Embroidery floss bobbins diy

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Make Your Own Bobbins for Embroidery or Crochet Thread With Only What You Have Around the House: I embroider and crochet a lot. I make and sell kippot (Jewish head-coverings) and belts and wall hangings... and so I have a million different colors of thread around. But they get tangled if I try to cut off a piece from the way they're packaged wh…

One great way to keep your floss collection from turning into a tangled mess is to wind your skeins onto bobbins. But then how do you identify the floss color? For patterns that use subtle shifts i…

Plastic bobbins tend to be annoying to label, but I like to tape my thread labels right onto the bobbin. Take a look and see how I do it!

Step 2: Remove the paper wrapper from the skein and carefully open it up so that the floss makes a loop. Sometimes you'll have to pull part of the string from one side to the other to open up the loop. I write the number of the floss on the bobbin; I also cut a small piece of the string and tape it to the bobbin.

Print out thread organizer cards for keeping your embroidery floss tidy while working on a stitching project.

Floss bobbins, which can be used to store floss or pearl cotton, come in decorative versions made of plastic, heavy cardboard, wood, or mother-of-pearl. For an attractive and inexpensive alternative,…

Embroidery floss is one of those supplies that seems to sneak up on you. I did for me. I'd buy a couple of skeins for a project here, then a half-dozen for another project there. I'll tell myself that I'd wind them onto the little cardboard bobbins, and organize them into binders or boxes, but more

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