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The thread is Baroque, ecru, size 10. Crocheted with a Boye size 6 hook.
The design is probably by Patricia Kristoffersen but I haven't located yet the pattern book it came from.
I was playing around with some cotton thread and came up with this bookmark. The pattern can be found at dishclothdiaries.blogspot.com/
Thread-winged Lacewing
(Nemoptera bipennis)
El Trevenque,
Sierra Nevada,
Granada,
Spain
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 USM Macro-lens
Thread-legged bugs are pretty damn sweet. Saw this guy hanging out around the lamps when I cam home this evening, and was glad I was able to relocate him when I returned with my camera (it's about 1 cm long). I love the wing veination. Observed in Oakland, CA.
This is what Internet is all about! Multiple threads, amazingly when tangled together; they become a strong current of thoughts... Or as here a strong thread!
3/4-10-UNC-2A thread, first cut just to make sure if gearbox settings are correct using a pitch gage.
It's required, because you can't be sure if everything is OK - gears could be changed during repair. I also had to check if the live center is concentric with chuck and to catch one nut of compound - one of the holding bolts was fully unscrewed.
You can notice the smaller diameter live center with thin tip - even being a bit off the axis, it gives some clearance for cutting tool to be able to disengage the half-nut in case if it will not be fully engaged or if it will miss the point somehow.
I love all wooden spools with their original labels and markings on them!
The acrylic box is from the Container Store.
A time/thread based experimentation: I recorded fragments of a conversation every 5 min and then took my notes and googled the fragments. I then went back into the google search contents and highlighted the results and began to look more closely at the content and the connections RNDMly generated.
I felt bad for making my wife look so awful, so I thought I would break out the wide angle close up on myself. Threw in some thread for good measure.
Thread experiment with intermeshing technique that became a wrist cuff. Thread: taupe Cebelia and varieg. denim Manuela.
This bracelet and crochet jewelry process described in my Crochet Inspirations Newsletter #38.
Thread Painted design using Oliver Twist brand thread. This technique is shown in Threads – The Basics and Beyond. Refer to pages 66 - 68.
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Some LifeWay peeps check out the two small group Bible studies that launch Jan 31st - The Tough Sayings of Jesus and InTransit: What Do You Do with Your Wait?
My Grandma, who was an amazing seamstress, passed away a couple of years ago, and we had been meaning to sort through her sewing notions and thread and fabric for a while. She had an amazing range of colors represented in her thread, and we sorted it by color (and had some fun playing around with building towers from the spools). I plan to display these on a wooden thread rack, where all the colors can brighten up my room.
Wanted to make some miniature cross stitch threads for my Sunshine Family dolls. I couldn’t find any useful tutorials and ended up with the idea of using flat head pins in wood (balsa) to the make them the length I wanted. Tried an individual one first and once those tests worked out the size I wanted made a larger template that could make them in bulk - 16 rows of three (48 colours) . Filled it up three times and by the third set it was much easier. The first ones I did I originally wrapped the threads 6 times but decided to change it to 8 times so it was a bit of a mess, by the end of the second lot I started to get a rhythm to it and the third one was much faster.
I tried making miniature printed labels but I don’t have the program or the printer to suit so just went with plain black bands. Used 80gsm black strips of paper just cut with a paper cutter (which the blade needs to be replaced so they are not perfect but they worked).
Yes, the pin ends did hurt doing this if I wasn’t careful but by the time I was onto my third set I was adapt at not touching them. Used pointed tweezers and a pin for applying the glue, a lot of close up work and borrowed my partners 3+ glasses to be able to see what I was doing. Overall pretty happy with the results considering I don’t normally make miniatures or much for that matter :-).
Afterwards I ended up finding a tutorial for 1/12 scale threads on Ambers House blog which turned out similar except she used needles facing into a wooden block and used tracing paper coloured black and silk thread (I just used the threads I had).
This image has the framework I used, some completed ones (they are from my first set of 16 colours) and hung in the temp stand (make from balsa and the hooks are just jewelry head pins cut short and turned at the end). I have another stand idea in mind but if and when that will happen I don’t know as I am still investigating how to make it.