{"id":1235,"date":"2010-06-24T06:15:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T20:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2010-06-23T21:39:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T11:39:52","slug":"springy-silks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/06\/24\/springy-silks\/","title":{"rendered":"springy silks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Stitches<\/a>
\nI was fortunate to get my hands on some gorgeous single ply silks from Stitches and Spice<\/a> at the craft show. Naomi from Stitches and Spice is a good friend of Kirsten<\/a>‘s and therefore my friend too by default. \ud83d\ude42 She has a lovely new range of single ply silks out, and I was quite taken with them. Naomi took pity on me and allowed me to have some to try out seeing I am a “Professional Designer”. \ud83d\ude09 (How nice is that?!)<\/p>\n

You can see that they have a divine shine to them. I love the colours, though a few more reds would be to my liking!<\/p>\n

I have a problem though… You can see a bit of mess in the middle. While they come nicely twisted into skeins on their cards, they won’t stay like that for long. They are so springy which makes them a bit hard to keep neat! <\/p>\n

I was talking yesterday with a lady who does Japanese embroidery, and she said that their silks come on cylinders, which keeps them neat, but doesn’t give kinks like regular thread winders would.<\/p>\n

I haven’t got any inside tubes from fax rolls at the moment (though it doesn’t take long – I get so much fax spam!) but I’m thinking that they’d be good to wind the thread onto.<\/p>\n

I did also purchase some Thread Heaven<\/a> (thread conditioner for springy threads) from Stitches and Spice which will help when I use the threads to stitch with. I’ve never tried it before and am looking forward to trying it. But that’s for stitching and not for storing.<\/p>\n

How do others store springy threads that don’t want kinks? Can you share any good tips with me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was fortunate to get my hands on some gorgeous single ply silks from Stitches and Spice at the craft show. Naomi from Stitches and Spice is a good friend of Kirsten‘s and therefore my friend too by default. \ud83d\ude42 She has a lovely new range of single ply silks out, and I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-products","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}