COLORS

Threads--and colors--and makers--
I continued on in my sorting goals yesterday--
and it was time to tackle all my thread collections--
and I have alot of them--
and I am sure too many--but do hate parting with any of them!!!

I worked on the Cosmos threads yesterday and this morning--
I had the whole collection about 4 years ago--(over 450 skeins--)
and probably have nearly all of them yet--
I had picked up colored sandwich bags to sort them in--
the colored bags are yellow, green, blue and red--

I organized each 'set' of colors into a bag and labeled them--
and added the number of the lightest color on the label--
I used to have them all in plastic boxes--

like the ones on the right side of this photo--
but there were a couple different series of colors in each section so each time I had to resort them out when looking for the right shades--
I also do not want to ship all these boxes back--they take too much room in the shipping boxes and the plastic gets broken!!

Then this morning I put all the  colors onto rings--
like this ring is full of bags of blues--

and then put the bags into these reused curtain zippered bags--
I do think I would of liked the regular clear sandwich bags for this project instead of the colored ones--lesson learned!!!

This is my shelf now--

2 large curtain bags of Cosmos embroidery thread and one ring of bagged variegated threads on top--
a large bag of Valdani threads, a box of silk threads, 2 boxes of Classic Colorworks threads and a box of Weeks Dye threads--I don't know if I will be putting these 4 boxes of threads in plastic baggies or not!!!
and I still have--

this large bag of Wildflower threads to decide whether to keep or to send to CA--
I do think I have enough thread collections--
and this doesn't count my applique threads, and hand quilting threads or machine threads!!!
Ouch!! how many different kinds of threads does one 'stitcher' need??????????????

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