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Let’s Get Organized — Thread Drawer, Part 2 — 19 Comments

  1. This is what I am looking for.i like it a lot I will try to find the cabinet and do this. Best thing I saw lately thank you suzanne

    • I hope this works out for you. I just saw a smaller cabinet online at Michaels that I ordered. It looks for similar to the Ikea cabinet and I’m hoping it will fit under my sewing table.

  2. What a brilliant idea! I’m definitely pinning this for the future. It solves the problem of shuffling through three drawers of thread! Thanks so much!

  3. This is great! Do you think it will work for the tall serger thread ? Of course using a taller drawer. I have my server threads in jo ann plastic boxes and is not working for me.

    • You might need to use dowels rather than the long golf tees. I use Aurifil thread for quilting and the spools are just a little too long to fit on the golf tees along with the bobbin. Not a problem, I just store the bobbin on a tee next to the thread. Thanks for commenting Maris!

  4. My organizer is a board the same width and length of a drawer. We drew a grid on the 1″ deep board . Nails were pounded in at each point of the grid, threads are organized according to color. Each spool of thread holds a matching thread spool on top. I refill the spools if low in thread before I store them..

  5. Why not use the point of the tee and load the bobbin and then the spool. Then stick the tee into the board! Would need a spacer underneath the board for clearance but there would not be any pointy ends sticking up and no gluing?

  6. I really like this idea. I bought an art bin thread holder and it is a waste of money. It would be great for skinny spools I suppose. I just put the thread back into the plastic boxes I get in the finishing stuff that I store all kinds of stuff in.

    • I love my thread drawers. You lose a little storage in the back of the drawer but worth it. I also bought one of those plastic thread storage boxes and was disappointed. This works for me. I keep my cotton quilting threads in one drawer and my regular polyester sewing threads in the second.

  7. Fabulous! If you put some temporary spacers and another piece of pegboard on top of that, the tees would glue straighter. Then remove when glue has dried…

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