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It was nestled inside of an unsightly sewing bag that was falling apart at the seams: thick, soft cotton thread perfect for the tatting of handmade lace. Tucked among the threads was an old receipt dated 1929. But more amazingly, I found a piece of tatting, a project started and then stopped 80 years ago.
I wondered who had tatted that beginning of lace. Was it a young bride–to-be, eagerly creating pieces that would be sewn to her wedding gown? Was it a new mother who wanted to add a special touch to the christening gown of her tiny baby? Or was it a grandmother beginning a lace collar for her favorite granddaughter?
And then the question begged to be asked: why did she stop? And that, my friends, is another story for another time.
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A box of tiny embroidery thread cards from a friend. It is a piece of art. Love the colors and textures...#cy365 240/365 off prompt
Small treasures.
Most of these are wooden spools. My favourite is the small spool of "service khaki", it's only an inch high.
Some autumn colors in thread.
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20200312_5473_7D2-100 Threading the Needle
The first image of my fifth year in submitting to Macro Mondays. My first was 14th March 2016 (Red).
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Brass screw. Illumination by light table from below. Blue paper on top for the color accent. Focus stacking, 180 shots, stepping 1. Focus stacking in Helicon Focus method C/1. Postprocessing in LR (but very little except removing dust)
Smile on Saturday, crazy couples.
Great little thread catchers to have near a sewing machine or craft area. I made these in hopes of having a few less threads hanging onto me.
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The second collection from ~Cat~ (wetcat flux/Rie silverfall) and yours truly is finally here. These last two collection are all about the refuge we find through art in RL and SL.
Today we present to you the Threaded Wonders collection. About the smoothness embroidery art can bring to your life. First and Second.
This collection is made of two packs and of course a fatpack is available at a discount.
Everything is available in both PBR and non PBR versions.
💜 Crafting Pack with animations and poses embodied for this collection only. The pack includes: Groups desk and rocking chair with props with 4 bento animations and 4 static poses with pop up props. The pack also includes the table and the rocking chair in decor only and Embroidery in the making needle and thread.
💜 Decor Pack with different Hoops, Treasure Jar, Treasure Box, Ready Embroidery of two kinds, Scissors open and closed, Threads of different kinds and colours and Table Lamp
💜 Fatpack includes everything at a nice discount.
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i had this idea when I was brainstorming last night, didn't really come out as planned, but that's okay. school tomorrow, i'm excited. the more days I go, the more days till summer.
help me pick which photography class to take, film or digital?
thank you julianne (between two lungs) for the testimonial!
While I was waiting on a hummingbird this guy was collecting water from a nearby puddle and I just happened to catch him in flight.
Spools of thread, cards with trim or bias tape and bits of lace totally remind me of my childhood. My mother always sewed all my clothes and I didn't wear a 'store bought' dress until I was old enough to have a part-time job and buy my own.
Mum was an excellent seamstress and could make the most complicated patterns. When I was in high school and all the other girls were beginning to dress like hippies I was the one kitted out in tweed suits sewn from Vogue patterns that made me look like Angela Lansbury from Murder She Wrote. I even had jackets with bound buttonholes. I betcha there is hardly anyone reading this who is familiar with a bound buttonhole but take it from me it's very complicated sewing.
Do you think I was happy wearing these designer clothes? Not even a bit....it was horrifying...it was humiliating.....it was persecution. :-D I wanted to be like all the other girls and wear cheap stuff off the rack. This caused no end of consternation in our household resulting in tears, harsh words, foot stomping and pouting but I still had to wear those remarkably well made clothes.
One of my greatest liberating triumphs came when my mother made my coat for school. It was a dressy knee length coat with a lovely weave in powder blue. It was an old lady coat. There wasn't a day that went by that this ungrateful daughter didn't complain about her embarrassing coat so finally my mother said she would dye it navy blue if it would make me happier about it. It seemed a compromise I could live with.
So Mum set about dying the coat and when she was done it had shrunk to the size of something only a five year old could wear.
I was overjoyed.
She was dismayed.
It was vindication.
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The radio gets real talkative here.
Loaded Ethanol bound for Watson is in the process of securing it's train at West Daggett, as the conductor is relaying train info to the Dispatcher, while over on main track one fifteen thousand tons of grain from Red Oak, Iowa in route to Hughson, California, hits up the router for instructions going into Barstow. The train closest to the camera was another tied down train waiting to get a spot in the harbor as traffic for LBCT holds main three at the coyote crossing with another train parked ahead of it right behind me.
Just a typical day in the Desert.
From Virginia, Rob brought back some antique furniture from his late grandmother's home. One of the pieces of furniture is a large chest of drawers. The drawers are still filled with all of her craft things -- bits of fabric, doll-making supplies, sewing sundries. A couple of the drawers are filled with spools of colorful thread, and those are just wonderful to look at.
A Chinese/Japanese proverb that says people who are meant to be together are linked by an invisible red thread that bends & stretches but never breaks. A beautiful thought.
CC: week 28 Hands
This finch had some very fine, almost hairlike feathers that promptly showed up. Such a beautiful little bird.
Someone said to me about this pic - it seems like all the attention is on the guitar. I was worrying I was being a bad blogger for doing that, but I loved this pic and the designer accepted it.
Then I realized - yeah, this is a story about that guitar, and also about the person who used to play it. And I used the designer's items in that story. So yeah, that's valid I think. :)
Finer Threads - Nima Skin on LeLutka Connor (shape by Luka Benton)
At Sultry through Dec 1
Finer Threads - Ethan Shirt
@ MANCAVE through Dec 11
Finer Threads- Gavin Jeans
@ ACCESS through Dec 8
Also wearing:
Wasabi // Alina Mesh Hair
**RE** DarkStone Bracelet & Rings
One last piece of vintage machinery from Thomas Edison's machine shop.
There are some great pieces of industrial history here, but the light can be a bit challenging for a photographer, due to the big windows. Guess I need to go back for a longer visit on a cloudy day in the winter...