Before I offer up this next challenge, I encourage you to go back to our last organizing challenge post and read the comments. There are so many good suggestions on thread storage AND other organizing tidbits you can pick up. I’m happy that you all seem so excited about this!

I only got to spend about 30 minutes working on my mess of embroidery floss. I did get several more skeins wound onto bobbins. I can tell I need to purchase more bobbins, so I’ll have that on my next shopping list. After getting it all wound, the next step will be to make it fit into the cartons. I’ll have some readjusting to do so that they can all stay in numerical order and be easy to find.

One reason I’ve been wanting to get my embroidery floss organized is because I’ve been itching to start a new project. You know, because I don’t already have enough projects in the works! Teehee! But my favorite Quilt Shop, Sew Sweet Quilt Shop in Brunswick, Missouri, recently expanded their shop, and the new addition is chock full of the most delicious cross stitch supplies and projects and ideas. On my very first visit to see the new addition, I bought this:

On my next trip, I bought this:

They’re both simple because they use limited colors of floss and basic stitches, and that’s the sort of project I’m into as far as counted cross stitch goes. And now that Halloween is upon us, I’m just beginning the Halloween one. And because Christmas is drawing nigh, I’ve decided to also start the Christmas tree one (I’m using red floss instead of the green shown). I don’t see a problem with having them both going at once, do you? It’ll probably be the 2027 holidays before I get them both finished, anyway!

So I’ll keep chipping away at getting my floss organized, but meanwhile, it’s already time for another challenge. What will it be?

Do one thing you’ve been procrastinating on

Is there something in your sewing room that needs doing, but you’ve been ignoring it, but it’s been eating at you that it needs doing, but you just can’t get yourself to do it?

Mine was my Ironing Board Cover. I bought new canvas to recover it a loooong time ago, and the current cover had gotten disgustingly gross. It was scorched to a nice dark brown, and had a hole in it, and the cushy was all gone from it. I always marvel at how an ironing surface can get so nasty!

My problem was that I have not been able to run the staple gun for over a year, and was reluctant to ask for help to get it done. So I finally tested my elbow to see if I could do it. I successfully removed the old nasty cover, but upon first attempt to put in a new staple, I failed miserably. I simply don’t have the strength to do it yet. So . . .

I asked My Cowboy for help, and he graciously came up to the studio and helped me replace the cover. I’m so happy with it. It feels so wonderful, like it’s made a difference in the entire room! And I’m scared to get it dirty again. Pay no nevermind to the high piles on my cutting table!

So even tho I already have this task finished, I’m challenging you to pick something you’ve been putting off. Just do it, and it will make such a wonderful difference!

Side note: I got my canvas from the clearance room at Sew Sweet Quilt Shop. It’s a print from an old line called “Lucy’s Crab Shack”, and I love the bicycles! At the same time, I bought a couple other pieces of canvas in anticipation of future Ironing Board cover changes, so I’m all set for a few years of new ironing board covers, provided I can remember where I put the other pieces of canvas when the time rolls around to change it again!