Thread & Bobbin Organisation

I don’t sew all that much but still I manage to accumulate quite a few threads and bobbins. They used to just sit in my sewing box unravelling and getting tangled. So I placed them all in a large snap lock bag and the bobbins in a bobbin case.

This was fine but I was still finding that they were unravelling especially the bobbins. I also hated trying to find the matching spool and bobbin. Navy blue is very similar to black when sewing at night!

So this time I individually bagged the thread and matching bobbin in a small sized bag:

This works so well. A few things I learnt after this exercise:

• ·         It’s so much easier to match a thread to a fabric as I can just grab all the threads closest to the fabric
• ·         I had double threads or bobbins for the same colour (which I wasn’t aware of)
• ·         The unravelling of thread and bobbins were minimised

 It’s so much neater, don’t you think?