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Source: Magic Crochet, August 1997, No. 109.
Thread: Aunt Lydia 10. Color: #458 Purple; Optima 10. Color: #01 White.
Hook: Clover ST #2/1.50mm.
Size: 10" x 11.25".
Date: 02-01-11.
Made for: Exchange/Annette S.
These are hand crocheted potholders, some early and some recent, but all beautiful. I began to collect them when I found one for $2 at an antique store/flea market. I had already found a hotpad with soda pop tops crocheted in and I thought they went together. Having an inexpensive item to look for means I get to go to antique malls and look around. It's such fun.
The thread is Knit-Cro-Sheen, shaded flamingoes, size 10. Crocheted with a Boye size 6 hook.
The pattern is by C. Strohmeyer, from his A Year of Doilies, Leisure Arts booklet #2120 (from 1991).
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There is a chinese proverb that says, “Endurance can turn a iron bar into a needle.”
That’s true, but it’s not going to help you thread the thing to get the job done … that takes something else entirely.
It's me versus the machine. I started sewing classes yesterday. Something I've always wanted to do. My mom was a Home economics teacher, but passed away when I was 12, so I never knew more than the basics. My sweet husband got me a sewing/embroidery machine for my birthday. I hope it's going to give me a little chance to be creative.
I must be old school...the first thing that comes to my mind when I read the word "pattern" is a sewing pattern. That connection dates back to my high school home economics classes, where I learned to sew. Even today, I still sew occasionally: not clothes, but simple things like gift bags, camo bags for geocache containers and sometimes a baby quilt.
So I don't actually have any Simplicity patterns down in my craft room. But I do have spools of thread. And each new spool of thread is wound in a very distinctive pattern. I am glad I have a macro lens, otherwise I would have had trouble making this one. ; )
Thread Sketch 6
Hand painted, hand embroidery and hand beaded on cotton cloth.
Hand beaded border.
3 3/4" x 4 1/4"
Sewn to stretched black canvas cloth, ready to hang.
An interpretation of one of the works of artist Andy Beck using acrylic and experimenting with using thread to create texture and add an interesting element to the painting.
Date: August 2016
One of the things I saved while rescuing a 35mm movie projection system and accessories over a year ago from a university student center slated for demolition, was a set of improvised threading diagrams one of the student projectionists drew.
This diagram covered the payout side of a Christie AW3 platter as well as the path through a Century SA projector head and R3 soundhead.
Starting weaving again after "painting" the warp with the "slime" from boiled linen seeds. That helps a lot, and the threads do not brake. But still need to repair the many knots in the warp.
Austin Threads, Austin Texas, April 3, 2011.
Copyright 2011 Steve Hopson, www.stevehopson.com
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A Common Thread: Textiles from the Permanent Collection
In honor of the East-West Center Gallery’s 20th anniversary and the East-West Center’s 55th anniversary, this exhibition will feature a selection of textiles rarely seen by the general public, including new works recently donated and never before exhibited. The works will include: batik from Indonesia and Malaysia, embroidered clothes from China, kilim carpet weaving from Iran, Indian zardozi, Cambodian ikat, naturally-dyed Lao silk weaving, Samoan siapo, Bangladeshi kantha, Korean chokakpo, Japanese silk kimono and obi, Uzbeki suzani, Burmese shwe gyi do, Syrian silk, Filipino Bontoc weaving, and more.
East-West Center Gallery
May 24-Sept 20 2015