Silver Seams

Dead soldiers

Wed, 16 Sep 2020

Not too many new things to show off because Iā€™m still burning through spools of thread getting the shop restocked. But this lineup reminded me about thread buying.

The two GĆ¼termann spools on the left are from one of the multi-packs fabric stores tend to carry, heavily discounted, around Christmas. At some point I decided that my mismatched collection of sewing threads (I hadnā€™t even inherited the rest of my motherā€™s and grandmothersā€™ yet) needed to be upgraded, and that seemed like a really good price. And it was probably fine, but not the loss leader it looked like.

The two Sulky spools on the right are a reminder that just because spools seem like the same size doesnā€™t mean they are ā€“ even with the same size cores, the different thread weight makes quite a difference in yardage.

In other updates: the pug, alas, didnā€™t make the cut to get published as part of the competition. Iā€™ll probably list the three already-printed fleece versions I have over in the fabric shop this week, but itā€™ll be a couple weeks before the design gets published (puglished?) for sale on the Spoonflower site now.

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