Well I’ve been quiet for a time now. We were back in the UK at Christmas so I took my knitting and made good progress on that.
Since being back I’ve joined a QU class to learn about using different threads for quilting. Not only that, but in the first lesson I have learned a whole lot about spools of thread and how to use them on the machine, that I didn’t know before. Did you know there is a right and wrong way to have your thread coming off the spool? Well I certainly didn’t.
We are making a set of small square samples using various threads.
cotton and rayon
metallics and slivers
twisted metallics
double threads
The metallics are quite hard to photograph. They are silver, green, gold and black & gold. In the double thread sampler we were threading 2 threads through the needle. It’s amazing how much time it took to create those four little squares!
