Thread

I have learned so much about thread in the past couple of days. This is side benefit of teaching: the research required to amass information and put it together in a coherent presentation is as educational for me as it is for students. As a knitter and handspinner, I know a lot about yarn. Thread is not dissimilar, but some of the more technical aspects were unfamiliar to me.

Thread will be the subject of this week’s podcast. I see no point in wasting all that research. I also gave a short presentation to the husband yesterday morning while I was cooking breakfast.

These are the thread kits that Wonderfil put together for me:

I had a chat with the store’s class coordinator on Saturday. One of the items on today’s to-do list is to get her a list of upcoming classes so she can get them on the schedule. That store has an amazing roster of classes and time slots are at a premium.

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We had a beautiful Easter service yesterday morning. I put the lid up on the baby grand—I don’t usually do that because it makes it hard for me to see the song leader and it also changes the sound slightly—but for special occasions, I think it’s appropriate. My prelude music was a bit more rousing than usual, too. 😇

Susan’s younger grandson wore one of the shirts I made for him. I was happy to see that I got the size right.

We had another afternoon of bright sunshine, and when I went out to water trays of seedlings, I discovered that the white cabbages (Early Dutch Round) have popped up. Yay!

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I’ve curated my Twitter/X feed so it contains the accounts of several clothing historians and textile scholars. This morning, one of the accounts mentioned the work of Chloe Giordano. She does the most amazing animal embroidery. I know my friend Sunnie will love the ones with rabbits. Check out Chloe’s website. She has done the cover artwork for a number of books, too, including this one:

Adorable.