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I couldn't get the outdoor photo I'd planned today, so took this instead. It's inspired by Sheila's beautiful photo yesterday. Do you think this thimble is the same as yours, Sheila? It's inscribed with the date 1899.
I've been sewing a lot this summer due to not being able to walk for a week. Even if I wasn't injured, I would've still spent a week sewing anyway. I drew the typical needle I use. (sketch 14) 8×11
Aurifil Thread mosaic for the Aurifil Make-A Designer-Collection competition on Lily's Quilts. This thread palette is all about the feminine. I have a couple of cousins with girls who would love anything made with these colors! I'd choose 50 wt thread because it's so versatile.
A single thread may be weak, but, when it is wound 108 times around the trunk, it becomes strong. It is no longer so fragile and no longer easy to break.
Yesterday I started working through my stash of (in some cases quite tangled) embroidery thread, winding it all onto neat little bobbins.
It's taking a while but it will be SO worth it :)
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The whole group rose at 4:30 to go on a tiger safari (where they saw no tigers). Kerry and I slept in, got massages and then threading...well, she did. The woman begged me to do it. Her family is struggling and she needed the money. Sorry, I will give you money, but no compassion will ever get me to be in that much pain again. Tried it once. Never again. Waxing is hard enough :)
15 July – 21 October 2017
Curated by Laura Thomas.
Exhibitors: Alana Tyson, Eleri Mills, Indre Eugenija Dunn, Jayne Pierson in collaboration with Neale Howells, Laura Thomas, Llio James, Philippa Lawrence, Rhiannon Williams, Rozanne Hawksley, Ruth Harries, Sally-Ann Parker and Spike Dennis.
Wales has a much celebrated tradition of creating both utilitarian and decorative textiles of distinctive design. From power-loomed blankets to hand-stitched quilts, textiles are a key part of Welsh visual culture and history.
Whilst ‘A Darker Thread’ takes this heritage as its starting point, twelve contemporary artists, designers and makers have been invited to exhibit work which subverts these expectations.
Exhibitors have been selected for their challenging, confrontational or unpredictable approach to making thoroughly contemporary work which confidently cross boundaries of art, design and craft. A variety of making processes are exemplified, but all make use of thread in some form.
The curious, provocative, intense, fragile works explore broad-ranging themes of empowerment, loss, language, internal landscapes, memory and gender to name but a few. Some work might still feel comfortably familiar through its materiality or typically ‘Welsh’ colour palette of black, ecru and red; much hopefully, does not.
This is my first Drawn Thread piece, and will certainly not be my last. I LOVED every minute of this, and was sad when I finished. I'm now a TDT addict, and have *cough* 10 more of their projects kitted up. :) This was stitched with the recommended NPI silks (1 over 2) on Antique Ivory Belfast linen.
This is a 3 oz bundle of Japanese silk threads for weaving or embroidery. The thread photographs rather blue, but has a slight purple tint to in in reality.
It took a lot of research but I found aluminum threaded inserts that will fit my Skyshark carbon fiber rods. They're arrow inserts for Victory brand arrows with an outside diameter of 0.244 inch. A perfect fit for the I.D. of the tubes. The next shot shows what I'm doing with them.
Pattern source: 99 Little Doiles by Patricia Kristoffersen
Thread: size 10 Opera crochet thread in Sage
This dress is just lovely when finished and has a great fit, but it is not a beginner's pattern. Do not be fold by it being a Threads Collection pattern with the tagline, "Step by step to sewing success!" The directions on the pattern are no more clear than normal sewing patterns and you must know how to do things like darts, zippers, slipstitching, gathers, sleeves, etc. in order to successfully do this pattern. I would recommend this pattern if you're at least an intermediate sewer.