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Postman just delivered a package with THREAD festival brochures in it. And my picture of a pincushion is featured on it! Yay!
.. 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.]
Needles Eye Tunnel was a bit scary to drive through. It felt like I was threading a needle. Needles Eye Tunnel is one of three tunnels located along the Needles Highway (South Dakota Highway 87) which is part of the Peter Norbeck Scenic Byway in Custer State Park, South Dakota. At 8'4" in width and 11'3" in height, this tunnel is the narrowest of the three tunnels along this highway. In fact, it is the narrowest tunnel in the state. If you find yourself in this part of South Dakota, do yourself a favor and take the time to explore this beautiful park.
Bored in Albuquerque, NM, while on a business trip, I found this sewing kit in my hotel room...
A sewing needle is a long slender tool with a pointed tip. The first needles were made of bone or wood; modern ones are manufactured from high carbon steel wire, nickel- or gold plated for corrosion resistance. The highest quality embroidery needles are made of platinum. Traditionally, needles have been kept in needle books or needle cases which have become an object of adornment.
A needle for hand sewing has a hole, called the eye, at the non-pointed end to carry thread or cord through the fabric after the pointed end pierces it. Hand sewing needles have different names depending on their purpose.
Needle size is denoted by a number on the packet. The convention for sizing is that the length and thickness of a needle increases as the size number decreases. For example, a size 1 needle will be thicker and longer, while a size 10 will be shorter and finer.
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM
f/2.8, 0.006 sec (1/160), ISO 100, 100 mm
Over on Eurobricks, user Carefree_Dude tried his hand at making the new Disney train have working pistons and getting rid of the hideous no-metal-axle wheels, as seen here: www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/173882-i... I was very much impressed with the results, and took the pictures and reverse engineered them to have a similar 4-6-0 of my very own.
(If the tender looks familiar, it hasn't changed at all from the last version.) However, as you may have noticed, the pistons are different, as they gave me a ton of trouble figuring them out, so I imported a design of my own previous use that I know works. Since this model is needed for early November, (the 9th, actually) I ordered all 317 parts not in the old model today from Bricklink.
Let's hope they get here in time!
Modern weaving machines use thousands of cords to lift the warp threads of the cloth such that a pattern emerges. The machine this picture was taken from shoots the weft thread using solely air!
66418 threads Ipswich station with 4R97 Felixstowe to Tilbury Freightliner service. In a confined space Ipswich is a very busy location with passing freight,loco movements and passenger workings.
I'm taking a fabulous class which involves a lot of hand stitching and a wide variety of threads. Some people collect different threads like others collect fabric! The different displays of everyone's threads was beautiful for sure. For this shot, my camera was set at f1/8 and I focused on one spool of Perle Cotton, letting the others blend and meld together. cy365 335/365
These rather large threaded fasteners are stacked on a wooden pallet ready for use to assemble heat exchangers. Note the relative size of the can of soda pop in the upper left. The can has an approximate diameter of 2-5/8”. Also note the relative size of the length of these studs compared to the wooden pallet on which they sit!
Made of high strength alloy, the spec on these are generally listed as SA193 Grade B7 with SA194 Grade 2H nuts.
I needed some darker red thread to finish this little project. Since it's already dark, photos will have to wait until tomorrow. These reds feel so Christmas-y to me! Even thought this project isn't at all Christmas! :)
Here are 9 more photos from our fall 2017 camping trip.
These all have a ghost town feeling, and later I will post photos of the quirky art here at Tuscarora, Nevada.
Concrete foundations on the flat below Tuscarora must have once held ore processing equipment secured on these rusty bolts. It looks like the threads didn't survive the machinery removal.
Cover Photo, Rusty and Crusty, March 21, 2018
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Another lovely day, so you'd think I'd photograph something to show that, but here we have a quickly snapped reel of thread, crossed processed to give it some age and a Kim Klassen texture added.....I do like having a bit of a play :)
Correction, it was a nice day, but by 3pm it had turned grey again :(
This is also for #46 "Needle" of the 114 Pictures in 2014 Scavenger Hunt.
My needle-working skills are minimal but just up to making a minor repair to this pair of trousers. I can see close-to very well but the needle threader helps to get the cotton through the eye of the needle.
The two carnations in the back are vintage and the one in the front is another project I've started but haven't quite finished! I found a similar pattern to the original ones in a vintage booklet so made the melon orange one in the front. My version is not as fluttery as the original, I'm not sure exactly how it's constructed without taking it apart. The instructions I've found is a pretty simple pattern and seems to help if you have variegated thread. I found some on ebay perfect for the flower size. I think it may be a modern day size 30 thread.
Viewing the Transamerica Pyramid through one of the pylons of the Golden Gate Bridge. Thanks to Agus for showing me the spot to capture this.
This is not a screen applied to this photo. In this section of the V&A Museum, there are some metal threads attached from the ceiling to a structure underneath.
For 7DOS, unusual pov. Taken looking down at a folding colour chart (for embroidery threads) positioned on a mirror.
I took a 33 mile long dirt road from Blue Mesa Reservoir over Blue Mesa and down into Big Blue Creek, and I did not see another vehicle on the road. But I spent 15 minutes stuck in traffic--an enormous herd of sheep. I could not see the front of the herd, or the back of it--they just kept coming, streaming across the road. I finally lost my patience, and creeped forward toward the stream of sheep, and they parted around my vehicle.
I saw the shepherd's trailer, but the shepherd was not around. I was curious to know how many sheep were in the herd that seemed to have no beginning and no end.
As the sheep entered the spruce fir forest, they broke into a series of lines, and that is when "threads of wool" came to me.
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
~Victor Hugo
The pink thread was found at a thrift store now being turned into tatting
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