A couple of months ago I saw a post in a Facebook group about Acrylic Bobbins. Wow! I loved how sleek and smooth they looked. Someone was making them and selling them on Etsy. This same seller was selling a complete set of vinyl labels with all the DMC #’s. I am a sucker for reorganizing and storage. So I had to go check it out. After chatting with the Seller, I had to order! I couldn’t wait for them to arrive. And when they did, I went right to work. I added the labels to the new acrylic bobbins and spent 2 days unwinding my flosses from the paper and cardboard bobbins and winding them onto the new bobbins.
Just at look at how awesome those bobbins are looking! It was so fun and relaxing winding a skein of each of the colors that are not being used and putting them in the perfect box. When I received my set of bobbins, they arrived in this case:
I was able to find more of these boxes at a local Menards store. I believe that they are available on Amazon. But isn’t everything? LOL. I think that my entire set will fill 3 of these boxes. I tried to leave adequate room for the empty bobbins, but I could end up using a 4th box.
I love how these bobbins look in their boxes and they will look even better some day when I can get the empty bobbins filled. I have 11 or 12 projects in the works with floss in each of them that will eventually make their way onto the empty bobbins. I went back and forth trying to decide if I wanted to wind new flosses onto the empty bobbins, or try to use the 150 floss that are already in projects. I decided to eventually move the existing flosses over to the new bobbins. That means I have to get working on those WIP’s and get them done! Here is my small box of flosses I used for Mermaid Perfume.
I love that the numbers on the bobbins are at top of the bobbin rather than on the side as they were on my paper bobbins. The bobbins on the right have Caron Waterlilies on them. I even tried making my own labels with my brother printer. They will work for now, but the ink is not as crisp as with my purchased labels. If you are interested in these bobbins, the seller is GWStitchinDepot on Etsy. These bobbins are well made and look awesome! She has different quantities available and you can get the bobbins with the hole in the top or without. She also has the labels. If you purchase the labels, I do recommend the dental tool she sells for picking the labels off of the label sheet. I am so happy to know that I won’t need to purchase paper bobbins ever again.
How do you store your threads?
My Time Stitching 
Aren’t DMC colours gorgeous? I use Floss-away bags. Life’s to short to bobbinate LOL. I don’t have much stitching time unfortunately. I also save all the offcut lengths which is hard to do with bobbins. For each of my projects I make a thread card and put a length or two of each colour on it. When I finish the project, I cut the thread card up and put each little piece of card into the relevant Floss-away bag. When you pay up to 96p for a skein then you save every inch LOL
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I love looking at all of the DMC colors. I am very conservative with my floss and use each threaded strand until I can’t anymore. If I don’t use it all, it gets wound back onto the bobbin. I work directly from the bobbin, pulling threads when I need them. I don’t cut extra lengths. We all have our own methods that work and help us use our supplies to the max. Hobbies are too expensive these days.
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These look awesome!
Marilyn
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Thank you. I love them and some day I will get the boxes full 😉
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