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Good evening, everyone!

I've done a search through this group and I'm not able to find anything on my topic question, so I'll create a post.

How do you organised your threads? I bought these plastic floss cards from Spotlight, and at first I thought they were a good idea because they'll last longer than cardboard ones, but I'm having troubles with the threads coming undone.

4-6 strands on one seems to hold well, but when there's only two, they start to unravel.

Any tips on how to manage this? Or should I start over with something else? I'm contemplating tiny pieces of painters tape to keep them together. I don't even know if I'm wrapping them correctly.

Also tried trusty Google, but I don't think I've used the right key words. A lot of results are not giving me what I need.

Thanks in advance. ๐Ÿค—

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[โ€“] mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I tried those as well, but gave up immediately. I just use little squares of card, with two nicks cut in one end. Wind the thread / floss around and tuck the loose end in the nick to hold it. Works much better. I also find it's much quicker to unwind thread from - it doesn't have those blobs on the corners, so you can just pull the thread to the side and it unwinds.

[โ€“] StickyDango@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Do you find at all that the thread gets caught in the nicks, though, and frays?

[โ€“] mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No - the nicks are on the end, similar to the plastic versions, so the thread is slipping along the clean edges.

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[โ€“] StickyDango@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Oh, I gotcha. That looks secure, I'll definitely consider it, thank you.