cosmo fobs

After I came back from Brisbane I said that I was waiting for the chance to play with the Cosmo Seasons threads that I bought from All Threads Embroidery. Well, I finally got the chance to do this on the weekend. Lately because I have been working so hard during the week I have been making the conscious decision to give myself me time on the weekend.

You may think that if I work hard at embroidering all week that I wouldn’t want to do more embroidery in my leisure time… But I do, because I love embroidery so much! So on Friday night I got to work with my new cosmo thread, a needle and thread and had a bit of a stitching doodle. It turned out to be a fob to go on my scissors.

I revised the design and made it into a bookmark fob. And then I designed two more, in different designs and colourways. What fun! I was so happy with my little experimentations that its highly likely that I will be making them into kits. I used counted thread stitches from my left and right-handed stitch dictionaries, and combined the Cosmo threads with some gold thread and gold Mill Hill Magnifica beads.

I had great fun with the fobs, and they’re the sort of thing that stitches up reasonably quickly – mine took a few hours each. I took them with me wherever I was going over the weekend, and if I had a short while of waiting time, I just pulled them out and stitched. Because they’re small, they’re very portable.

My report on the Cosmo threads is this – they’re so nice! The cotton is very soft and has a lovely sheen. Some thread seems to change thickness a little, but this thread does not – its very even. Most of the time the colour gradations work nicely, changing from one colour to another over a good distance, though I did get one section of thread yesterday that made me quite cross because it was so boring! However, I just cut a new piece from the thread and it was much more interesting. On the whole though, the colour changes quickly enough to be interesting, but not too quickly! This is very much dependent on the stitches you are using though, and how quickly the stitch uses up the thread.

The price that I paid for the Cosmo thread at All Threads was very reasonable, so if you have to cut out a section of boring thread and move onto the next bit, it doesn’t seem so wasteful.

I’ve sent an enquiry to the Australian distributors of these threads to find out if I might be able to get them for making into kits. I hope that they don’t have a stupid rule like that you must carry the whole range to be able to buy from them. (I have come across that sort of thing before. I can understand it is a sensible rule for shops, but for designers simply wanting to put the threads into kits, its just unhelpful.)

And now after talking and talking about them, I’ll finally let you have a peek. 🙂