Nice threads!

I’ve noticed quite a lot of tapestry thread in my local charity shops lately. I haven’t done any tapestry for years, but I pick the wool when I see it, as it might come in useful at some point.

While I don’t do tapestry at the moment, I am keen on embroidery. I use much thinner, shinier threads in my work, (you can see some examples of my embroideries below).

I may have a go at tapestry again at some point, as I used to love it. In the meantime, does anyone know of any alternative uses for tapestry thread – maybe for hole punch embroidery? If anyone knows, please do let me know.

Stitched up

I did a little bit of ‘make do and mend’ recently, when I embroidered over a hole that had appeared in a blouse. Here are the before and after pics…

I was inspired to embroider a lemon on the blouse as I’d recently embroidered a much larger version of the fruit on a hoop, (pic below).

With sustainability in mind, I’m trying to do my little bit for the environment by not binning clothes that can be fixed-up.