Winding Threads

As well as knitting simple blanket squares when I was a little under the weather, I wound lots of skeins of embroidery floss onto bobbins and filed them neatly in my thread boxes. I've bought quite a few new colours lately, so my thread collection has expanded from one box to two:

There's a big rainbow of "random" floss from all sorts of different shops and brands, and then the colours to the right of the second box are all DMC threads with the bobbins neatly labelled with the shade numbers.

I love how pretty and cheerful the boxes of thread look, and having the thread wound on the bobbins makes it much easier to find the colours I want in my stash and to use (and store) the thread without it tangling.

I'm also slowly winding bobbins with the shades from the embroidery thread pack I sell in my shops, so I can use them in some new product images in the spring...

This is one of those jobs that's been on my to do list for ages - it feels great to be finally getting on with it!

Back in Stock: Embroidery Supplies + Christmas Felt

Thanks to a delivery of supplies yesterday, a few lovely things are now back in stock in my main shop, as well as my Etsy and Folksy shops.

The rainbow embroidery thread (floss) bundles are back after being unavailable for a couple of months. 

I also sell embroidery thread boxes and bobbins so you can organise your threads like this...

... since winding all my threads on bobbins like that, I've found it much easier to find the colours I want & there's no more wasting time untangling knotted thread (hurrah!).

The 3 inch (7.5cm) embroidery hoops are also back in stock (I got some of these in a couple of weeks ago but they sold out pretty quickly). These are great for framing all your smallest stitcheries, and they're small enough for making Christmas ornaments too.

Plus the Christmas felt packs are back, ready for lots of festive crafting!

Each pack contains a selection of wool blend felt squares in greens (for Christmas trees, holly & ivy) browns (for Christmas puddings & reindeer), white (for icing, snowmen & snow), reds (for santa hats, candy canes & berries) and ginger (for gingerbread men & gingerbread houses).

If you're looking for some festive inspiration, check out my Christmas Tutorials page for lots of free felt ornament tutorials and other crafty projects.

There are also four cute Christmas projects in my book, Super-Cute Felt...

... a gingerbread cookie garland, embroidery hoop ornaments, a snowglobe doorhanger, and embroidered mitten ornaments. I made a set of the cookies as ornaments for my mum last year and I'm now under orders to sew a set for both my sisters!

Signed copes of Super-Cute Felt are available from my shop, and it's also available (unsigned) from Amazon UK and Amazon USA (and many other bookshops, of course!).

A Rainbow of Embroidery Thread

I finished winding all my embroidery thread onto those cardboard bobbins...

Next came the fun part: sorting it into colour order to make an embroidery thread rainbow!

The rainbow is pretty (oh so pretty!) but also practical as I can see at a glance what colours I've got in my stash.

If you fancy organising your own embroidery thread stash, I've added some boxes to the craft supplies section on my website. There are large boxes...

... and small ones too:

Each box comes with lots of card bobbins for winding your thread, but I've also got packs of card and plastic bobbins you can buy separately if you fancy organising your threads neatly but already have a box to keep them in.

Over in my Etsy shop you can buy sets of boxes + embroidery thread: a large box & 72 skeins of thread, or a small box and 36 skeins of thread. Here's one I wound earlier:

Untangling Threads

I have a horrid cold. Ugh.

So yesterday I took the day off and watched lots of murder mysteries (and a vampire movie) and made a start on sorting through my stash of embroidery thread, untangling it all and winding it neatly onto little cardboard bobbins.

So neat! It's taking a while to work my way through all my threads, but it will be totally worth it :)