Embroidery Floss.
You can see the faded old labels and the new labels with the bar codes.
I’m smocking again. Each color has a Number
There are 454 solid colors in this brand.
Thought I’d organize them in the little plastic box with bobbins, labeling each number in the corresponding color
Not exactly sure why-
An old musical box pillow I made when Laura was small. You know the tune it plays.
Such pretty colors. You are so creative, Ruth!
Thank you Toni.
Would that be “baa baa black sheep”? – I didn’t know there were so many colors
Yep! You got it.
Beautiful work Ruth, super impressed at both your creativity and organization!
Thank you Patti. The time to create due to retirement a year ago has been wonderful.
My mom has the EXACT SAME setup for all of her embroidery thread. She is a big sewer/fabric-crafts lady.
There is something calming about winding floss or yarn. I like the preparation and the creative planning.
I wound all my embroidery thread onto those cardboard bobbins too. I like to look at them all lined up in the box – sort of like a rainbow!
Cool. These bobbins are plastic and small. I used to have larger cardboard and liked them Yes I think the organizing snd perusing what you have on hand is a good start to a project. I like your Rainbow analogy. Thanks Margie
What is your favourite colour? Mine could be 519….
Oh it would be so hard to choose just one!
my comment was slightly tongue in cheek, my favourite colour is actually green but I love different combinations of colours.
I took you seriously. :-). Funny.
wow i jest learnt sumpin new …had not a clue how many colors of stitch there waz thats incredibly KEWL!
2 Kewl fer Skewl really lol 🙂 <3 luv ur rendition an interpretation! again very Cool! yes indeed!
Thank you for your visit and comment today
bery welcome <3 luv ur stuff.so very hard to do ……i am impressed!
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I too have one of these plastic boxes with floss. It’s been awhile since I’ve looked at it. I love the smocked pillow.
I’m enjoying smocking again by using the Ready-to-smock garments and bonnets instead of doing it all from scratch.
454 colours, i bet you have a lot of them but do you have just the one you want?
No I have to go to the store. I’m a shade off on the green for the alligators.
hahaha, I knew it!
Yes you did!
I adore your DMC thread numbers. I used to 4 of the big boxes full of them…..put in by Number. I was once upon a time a cross-stitch fanatic. 😀
I’ve just gotten back to smocking after a couple decades break. I love all the colors thanks Cee. Shoot some of your x stitch!
Love the colors! and your adorable pillow!!!! xxxxxooooo
That’s really cool, Ruth. Do you buy the ribbon thread ready made? How do you count the stitches (like cross stitch?) without a cross thread?
There are rows of strong dark thread (like a musical staff) that hold the pleats in place while you embroider on top of the pleats. When all the embroidery(smocking) is completed you pull out the dark threads. There is geometric and picture smocking. You follow the 1/4 1/2 of line or space. Not sure what you mean by the ribbon thread. You pleat the fabric with a little hand machine with crooked needles or now I buy a bonnet or romper already sewn and just smock. The pillow shown is from when my daughter was young and now she is a mom