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Feb. 18th, 2008 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keladry_lupinOf course, I disparage someone who doesn't know the difference between the words "bread" and "bred," but I discovered an example of my own folly today.
You all know I do embroidery (specifically, counted cross-stitch). Whenever I start a new project, I just go out and buy the floss colors I need. Now that I've got three or four hundred bobbins of floss, I decided it was time to actually organize my boxes. Before, I arranged my floss by color. The reds and pinks, the greens, the blues, the browns ... they were all clustered together in their little storage boxes. But on the rare occasion I actually checked the boxes before going out to buy floss for another project, I could never find out what I had, because the books and charts all list the floss colors by number. So at lunch, I went through the boxes and put all my floss in numerical order. It took half an hour, and I was appalled to see how many duplicate bobbins I have. SEVEN white, three ecru, four black, and at least seven other colors with at least three bobbins each. *facepalm* Why I didn't do this from the beginning, I don't know. If I'd avoided all these duplicates, I could have saved ... wow ... maybe four or five dollars!
Now I have another problem, though. I have a canvas bag that I've been using to carry my embroidery stuff around in for years. Three storage boxes just don't fit. So I need to get a fourth box -- or some kind of pouch -- that will hold the bobbins I need for the current WIP, as well as my Swiss Army knife and extra needles. Yay.
Toldja it was boring.
You all know I do embroidery (specifically, counted cross-stitch). Whenever I start a new project, I just go out and buy the floss colors I need. Now that I've got three or four hundred bobbins of floss, I decided it was time to actually organize my boxes. Before, I arranged my floss by color. The reds and pinks, the greens, the blues, the browns ... they were all clustered together in their little storage boxes. But on the rare occasion I actually checked the boxes before going out to buy floss for another project, I could never find out what I had, because the books and charts all list the floss colors by number. So at lunch, I went through the boxes and put all my floss in numerical order. It took half an hour, and I was appalled to see how many duplicate bobbins I have. SEVEN white, three ecru, four black, and at least seven other colors with at least three bobbins each. *facepalm* Why I didn't do this from the beginning, I don't know. If I'd avoided all these duplicates, I could have saved ... wow ... maybe four or five dollars!
Now I have another problem, though. I have a canvas bag that I've been using to carry my embroidery stuff around in for years. Three storage boxes just don't fit. So I need to get a fourth box -- or some kind of pouch -- that will hold the bobbins I need for the current WIP, as well as my Swiss Army knife and extra needles. Yay.
Toldja it was boring.
