I said she could post them in the forums, or send them to me and I’d put them online. Posted in Business, Stitching | 5 Comments »Ī stitcher wrote asking how she could share her stitching tips. This wouldn’t necessarily let you know which thread on a bobbin was which, if it was ecru and sand for example, but it might keep you from putting blues on a bobbin that was supposed to have pinks. The numbers and symbols would still be black, but there would be two little swatches or lines of the appropriate colors added to the labels. My next thought was that that sounds like kind of a chore, so now I’m thinking about printing floss labels with the colors. And even if I still put it on the wrong bobbin, I would probably notice when I went to use it again. Sometimes I can figure out what the symbol for the floss should have been and sometimes I just have to throw the floss away because I don’t know what it is.Įarlier today, I thought, “I should snip half an inch of the two colors of floss on each bobbin and tape it to the bobbin.” That would be a way to check whether I was putting floss on the right bobbin. Then later I notice I have 4 colors of floss on one bobbin, or I pick a bobbin up and realize that the color on it is clearly wrong (like a light color with a dark symbol, or vice versa). That sounds odd but I’ve caught myself doing it. I think maybe I look at the right bobbin and then pick up a different one. Much more often, I think, I just put floss back onto the wrong bobbin. I may have parked a needle in the wrong place, although I think I’m really pretty careful about that. It’s in a very confettic area but there is a pattern although you have to step back to see it. Although the thread is the wrong color, it is similar in darkness. I’m going to look at it and maybe decide that it’s not worth bothering with. I’m not actually sure of the extent of the damage - there are at least a few more wrong stitches, and to get at them I will have to rip out all the surrounding stitches. (No, I don’t memorize the colors for each symbol but some I just learn after I’ve stitched them for a while.) I pulled out the last 3 or 4 stitches which were around the edges and then decided that would be a good time to quit for the night. So I was stitching last night, minding my own business, when it slowly soaked into my consciousness that the needle I was using to stitch the & symbol, which should have had a green and a gold thread, actually had two brown threads.
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