Floss Storage~ By Accident

I have always stored my floss in numerical order. I was a big time cross stitcher before I discover scrapping in 1997.

Yesterday, I was watching my 4 year old niece who loves to jump on my floatation mattress and she bounced two of my floss storage containers onto my bedroom floor. You should have seen her face when I let out a loud squeal. I thought I’m not putting these in numerical order again. I put them back in their cases in color order. I can’t tell you how nice it was to pick out floss this morning to sew buttons on a layout by looking by color only.

Sometimes the little things in life that seem like a bad thing turn out to be great things.

If you are just starting your floss collection I highly recommend sorting by color and not by number. She has inspired me to reorganize my fibers by color too!

****COLOR CHART***
While I am on the subject of floss I found this chart on another web site on matching DMC floss with Stampin Up cardstock:



DMC Embroidery Floss

BB BRILLIANT BLUE 792
BB GABLE GREEN 772
BB GLORIOUS GREEN 911
BB GREEN GALORE 703
BB LOVELY LILAC 333
BB ONLY ORANGE 740
BB ORCHID OPULENCE 554
BB PINK PASSION 3805
BB POSITIVELY PINK 962
BB REAL RED 304
BB TEMPTING TURQUOISE 3846
BB YOYO YELLOW 307
EE BASIC BLACK 310
EE CAMEO CORAL 3708
EE CHOCOLATE CHIP 779
EE CLOSE TO COCOA 3772
EE CREAMY CARAMEL 3864
EE GARDEN GREEN 3345
EE GOING GREY 415
EE MORE MUSTARD 977
EE OLD OLIVE 3012
EE REALLY RUST 919
EE RUBY RED 3328
EE SUMMER SUN 743
RR BALLET BLUE 322
RR BAROQUE BURGUNDY 315
RR BORDERING BLUE 3752
RR BROCADE BLUE 813
RR EGGPLANT ENVY 3834
RR FOREST FOLIAGE 3847
RR MARVELOUS MAGENTA 553
RR NIGHT OF NAVY 336
RR NOT QUITE NAVY 806
RR ROSE RED 3731
RR ROSE ROMANCE 899
RR TAKEN WITH TEAL 3810
SS ALMOST AMETHYST 3747
SS BARELY BANANA 677
SS BLISS BLUE 794
SS BLUSH BLOSSOM 3713
SS LAVENDER LACE 155
SS MAUVE MIST 3727
SS MELLOW MOSS 523
SS MINT MELODY 955
SS PALE PLUM 153
SS PERFECT PLUM 3041
SS PRETTY IN PINK 776
SS SAGE SHADOW 3817
US WHITE BLANC
US VANILLA ECRU