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Thread Bobbins

As promised, here they are! These Wound-Up Thread Bobbins are all set for you to print out on card stock and wind up your own embroidery floss on. The PDF has 20 bobbins, each with a different color floss on it...but of course, you can use them for all your lovely colors!

Download, print, and smile as you stitch!

140 comments:

  1. Thank you thank you thank you THANK YOU!! ♥

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  2. shona2:55 AM

    I LOVE these! Thank you :)

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  3. Lydia7:28 AM

    Oh my goodness! How cute!

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  4. How awesome!!! Thank you!!! I'm printing these as soon as I get home!!!

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  5. Thankyouthankyouthankyou!!!
    Yippie!!

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  6. OMG these are crazy cute! Thanks Mollie!

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  7. Thank you! These are adorable! :D

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  8. Anonymous8:30 PM

    These are *so* cute! Love your work--your drawings have so much character!

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  9. AGGHHHH! These are adorable! Thanks so much, Mollie! As soon as I get more printer ink, I'm printin these bad boys out!

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  10. Oh they are soooo cute :) Thank you!!

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  11. Adorable! What a great idea! Thanks!

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  12. I love them, I have a heap of threads I need sorted and this is how its going to be done!

    I'll also feature this on my blog and my craft forum
    blog - www.iheartcraft.blogspot.com
    Forum -
    www.iheartcraft.com

    too cute!
    Thanks!
    Gem

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  13. I need these, now that I'm back into embroidery! Thanks so much!!

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  14. these are so cute.

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  15. Thank you, Mollie! These are adorable:)

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  16. too cute - am linking to this in my tatting blog

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  17. How cute are these?! My embroidery thread is already smiling about getting to be wrapped around these adorable bobbins. Thank you for a fab freebie!

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  18. These are the cutest things ever. Thank you so much for the freebie. I'm hosting We're Organized Wednesday this week and would love for you to join the party. There's a great giveaway too. Hope to see you there.

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  19. Love these! Posted the link on my blog!

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  20. Found you through How About Orange. My eyes are tearing due to a sudden spell of exposure to extreme cuteness! Thank you. So happy to have discovered your blog and your marvelous creativity!

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  21. oh this is so cute !
    I already use plastic bobbins for my floss but I could use these for when I get floss only used for a big project :)

    Hugs,
    Marieka

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  22. they are so cute. I'm following you now. It would be so good if you want to write something on my blog... your work is great.

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  23. LOL thank you so much for sharing.. These are the cutest bobbins I have ever seen and I have used card bobbins forever. They are going to be much nicer to look at..

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  24. Thanks for sharing this great idea! I posted the link in my blog, hope you agree.
    Regards from Germany,
    Christiane

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  25. These are adorable! Thank you so much!

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  26. Oh! These are so cute I think I will have to break my habit of letting my threads mingle into knots in a WalMart bag and wind them on these instead. Just looking at them makes me smile. Thanks so much!!!!

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  27. Awesome timing! I was just thinking about a way to store my embroidery floss, now if only you have an equally cute solution to my scrap yarn problem :-)

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  28. thanks so much for sharing - these are great!

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  29. These are so cute! They inspire starting an embroidery project. Thank you for sharing your creativity!

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  30. Thank you . Beata

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  31. Super Cute! Thank you!

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  32. Saw these on How About Orange. What a great idea...so cute!

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  33. Thanks for sharing these. They are so cute!

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  34. omg!! so cute! thanks for sharing. :)

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  35. So cute!!! Thanks!!! ^___^

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  36. {stumbling in through the side door}
    I just popped over from How About Orange... I like it here.
    Thanks for the super duper frikken cute bobbins.

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  37. You are all so very welcome! Thank you for visiting and downloading! (You're the best!)

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  38. Wonderful idea....I shared it on my quilt guild blog. We quilters love to embroidery on our quilts.

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  39. These are adorable! TFS!!

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  40. Gorgeous! Thank you so much :)

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  41. They are adorable, thank you so much for sharing! ♥

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  42. these are adorable!! thanks!!

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  43. love this, thanks :)

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  44. These are adorable! Just found these via How About Orange - and blogged them here: http://ultraviolet-baby.blogspot.com/2010/08/well-that-looks-much-prettier.html

    Thank you!

