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How do you organize your thread?
Judy W wrote:
Both my machines run Beautiful no matter what I use, but after what I've been told now by the different dealers, why take the chance? But that's just me. I don't want any trouble with such an expensive machine. I agree. And when you think about it, the thread is actually a pretty small part of the cost of your quilt (or whatever you're sewing) unless you use some very expensive decorative thread to do heavy quilting. Julia in MN -- This message has been scanned for viruses by Norton Anti-Virus http://webpages.charter.net/jaccola/ |
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How do you organize your thread?
Okay, Guess I will chime in. G
Cone thread is on 3 spinner racks (each holds 56 cones, more or less) Most of the rest of the thread (on spools) is in a rolling cart with drawers, 4 drawers each about the size of a shoe box, divided by color family. Decorative threads are in a wider shallower drawer in the same cart, bottom drawer is stabilizers. Woolly nylon is in another organizer, and my Aurifil is usually on the machine. Other colors are on top in the drawers with threads on spools. Invisible thread (SewArt Int. brand) is on one of the cone trees. I don't buy much thread on spools these days. Usually just buying Aurifil, usually in a beige which is what I use mostly. Do have some hand quilting thread somewhere in a bag..... some is on the spindles of my sewing basket, along with the Mettler silk finish, off white. Yes I have a lot of thread...... and I use it. G Pati, in Phx Pat in Virginia wrote: Wow! I thought I'd seen every thread topic ... and lots of threads about organization other than thread. But this thread about organizing thread is new to me. I purchased several boxes intended to store children's miniature cars. Each costs about $5 US. Each one has two sides, with total of about 48 compartments. Capacity varies, depending on size of the spool. One box is for 'regular thread', one for 'metallic' and other specialty thread, including hand quilting thread, while the third box is for rayon and such. I also have a few oversize cones, and store those in a lunch box. PAT in VA/USA Robin wrote: Guess what I'm doing! Do you organize your thread by color, by fiber content, by spool size, by purpose, or do you have so many spools that you can organize it all these ways? Robin |
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How do you organize your thread?
In article .net,
"Judy W" wrote: I went to a different Bernina dealer later today and they said the same thing. Also I have a Viking and the Dealer there told me the same. It's not just the bobbin area it's in the top area of your machine you have to worry about. Both my machines run Beautiful no matter what I use, but after what I've been told now by the different dealers, why take the chance? But that's just me. I don't want any trouble with such an expensive machine. Judy Did you ask why they thought it was so bad? I would be interested to know more than "we think this thread is bad". marcella |
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How do you organize your thread?
Yikes, and I thought I had a lot of thread. I have racks like that too,
organized by color, but not by content (so I have to read the dang things), but the heavy duty is in a plastic thread storage box, the serger cones are on racks by color on the other wall, the wooly nylon is in a box of it's own, the embroidery (rayons & metalics) have their own rack on the embroidery machine table, and then theres a box of misc "these don't fit in any of the above categories" stuff, too. LOL "Leslie & The Furbabies in MO." wrote in message oups.com... Yes! I separate by Coats and Clark standard sewing thread, 100% cotton, rayon, specialty threads, invisible threads, fancies and metallics, heavy duty and hand quilting. Then each section is organized by color. I have well over 400 spools right now, so keeping them well organized is really important to me. Otherwise, I'd be searching forever for that perfect thread! See pics of my thread racks at- http://community.webshots.com/photo/...60435514FiEiAB Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. Robin wrote: Guess what I'm doing! Do you organize your thread by color, by fiber content, by spool size, by purpose, or do you have so many spools that you can organize it all these ways? Robin ------=_NextPart_000_00C2_01C64BAE.01EED5A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Google-AttachSize: 728 !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" HTMLHEAD META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR STYLE/STYLE /HEAD BODY bgColor=#ffffff DIVFONT face=Arial size=2Guess what I'm doing!/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2/FONT /DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2Do you organize your thread by color, by fiber content, by spool size, by purpose, or do you have so many spools that you can organize it all these ways?/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2/FONT /DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2Robin/FONT/DIV/BODY/HTML ------=_NextPart_000_00C2_01C64BAE.01EED5A0-- |
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How do you organize your thread?
