There’s Gold in Them Hills!
Tricia sent me this post:
As you can see in this picture, the gold threads have arrived. Remember earlier this summer the second trial of gold-silver-copper on silk arrived and was a slight bit thinner than the first trial. It worked well for stitching plaited braid. I excitedly called Lamora at
Access Commodities and let her know that using two silk plies for the core worked and we could go ahead and ask Bill Barnes to make a full run. If you check back in your blog a long while back, you will remember our rough estimates of how much we would need. Over 1000 meters. Well, I was surprised that Bill was able to turn it around as fast as he did - and nothing got caught in customs this time!! Customs has been the enemy #1 of this project. I can’t tell you how any times our supplies have gotten delayed there!
So I have more than 1500 meters in my hot little hand right now. Well of course I had to have extra! Some for me and some for you stitchers out there! Give me a few weeks to get my act together and we will have a little kit for sale to benefit the jacket with a needle and
gold thread and maybe a few instructions thrown in too.
Just in time. Next week the workroom will be a hub of activity. My son is going to summer camp at the Plantation and so I have a great excuse to be there all week. I will be starting the gold work and working on attaching detached pieces. Then we have a session starting
at the end of the week (still have spots if you are in the area for a day). Some lucky ladies may even start couching gold and doing reverse chain with this new limited edition material. Cool.
Tricia
Tags: , Access Commodities, Bill Barnes, customs, gold thread, Lamora, reverse chain stitch, silk, Tricia
July 30th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
OK so sign me up for a kit when available…
Ta
Carol
July 31st, 2008 at 8:00 am
Yes! Kit! After all it’s my favorite color: Shiney :).
July 31st, 2008 at 10:33 am
I’m definitely interested in a kit (and hopefully can work out getting down to stitch next week, too). If you’re going to include instructions, would they be different than the ones that Linda Connors has put together? I’ve already ordered (and quickly received those) so if it would be a matter of packaging those in I’d love to have the option of getting or not getting instructions. Of course if you’re going to give us different/more instructions then that sounds great, too!
Robbin