Each ziplock bag has 10 skeins of floss. The bag is split down the sides a little to make it easier to remove and replace the skeins. Each bag has a rectangle of acid free illustration board. One drawback to this system is that the numbers on the skeins are upside down. (I know I could flip them all over.)
I close up the bags by folding the plastic from the front to the back and the plastic from the back to the front. Then I use a small piece of clear tape to hold it in place.
When I want to remove a skein of floss from a bag I don't have to remove the bag from the box.
When I'm searching for "the perfect blue" I can pull out several bags, toss them on the desk, pick out the best one and pull just it from the bag. Then I can quickly put the others back in the box.
And if I ever needed to pack it all up I could lay all of the bags on their sides,
and put the top on the shoe box.
When I have cut thread to store away with a skein I roll it into a tiny skein,
and tuck it in the top band.
When a skein gets too thin and floppy I fold it in half and tuck it into the larger band.
Neat. I organize mine in ziplock bags by by colour family as per the original DMC Floss Card. I find this is the best way of seeing similar colours in case I want to substitute, which I do quite often.
ReplyDeleteIf you do a lot of substituting organizing by colour family makes a lot of sense.
ReplyDeleteBefore I had my "almost full set" (and my DMC colour card!) I used to do a lot of substituting too. What I liked about organizing them this way was that I could pull out several options and put them away quickly, because I didn't pull the individual threads out of the bags until I had narrowed it down to the best matches.
Very cool! I like how you use he larger zip-loc bags, andd how it all fits into one box. Thanks for sharing. :)
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