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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).
This is Melissa's block for June (month 2) of the Common Thread's Virtual Quilting Bee. Blogged at www.tallgrassprairiestudio.blogspot.com
I've used threads from my stash. Except black, white, the blue and lime for the faces (Rico 154, Mez 253) all colors are handdyed. I've used Weeks Dye Works 1193 Guacamole, 1311 Taffeta, 2202 Bullfrog, 2228 Pumpkin, 3900 Kohl. Valdani 1-866 Cinnamon Swirl, 0-512 Chimney Dust. Waterlilies 158 Grape (it's silk).
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....
The thread is Baroque, Ecru, size 10. Crocheted with a Boye size 6 hook.
I made this some time ago and don't remember where the pattern came from; at a guess, it's an old issue of Magic Crochet magazine.
Leap Year Haiku:
Extra day attached/
To February's big toe/
With many bright threads. 112 pictures in 2012: #29, Leap Day
Title: Thread Doodles
Artist: Cara Gulati of Doodle Press in California, www.doodlepress.com
Size: 8 1/4" x 10"
Materials:
- cotton fabrics
- Kreinik Filament 095
- Kreinik 1/16" Ribbon: 5525, 5505, 5540
Comments: I designed a block with curved seams, and laid the pieces on top of each other and quilted it with a Blending Filament 095. This is one of my favorite threads because it adds color without taking over. Then I used the block design in Corel Draw to create quilting pattern. Then I used the 1/16th inch Gourmet ribbons in red, yellow and purple to bobbin quilt the design. I didn’t put the ribbon into the tension mechanism because I like the way it lumps up and creates such nice texture.
Thread passing through the eye of a dulled (from use) embroidery machine needle.
Handheld flash+4x8 softbox on left side and white cardboard box as reflector on right.
An art installation made by threads and different fabrics on display during Karachi Literature Festival held at the Beach Luxury Hotel in February 2017.
Although eyebrow threading is a newer trend in western culture, it’s been widely practiced in the middle-east and Asia for hundreds of years, so it’s proven. It is easily the second oldest form of hair removal, the oldest is pulling your hair out with your bare hands and that just hurts.
Our foil-stamped, hand-bound books have arrived! Limited edition of 20. Only 1 copy left! Buy yours on common-thread.ca/monograph.
I got this wonderful diagram on the Yahoo group site
groups.yahoo.com/group/PfaffHobbyGrandQuilter/
found this great Youtube video on setting tensions
Size 10
The big brown and tan ones are Aunt Lydia's in bamboo. They're really soft!
The DMC (round one) is in the Mocha Cream color, which is super nice.
My grandfather made this for my Mother a few months before he passed away.. he was nearly 90 years old...
He will be dearly missed...
اللهم أسكنه فسيح جناتك ودار رضوانك وتغمده بواسع رحمتك وكريم مغفرتك..
Wooden Spools of thread from my Grandma's sewing basket brings back many memories....where would we be without memories
....The Threads That Weave Our Lives Together
Lighting: Available window light
For a photo assignment
Pattern and tutorial for thread sketched placemats at Art Threads: artthreads.blogspot.com/2012/06/wednesday-sewing-thread-s...
Here is where I learn not to pull my stitches so hard! Embroidered spiral, rainbow thread on green denim.