Organize your sewing bobbins with this ingenious DIY bobbin holder. The project takes 5-10 minutes and keeps your bobbins from unraveling!
Organize your sewing bobbins with this ingenious DIY bobbin holder. The project takes 5-10 minutes and keeps your bobbins from unraveling!
Use plastic tubing to keep your bobbins under control. Awhile ago I realized that I have over 75 different colors of thread. And that doesn’t include the cones of serger thread. This is just the standard Coats and Clark spools of thread. Seventy-five! Can you imagine the state of my bobbins? There isn’t actually…
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Game changer. Rachel on Stitched in Color pointed out this awesome thread spool and bobbin storage rack from The Creative Homemaker. I pinned it immediately. My thread lived out of the sun in random organizers in my sewing desk drawers. I made this similar storage rack to fit perfectly on the end of my sewing desk out of direct sunlight. Drawer space reclaimed! Supplies: Three 1"x2"x8' smooth select pine boards 1.75 oz. package of #18 5/8" wire nails E-6000 or wood glue Four sets of medium 3M Command pictures hangers reciprocating saw or hand saw sandpaper - rough and fine grit painter's tape or scotch tape pencil ruler calculator 1) I bought three 1"x2"x8' smooth pine boards from the big box home improvement store (Home Depot). I knew I wanted to construct the rack like a ladder, so I cut two long pieces measuring 26 and 7/8"for my rails (the sides) and nine shorter pieces measuring 20 and 3/16"for my rungs (the shelves). 2) I used rough sandpaper to smooth out the cuts from the saw and fine sandpaper to barely smooth the edges of all pieces. I picked the smoothest edge of the board to be the front and marked the back with an X. 3) Mr. Pins jumped in with the math to determine how far apart to position the shelves for even spacing. Since the actual measurement of these 1"x2"s is .75"x1.5", the spaces between my shelves is about 2.5" - give or take 1/8" here and there. 4) I relocated to my sewing room for the assembly. With the backside of the rack facing up on my cutting table, I taped all of the shelves to the two long side pieces. 5) I flipped the whole rack over by squeezing tightly with my arms when I picked it up. I scooted one side past the edge of the table and used the tape as a hinge to expose the ends of the shelves where they touched the long side piece. 6) I dabbed E-6000 glue on the ends of the shelves before hinging the side back against the ends of the shelves. Then I scooted the whole rack back over to rest on the table again. 7) I taped each shelf to the long side piece on the front side of the rack to serve as a clamp while the glue dried. I wiggled the rack to make sure that it was in line with the edges of the table, that way I knew it would dry at right angles. I let the glue cure for an hour or so, then I repeated this on the other side of the rack to glue the shelves to the other side piece. Then I went to bed. 8) The glue was completely dry this morning, so I used one of my nails and a bobbin to decide how high up on the edge of the shelf each nail would need to be. I didn't want my bobbins to stick up over the edge of the shelves and make the spools of thread harder to remove. 9) I measured and marked a horizontal line on the front sides of the 8 shelves so I would know where to draw dots for the nail holes. 10) I used spools of thread to determine that I can fit 13 spools on a shelf. I wanted the spools on each end of the shelf to be 3/4" from the sides. I measured from those points to mark the spot for the middle nail. Then I kept dividing numbers to find middle points until I made marks for 13 nails. They're all about 1 and 9/16" apart. 11) I used a 24" acrylic ruler to help me mark nail spots on 8 shelves. (The 9th "shelf" pieces is the top of the rack, and I didn't want to put bobbins on it.) 12) Once I marked all of the nail spots with a pencil, I came back around with my hammer and tapped each of those holes with a nail to visibly indent the wood. 13) Then I erased my horizontal pencil lines. 14) I'm right handed, so I worked from right to left barely hammering in #18 5/8" wire nails for the bobbins. Once I had a row of nails set, I centered a bobbin on each nail and hammered the nail just deep enough so that the bobbin could rest on the nail with the head of the nail keeping the bobbin in place. 15) With 104 nails done, I pulled out 4 medium 3M Command strips and applied them to the back of the rack. Then I pressed the rack to the desk. 16) Finally I loaded her up! Ahhhhhh! So exciting!!! You can make one, too! Here's the cost breakdown: • Three 1"x2"x8' smooth select pine boards: $4.24 each = $12.75 • 1.75 oz. package of #18 5/8" wire nails: $1.30 • 4 sets of medium 3M Command pictures hangers: $5.47 for a value pack of 6 sets. I used a $50 coupon from 3M's website = $4.97 • E-6000 glue: already owned (runs about $6) • sandpaper - rough and fine grit: already owned (you can get both for less than $8 total) • scotch tape: already owned (runs about $2) My budget was under $20! It took me a few hours over two days to craft this up with many interruptions and an extra trip to Home Depot ;-) Mine measures 21 and 3/4"x 26 and 7/8" and holds 104 spools of thread and 104 bobbins. I thought the wood was super pretty as is, but I'd love to see one painted bright yellow! Let me know if you craft one up for your sewing space. I'm glad to have this WIP off of my list! Happy Wednesday! I'm linking up with Freshly Pieced, Sew Much Ado, Someday Crafts, Rae Gun Ramblings, and Under the Table and Dreaming.
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If you have an embroidery machine or sew with lots of colors, then you will LOVE this! I could not stand my threads getting tangled anymore so I searched for an easy ( and cheap) way to store my bobbins. Gotta love blogland, here is where I found this great idea! Sassy Crafter this is genius! All you have to do is go to your local hardware store, and buy some vinyl tubing and cut a piece out of it! If you just slice it, it will work but the bobbins are really tight, if you slice it again and remove a piece it makes it easier to pull the bobbins out. Ahhh. Much better than all tangled in a cup, and only cost me $1.07 for 12 inches worth of tubing!
Tame your loose bobbin threads with these creative bobbin storage ideas. They are sure to help keep your threads detangled and drawers clean.
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Tame your loose bobbin threads with these creative bobbin storage ideas. They are sure to help keep your threads detangled and drawers clean.
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Keep your sewing supplies organized in the Artbin Bobbin Box - Purple This bobbin box is a compact, translucent clear container that easily organizes up to 30 sewing bobbins or other sewing supplies The permanent dividers make sure your supplies are securely in place and won't move from one compartment to the otherBrand: ArtbinDimensions: 35 x 1129 x 93 inchesContent: PolypropyleneAcid free
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If you have a sewing machine then it is inevitable that you will have a ton of bobbins floating around. Some empty, some half full, some pre-wound, some for embroidery, some with colours you will never use. Well, you get the picture. So with this in mind, we thought we'd give you our best bobbin storage options. Between the two of us, we have hundreds of bobbins and we all know what happens with those little suckers. The thread doesn't stay where it's supposed to and you end up with a tangled mess. In the past, we used hard plastic
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Today's roundup is all about THREAD! Who knew that there are so many fun and creative ways to store and display your thread! First up...You can see my thread organizer in my craft room
Tame your loose bobbin threads with these creative bobbin storage ideas. They are sure to help keep your threads detangled and drawers clean.
