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My sewing machine does this a lot, and I'm not sure why. Is it just a tension issue (though I've tried adjusting the tension and am never particularly sure where to go. Up? Down?) or is it a sewing machine issue (I have a Brother ES2000)?

And of course no sewing / craft room is complete without a bunch of thread!

 

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Day 301 - needle and thread. Can't think of anything else to say about it!

Continuing to use items plucked from storage as I organize my attic as subjects for photography.

 

Today it's small, Japanese spools of metalic thread lying upon a length of Tsumugi silk.

 

Note: You might wonder "why' I have such items. The answer is that they are just really cool, old, handmade things that no longer have a place in our fast paced world....but were once a common day item in the textile industry before everything shifted to plastics. They are very organic in that way....

  

The thread is Baroque, Ecru, size 10. Crocheted with a Boye size 6 hook.

 

I made this some time ago and don't remember where the pattern came from; at a guess, it's an old issue of Magic Crochet magazine.

For wrapping up things I sell on Etsy!

Thread passing through the eye of a dulled (from use) embroidery machine needle.

 

Handheld flash+4x8 softbox on left side and white cardboard box as reflector on right.

silhouette of wire chicken

Leap Year Haiku:

 

Extra day attached/

To February's big toe/

With many bright threads. 112 pictures in 2012: #29, Leap Day

Title: Thread Doodles

Artist: Cara Gulati of Doodle Press in California, www.doodlepress.com

Size: 8 1/4" x 10"

Materials:

- cotton fabrics

- Kreinik Filament 095

- Kreinik 1/16" Ribbon: 5525, 5505, 5540

 

Comments: I designed a block with curved seams, and laid the pieces on top of each other and quilted it with a Blending Filament 095. This is one of my favorite threads because it adds color without taking over. Then I used the block design in Corel Draw to create quilting pattern. Then I used the 1/16th inch Gourmet ribbons in red, yellow and purple to bobbin quilt the design. I didn’t put the ribbon into the tension mechanism because I like the way it lumps up and creates such nice texture.

 

www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?ident...

 

The incredibly thin 'waist' on this wasp led to its name.

 

Adults feed on flower nectar, but larvae are parasitic.

 

Females use their paralyzing sting to disable caterpillars and other insects. These unfortunate victims are then brought to an underground burrow (previously dug out by the female) to become food for the wasp's larva.

 

Category: Bee, Ant, Wasp and Similar

Common name: Common Thread Waisted Wasp

Scientific Name: Ammophila procera

Taxonomy:

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylym: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Hymenoptera

Family: Sphecidae

Genus: Ammophila

Species: procera

 

Adult Size (Length): 16mm to 55mm (0.63in to 2.17in) [ COMPARE ]

 

Identifying Colors: black; yellow; orange; red

 

General Description:

  

North American Reach (Though Not Limited To*): Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, Montana

Bless threads one of two heddles used in weaving togehter kente. www.ourtalkingshands.com

Twisting threads of hemp as you walk. Note the indigo dye of clothes and hands

134 skeins of DMC Pearl Cotton, Size 5. Paid $45 (includes S&H)... so only about 34 cents a skein!!!

A lovely teal thread lays in wait to be sewn with! Probably on something cute and awesome for our Treasured Times Quilting and Gifts wares :)

This was taken during our blog-banner making for the aforementioned business (http://www.treasuredtimesquilting.blogspot.com/)

Taken at Threads, DQ nightclub, Sheffield

a closeup of the cloth on the couch

At an auction I found a big bag full of colour coordinated sewing threads. Of course, I had to get them because of the wonderful colour combos!

Although eyebrow threading is a newer trend in western culture, it’s been widely practiced in the middle-east and Asia for hundreds of years, so it’s proven. It is easily the second oldest form of hair removal, the oldest is pulling your hair out with your bare hands and that just hurts.

Vintage spools of thread mounted within a black walnut frame on an acrylic base

Chiffon thread sandwhich

 

The sticky tendrils of the Thread Leaved Sundew. The Sundew is a carnivorous plant which traps insects in its sticky fluid and digests them.

Sunlight on a spider's web

Human Development Report

My grandfather made this for my Mother a few months before he passed away.. he was nearly 90 years old...

 

He will be dearly missed...

  

اللهم أسكنه فسيح جناتك ودار رضوانك وتغمده بواسع رحمتك وكريم مغفرتك..

 

In the collection of Yvette Lepley.

From my blog, The Ardent Thread

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