Floss Chips

I love having my floss on tags that I can put onto a ring and not have to deal with skeins. It’s very easy to pull one strand out without removing more than one strand. Since I mostly use one strand, I cut my strands to about 18″ using this handy little 9″ “floss winder”.

I get these from RNR Woodworks. There are all types of wood available and they have them in 18″ lengths which can be used if you are using your floss doubled and want to cut the pieces 36″ long.

I’ve always made tags from card stock and would punch holes – a larger hole for the floss and a smaller hole for the tag to go onto the ring.

A while back Vince thought he might 3D print some plastic tags for me. He purchased and downloaded a file for one that I liked and . . that’s as far as he got. A couple of times I mentioned it and it isn’t happening so I ordered these “chips” from Etsy and they arrived a week or so ago. My current project called for Ecru floss for a sheep but it wasn’t showing up. I had made all the floss drops from cardstock for the called for floss but, by the time I changed the sheep color to B5200, the acrylic tags had arrived so I used one of those.

I had started to write a blog post about these acrylic tags so I had taken these pictures yesterday.

Fast forward . . this morning I sat down to stitch for a few minutes before we left to go do some things in town. My fault . . it was time to leave and, knowing I’d be stitching again when we got home, and the dogs were safely in their crates, I left the floss out. We got home and I was putting away groceries. Vince came down to take the dogs out. He took Cooper out first and didn’t put him back in the crate while he was out with Oscar.

Vince came upstairs and said “Cooper got into your floss!” Vince said “He only tore up a couple of them.” Right . . he tore ALL of them off the cardstock. The only one that wasn’t ripped off the tag was the one on the acrylic tag. Those things are worth their weight in gold . . especially with Oscar and Cooper around. They don’t eat the floss, thank goodness . . but they LOVE to pull it off the cardstock. Why??

I spent well over an hour this afternoon getting the floss untangled and onto the acrylic tags. None of them are labeled. I’ll figure out which floss is which as I get back to stitching on Strawberry Harvest and get the tags labeled.

I did order more of the acrylic tags. I’m quite sure if Cooper could get them for more than a few minutes, he would destroy the acrylic. I will be more careful. I have a little Rubbermaid container next to me and I put the floss, pens, notepad – everything the dogs would shred – into that container and put the lid on it and latch it when I walk away even for just a minute. I have to be sure I do it EVERY time and don’t tell myself it’s safe to leave them out . . not for any reason!