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Examples of the thread spool jewelry we're making for this month's FREE craft session with Crown Town Handmade. Aren't they cute? Check out the details on our Facebook page and come join us Thursday, May 30 if you're in the Charlotte, NC area. www.facebook.com/events/446706048753573/
This had to be one of the most beautiful insects I had ever seen. I didn't even realise this type of insect existed (thanks to tr33lo for the indentification of it!).
In fact it was so beautiful I spent 15 mins crawling around on the hard, rocky Sierra Nevada ground trying to get a decent shot of it. It was very camera shy, and my knees hurt quite a bit afterwards!
This male Eremnophila aureonotata was "sleeping" on some vegetation on a cool morning and allowed close approach--unusual for these. I held a piece of white foam behind it to make a clean background, and I liked the effect in this case. (The tough part was holding the camera with one hand.)
Completed this project within a couple of evenings, as the designer predicted. Overall, happy with the outcome, though I wish the pattern had contained more info -- would have been a much faster project. Planning to tea-dye these.
This is a volunteer effort for our local historical society to use in upcoming Civil War sesquicentennial events.
Will be making more but will use a different pattern.
15 July – 21 October 2017
Curated by Laura Thomas.
Exhibitors: Alana Tyson, Eleri Mills, Indre Eugenija Dunn, Jayne Pierson in collaboration with Neale Howells, Laura Thomas, Llio James, Philippa Lawrence, Rhiannon Williams, Rozanne Hawksley, Ruth Harries, Sally-Ann Parker and Spike Dennis.
Wales has a much celebrated tradition of creating both utilitarian and decorative textiles of distinctive design. From power-loomed blankets to hand-stitched quilts, textiles are a key part of Welsh visual culture and history.
Whilst ‘A Darker Thread’ takes this heritage as its starting point, twelve contemporary artists, designers and makers have been invited to exhibit work which subverts these expectations.
Exhibitors have been selected for their challenging, confrontational or unpredictable approach to making thoroughly contemporary work which confidently cross boundaries of art, design and craft. A variety of making processes are exemplified, but all make use of thread in some form.
The curious, provocative, intense, fragile works explore broad-ranging themes of empowerment, loss, language, internal landscapes, memory and gender to name but a few. Some work might still feel comfortably familiar through its materiality or typically ‘Welsh’ colour palette of black, ecru and red; much hopefully, does not.
Red thread by Lou Baker was part of an amazing exhibition in Shepton Mallet prison as part of Somerset art 2019. The exhibition B Wing explored the theme of incarceration and was such an amazing setting. Red thread ran thrpough multiple cells on the second floor of the wing reflecting traces of grief, anger, blood... Powerful art.
This is my thread storage at my sewing machine (a vintage Bernina with a knee pedal instead of a foot pedal). Container found at the thrift store for $1.69. Don't know what its intended use might've been -- clear plexiglass on both sides and one side slides out. A handle on top.
Hopefully not too "Charlie Brown"! Part of 4 different style trees on this pillow. Free motioned with four different colors of green thread.
I love tawashi --- the cute patterns you can find from Japan for scrubbies... I made my own using size 3 cotton thread.....
No freaking clue what I'm going to do with this stuff, but it was so pretty and sparkly and I had a coupon for 25% my entire purchase. Maybe I can crochet a lacework choker with it, once I learn to crochet?
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Waxed linen thread. It's thread composed of twisted linen threads coated in beeswax.
The beeswax cuts down on fraying and protects your text block from ripping.
At least, that's what I assume it does.
One of Patricia Kristoffersen's more baroque designs. Fun to make, and as all know I'm a sucker for pineapple patterns. The hardest part was actually the rows of sc that the tr get laid over (just inside the pineapples). I think she must have a much looser hand than I do
Sydney Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney, Australia
NIKON D600 + 90.0 mm f/2.8 @ 90 mm, 1/125 sec at f/45, ISO 200
In the grounds of Sydney’s Royal Botanical Gardens – I was directed by some friends to check out this absolutely enormous spider (a Golden Orb) in a web hanging out in the open area (perhaps it was trying to catch bats or a small bird :))
I killed ambient by shooting a fastish shutter (1/125th) with a tightly closed aperture to also gain some depth of field this close (f/45) and then lit the spider from the side to highlight it’s shape and the fine threads using an off camera flash with a kiss of light from the front using my LED macro ring light.
www.rc.au.net/blog/2013/07/02/threads/
© Rodney Campbell
Thread Nipper - Patented May 20, 1952 by Francis M. O'Brien of St. Petersburg, Florida - Patent Number 2,597,591 / Contact Allan Diamanti
al@smarthomeusa.com
Thread: Aunt Lydia 10. Color: #201 White.
Hook: Tulip GP #5/1.50mm.
Size: 13.25" dia.
Made: April 15, 2011.
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.
I've got surprisingly good finish @85 rpm and 0.005" deep cut. Hard to say, what exactly helped: very solid and thick boring bar, intensive cleanup (every two passes), intensive lubrication (it works better with internal threads), or all these factors.
But on the next photo you can see the thread surface in high magnification, and it looks good.
Another great sign for me is to get it without any signs of visible burr.