AlleyCat is normally quite the busy body, always into everything, always has to be supervising or assisting in my duties. I started organizing my threads earlier in the week, but quickly gave up as I knew that I needed a few more containers, from where else? the Container Store! Starting off the baseball morning with the Diamondbacks & Tigers, which was a great game by the way, I thought I would get busy and work on my threads. I had already done my shopping for new containers, so I was ready. I got all set up and sooner that later certain 4 legged people, not mentioning any names now will we AlleyCat? have their noses and paws right in the middle of the action. So to occupy her and get her out of my threads, she got her very own Kreinik to play with! Now she doesn’t know that it is empty as she has the greatest time entertaining herself and me too!

Now do you remember this pile of threads last week?

It soon starting looking like this! I borrowed this idea from Brenda R., my beading mentor and it works for me. I have the sections by color and being that I know allot of my Krienik numbers, if I am looking for white, I will look in the white section and ooh do I want 032? or 100? or the new white 5760 which is quickly becoming a favorite of mine.

Another container of threads. These are Ruth’s threads, colorful and wonderful! I keep hers together for when I need them again.

I have several of these containers close at hand in my working area. It is a little closet off the kitchen which I think should be my pantry, but since I don’t cook, why not use it for my threads? The Rainbow Gallery cards won’t allow the containers to close tightly, but 2 across fit just right on a shelf! I really like these containers as I can open it and see all the colors at once! I can quickly look to see if I need a red, or an orange red or a blue or a… Once a I decide on the color, then I can really hone in on just the “purrfect” shade for the piece. Then I have several more containers in stitching closet organized  some by color, others by thread type and then by overdyes.

Soon the game was over and the threads were put put away and organized. After a little lunch I went to work on the Mac with stitch guides and more stitch guides. I am sure you can’t guess who is supervising? and until next time…keep on stitching