One of my acquaintances from the Shuttlebug guild contacted me to see if I was interested in having her deceased sister's embroidery floss stash. After stitching today I went over there and relieved her of it promising that if I couldn't use it, I new some folks who might like it.
The flosses were in resealable bags, separated by colour family so one by one I went through each bag. I decided to only keep the DMC floss and set aside the other flosses from other manufacturers: Mez, J P Coats, Anchor, Olympus, etc.
As I sorted the floss, I laid the DMC flosses in numerical order so they'd be easy to get into my existing complement of FlossAway bags. These are the ones I kept:
All but 14 colours were incorporated into my existing FlossAway bags. I had to order some more FlossAway bags for the remaining ones from Kimat Designs so they'll be ready for pickup at the end of the week.
Most of the skeins pre-dated bar codes.
Many of the older skeins had this diagram showing how to pull a strand from the skein.
There is nothing wrong with the floss, it's just 4+ decades old. However some of the dyelots have changed so if stitching with one of the old skeins, it will be important to not mix it with threads from the newer skeins.
Dyelot variations are quite evident for some of the colours:
This was definitely a relic. Remember Woolco?
It's pretty faint but it cost 20 cents.
These are the ones I still need bags for. It's also possible that the colours are kitted up with other projects but I don't worry too much about having multiple bags of the same colour.
Our guild's stitch day is this Saturday so I'll take the rest of the floss there to see if anyone would like some or all of it.
Last Friday, I popped into Kimat Designs to buy some fabric for the Blue Flower 'Bees in the Greenhouse' pattern.
I selected a hand-dyed, 40ct, medium green. The design is 300 x 102 so stitching over 2 threads on 40ct (20 cross-stitches per inch), I needed 15" x 5.1". This Fiber on a Whim Silver Fox will be perfect.
Instead of a long piece of stitching with all 6 sides horizontally, I could do the two halves of the chart, one above the other and I'd still have a nice, 9" x 13" piece left over for another project.
Tomorrow is Canada Day. I have never seen so many Canadian flags on display as I did driving around town today. On one street adjacent to Garden street (Google maps tells me it was Clune Place) , every house has one between two stakes on their boulevard. I even attached one to the wall beside my front door with Alien Tape - a very sticky, two-sided silicone tape.
I sure hope I can get the Alien Tape off the wall and the flag when the time comes. I think I'll leave it up even after Canada Day.
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