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 05:36:52 GMT, "Robin"
wrote: Guess what I'm doing! Do you organize your thread by color, by fiber content, by spool size, by purpose, or do you have so many spools that you can organize it all these ways? Robin By color family. Debra in VA See my quilts at http://community.webshots.com/user/debplayshere |
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How do you organize your thread?
mine are in "piles" according to purpose..
machine thread cotton machine thead poly hand quilting thread silk applique thread |
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How do you organize your thread?
by type - one drawer with regular thread (Mettler or Gutermann) arranged by
row of color family and the other with quilting thread (YLI, Valdani, or Gutermann). Then I have another drawer with embroidery floss and stuff. I gave away all of my Coats and Clark thread. Sharon in Montreal Do you organize your thread by color, by fiber content, by spool size, by purpose, or do you have so many spools that you can organize it all these ways? Robin |
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How do you organize your thread?
They explained it to me but with my memory I won't be able to explain it to
you. I do remember them saying something about the way it is made and the little pieces of thread (or fuss) that comes off of it, jamming your machine. I think for the price of thread verses the price of our machines, it isn't worth taking a chance. Ask your Dealer about it and see what they say. I'm on lots of medications which mess up my thinking process, so it's hard to recall their exact words about it. Judy "Marcella Peek" wrote in message ... In article .net, "Judy W" wrote: I went to a different Bernina dealer later today and they said the same thing. Also I have a Viking and the Dealer there told me the same. It's not just the bobbin area it's in the top area of your machine you have to worry about. Both my machines run Beautiful no matter what I use, but after what I've been told now by the different dealers, why take the chance? But that's just me. I don't want any trouble with such an expensive machine. Judy Did you ask why they thought it was so bad? I would be interested to know more than "we think this thread is bad". marcella |
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How do you organize your thread?
Does anyone know how Teresa Creech is doing? She was the Bernina pro
around here. She and Lori are MIA for a good while now. Taria Judy W wrote: They explained it to me but with my memory I won't be able to explain it to you. I do remember them saying something about the way it is made and the little pieces of thread (or fuss) that comes off of it, jamming your machine. I think for the price of thread verses the price of our machines, it isn't worth taking a chance. Ask your Dealer about it and see what they say. I'm on lots of medications which mess up my thinking process, so it's hard to recall their exact words about it. Judy |
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How do you organize your thread?
When I got my first Viking machine (about 1976) I was told that the dual
duty thread was not a good one to use because of the way the thread is made. The cotton is wrapped around the poly core. There is a tendency for the cotton wrapping to shred, which can leave fibers all over the insides of the machine, top and bobbin area. I use it if I have to, but that isn't usual these days. There are so many brands of thread that are so much less linty and work so well in the machine that there is no need to use the less good ones. G In the last several years I have heard more and more complaints about DD thread too, from people who have used it for years. It seems that quality is going down. For garment sewing I generally use serger thread, unless I need a more exact match for topstitching, then I will buy a spool of Guttermann or Metrosene, (or Mettler Silk Finish Cotton) depending on where I am and what color I need. Pati, in Phx Marcella Peek wrote: In article .net, "Judy W" wrote: I went to a different Bernina dealer later today and they said the same thing. Also I have a Viking and the Dealer there told me the same. It's not just the bobbin area it's in the top area of your machine you have to worry about. Both my machines run Beautiful no matter what I use, but after what I've been told now by the different dealers, why take the chance? But that's just me. I don't want any trouble with such an expensive machine. Judy Did you ask why they thought it was so bad? I would be interested to know more than "we think this thread is bad". marcella |
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