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I love the colours, can't wait to see it completed

Can't wait to see this one develop

It's looking lovely. The colours are gorgeous.

Very pretty

Gorgeous colours and lovely neat stitching, well done

Beautiful!!!

Got the first band completed. I'm really looking forward to the Easter holidays so that I can get lots more of this one done



It's been really challenging. The YLI silk (peach) is very fine and I had to work hard at getting it to lie flat. I thought I was going to love the Pearsall's silk (green). It's beautifully glossy and well, silky but I found it really difficult to work with as it's also very springy. I tried using some Thread Heaven with it, but it took the sheen away so I had to persevere without.

The variegated Thread Gatherer Silk n' Colors was a joy to use. Judy Dixon had suggested we should iron each individual strand before using it as the floss is quite tightly wound. At the time I thought that sounded ridiculous, but I tried it and could hardly believe the difference. It's well worth the little extra time it takes to do - athough when my DH saw me do it he thought I had finally flipped

It's so lovely! I can just about imagine the look on your husband's face when he saw you ironing your thread

WOW!! That is truly STUNNING!!!
And it must be good to know ironing the thread is worth the effort...Even if you did have to explain to your hubby that you haven't gone mad

That is really pretty!!!!!

Oh WOW, this is stunning, and your stitching is soooo neat. Can't wait to see more of this.

Absolutely beautiful!! Absolutely stunning!! Absolutely beyond anything I could ever do!!

Would love to have seen your hubby's face as you ironed your threads.

Its gorgeous

That's beautiful Great tip about ironing the thread too - I wonder whether it would work for other threads as well?

husbands just dont understand do they???

can't wait to see more

I wouldn't be concerned about the irnoning... unless you were muttering incoherently while doing it...lol It's looking great!
Faith

Beautiful, and so interesting using all the different kinds of silk!

Lessa54 wrote:That's beautiful Great tip about ironing the thread too - I wonder whether it would work for other threads as well?

It should be okay for most threads on the lowest temperature on the iron, but don't iron any thread that has rayon in it as it might melt

This is beautiful!