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Created this scene on top of my craft room table for the "cotton thread" challenge in the MacroMADEMOISELLE group. All the stuff around is to fix or to put away. But I like the bokeh it made, so it stayed. ;-) The delicate scissors are specifically for cutting threads.
Our Daily Challenge ... I used to.
I used to love sewing and making clothes for myself and family. Now I rarely get the machine out ... just for mending and alterations which is not much fun.
For many years I was really into machine applique and I made simple tops with interesting designs stitched onto them to sell in a boutique where I lived. They sold well and I saved enough money to buy a better sewing machine which now just sits in the cupboard unused. I also have lots of left over threads which I now use only as photographic props. Today I'm featuring a couple of fancy ones which were not really a success in my opinion.
I still love the colours!
W.A. Young Machine Shop and Foundry
Rices Landing, PA
This shop was built in 1900. It was closed in 1969 and left the way it was on its last day of operation with machinery and tools dating as far back as 1870.
The shop is beside the Monongahela River in southwestern Pennsylvania. It specialized in repairing barges, tug boats, and other river vessels and making replacement parts.
Even the tiny metal shavings or filings remain on the tools.
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See more images like this in my Y.A. Young Machine Shop album:
www.flickr.com/photos/cj_proartz/albums/72157654848957191...
Labourers are working for drying threads after colouring for making saree in a village in West Bengal, India
Still exploring my wife's sowing stuff. I spent plenty of time getting lots of colour shots of reels of thread, but I couldn't really make anything work. This was a bit of a throw-away shot, but it's the best of a bad bunch.
Lensbaby Composer, Sweet 35 Optic, 12mm Extension Tube
This is Nazli Gelin Garden, a size 10 mercerized cotton. I got it at Herrschners.
It comes in some rad colors. Check out that brown in the back.
56 : 365
I couldn't resist this vintage thread holder and made no promises to sew more if I bought it.
12" x 18" Soho Coloured Pencils and Polychromos, with a little ink on Canson drawing paper.
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Many thanks to Sally Robertson for the reference photo.
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Nemoptera bipennis.
Idanha-a-Nova / Portugal
This is not a dragonfly. it is a lacewing (Neuroptera).
This is the most beautiful bug I've ever seen. It is as big as the bigger dragonflies.
This was found on a field on top of a hill next to a large river. There were a couple of them on that area, but I had never seen these before.
Since then, I found this to be locally common on some areas of Alentejo and Algarve (hills or dunes).
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List of nerve-winged insects:
www.hlasek.com/ccsitokridli1an.html
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Actually my second choice for Macro Mondays "holes" theme. My first choice, also on my photostream, did not meet the criteria. The entire hole was not visible.
Norfolk Southern train P11 navigates through bustling Inman Yard with 52 loads of Toyota's for the distribution plant located in Commerce, GA.