The Shelves of Doom

The great sewing room tidy up continues with the dreaded bookcase. My room is too small to stand back and take a full photo and I still have to sort out all the paper & patterns...

But I have finished organising all my threads etc and now the top shelves look a lot better...

I did have all my DMC thread on bobbins sorted by number, but I only ever use DMC for adding embroidery details to quilt projects etc, so filing by colour seemed to make much more sense to me.

Duplicate full skeins are in zip lock bags in this pretty box, and I have a colour thread chart if I need to find a particular number quickly.

Thanks to everyone who suggested storing silk threads in floss-away bags, they are too expensive to leave in a tangled heap in a box! These are by brand name and colour number on rings.

 AVAS have their own special box, with room for growth!

Hand dyed cottons are loosely arranged by colour family in this box

Beads, trim, braids etc are in the three 'Marken' boxes

The beautiful sampler boxes were purchased over a period of several years at craft shows when I lived in Holland from the Kunst & Vliegwerk stand, they are still available HERE. The duck egg boxes were bought in the Laura Ashley sale. My mother gave me the little statue years ago as it reminded her of me and my two boys...