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Calling all sewing machinists
Bunny200
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How do you store all your reels of thread? I have a piece of wood with rods on which I slide the reels onto but I have too many reels and the others get tangled and my sewing box is too small to hold many. How do you organise all your bits and bobs?
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How do you store all your reels of thread? I have a piece of wood with rods on which I slide the reels onto but I have too many reels and the others get tangled and my sewing box is too small to hold many. How do you organise all your bits and bobs?
LOL! I may not be the best person to ask...I have a kitchen size drawer with lots of my threads on end. They're the 1000m, size, so I can see the colour. Then I have some separate video tape boxes sorted by colour. I have loads, but don't always have the right colour still.[SIZE=-1]"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad"[/SIZE]
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When i worked as a machinist, we used to stand them upright on there ends in a biscuit tin or sweet tin, this was the normal size reels and you fit loads in
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I keep them in my sewing box (like this but 30+ years old http://www.thimble.ca/images/box1.jpg)
- I buy 1000m reels & currently have my usual 'basic' selection:
white black navy light blue pink brown dk green goldish
red neutral/beige
these cover me for just about eveything. I do have cream & burgundy at the moment: left over from something or other!I can cook and sew, make flowers grow.0 -
I use a couple of those wooden boxes of drawers from IKEA, which fit on a shelf of a bookcase.[0
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Biscuit tin. Once you get a lot of reels, you need lots of biscuit tins, one for each colour group.
As to getting tangled, most standard sizes of reels have either a notch in one end or a double end arrangement. As long as you secure the loose tail in one of these, the ends won't tangle. If you have big reels, use an elastic band to keep the end under control.Val.0 -
Biscuit tin for me too, I'm afraid. Thanks for the tip val. I will use the notch in future.0
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