and see what works best. I tried the bobbins and the Lo-Ran organizer, but this is what I like best I’m really happy with my little system. )) Cathy D. WIP’s Home for Christmas stocking (going to be finished this year!) Heritage of Golf Set of home town buildings designed by a local artist. Santa of the Forest & getting ready for TW’s Wedding Sampler