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  45. These are adorable! I just printed and are cutting them out now!

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  46. These are fabulous! I can not wait to wind up my threads on them :)

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  47. Thanks! I found you thru a link in a post on madaboutpink.blogspot.com. I look forward to the rest of your blog! :)

    ~ANKH

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  48. Awsome! thank you

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  49. I so love these although I'll probably print them in black and white because of colour ink prices (students like me dont have a lot of money)

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  50. Fantastic... very clever idea!

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  51. Thank you very much! Lynn

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  52. Very cute - I can hardly wait to wind them up with some pretty floss. Thank you.

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  53. These are gorgeous...thank you so much...Dzintra♥x

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  54. Very cute, thank you!

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  55. Thanks for the download - they are so cute! I'm having my first giveaway. Come check it out at http://straystitches1.blogspot.com/

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  56. Love it! Will definitely be mentioning these on my blog.

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  57. Way to sweet loved these thread bobbins.
    Thank you so much!

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  58. Thank you! These are beyond adorable!

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  59. LOVE!!!! I found this through Whip up and will now have to run around your blog. Thanks for such a cute and practical printable!

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  60. Anonymous1:34 PM

    So Cute!!!!! Thanks for sharing, now all I need to do is get some ink so I can print some :)

    Willow

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  61. THANK YOU!! These are SOO cute..I recently bought a TON of floss for $2 at a thrift store but they look so unattractive and uncreative mashed together. I only wish my printer had coloured ink! :)

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  62. Thank you for sharing this. They are so cute... :) I just made some.. :)

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  63. Thank you! They are lovely!

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  64. Aww Thank you for the share ;D
    I'll be sure to print one in a jiffy x3

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  65. Thank you....I have just found these courtesy of a friend!! Now, you are very clever I think! And I for one am glad.
    Smiles Gloria

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  66. Anonymous2:10 AM

    Thank you so much for sharing!! They'll save a lot of space in my tatting bag.

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  67. Thanks so much for sharing these. So cute! :D

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  68. They are so cute. Thanks a bunch.

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  69. Anonymous2:07 AM

    Merci elles sont très rigolotes!

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  70. Adorable, i was planning on making myself some and now i can with a smile! Thank you

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  71. Adorable!!!!! I really need to organize my thread!

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  72. How stinkin CUTE!! my daughter is gonna love these almost as much as I do!!

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  73. These are so adorable! Thank you for sharing. Can I borrow your image to link to it from my blog? With credit of course!

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  74. Oh I love this idea - but OMG now I will have to print heaps and re wind my threads - eek!! (probably only 700 or so!!!) Oh well, another 'project'. Thank you so much

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  75. These are so adorable! Love them! How kind of you to share them. Thanks.

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  76. they are so absolutely adorable and lovable!

    thanks for sharinggg!

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  77. soooo cute thanx for sharing... gonna stuff my pile of thread on these cuties!!!!

    love miranda

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  78. Such a great idea! Thanks! I am off to organize my threads!

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  79. These are just too much. I LOVE them!

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  80. Fantastic!!!!
    Thank you!!!

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  81. Me ha encantado. Superoriginal!! Muchas gracias.

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  82. These are adorable! Thank you!

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  83. THANK YOU so much, they are so cute! posted about your freebee on my blog to share it with my readers.
    THANKS a lot - Brigitte

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  84. Anonymous5:02 PM

    Shared these on twitter with Sublime Stitchin' today - these are amazing and everyone should use them!

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  85. Muchas Gracias!!!

    From Mexico

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  86. Thank you so much. You are fantastic!

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  87. muy originales...muchas gracias.
    :)

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  88. Anonymous3:01 PM

    Thanks!!

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  89. So so so lovely !
    Thank you !!

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  90. Hello- I know this is an old post, but I absolutely love it and just blogged about it here: http://simplystepback.blogspot.com/2010/10/wild-olives-adorable-embroidery-floss.html

    Hope that's okay! Thanks!

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  91. Thanks so much for the download...the faces are soo cute!

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  92. Anonymous3:36 PM

    Oh thank you, thank you so much, what wonderful idea!

