Good morning and Completely happy Wednesday!
Gosh, it’s bizarre to speak about wool thread when it’s sizzling and humid, isn’t it?
Nonetheless…! In my thoughts, with regards to good embroidery thread, it’s not a seasonal factor. Any season will do! I can sew with wool each time I’m in a wooly temper, be it summer season or winter or any time in between. Yessiree, Bob!
First within the information, there’s the Wildflowers in Wool embroidery equipment, which I wrote about right here.
We lastly acquired the backorder for one of many thread colours, so now we have just some kits accessible right here proper now. In the event you had been hoping for one once they had been launched however missed the equipment, hopefully you possibly can choose one up at this time.
Eco Vita Thread Collections
And with that backorder, some Eco Vita thread collections additionally arrived! Now we have this beautiful set of 30 colours of Eco Vita naturally dyed natural wool again in inventory, too.
The gathering is made up of full-sized skeins in a really pleasing array of colours. They make an excellent springboard for designing or understanding your individual colour scheme to your stitching initiatives.
In the event you’re not accustomed to Eco Vita wool otherwise you’d wish to know extra about it, you will discover details about it, and comparisons to different wool threads for embroidery, in this collections of articles that discover all kinds of wool embroidery threads.
Autumn Aspect Challenge
I’m simply beginning on an autumn aspect challenge. It’s an embroidered desk runner, constituted of considered one of these linen blanks. Particularly, I’m utilizing the pure linen desk runner.
I’m fairly enthusiastic about this challenge, largely as a result of I feel will probably be fast to work, and I’m wanting ahead to having the ability to use it this autumn.
I’m taking the maple leaf line from my Autumn Selection ready-to-stitch towel set, increasing the leaf line barely, and embroidering it on every finish of one of many linen runner.
Down the center of the runner, I plan to work, right here and there, some scattered particular person leaves.
Years again, I embroidered this runner utilizing the Festive Fall design (with the pumpkin) (additionally accessible right here in a downloadable PDF format, with stitching directions and designs), however I used to be by no means fully pleased with it. The material is a really light-weight linen that’s semi-transparent and somewhat loosely woven. It wasn’t the very best floor material for this type of floor embroidery, I admit, however on the time, it was the one clean that I may discover in that colour of linen.
However now! Now! I’ve some beautiful linen blanks, constituted of beautiful, substantial Italian linen! It’s time to concoct one thing leafy and fall-ish with considered one of them.
Proper now, I’m engaged on the structure for the runner. I’ll share updates on it as I’m going alongside, with ideas, methods, and whatnot – simply in case you wish to sew one thing related!
What’s Up!
In order that’s what’s up within the Studio proper now – nicely, that, and we’re constructing a pair prototypes (really, many prototypes!) for the subsequent Sew Snippet stitch-along. We’ve acquired a few of the material in for that, too, and we’re simply ready on threads, beads, and a few little extras.
And I’m engaged on some new sew tutorials for you.
Ooooooh – and we’ve began a Christmas decoration.
There. Now I’ve coated all of it!
Hope you’ve gotten a beautiful Wednesday!
