Showing posts with label thread. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thread. Show all posts

Monday, January 2, 2012

Drop Spinning

A little while ago I bought myself a drop spindle, to try out spinning yarn.  Lately I've tried out a few pieces, some undyed/natural and others various colours --

L to R: hemp (?), flax (?), wool with metallic thread, wool with silk thread, 3 similar shades of wool, alternating yellow and peach wools

drop spindle, yarns

white wool, brown wool, grey wool with white silk fibres, hemp (?), flax (?)

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Remember, Remember

I should have noted in my last post that it was the 5th of November - Guy Fawkes day.

Today, the 7th, has been a lovely sunny day. I'm trying to work really hard on things for the Piecework show in 3 weeks time, to which end I picked up some additional shadow box frames today.

The frames are for the silk free motion embroidered butterflies I've written about a number of times, otherwise known as my Psyche collection. I've created an online portfolio of a selection of those and a full explanation of the collection, which you can look at here:

Monday, September 13, 2010

Silk and Opera

Took a little trip to the fabric shop yesterday, got some great thread colours, and some pieces of silk dupioni - one of my favourite fabrics.

Spent the evening watching a great production of Carmen on TV. Very dramatic!

More updates coming soon...

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Ouchies

So this week I have managed, in the process of working on crafty things, to stick myself in the finger with a sewing pin, and then cut another finger with a pair of scissors.
And, had a thread worry, when I ran almost out of a colour, and discovered that the thread of that number is now a bright pink ( which is not what I was working with).  However, did manage to find a thread that is so close it doesn't show.  :)
I haven't got new pictures to show just yet of what I've been working on.  Should do soon though.