I’ve had a little break from posting over Christmas and New Year, I’ve been pretty busy though, both sewing and trying to sort my sewing room out a bit.

One of my Christmas presents was a bobbin storage unit from Creations by Rod, this is my third unit, they’re designed to fit in a Ikea Kallax unit. I’ve got one with DMC threads in, just before Christmas I treated myself to a set of bobbins by Pip and Chip, this was a big treat as they’re not cheap. I love them though, they’re acrylic bobbins, each probably a couple of millimetres thick, with the number and colour of each DMC thread at one end. I spent several evenings transferring my threads onto the new bobbins…

I’m using the second unit for other types of embroidery thread, I seem to have acquired quite a bit over the last couple of years and my mum’s old floss box was falling apart and not well designed for my needs, so I’ve started winding all the other threads onto bobbins too. At the moment I’m arranging these in colour groups, as they’re ones I use for embroidery, I may change my mind and go for thread types but I’ll just see what works best. Here’s my green threads so far…

There’s all sorts of different thread types such as chenille, metallic, stranded, perle. There’s one group of threads which are proving difficult to wind onto a bobbin, they are beautiful variegated threads but they’re twisted into a large hank and they’re proving tricky as they’re tangling a lot. Unfortunately I’ve got about twenty hanks – and they’re 50m each!

There’s five drawers in each cabinet and I also have one with very shallow drawers which I use for dies, templates, rulers, rotary blades etc. One day I will paint all the fronts and make them pretty …

…one day I will be organised!