I can mark floss organizing off my list. It’s always nice to have all the flosses back in alphabetical or numerical order, hanging in their place, so next time I need to pull them they are all there. And obviously so much easier to be able to substitute a color for one I don’t’ have when I have all in one place and not scattered everywhere.
Top row are Weeks; middle row are Gentle Arts, Classic Colorworks, and a few Night Stalker flosses (the smaller twisted ones). I bought the Night Stalker colors – just a couple but multiple skens of each) for a couple one-color charts that are in my stash. They are lovely variegated hand dyed skeins. The bottom row is mostly Victorian Motto, just a couple Valdani Threads, a few Colour and Cotton flosses and the mesh bag hanging on the right edge is Flower Thread.
The pink tin (the thing with the scissors on the top) contains a few silks on spools and the Sulky 12 wt on spools.
Then hanging from a wooden hanger which is mean to hold ties or belts (it has little metal arms that swing out and to the side) are the DMCs/Sullivan flosses. (I hangs on the handle of one of those rolling storage units with all the trays that slide into it)
I did not get as much stitching done last night because there was about a three hour period we were in the midst of tornado warnings so I was glued to the tv watching those and opening the door periodically to see what it was doing outside here – although I can’t see much of the sky due to all the trees.
Luckily, on my side of the city we only got rain and more rain and then some additional rain. I was watching a tv station that is not real far from me, and they said torrential rain had just started pounding on their roof. So, when I opened the door it wasn’t raining here but I could hear it as it approached – so loud. It poured about half an hour – I’m sure the streets were flooded again as we are so saturated, and the runoff can’t get down the storm drains fast enough when it comes like that. But I was lucky as the other side of the city had golf ball size hail. My lights flickered several times but that was all.
But I did get a little bit of the windows stitched in after the storms had passed. Once the red is around those windows, the white windowpanes will pop. I had a hard time deciding what color to make the “glass” in the panes, but I think this light gray will work well. It’s Seagull by Weeks and has just a slight variegation in it so I think looks nice in the windows. The door has sidelights, so I stitched those in so I don’t forget and stitch all that in with white and I also added in the birdbath.
Justquiltin with Denise Russart 