I have been making myself embroidery floss swatch books.
These will be very helpful for matching floss to color numbers.
I have a fairly large inventory of DMC cotton embroidery floss that I store in color order.
Typically when I have new floss
I wind it onto floss bobbins. I slip the number tag under the wound floss.
Every so often, I lose a tag and then have no way of knowing the floss color number. Being able to match my floss to a numbered swatch will solve that problem!
For my swatch books, I am using two archival scrapbooks.
For the number system, I was going to use a DMC printed list of their floss numbers but they are adding new ones all the time so to keep my books current, I thought it best to use consecutive numbers from 1 to 5000. I printed strips of numbers:
I glued the strips onto the scrapbook pages and added the floss next to the numbers.
This system is working so well!
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How lovely to have your threads so well organized! They look delicious. It must have been a lot of work to get the system set up.
I use cardboard bobbins so that I can write the colour number on the bobbin. I do slip the tag in as well, but as you say they get lost sometimes. As a thread runs out I tie the last piece onto the tag and I keep this as a reference sample.
Thank you! it WAS a lot of work to set up but I am really pleased with the results. Your cardboard bobbin system is a wonderful solution. I have seen so many beautiful bobbins available too!
will you please do a tutorial on how you did this?
Hi Laci - Yes I will definitely do a tutorial post -- thank you for the suggestion!
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