{"id":5400,"date":"2012-10-25T06:32:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T19:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=5400"},"modified":"2012-10-25T06:45:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T19:45:56","slug":"reader-question-my-threads-have-run-what-do-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2012\/10\/25\/reader-question-my-threads-have-run-what-do-i-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader question: my threads have run, what do I do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I received a sad and heartfelt email from an embroiderer. I could feel her pain as I read her email:<\/p>\n

I just completed a small embroidery and the red thread bled. Oh dear. I was looking on the net for advice and came across your blog entry about testing a red thread<\/a>. My question is what would you do if it had bled. Some people take the preventative approach and rinse all of their threads before using, some add salt, vinegar – loads of conflicting advice. Also when I wash my embroidery afterwards to get the soluble pen out is there a way of washing it that further avoids the chances of susceptible threads bleeding?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My commiserations for a dreadful day. How annoying and disappointing for you!<\/p>\n

My first suggestion would be to only use colourfast threads. If you’re wanting to use overdyed threads, some of them are colourfast, I do believe – you may just have to search for them!<\/p>\n

My other suggestion is to not use water soluble pens if you think it is at all likely that the colours will bleed when you do wash. Use some other method of drawing on the fabric or tracing your pattern – even water soluble pencils are better than pens, as they can sometimes be rubbed off with the eraser. Personally, I try not to use water soluble pens at all.<\/p>\n

BUT, if your threads have already run… I am not sure. I feel at a bit of a loss to know how to help as anything I suggest may not help at all, or may indeed make it worse! In dressmaking, if I think a fabric is overly dyed, when I prewash it, I use salt and cold water only to help keep the dye in place. But if you do that with your embroidered piece you risk setting the run bits too. What would happen if you ran and ran and ran cold water over the piece? It might wash out the dyes, but then they may just “lodge” in the fabric. On the other hand, the run parts might wash out too… It is very hard to know.<\/p>\n

\"Ukrainian<\/a>My only experience of having a thread run disappointingly was with the piece that is on the front cover of my book “Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery”. I cheated and used Photoshop to edit out the small patch where the iron had spurted on the black (non-colourfast, as it turned out!) thread. I just didn’t want to make it worse by trying anything else! Of course, this only fixed the picture of the embroidery, not the embroidery itself.<\/p>\n

Does anyone have any suggestions for this awful predicament? Has this happened to you in the past, and what did you do about it?<\/p>\n

Most of the embroidery that I do is white on white, so the dye in threads running is not something I often encounter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I received a sad and heartfelt email from an embroiderer. I could feel her pain as I read her email:<\/p>\n

I just completed a small embroidery and the red thread bled. Oh dear. I was looking on the net for advice and came across your blog entry about testing a red thread. My question […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer-embroidery","category-embroidery-musings","category-hints-and-tips","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400","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=5400"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5406,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions\/5406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}