Silver Seams
Plastic shoe boxes of embroidery thread spools

End of an era

Mon, 17 Mar 2025

I'm switching from rayon back to polyester, I guess. You'll probably notice a little variation in the color names in my embroidery files (though I don't often make designs that require very specific colors).

I've had my mother-in-law's Isacord collection for a few years now, and I have grabbed the occasional color out of it but they've been in the same plastic shoeboxes I shoveled them into when I took them down off her wall-o-thread. But with my source of Sulky going away, it's time to start using it.

I sorted it all into numeric order, and there's almost ninety colors (plus a dozen or so duplicates). I copied over the Ink/Stitch Isacord thread palette, and deleted all the colors I don't have, and imported in the forty colors from the initial Amazon Brother-colors set I have (which, somehow, I think I've only used up one spool entirely).

And that's that, I guess.