Some autumn colors in thread.

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Small treasures.

Most of these are wooden spools. My favourite is the small spool of "service khaki", it's only an inch high.

Post modern block printing

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Florabella texture

A box of tiny embroidery thread cards from a friend. It is a piece of art. Love the colors and textures...#cy365 240/365 off prompt

For MacroMondays sparkle

Natalia in a class of my portrait workshop, in Buenos Aires.

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vintage spools from of my great-grandma's. They are varying shades of green, and I often wonder what she was trying to match to buy all these slightly different colors. Those wooden spools are so much more lovely than the plastic spools today.

Smile on Saturday, crazy couples.

Great little thread catchers to have near a sewing machine or craft area. I made these in hopes of having a few less threads hanging onto me.

Just doing a little stitching ....only kidding as I wouldn't know where to start!!

Our Daily Challenge ~ ... Thread ...

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my favourite part of this quilt is the threads that stand out when you look at it from an angle.

Closeup of colorful threads. The soul of fabrics and fashion.

A Macro Mondays submission on the topic "needle and thread".

A mixture of old thread on wooden reels & new thread on plastic reels.

The warm light of the late afternoon floods the grasses and lavender.

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A thread waisted wasp, probably Eremnophila aureonotata, on a flower.

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i had this idea when I was brainstorming last night, didn't really come out as planned, but that's okay. school tomorrow, i'm excited. the more days I go, the more days till summer.

help me pick which photography class to take, film or digital?

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While I was waiting on a hummingbird this guy was collecting water from a nearby puddle and I just happened to catch him in flight.

In the Jardin des Plantes, Paris

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Old Chevy truck -- San Juan County, Utah.

For Macro Monday's "Inspired by a Song"

I've chosen Sam Mendes song 'Stitches'

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I've always loved the chorus for this song

I'll be needing stitches

Tripping over myself,

Aching, begging you to come help

And now that I'm without your kisses

I'll be needing stitches

[x3:]

Needle and the thread,

Gotta get you out of my head

Needle and the thread,

Gonna wind up dead

Needle and the thread

Mural entitled "A Persistent Thread" by Jonny Alexander for "Murals in the Market" seen in Detroit, Michigan.

The artist explains the work as follows: This image is a personal interpretation of Detroit, where its been and where it's going. A narrative image you can read from left to right lends reference to Detroit's manufacturing past, it's present growth and it's future yet to be known. There is a banner that weaves its way through the whole image from past to future. It's meant to represent the cultural thread that has run through Detroit, with +80% of Detroit's population being black, I see this legacy as being the lifeblood that gives the city it's culture, vitality and creative energy. The banner serves as a reminder to the changing city to recognize and celebrate its cultural legacy.

Drone photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

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From Virginia, Rob brought back some antique furniture from his late grandmother's home. One of the pieces of furniture is a large chest of drawers. The drawers are still filled with all of her craft things -- bits of fabric, doll-making supplies, sewing sundries. A couple of the drawers are filled with spools of colorful thread, and those are just wonderful to look at.

Spools of thread, cards with trim or bias tape and bits of lace totally remind me of my childhood. My mother always sewed all my clothes and I didn't wear a 'store bought' dress until I was old enough to have a part-time job and buy my own.

Mum was an excellent seamstress and could make the most complicated patterns. When I was in high school and all the other girls were beginning to dress like hippies I was the one kitted out in tweed suits sewn from Vogue patterns that made me look like Angela Lansbury from Murder She Wrote. I even had jackets with bound buttonholes. I betcha there is hardly anyone reading this who is familiar with a bound buttonhole but take it from me it's very complicated sewing.

Do you think I was happy wearing these designer clothes? Not even a bit....it was horrifying...it was humiliating.....it was persecution. :-D I wanted to be like all the other girls and wear cheap stuff off the rack. This caused no end of consternation in our household resulting in tears, harsh words, foot stomping and pouting but I still had to wear those remarkably well made clothes.

One of my greatest liberating triumphs came when my mother made my coat for school. It was a dressy knee length coat with a lovely weave in powder blue. It was an old lady coat. There wasn't a day that went by that this ungrateful daughter didn't complain about her embarrassing coat so finally my mother said she would dye it navy blue if it would make me happier about it. It seemed a compromise I could live with.

So Mum set about dying the coat and when she was done it had shrunk to the size of something only a five year old could wear.

I was overjoyed.

She was dismayed.

It was vindication.

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Sacca degli Scardovari, Italy.

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VWH2186 seen at The Old Dairy in South Ruislip as it navigates the tight streets as it heads to Mill Hill Broadway from Ruislip operating route 114.

Raveningham sculpture trail

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"It all began as a project to dampen the acoustics and add colour to the Parish Hall of Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver. We planned to engage the community and share our love of textiles and indigo dye. To visually link the quilts, a red band signifying community would sweep around the room. [...].

Indigo is as ubiquitous as blue jeans, and yet has a profoundly spiritual dimension. Natural indigo derives from a variety of plants common throughout the world, [...]. White fabric immersed in the dye vat first appears pale yellow. As it emerges and is exposed to oxygen, it magically turns blue. Repeated dips create deeper tones.[...]."

You can read the whole article by Thomas Roach & Sheila Wex, Project Coordinators, Feb 21, 2014 here:

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Threads Edition 4 - A handmade A6 zine with photographs, drawings, illustrations, stories and poems.

Hand letterpressed cover with tipped on images.

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Kuakata, Bangladesh | 2013

This finch had some very fine, almost hairlike feathers that promptly showed up. Such a beautiful little bird.

One last piece of vintage machinery from Thomas Edison's machine shop.

There are some great pieces of industrial history here, but the light can be a bit challenging for a photographer, due to the big windows. Guess I need to go back for a longer visit on a cloudy day in the winter...

"Spirituality is like a thin-thin thread, that if delicately followed guides us from darkness to light; from poverty to abundance and from destruction to safety."

— Bryant McGill

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