Everything's getting a bit scattered

[peas_and_love]

Wow, this is a lot of advice! Thank you

I think i'll get one of the thread boxes, seems to be a good way to organise it. You'd think I'd be good at this organising thing after working in a library for 3 years!

[Digitlanalog]

My mom and I share this big double unit stacking thing, I think it was originally for tools? maybe like, nail and screw organizing.. I'm not sure, but we manage to fit at least one of each DMC color in there, and the bottom is all tools, needles, scissors, marking pencils ect ect.. I wish I could explain it.. Maybe I'll take a picture :X
As far as patterns go that aren't already in a book or on my computer, its a horrid pile of mixed up papers .

[kuja.girl]

First off: some of you STITCH OFF THE COMPUTER!?! :O
I could never do that. I print out my patterns and then X-out the completed squares in pencil so I know exactly what's been stitched. I am impressed. You must have much more comfortable computer chairs than I.

When I'm working on a project I use ring clips* to hold all of my colors (on bobbins). If there are too many bobbins, then I only put the ones I am using on the ring and keep the rest in a pouch nearby.

*I never know what they are really called. They are like the clip in a binder but w/o the binder.

[Iwan]

Forgot about the patterns. Stitching right out of my computer. That way i don't need that paper flying around everywhere and i can delete finished stitches from the pattern (still got a backup of the full pattern too). The highlight function from PCStitch helps too sometimes. That way all my patterns are neatly stored in a big wild mess in one folder

About the location of stitching. I could never keep sitting in my chair long enough to stitch, fortunately i can turn my screen around an sit on my bed (which is my couch too).

Oh and i like those metal rings too for the bobbins, they do help keeping it to atleast a bit of a minimum of stuff around me.

[PixelPockets]

I'm lucky enough to have an area dedicated to sewing projects. I used to have my laptop in there, till it died.
Now I either email myself pictures of sprites that I want to sew, then use my kindle fire to stitch them. Or I print them out, depending.

The printed ones I have in a stack in the bookshelf that I use for supplies.
the cross stitching fabric is in another pile next to my regular fabric,
and I have a couple different methods for the thread. I have a box for thread that hasn't been touched yet, A craft box for the bobbin thingies (I organized them all last week!) and my semi-used threads.. I save and reuse. they're kept in their generic color scheme in a zip lock baggie.. in another container (ie one baggie for greens, one for blues etc..)

the kindle is particularly awesome because it seems to be more accurate and easier to match colors than a computer monitor.
and when I'm not using for a pattern, I tend to watch netflix or listen to music on it =D

[Yurtle]

I don't know how you guys do it! I would never be able to read a pattern off a computer screen. My eyes would go bonkers! I print off all my patterns.

I'm with the rest of you about storage though. I have a 5 drawer plastic storage unit. The top is for my tools. The next two are for my floss in the craft containers. I think I have about 5 of those cases. I also have my fabric in there. The next is for my kits and the final drawer is for patterns and magazines.

In the floss containers, I have the DMC floss wrapped around the bobbins and they are all ordered numerically by DMC number.

[PixelPockets]

How do you guys manage with 7,000,000,000 drawers full of thread? I think I'd overlook some colors If I had that many!

Don't get me wrong. I'd like to have more than my plastic container, but it seems like I'd forget to look somewhere for a color I needed if I had that much!

[blackmageheart]

This:

all ordered numerically by DMC number.

As kuja.girl posted earlier, it takes a lot of time to set up but is totally worth it!

[PixelPockets]

Having the DMCs would still be confusing without a sort of key.
there are so many spectrums that the numbers almost randomly go through over and over that they're logically out of order.

atleast for me... probably because I don't use actual patterns, I just use sprites. So finding them by number would be very difficult if they were in number order hidden in drawers!

[RMDC]

[...] and i can delete finished stitches from the pattern (still got a backup of the full pattern too). The highlight function from PCStitch helps too sometimes.

And now I wish I could stand to stitch off the computer. Both those techniques sound really useful.