I inherited my mom’s embroidery thread a million years ago - 4 pristine boxes of thread wrapped beautifully around little cardboard cards all in numerical order.
I made friendship bracelets with my kids. I made friendship bracelets with other people’s kids.. countless hand embroidery projects and I still have never really knocked a dent in all there is.. naturally though, working on a project years ago there was one particular color I needed.. the fabric shop was having a sell so I bought more - you know the colors I thought I didn’t have?? 🤷🏻♀️
unlike my mother, I left it all in a bag that I drug around on road trips. Pair of scissors, messy skeins of thread, embroidery needles.. this way, I would have something to do with my time. Idle hands are a dangerous thing on a long road trip.
The deeper I get into these wildflowers the more I am pulling from all this embroidery thread I have.. and so I decided on another adventure trip we recently took to take my moms lead and get these skeins on cards.. so much better.. why didn’t I do that to begin with?
I’ve also reorganized her boxes by color - I’ll show you how pretty they look later after I clean up this mess I’ve made. 🤦🏻♀️