Simple Girl Simple Solution – Organizing Embroidery Floss

June 3, 2013 By susan 8 Comments

My mom came to visit last year and asked if she could help me with anything. So being the thoughtful daughter that I am, I immediately put her to work on a task I’d been wanting to tackle for years. Thanks, Mom!

I was so excited to get my mom started before she changed her mind that I forgot to take a before picture. Let me just set the stage. I have enough embroidery floss to be a pain but not enough to justify a fancy floss organizer. I had been storing them all wadded up in a plastic bag. Ugh.

We cut index cards into a size that would fit neatly into an extra plastic container I already had.

We cut a slit in the side of each card to hold the tail of the thread. We wrapped the floss around the card with a separate card for each different shade of floss.

The cards where organized in the container in ROY G. BIV order (of course).

We used the cards to organize the smaller pieces of floss. The larger pieces of floss were stacked on the right side of the container. This way it’s easy to sort through the cards looking for a small piece that I might need for a small project (like the Felt Book Hugger Bookmarks {here} and {here}) by just flipping through the cards like you flip through file folders.

I store the small floss organizer card that I use for projects and a pack of needles on the top.

Organized 31 - Organizing Embroidery Floss

No more plastic bag of tangled embroidery floss. My little organized box makes me smile. Thanks, Mom!

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Simple Girl – Simple Solution Organizing Scarves

October 8, 2012 By susan 4 Comments

I don’t have all that many scarves, but I could never find a good way to organize them.

Don’t like them neatly folded in a drawer.
Don’t like them tied to a bar.
Don’t like them hanging on a hook.
Don’t like them on the wall.
Don’t like them when they fall.
(Oh, Dr. Seuss, what influence you have had.)

A couple of months ago, I stood in my kitchen looking at one of those plastic ring holders for a 6-pack of Gatorade bottles or soda cans. I usually choose drinks in packaging specifically to avoid those rings. (Remember 20 years ago when we worried that wild animals were getting strangled in those rings that were being thrown out?) But somehow this one made it into my home. I was about to cut all the rings open (so I wouldn’t be the cause of any sweet little animals being strangled) but stood for a moment wondering how I could repurpose it.