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3.5" green center is surrounded by pastel ruffles. Doily is 5.5" in diameter.
Cotton crochet thread #10 was used.
They can be used as coasters, candle doilies or under a small vase or trinket.
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.
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.
From thedailylumenbox.com Rollei Retro 80S shot at ISO 50 with SMC Takumar 28mm f/4 and No. 2 close up lens on Pentax Spotmatic F. Developed for 5:30 at 72° F in Cinestill Df96 monobath.
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!
Recently I swapped some fabrics for colorful threads and zippers. My husband had to add two additional rows. And now I've got even more wonderful rainbow:)
All my threads, sorted into a rainbow. Hurrah!
Blogged:
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Threading for Men, Why not, I saw this today in Watford and could not help taking a picture to share........Sony A7M2 + Sigma 105mm F/2.8, EXIF: Exp 1/200 Sec, ISO 1250, F/2.8 and FL 157mm via conversion to APS-C mode.
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.
Can't buy grandmas old sterling silver thread snippers and a 100 plus year old quilt made by a great great grandmother. Coats and Clark's cotton thread still on the old wooden spools. All priceless.
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.
Made as an added extra for a swap from the scraps of the cushion I made for the PTS4.
Some thread sketching on top.
Sadly, I have seen no Thread-waisted wasps this year yet, so this photo from last year will have to suffice.
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of sorts!!! completely useless of course...but pretty!!! They say practice makes perfect...so I'm still practicing!!!
The previous month, there had been a flood in this village. One way that people prepare for floods is to lift all of their precious belongings onto a raised platform (called a Matcha) inside their houses. This woman had received warning about this flood very late. She quickly put all of her belongings on the matcha. She also put her one month old daughter up there, while she ran out of the house to move the animals to safety, to find her husband, and to save what little food she could from their fields. When she returned less than an hour later, her baby lay dead, fallen from the matcha into the rising waters.
Outside her house, hearing the muffled clack of a pedal-powered sewing machine, I saw a small grave with some simple toys resting on top.
Peoples' lives in rural Bangladesh often hang by a thread. In households too poor to do anything but grow food for themselves (and perhaps a little extra to sell if there is a good harvest), what happens when those crops, their only lifeline, are destroyed by a flood, or a cyclone? Protecting their livelihood is the highest priority.
A sewing machine can provide alternate sources of income so that families have income not totally derived from their vulnerable crops, and perhaps can even save money. Diversifying their income like this helps them to not only reduce disaster risk, but also to help them adapt to a changing climate as explained in the previous picture. It cannot make up for their losses, but it can make those losses less over time.
To see why I was in Bangladesh click here, or take a look at the previous or next photo in the series.
If you are interested, please view the series to see what I found and what I learned in my few weeks in Bangladesh, visiting some of the most vulnerable people anywhere on our planet.
It took me months to locate a copy of this pattern for sale. It's a small leaflet called "Irish Crochet Heart Ornament". I think it's also in one of Annie's Attic's old bookmark booklets, shown with a ribbon woven down the middle of it somehow.
This book won a Pulitzer Prize in the 1980's. It's about African American women in the 1930's. It was later made into a movie starring some very big stars! The image references the title more than the content of the book.
The pink thread was found at a thrift store now being turned into tatting
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Made from Amanda Jean Nyberg's pattern. Blog post has links to the pattern. These were a ton of fun to make and would make wonderful, small gifts for your sewing friends!
Mod Century is the fabric (from Marmalade).
Blogged at peasinapod.typepad.com/peas-in-a-pod/2013/05/thread-catch...
This is an 8x10 art quilt featuring thread sketching on batik. Based on a photo by Tami Z (here www.flickr.com/photos/oh_eye_see/5773934425/in/faves-maeq...) - used with permission of course : ) Always, always, always. www.mysweetprairie.ca
A mating pair of thread-waisted wasps (Eremnophila aureonotata) visits a Wingstem flower. The adults of this species feed on flower nectar, but the larvae live in a burrow dug out by the female and feed on a big caterpillar that she brings for them and places in the burrow.
I have never seen a male Widow Skimmer until this one and he was so far into the reeds, that I held no hope of having caught a decent picture, having to thread my camera's eye through a tight spot in all the vegetation. But I think this came out pretty OK. Kind of soft and not too much detail, but isn't he beautifully marked?
The fraying must be from the cheap Wal-Mart thread - in fact, this was in a sewing kit I got from Wally World for like $ 1.19. Needles, thread, scissors, yeah, the whole bit ... I'm confident that it's of utmost quality ...
The funky background color (it is actually white - but I kinda like this) must be from the LED flashlight I used for illumination.