Organized DMC Floss

As I started preparing for my next cross-stitching project, I realized that I had started organizing my floss and never finished! So this made finding each floss I needed much more difficult...SO this week I was determined to get this procrastinated project completed! Or atleast near to it, lol ;o)

Here are all the flosses I have on bobbins already:

Here are the flosses that need to be sorted and put on bobbins with corresponding number stickers:

After all of these were on bobbins I needed to organize all the bobbins into numeric order into the little "dressers" I bought for them, mind you, I have quite the collection. This had been done with several of the bobbins I had done already, but a pair of unnamed two year olds attacked that set up and alas, it had to be redone! They also had taken the numbers off of many of the flosses that were not wound yet so that meant alot of figuring out what number went to what! Being blessed, I was only left with a couple unknown numbers, YAY!!

Here are all the bobbins that needed to be put in order, I placed bobbins as I was winding them into baggies in order to make later sorting a bit easier ;o)

And here is what my organized floss looks like! The two dressers hold one bobbin of each color I own, the green box holds all the floss doubles, cross-stitching beads, and extra bobbins & floss numbers. The plastic box in the lower left corner is the box I use to have the colors for one project on hand, as you can see it is set up for the next project :o) I also have my extra needles and small scissors in the box.

For other lovers of crafts that involve floss, here is a great page to print DMC Floss Inventory that lists all of the numbers that DMC makes.

And here is a link for a DMC Thread Conversion Chart that is great for comparison to other brand floss or to help find a replacement color for a floss number you don't have.

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