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  1. My poor threads are still living in a shoe box. I have a thread holder just no where to set it up. 🙁 :(. I love your thread holders & that you can keep the bobbins with the reels.

  2. The 3D printed one is a good idea…. just need to send my children to high school so they can make me one! In the meantime my threads live in clear thread boxes which keeps the dust off the ones I use less often.

  3. mine are stored very similar to yours (and handmade by Hubz) but in a drawer ….. so convenient in those to see the colours easily and not have threads tangled…
    Hugz

  4. Your dad and my Paul would have gotten along together well! Paul made something similar for me, when I had the longarm. However, I wound up buying mostly cones for that, so he put up a second-hand shelf unit we bought from a business to hold the cones, and I stacked my bobbins on the thread holder, like colors together, since it usually takes several bobbins to get through a quilt.

    Now, I mostly use cones for my top thread, wind 5 bobbins at a time from that and store them in the case behind my machine bed, so they are always easily available. I do have a small dowel thing that came from Fat Quarter Shop in a Sew Sampler, back when I got those. I have a few small spools of Aurifil colors that I keep on that. I’ll send you a pic of how I keep my embroidery threads. You will laugh.

  5. Brilliant idea & I did have one similar once, but it was poorly made & fell apart eventually. Your Dad’s would last forever!! I need something like that for my cones for Bubs. You know where I keep my sewing machine cotton, though. The laser cut one is interesting. Thanks for sharing & take care.

  6. Most of mine are stored in a wall unit my husband made…envision a picture frame for the outside (he made it, but that’s what it looks like)…he inserted ‘shelves’ made of probably 1 1/2″ dowels and then drilled holes along the thicker dowel to insert shorter smaller thickness of dowels to hold the spools. When he affixed the thick dowel to the frame he put it on another small piece of dowel so they tilt in and out as I need them to. On the bottom he made two shelves that are solid. I just wish he’d made it bigger because it’s full and I have more stored in a drawer which isn’t ideal.

  7. I love the vertical dowel idea – but not sure where I’d put it. And a Guterman wall would be fun…but
    Mine are stored in empty Ferrero Rocher choc boxes – the rectangular ones and (of course) colour coordinated and 4 of those fit in a drawer from an old bedside table. Bobbins go in a bobbin case that has a soft spongy thing in it with cut outs to hold the bobbins – they never fall out.
    Then there are the machine embroidery threads – that is where I’d love to keep a bobbin with the thread…might work on that. Thanks for the great ideas.

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