Incoherent Scribblings

Today’s SBQ was suggested by Outi and is:

What do you do to your thread clippings? Do you just scrap them or do you use them in something else?

I used to keep a little trash can beside my stitching chair that I tossed my thread clippings in when I snipped them off. However, I got tired of the cats constantly turning over the can and scattering things everywhere so I retired it. Nowadays I just put all my clippings in a little pile next to my scissors as I am stitching and when I am finished for the evening I gather up all the clippings and throw them away.

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Thanks to Jennifer at Sweet Pea Stitches and Shelleen at Shelleen’s Musings for naming me for the Brilliant and Kreativ blog awards respectively. I think I am about the last person to be named for these awards, but I would like to mention six blogs that I would name as Brilliant and Kreativ because in one way or another, these ladies’ blogs and their stitching inspires me. (I chose six because it is a happy medium between the seven you are supposed to name for Brilliant Blogs and the five for Kreativ).

1. Dawn
2. Cathy
3. Christine
4. Outi
5. Anne
6. Hev

P.S. For anyone who wonders who the designers I stitch are, I tag all my posts with the designer name and usually the name of the pattern as well. Although the tags don’t show up in Google reader (I don’t know about other readers) you can always visit my blog and check out the tags. Dawn’s Round Robin is from a Stoney Creek leaflet called “Snow Happens.”

Ta Da! Here is “Kitty Cat Row” all finished! I finished it late Monday night, but wanted to wait until I had washed and ironed it to post the happy dance picture.

In case you were wondering, I made a couple of minor changes near the end: First I altered the last two kitties’ collars from bark to brethren blue (2nd to last kitty) and mulberry (last kitty). I did this for no other reason than I thought they looked cuter with more colorful collars than with dull greenish-brown ones. I also changed the last kitty to oatmeal instead of onyx because I already had an onyx kitty and thought an oatmeal one would look nice with the mulberry collar that I had planned.

Though this is not the first project I have stitched with overdyed floss, it is the first “large” one and I think I can now say that overdyed floss does have its charm if you can use enough of it to actually see the color variations.

And now, because it is Wednesday, it is time for the SBQ! This week’s question was once again suggested by Nancy and is:

Do you do anything special to your threads before putting them through your fabric to make them more manageable?

In a word, NOPE!

Every time I went to the quilt shop with my mom last year I would look at “Thread Heaven” and wonder if I should try some though…