(( #392 on Explore - Yay!))

ODC - Patterns

project365 - #23/365

CPM Challenge September Needle And Threads

Prismacolor Premier

10.5X7inch

Beginner

J. Noh

Stitched by Vanda Waller

Spring has sprung here this Easter!

Yesterday my wife found this insect on our deck coffee table. I initially identified it as a Northern Walking Stick Nymph but when I look at my macro photo noticed that some aspects of the insects; body were off. First, it had a true bug head and piecing mouthparts, like an assassin bug. Second its' thorax was shaped different.

I then decided to compare it to a Water Scorpion. However it didn't have a breathing tube and the antenna were way too long and thin. I was stumped but then remembered there was an Assassin Bug that was really delicate looking. I did some searching and identified it to sub-family, the thread-legged bug (I can't find a way to I.D. it to species).

It isn't surprising I've never seen this insect before. Thanks to my wife's sharp eyes and the bug right on our coffee table, I may never have seen it..

Shop Update: linen thread in lovely colours stocked at Gorgeous Gerties.

Think Spring @ The Little Red Hen

A rusty thread and base plate of an old derek emplacement at Fishguard Harbour breakwater.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Lao Tzu

Standing proud from a farmers plough frame .

just playing with spools of thread, doll heads and ornament hooks--all vintage.... I really like her despite the fact that my 6 year old stained her with rasberry hands!

I've gotten into the habit of bringing along some light painting stuff when I'm out about early or late. In this case I was waiting for something that never happened, I did a few laps up and down and got this one I was happy with.

Don't look down Shelley!

Our Daily Challenge ... thread

In the last few weeks I have spent so many days and hours immersed in children's portraits and group shots, candid expose shots of life within a classroom, band rehearsals for the school play, musicians playing, children performing and capturing it all for various different people and reasons, that it was nice to take those two lens' off the camera and pop the macro lens on and take simple, unplanned, shots of some threads left over from sewing lying beside me on the table as images downloaded onto the computer.

For me, today, it's nice to just look at something simple, not worry about exactly how in focus - or out of focus - a shot is and whether I've got the hair just right for that chid, or the essence of caterpillars walking across a stage.

Today simple and stark is just what I need.

Today, unprocessed is what I need. Straight out of camera.

Black

close up of "Honaw" totem for my Painting with Thread tutorial, right here.

First of a series "New Robe."

September 2017

Canon A-1

FD 50mm f/3.5 macro

Fuji Pro 400H

The golden threads of nightfall on the Great Salt Lake

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I've been on the hunt for vintage thread and scored last weekend. I've seen a few images with them and love them! I use to sew quite a bit so it brings back memories of things I've made throughout the years. Hope you enjoy this one!

I got sick of having to look in boxes for my embroidery threads so I decided to re-vamp my postcard wall and have them on permanent display for easy selection.

Block 1 - Portsmouth Star

chris zchunke hangs over the crust for just a little while.

Thread -Waisted Wasp on a Sweet Pepper Bush flower

www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/embroidery-threads-royal...

Explore - May 26, 2009 #434

Fotografia também é parte do meu trabalho.

Photography is also part of my job.

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Jungle Day

Master Bobby in the jungle.

Credits : Myself and Master Bobby.

Thank you for your comments.

Thread link : June :

www.flickr.com/groups/3940040@N21/discuss/72157721925201342/

.. of merino wool and silken steel...

.. of simple rows back and forth...

entwined

[Threads of delicate merino wool and silk wrapped steel in vintage gold, entwined to form patterns of texture, light and transparency.

Threads interconnecting as unstructured stitches come together to create a soft metallic wrap.

Threads pulled through loops in a hazy, simplistic ritual that has soothed and calmed the mind, body and soul.

Threads of luminous magic.]

Another for my all white series. Look real close to see the thread in there [:

trufflebutterthreads.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/threads-11/

Link for thread

[www.flickr.com/groups/3940040@N21/discuss/721577219234442...]

Westie Apple

Master Bobby having fun in the apple orchard.

Credits : Myself and master Bobby.xx

Enjoyxx

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a mere fraction of my threads...most are hidden away in a drawer of the card catalog.

needlework picture is by the grandmother of my good friend from georgia, holly.

I love embroidery threads. This is not a collage of my personal stash - I think I have more. Hopeless. June 29014

Spools of thread all shaded red

All from Saucylouise. She's in Japan, I think (APO address) so stuff takes a couple of weeks to arrive. It's not a problem at all, but just putting it out there for swap people.

The thread is Olympus Emmy Grande and it is freaking gorgeous. I would like a ton.

The book on the left is Small and Easy Crochet Patterns by Kazuko Ryokai (ISBN9784413009683). It's adorable, but there's not a heck of a lot to it.

The other one, though- whoah. Crochet Patterns Book Motifs Edgings 300 (ISBN9784529042338) is amazing. The motifs are gorgeous. It's just chart after chart after chart after chart. The motifs are also shown connected together with charts given for the connections. I love this book and will get more like this one.