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Set of threads found in an op shop for $30.
Part of the 30 Day Macro Challenge.
Blogged about here: theshoppingsherpa.blogspot.com/2008/04/and-im-also.html
Drosera filiformis is one of the many carnivorous plants that occur in the southeastern US. This is a close-up of one of the filamentous leaves that has glandular trichomes that secrete a sticky solution that acts as an insect trap. I used backlighting from the sun to get the starburst effect for the sticky blobs.
Orange, yellow, pink, and black embroidery thread. I expect to use this mostly for detail work on amigurumi and stuffed toys.
For the Wall of Thread, I considered pegboard, and then at the craft store got SCHOOLED by a longtime crafter. "Don't ruin your walls, honey. Try Cardboard," he croaked. So I shopped, and there it was: Foamcore Board. BRILLIANT! Pictured is one length of foam board (20X30inches, 1/4inch thick, bronze, $1.29 a sheet!). It's attached to the wall easy peasy with a quilter's straight pin (they're xtra long) every 6 inches. Pins for holding threads are in 2inch increments -- this section will hold 24 skeins wide (depending on how close set pins are) and 3 down. This is lightweight (and in other thicknesses if you use funky fiber or heavy yarn), comes in many colors, and is totally modular -- perfect! These babies can even go into a portfolio and, voila, when I teach I'm completely mobile! BAM!
I made this using a white silk yarn and some dmc cotton perle thread... it was an easy pattern but a lot of little pieces until it came together :o)
an Eatern Sedgefrog with a white thread of some descritpion attached. This chap and two of his mates I saved from a trip to the dump as part of a tree lopping program in my backyard at Rothwell, Queensland.
I came up with something I'm calling a "card cheat" for the London garters on pp. 142-144 of Textiles & Clothing: even though the original was probably woven on a rigid heddle loom, I decided to use card weaving to approximate these garters, as I had cards but no loom.
I did this with the understanding that the warp and weft interact rather differently in this kind of weaving, so the finished item wouldn't necessarily look exactly like the original, but I can get the same look.
Here, I show how I threaded my cards to get a similar pattern to the reconstruction shown on p. 144.
Carry-along fibers, from the Great Wall of Yarn Display.
From the Kreinik booth at the TNNA needlearts industry trade show, February 2013 in Long Beach, California.
Forgot to take a pic of todd farm goodies. When I saw the cotton, I knew they were going to become new pukifee/lati yellow dresses. My pattern still needs a few more tweaks but I forgot my dolly today (who is also wearing the first version).
The "mechanical" pencil was a treat to find and lives in my needle/notions tin I carry in my bag when I making. Luckily it takes the same lead as my tech pencil. The dress is the current version of the pattern but it needs to lose a few rows. I finished it the other day.
From: Decorative Crochet
November 1997 No. 60 page 35.
Made with White Cotton Crochet Thread No.8 with #7 hook.
finished size is 15 inches in diameter.
Bits of green around my house // St Patty's Day photo shoot // blogged at thetiltedtulip.blogspot.com
Thrift store thread rack before. More on my blog mytwobutterflies.blogspot.com/2010/08/weekend-organizing....
Le Banc Afrique's yearly report
We designed a series of cover designs and content layouts for the African Development Bank's yearly report & Statistical Addendum.
We aimed to give the design a colourfull twist that evokes the love of colours the african people have, and not give any preference to any specific part of Africa. The ADB is a multinational institution and is represented as such in this design treatment.
FO - Deckchen by Heinrich Bauer Verlag Design Team from Lavori artistici a calza 11 in J&P Coats Royale Extra Fine Crochet Thread #30. - A thing of beauty that leaves me without words!
assorted embroidery threads, scraps from cross stitch projects over the years... mostly 12-18 inches in length
found some nice visualizations from an old ibm research paper, this one showing email thread 'arcs'.
From a project now appearing on the Kreinik website, I used Kreinik Iron-on metallic threads on a styrofoam egg. www.kreinik.com/shops/Iron-on-Easter-Egg.html
jan 5:
my roommates sew things. methinks i'd like to sew, alas i have little patience for it.
apartment.