When I was a very young stitcher almost 40 years ago, I loved to buy lots and lots of charts. Over the years, my tastes have become more selective and for a long time now I've been buying far fewer charts but more fabric and goodies. One of my favorite goodies is counting pins. As you can see, I have a little collection, some purchased, some homemade. Some were on the cards they came on when I bought them, some were in a small tin. I decided to make a counting pin book.
I already had everything I needed in my sewing room, including the floss bags and binder cover. I get those from Hobby Lobby (I'm sure they're available elsewhere) and keep them on hand because that's what I use to store my hand dyed threads. It just hadn't occurred to me to use them for my counting pins. The only other things I used were cardstock and felt.
I just cut small pieces of cardstock and stapled strips of felt to them.
Slip them in the floss baggies and put the baggies in the binder and done! All together and organized.
What a cool idea! While I don't have the number of counting pins you have, I wonder how I could adapt this for scissor fobs that I have been gifted. I would love to see your binder with the hand-dyed floss, Honeybee. Happy Thursday!
ReplyDeleteDepending on how many you have, you might check out jewelry binders on Amazon. I think they might work better for something bulkier like scissor fobs. My threads are stored in baggies in these little binders. Not sure how many I have, maybe 10? They're in alphabetical order, grouped by dyer.
DeleteI am not familiar with counting pins. Interesting post!
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