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Stitching & Crafting Room:  Embroidery / keeping it neat while;  |
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pinkroses
True Blue Farmgirl
2350 Posts
Sheila
Virginia
USA
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 Posted - Apr 27 2012 : 11:56:10 AM
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stitching/
the threaded needles that is
and hand quilting
How do you girls keep it neat while working?
I have such a tangled mess sometimes.
Maybe I don't per pare my work as neatly as I should
I get to impatent to jump in and start.
so,
How do you all keep it neat !!!
Need tips.
I have started using a little plastic baggie to put the "snips" in. ha hugs sheila
http://www.sheilascreativetouches.blogspot.com/
http://www.ohkayteagirl2.blogspot.com |
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nut4fabric
True Blue Farmgirl
885 Posts
Kathy
Morgan Hill
CA
USA
885 Posts |
Posted - Apr 27 2012 : 12:41:16 PM
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I keep my threaded "working" needles stuck in a piece of fabric, the threads I am using on their bobbins in a baggie. The little snips go on the floor. LOL
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pinkroses
True Blue Farmgirl
2350 Posts
Sheila
Virginia
USA
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nut4fabric
True Blue Farmgirl
885 Posts
Kathy
Morgan Hill
CA
USA
885 Posts |
Posted - Apr 27 2012 : 4:10:45 PM
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I have a sewing room but embroider in the family room most of the time. The sewing room is a diaster but I DO know where everything is. Slowly destashing the fabric collection which is helping.
Kathy |
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gentlewoman farmer
True Blue Farmgirl
66 Posts
Judy
Bakersfield
Ca
USA
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Posted - Apr 27 2012 : 8:29:55 PM
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your work is beautiful. I'm not too neat with my work. I sit on the sofa and spread everything around me. The husband and dog has to stay away, or help me find things. My needles and hooks fall between the cushions often. The husband says it looks like a fire drill when I settle in to do my hand work. I'm 71 ys old, so I guess I'll not change. This way the husband gets to participate in my crafting. It's really a family deal when the dog gets into it with us. HOHOHO
Be good to yourself and be good to this earth.
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22angel
True Blue Farmgirl
498 Posts
Pam
Manitoba
Canada
498 Posts |
Posted - Apr 28 2012 : 07:55:07 AM
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If you cut off a length of embroidery thread, separate it all before threading your needles. That way they don't get twisty & wrapped up all together & make a big mess & knots everywhere. Also, have a pincushion there just for your needles. I have a little tin (like a candy tin) that I put little scissors in, extra needles, threaders (if I need), "extras" of thread or whatever. Keeps it a little more contained.
Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself.
"When I grow up, I want to be dirt." seen on a box through construction in Wyoming 2010 |
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pinkroses
True Blue Farmgirl
2350 Posts
Sheila
Virginia
USA
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Annie S
True Blue Farmgirl
756 Posts
Annie
Custer
S.D.
USA
756 Posts |
Posted - May 01 2012 : 10:28:54 AM
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| I do the same thing, Pam. Found a really cute very small basket at Goodwill for .50 and I put my scissors, cutter, thread, needle threader, etc. in that on the table next to my chair in my craft room along with a pin cushion (very handy). Have some of my threads wound around bobbins in a container, but others are in plastic bags to keep dust off of them. I also have a bigger basket that I put my piece of work along with my pin cushion and little basket so everything is in one place. |
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