Following on from yesterday’s discussion of my favourite threads, I’d like to have a bit of a whinge. For me, the holy grail of thread is a good red. Whenever I see a new (new to me) range of threads, I look to see their reds. Quite often, they are very lacking.<\/p>\n
While the range of pinks, blues and greens is often excellent, very often the reds leave a lot to be desired. When I found Cosmo Seasons threads earlier this year, I was not surprised to find that their selection of reds is rather lacking. Their greens, blues, pinks and even browns are great, but red… where is it?<\/p>\n
Now, I understand why this probably is: red is hard to make colourfast.<\/p>\n
But I want good reds! Red is probably my favourite colour, and I like to use it in my stitching (except in whitework – obviously!). I’m not a fan of fire-engine or orangey reds. I’m more your blood red, a bit dark, a bit brownish red type girl. Reds that are heading towards maroon, or cherry reds, with a bit of pink in them.<\/p>\n
(Mind you, I hate pink – partly legacy of wearing a pink school uniform, but then I never liked pink before that either!)<\/p>\n
In the DMC range, my favourite red is probably found in the 814, 815, 816 area. Yum! Years ago I designed some little ornaments which used DMC 75, which was a really nice red\/maroon variegated thread. But almost as soon as I had liked this thread, they discontinued it! And so instead I had to swap to DMC 115, which isn’t *quite* as nice!<\/p>\n
Are you stuck on red like me? What is your favourite red thread? (And is it colourfast?!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Following on from yesterday’s discussion of my favourite threads, I’d like to have a bit of a whinge. For me, the holy grail of thread is a good red. Whenever I see a new (new to me) range of threads, I look to see their reds. Quite often, they are very lacking.<\/p>\n
While the range […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-favourite-needlework-items","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","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=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3592,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions\/3592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}