I had a lovely day working with fabric and threads yesterday. So many gorgeous colours. I took my fabrics to a local shop to buy threads to go with them.
I have a little app in my phone where I have all the embroidery threads that I own listed. It means that I can go to the shop, choose a thread and then check whether I already have one of those skeins at home. It is very useful and means that I don’t end up buying more skeins of something I already own!
I chose threads that went with my fabrics, and checked the app. I didn’t have ANY of those threads already (and they were just DMC stranded threads, so nothing unusual!). It made me realise that the colours I am working with are a completely new colour scheme to me – how exciting!
When buying some extra fabric, the lady in the shop asked what I was making. I showed her my design and she oohed and aahed. It was a lovely response and quite encouraging!
I guess you’re wondering when you’ll get to see photos of this mysterious project. All in good time. Probably not too long, actually. 🙂
White Threads is the blog of Yvette Stanton, the author, designer, publisher behind Vetty Creations' quality needlework books and embroidery products.
I’d love this app – is it one you’ve developed yourself or can we find it to download somewhere? I have a Word doc listing a lot of my thread numbers but I never have that on me when I’m out at the shops. It’s a brilliant idea.
Hi Michelle, its one I bought for my Android phone: Floss Checklist
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.opeware.flosschecklist&hl=en
If you have an idevice, I’m sure there would be one that would suit that operating system too!
Thanks. I looked it up and it isn’t iphone compatible unfortunately, but I did some searching and found a few others that are, to check out. Lots of fun playing with new apps!