Embroidery floss organization

DMC 100% Cotton Embroidery Floss is double mercerized and comprised of 6 easily separated strands, so you can customize its thickness.

Wishing your craft room looked like all the gorgeous ones you see on Pinterest? I was, too, but my crafting

In April I got the itch to, once again, re-organize my embroidery floss. It was getting harder and harder to keep my collection of colors restricted to only one box. And if I was using a particular color fairly heavily, I would run out so quickly because I had made the bobbins as thin as possible. The situation was frustrating. The only alternative I could see was to combine all of my colors (in most instances two bobbins of each color) into two boxes instead of just one. But why stop there…

After a few days I finally get my threads organized. I have "cheap" thread (no brand at all) that I use for small projects or for household needs. Then I have DMC and Omega threads. I had too much of those, so I had to separated them in two boxes. One with reds and pinks (I don't know why I have a lot of these colors) and the rest of the colors. Check how to do this clicking here! My threads organized! I wrote down the code on one side of the chipboard. This way I know what color I was…

Flossbook pages are designed to make your thread collection a joy to work with. They make it easy to find the number that you are looking for, quick to pull out a single strand and they keep your embroidery floss collection neat, tidy and compact. Simply follow the provided instructions or the video linked below, to fill your pages. Soon enough, you will be flicking through all the coloured floss for your project, admiring all the straight little rows of colour. Simply pull one strand out at…

How Do You Keep Your Floss Organized? My first experience with floss was a tangled up mess of embroidery thread in my mother’s sewing bask...

A quick start to the week here, with a little “hack” for embroidery floss organization! This is a terrific idea from Brenda, a reader who sent along some photos of how she’s been keeping her collection of DMC floss organized for some 30 years. If you have a large collection of floss – say, a ...

Ideas for how to organize embroidery floss and a video on how DMC floss is made.

A colorful storage solution for skeins of embroidery floss