One of my favorite ways to spend time when life's been unsteady is to over-organize my belongings. This Threads and Bobbins Project has been on my radar for years.
I've got around 50 spools of thread, each with their matching bobbin. My previous organizing system involved spool toppers that held the bobbin to the top of its matching spool of thread. The problem with the system is that because the spools are not of even height, the lids to my thread boxes wouldn't close. The stack was quite tipsy.
So I got myself some bobbin cases to hold the threads and bobbins separately. But how to match each thread to its corresponding bobbin? I decided to number them. My first attempt, using paper reinforcers, nearly worked. But not quite.
So today I used a black ultra-fine tip Sharpie to mark the front and back of each bobbin, and the top of each thread.
Voila!
Completing this organizational task makes my heart go pitter-patter.
When there's chaos in our world, in our household, and in my brain, having a small corner of order and calm delights me.
