I have many projects just waiting to be finished. It is always so fun to start something new, but when it takes a long time, the enthusiasm fades away and the project finds a place somewhere, usually a bit out of sight, and is forgotten. This box of embroidery floss is a perfect example. I have inherited, received as gift and bought embroidery floss over the years, and tried to keep them in one place.
As you can see, the place is an old shoe box, and my system is not very organized. I was thrilled to find these plastic bobbins online, and when they arrived at the beginning of last year, I started to organize my collection.
It was a very slow project, I found more fun doings, and the floss was forgotten for a year. Then I decided to finish it by working for an hour a day with the floss and bought another box as I could see one box would not get me very far.
Dear daughter spent last week with us, and on Thursday we sat together and organized the bobbins by colour. The DMC colour chart was not useful as I have embroidery floss from several manufacturers. Therefore we decided to use our intuition and just tried to please the eye.
Doesn't is look delicious?
My other finish was this Paper Lanterns quilt designed by Loft Creations. I made the quilt top five years ago, and this year I plan to quilt as many as possible of the tops I have waiting.
My blocks are slightly larger than in the pattern, and I used a dark background to make the lanterns glow in the dark night. This reminds me of a late Summer night when I was about ten years old. My eldest sister was coming home after a year in student exchange in the USA, our parents were meeting her at the airport and they were coming home very late in the night. We hanged paper lanterns in trees and on the washing line to welcome them.
In the photo the binding is only pinned on the backside but today it is sewn, with label and all. Two months of the year are behind, and I have finished two quilts. I hope to finish one again before the end of this month.
Hienosti olet langat järjestänyt, minulla olisi sama edessä. Hieno peitto tulossa!
ReplyDeleteWell done sorting all those tangled threads…they look great….
ReplyDeleteGorgeous finish with the Lantern Quilt.
You're doing pretty good if you have completed two quilts already. The backgroud blue fabric was a very wise choice to make the lanterns stand out. I have a shoe box of embroidery threads that need some organization. Some are in little plastic baggies by colour and some are tangled and need to be undone. My eldest daughter used lots of my embroidery threads when she was a teenager making friendship bracelets.
ReplyDeleteI also like to organize my embroidery threads in this way, and because they are also different makes, I file them by rows of colour. But my draw can't take any more, so now some of them just live on the top, no more space in the rows. Can one have too many? ;-)
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