How to store thread so it stays usable?

[Barbara C.]

I use the super deep, Super Satchel for my cone thread. The thread holder is extra and a separate unit and not needed if using regular size spools. I have a more shallow satchel for regular thread. These plastic storage boxes can be found at, Keepsake Quilting. The brand is, ArtBin and they are acid free.

Barbara

[pigtailpat]

This is a subject dear to my heart, and I just cannot figure our how to CHEAPLY store thread together with the BOBBINS, so I don't have to guess which is what.

Up to now, I have been using the pipe cleaner trick. But, that won't work for bernina's 8 series bobbins [those bobbins have electronics in them to be protected].

Anyone have ideas?

Pat

[Nancy R.]

I use little ziploc bags. I have tiny ones that I've saved from buying crystals and stuff, then supplimented with little cheap ones that I bought on Amazon. The little ones just fit the bobbin inside so that the thread doesn't unwind. Then I use bigger bags that I've saved from everything I buy and put the spool and the bobbin in the bag so they stay together. For cones, I slip the bobbin (in the little ziploc) inside the cone before putting the cone in another bag. Then the bag goes in one of my thread drawers.

This works well for me, but I don't have fancy electronic bobbins. I don't know what the issues are there.

Nancy

[pigtailpat]

You just saved me so much money, time, work and my sanity. The special bobbin can go in the ziplock bag, then I can punch a hole through the ziplock bag, and the pipe cleaner can then thread through the hole, so I can still keep things together.

off to find mini-ziplock bags!

THANK U!

Pat

[Marlyn A.]

I've always heard that sunlight and dust are the two main things to keep your thread away from. I keep my thread in plastic hinged boxes made for scrapbooking/thread storage. Sometimes I can get them with spool storage racks inside and sometimes not. Not all of my spools fit on those special racks, so I don't use them in all my boxes. I've gotten them at JoAnn's and a local craft store. They are stored in a stack on the floor in a spot where the sun doesn't shine on them. The boxes I have are translucent so I can see what colors are inside. I do have them labeled though. Most are sorted by color, but I do have all my Bottom Line together, then a box for metallics, silk, and specialty threads like Glitter, Razzle Dazzle, Halo, rayon and WonderFil Spagetti.

[Marlyn A.]

I keep my bobbins by thread type/brand. So all my Bottom Line are in one bobbin box, all my So Fine in another, all cotton in another, etc. All my bobbins are then kept in a drawer in my sewing machine cabinet. The boxes that have covers are labeled.

[Marlyn A.]

My boxes are Art Bin.

[Renata L.]

I have 830 bobbins. Since I store my presser feet together elsewhere, I replaced the plastic holders in the Bernina presser foot box with bobbin holders for every other row and store my bobbins threads there by row--Aurifil, Bottom Line, etcetera. It keeps the sensors on the bobbins from getting damaged and me organized.