Floss Inventory Work

It's been a very busy week so far with only a little extended stitchy time.  I decided to work on some of the other projects I've got waiting.  I've been working with my floss organization for a year now and I decided I really like the way it works, so it's time to finalize it and make it "pretty".

I have a complete set of DMC in IKEA storage boxes with Pip and Chip plastic floss drop chips. There are four boxes.

I have all of my extra "working" DMC on floss drops hanging on a curtain rod in DMC number order. This was a temporary situation so I just got paper price tags and punched a 1/2" hole for the floss at the bottom and a small hole at the top to hang with a 1" binder ring. It didn't hang nicely so I added a key ring label with a hole punched in it for the binder ring.  This held the floss drops in the right direction to save room.  

When I kit up a project, I pull floss from the working rod first.  If there isn't any there, I pull the skein from the inventory set and put the empty plastic chip in a "to buy" bucket. When I see a good sale or coupon I grab the "to buy" bucket and replenish the inventory.  This has worked so well I'm going to make it permanent. 

There are 2 problems.  

1.  The paper tags rip (and are quite large) and I have to punch all the holes by hand every time in both the key ring and the paper tags and label everything.

2,  The other problem is the weight.  With 2 1" binder rings on every floss color, it adds up.

I tried several different options to replace the tags, but decided to use the Annie's Keepers floss drops.  These are small and light and don't take up much room on the curtain rod. 

I also purchased the DMC labels from Pip and Chip to put on the plastic drops as they are permanently hung on the curtain rod.  I'm still using a binder ring to hang the drop, but only one, so that cuts the weight in half.