Sometimes the back of things is nicer than the front

i'm a volunteer photographer for Red Thread Sessions -- providing Homecoming Photo sessions, new Family Photo Sessions, etc for families who have recently adopted. This beautiful family was my first Homecoming Session at the airport. What a darling girl they brought home from Taiwan! Grandparents and friends were waiting at the airport and I did my best to capture their first sight of their new baby girl.

I need lots of colors to fight boredom.

My sewing threads collection has greatly benefited from the acquisition of a couple of second hand storage racks.

Trying to get my collection of thread in one spot instead of 238 separate places.

light painted thread spool.

Uzbekistan (Bukhara)

20th century

Black velvet and green leather, with polychrome embroidery

Item number: 18.176

Random parts from the cooling system

Help send Ruggybear to AIDS/LifeCycle 8

fivetwentythree.com/2013/03/thread-bared-005/

my grandmother's sewing thread

This thread changes color as you go along. So cool.

A man threads line through is fishing rod.

my lovely giveaway winings from Lily's Quilts

I hardly ever watch DVDs (I haven't had TV for about 5 years - too distracting - I don't even have an aerial at this flat, just to avoid temptation - but frankly, I can catch up online if there's someting I really want to watch ... so Aurifil's staying on TV for the mo ...

I made this litte cat out of Aunt Lydia's size 10 shaded yellows crochet thread. He is 5 inches tall. My Daddy gave him the name of Orange Ball Panther.

this is primarily used for high end vestment embroidery

Blogged: transientart.com/2013/02/thread-catcher/

Visual Merchandising at Thread Hill

Blogged here.

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of note -- I have 125 heddles on each shaft, but this project only uses 25 heddles on each shaft AND it uses the full width of the loom. So I had to thread every 5th heddle on each shaft to spread the heddles more or less evenly throughout the shaft (sometimes I threaded every 6th or every 3rd, it just depended on what I grabbed).

Today I came home from Uni, back to Suffolk for Christmas

Boiling the thread

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....

Hair: Detour

Skin: Redgrave

Eyes: Treasured Visions

Shirt, Skirt: MichaMi

Corset: Moxy & Lux

Belt: Maiiki

Leggings: Maiiki

Shoes: Aphrodite Creations

Location: Pixel Mode prefabs

A quick warm up at my sewing machine this morning...one continuous line contour thread and watercolors. 5 min. exercise.

Bits and Pieces

Leap Year Haiku:

Extra day attached/

To February's big toe/

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

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

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

From Robert's exhibit.

I'm still working on organizing it all, but it is making me very happy so far :-)

blogged

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From a design from Kreinik, by Debra VanOverloop, using Kreinik silk threads.

Free project link: www.kreinik.com/kshop/product.php?productid=261&cat=0...

Silk threads: www.kreinik.com/kshop/home.php?cat=27

This was fascinating. If you look close, there's a thread coming off each cocoon which then are wound together. Most of the time you can't see the thread so it looks like the cocoons are just bobbing in water -- like they're boiling.

a closeup of the cloth on the couch