I have taken possession of a large box of embroidery stuff, in which are lots of lovely things, but mostly items I'll take to my stitchers group tomorrow.
Can someone tell me about "soft embroidery cotton"? I have two kinds, it seems: a 4-ply, matt thread made by Anchor and clearly meant to be used without splitting. It's about 1mm thick; and a 5-ply DMC version. Neither are the same as coton a broder (which I have for comparison). What I've so far found on the innertubes hasn't been very helpful. please?
What's the difference between these threads?
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Re: What's the difference between these threads?
I've used soft cotton (both Anchor and DMC) for making friendship bracelets with the Sunday School children, as padding for goldwork, and - very important - it will be used for the windmill on my Canvaswork. Yes, it is used as it comes. It is rather thick for cross stitch unless on binca (which reminds me I once put together initial cross stitch kits for a friend to take on a well-digging and school-building trip to Sierra Leone, that was soft cotton and Binca - the children loved it, especially the boys!) but very good for canvaswork (it looks good in Florentine patterns). It can also be couched down, singly or in pairs of threes.
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Re: What's the difference between these threads?
Oh, and I don't think there is any difference except in the number of plies (which I will admit I'd never noticed)
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Re: What's the difference between these threads?
Have you managed to work out what to do with these threads yet Serinde?
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Re: What's the difference between these threads?
No, not yet. I'd like to use them on my 2024 daily stitch but I can't figure out how to make them take them out of their wrapper an make them into useable skeins. I have this vision of knots and more knots.