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Good evening, everyone!

I've done a search through this group and I'm not able to find anything on my topic question, so I'll create a post.

How do you organised your threads? I bought these plastic floss cards from Spotlight, and at first I thought they were a good idea because they'll last longer than cardboard ones, but I'm having troubles with the threads coming undone.

4-6 strands on one seems to hold well, but when there's only two, they start to unravel.

Any tips on how to manage this? Or should I start over with something else? I'm contemplating tiny pieces of painters tape to keep them together. I don't even know if I'm wrapping them correctly.

Also tried trusty Google, but I don't think I've used the right key words. A lot of results are not giving me what I need.

Thanks in advance. ๐Ÿค—

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whoa this is s great idea though! So much better than cramming it into a big plastic bag like I do. I'm excited to try this out

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I have both, haha. I cut the length of floss I can handle, and leave the unneeded stuff wrapped up like how you get them from the store. "working" floss is wrapped around bobbins.

Plastic baggies for both.

I went to Spotlight again today, and found this interesting tool:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a236be2c-2209-4442-8c2b-74daa4d65905.jpeg

I don't have that much floss to need one of these. ๐Ÿ˜‚