I have mentioned before that there are a lot of storage systems for floss. Frankly, anything works as long as you don’t need to pull a bit off the skein and use it with the resultant catch of potential leftovers.
After going through bobbins, DMC Stitchbows and floss-a-way bags, with a brief foray into floss drops, I have settled on a lovely system developed by Unplanned Peacock. I have a master set with a few back up skeins groups by numbers in zippered bags (Amazon has wayyy too many easy to buy options). For the last couple of days, I have been restocking my hanging floss, sorting out all the skeins stashed here and there ruthlessly. That translates as scraggy, snarled, too short, or unidentifiable gets tossed. One of the reasons I can do that is that DMC floss is not all that expensive/skein in the US. From the two main box stores in my area the price rangers from $0.40-0.62/skein. Compare that to L1.75/skein that the good people at one of the craft stores in Edinburgh were charging. I don’t need to have a collection of “floss bits too short to use.” Now, if this was Gloriana silk at more than $8.xx/skein I might well be tempted to treasure every fragment.
But really, I have more floss on hand than I can realistically use in my life time unless I decided to use multiple strands of floss as hair on stuffed dolls/critters or macramé. And that last disaster? Let me just leave you with the idea that I survived the 60s & 70s without falling down that particular rabbit hole and see no reason to go there now.
Between the Olympics and sorting/measuring/cutting floss I haven’t gotten a whole lot of stitching done. Probably somewhere between 200-350 stitches today. I am trying to manage a small bit every day, but relaxing on the couch and interrupting George as he reads more on-line newspapers is much more fun.
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