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How do you organize your thread?
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?
Cotton thread in one plastic storage unit and cotton poly in another. Easy
for me since that's all I have other than one rayon spool that sits all by itself. -- Mary http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948 "Robin" wrote in message et... 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?
LOL! I have two terracotta pots which were covered in tissue paper and decorated with ribbons and sequins for a party. One holds cotton the other poly!
-- Sharon from Melbourne Australia (Queen of Down Under) http://www.geocities.com/shazrules/craft.html (takes a while to load) http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/shazrules/my_photos (same as website but quicker) "Robin" wrote in message et... 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?
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?
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...75796722akuHwr
I have two IKEA bookcases back to back and each shelf has two cheap plastic drawer units. Threads are sorted by thread content and colour in one bookcase (polys and cottons separated in drawers and rayons in the small boxes at the top, then sorted by colour) and all the beading stuff is in the other bookcase, mostly in screw top plastic pill containers. -- Cats ^;;^ ^;;^ ^;;^ ( U ) ( U ) ( U ) Enness Boofhead Donut http://community.webshots.com/user/witchofthewest catsatararatATyahooDOTcomDOTau "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?
OMG, I need more coffee. I read this as "How do you organize your head."
sigh, I need a day off. Paulette in WV "Robin" wrote in message et... 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?
I meant to reply to group.
The Bernina People told me that Coats and Clarks was the worst thread you could use on your machine. Can anyone back that up? That was all I ever bought, but now I'm changing over to a better thread since my son bought me a new Bernina Artista 730. I still don't know how to use it though. I can sew but haven't tried to hook it up to the PC yet. It kind of scares me. Judy "Cats" wrote in message ... http://community.webshots.com/photo/...75796722akuHwr I have two IKEA bookcases back to back and each shelf has two cheap plastic drawer units. Threads are sorted by thread content and colour in one bookcase (polys and cottons separated in drawers and rayons in the small boxes at the top, then sorted by colour) and all the beading stuff is in the other bookcase, mostly in screw top plastic pill containers. -- Cats ^;;^ ^;;^ ^;;^ ( U ) ( U ) ( U ) Enness Boofhead Donut http://community.webshots.com/user/witchofthewest catsatararatATyahooDOTcomDOTau "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?
In article . net,
"Judy W" wrote: I meant to reply to group. The Bernina People told me that Coats and Clarks was the worst thread you could use on your machine. Can anyone back that up? That was all I ever bought, but now I'm changing over to a better thread since my son bought me a new Bernina Artista 730. I still don't know how to use it though. I can sew but haven't tried to hook it up to the PC yet. It kind of scares me. Judy I don't know about the worst thread. Sounds a little extreme to me. I do think it's a lot fuzzier than other thread. Unroll a piece and look at it under your trusty magnifying glass. For the regular, all purpose thread the ones I get at Joanns there are always lots of little hairs sticking out. fuzz. Fills up the bobbin case with fuzz after very little sewing. I could see this being a problem with those sewing people who don't clean out their bobbin cases or clean their machine regularly. Because the all purpose stuff is poly core coated with cotton I don't use it for piecing because I am a cotton thread girl when it comes to that. It's just my thing. I know that there are some hand quilters who really like their hand quilting thread. So, it could be that the quality of their thread varies or it could be that the fuzz isn't an issue for hand quilting. I dunno. I always found it great for sewing kids halloween costumes though. marcella |
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How do you organize your thread?
I have a lot of Coats and Clark cotton covered poly thread left from my
garment and curtain sewing days. I use it for piecing on my bed quilts. The HairyButt Gang is very hard on my bed quilts and they only last a year or two. I don't worry about the poly with that short life. I use 100% cotton or rayon threads for all other quilting purposes- my "masterpieces". They deserve good thread. Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. Marcella Peek wrote: In article . net, "Judy W" wrote: I meant to reply to group. The Bernina People told me that Coats and Clarks was the worst thread you could use on your machine. Can anyone back that up? That was all I ever bought, but now I'm changing over to a better thread since my son bought me a new Bernina Artista 730. I still don't know how to use it though. I can sew but haven't tried to hook it up to the PC yet. It kind of scares me. Judy I don't know about the worst thread. Sounds a little extreme to me. I do think it's a lot fuzzier than other thread. Unroll a piece and look at it under your trusty magnifying glass. For the regular, all purpose thread the ones I get at Joanns there are always lots of little hairs sticking out. fuzz. Fills up the bobbin case with fuzz after very little sewing. I could see this being a problem with those sewing people who don't clean out their bobbin cases or clean their machine regularly. Because the all purpose stuff is poly core coated with cotton I don't use it for piecing because I am a cotton thread girl when it comes to that. It's just my thing. I know that there are some hand quilters who really like their hand quilting thread. So, it could be that the quality of their thread varies or it could be that the fuzz isn't an issue for hand quilting. I dunno. I always found it great for sewing kids halloween costumes though. marcella |
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How do you organize your thread?
In article . net,
"Judy W" wrote: The Bernina People told me that Coats and Clarks was the worst thread you could use on your machine. Can anyone back that up? That was all I ever bought, but now I'm changing over to a better thread since my son bought me a new Bernina Artista 730. I still don't know how to use it though. I can sew but haven't tried to hook it up to the PC yet. It kind of scares me. Judy, lots of people like C&C, but it's not my favorite, since it tends to be quite linty. I much prefer Aurifil, which is very fine (50/2) and has almost no lint at all. HTH. -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education |
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