[Nfb-krafters-korner] Ideas about organizing materials

[Susan Roe]

Hi Minh,

Funny you should use the term "in the kumihimo zone".  I have just gotten my 
husband hooked on kumihimo and he definitely fits in the "kumihimo zone". 
LOL

My husband is sighted and so we have combed A.C. Moore and Michaels for the 
past two weeks looking for anything, and I do mean anything about or 
concerning kumihimo and braiding.  I got him started with our local library 
and found two books on braiding techniques around the world and they also 
mention kumihimo.  When he is done with those, there are two other books 
that focus on kumihimo and kumihimo style braiding from Japan.  This only 
led to purchasing further books from the craft stores, yards and yards, if 
not miles, of different cordage, end caps, fasteners, E6,000 glue, bobbins, 
the round and square board and let's not forget the wonderful plastic 
circular bobbins.  He is having the time of his life.  LOL

I made two pouches from jean pant legs and he puts his supplies in those and 
then into a larger toat.  I can't survive any crafting without zip lock bags 
with braille labels.  You could brake your supplies down into groups, label 
them as a whole and then put different items into smaller bags and just 
label them as you go.  I tend to sort things as I get them, because if I 
waited until they accumulated, I wouldn't get very far and I would just end 
up asking someone what particular color, size etc everything I put my hand 
on was.

Build your sorting/labeling/storage as you go with methods that you have 
found works real well for you and expand that with suggestions and ideas 
from others.

Have fun in the "kumihimo zone"!

Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
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From: "minh ha via Nfb-krafters-korner" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 4:58 PM
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Ideas about organizing materials


> Hi everyone,
>
> Hope you are all doing well. So I'm definitely in my kumihimo zone
> right now and I've purchased a ton of supplies for the craft. I have
> tubes of seed beads and embroidery floss and other cording that I
> honestly don't know how to organize. I thought about simply brailling
> labels and putting them on the print labels, but I do have a lot of
> materials and it would take me forever to label each one separately.
> How do you manage to organize something like this? I'm willing to
> spend the time creating a system if I can use again, so any ideas
> would be great!
>
> Thanks,
> Minh
>
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