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  93. I just wanted to let you knw that I posted about these on my blog.

    http://www.kerrfect.com/2010/12/make-the-cutest-floss-bobbins-ever/

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  94. Thanks a lot for sharing!

    Gaelle from France

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  95. thank you! so cute must :D

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  96. Thank you so so much for the sharing

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  97. Thank you! My mom loves these. :)

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  98. These are adorable! Did you cut these out by hand or use some kind of punch, etc.? Thank you!

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  99. I cut them by hand, and they didn't take too, too long. A punch would be great, though I've never seen one.

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  100. So cute! Thank you for sharing! :o)

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  101. Anonymous1:48 AM

    they are tooo cute!

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  102. Thank you so much for this... I've been needing these for a while.

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  103. what a great idea... I'm starting a 14 mesh plastic canvas project and want to put all the floss for it together... This will be perfect...

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  104. These have saved my life more times than 1 or 2 or 3... In fact I'm printing yet ANOTHER sheet of them now. Thanks Mollie :)

    xoxo
    Janee
    yellowbirdyellowbeard.blogspot.com

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  105. Anonymous12:51 PM

    THANK YOU SO MUCH; this makes things much easier!

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  106. Anonymous9:10 AM

    Just down loaded these. They are so cute! Thanks! I have my work cut out for me to get all my floss moved over to these. A labot of love!

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  107. Thank you these are adorable!!!

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  108. What an idea!!!!!!!! thank you verymuch! really cutee!!

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  109. Le tue idee sono arrivate fino all'Italia: brava e geniale! Ciao ILE

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  110. Anonymous1:00 AM

    These are adorable. I can't help but smile as I wind my thread on them. Thanks!

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  111. Rachel of StitchedInColor sent me here! Thank you for the download! They are super cute.

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  112. Anonymous6:06 PM

    Thank you so much! I am using these for my baker's twine for scrapbooking. I made my own out of cardboard, but it's definitely not as cute. I thought to myself, I wish I had something more cute and...voila! There you were with these! Thanks!

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  113. Adorable! Thank you!

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  114. Love these! Thanks so much for sharing! Found you via pinterest and linked to this page on my blog today: http://tinyurl.com/unpinning-pinterest

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  115. Why is it that the little adorable things make everything else so much MORE...? Thanks for sharing such a wickedly cute idea!!

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  116. thanks so much for sharing these!
    Just printed some out and am winding on my floss! :)

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  117. Anonymous11:13 AM

    I am making a sewing kit for my 7 year old daughter for Christmas this year. This is just what I was looking for to organize the embroidery floss. Thank you so much!

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  118. Thankyou for these! They're so cute :)

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  119. I posted in my blog about these wonderful little things. Please go check it out! :D

    smallstitchshopblog.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/shoutout-wild-olives-printable.html

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  120. Hello, I love these adorable bobbins. Just wanted to let you know that I posted about them in my blog.
    http://iheartcraftingblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-to-organize-embroidery-floss-thread.html

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  121. Adorable!!

    Visit my blog :)

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  122. I just google'd for ideas on storing embroidery thread and this post came up. So happy! :D

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  123. Anonymous8:10 PM

    Thank you so much. Beth

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  124. Anonymous12:34 PM

    Adorable! Thank you so much! :)

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  125. Anonymous2:29 AM

    Brilliant...I now have a tidy sewing box. Many thanks.

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  126. Anonymous10:27 AM

    very new to embroidering, love these to keep my thread organized!

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  127. Love the little faces! Thanks so much!

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  128. Hi, Did you laminate these to make them sturdier? Thanks, they are adorable! :)

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    1. Here's the method I use: http://wildolive.blogspot.com/2011/05/printing-stronger-cards.html

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  129. Anonymous12:59 PM

    THANK YOU!you saved me a few $$, especially after I accidentally threw out the package I purchased from Michael's.

    Chrissy

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  130. Thanks, these are adorable 🌺

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  131. I am not able to download the bobbin thread keeps, what am I doing wrong? Thank you 😊

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    1. I'm so sorry I didn't see your comment until just now. Were you able to get them to download? It should work when you click the word "Download".

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