I’ve been playing with new goodies…glass goodies of course. It goes with the casting. Or at least it will. What I’ve been starting to play with is boro tubing. Not something I usually do a lot of. But the project I’m working will be insanely cool with some boro tubing flared out. There will be pictures soon, I promise. Now on to what this posting is really about. This evening I was at The Spirit of 96 shindig at Pacific Art Glass and I found out they were getting boro sheet. Huh? So I figured I do a bit of research. Over at Schott Glass they have boro sheet…this looks interesting. For those of you that don’t know about borosilicate glass it’s “hard glass” vs “soft glass”, such as Bullseye and Moretti and Spectrum. It has a very high melting and flow point and it’s very strong. It’s Pyrex…so, we’ll see what happens. I’ll keep you posted.
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How to Store Embroidery Needles
I have a complicated relationship with my embroidery needles. Which is a fancy way of saying I don’t really take care of my needles at all. Even though I know I have embroidery needles to use for cross stitch and sewing, needles that are certainly still in their packages, I can rarely find them when I need them.
So when I saw this post from Crewel Ghoul about how to store your embroidery needles, it hit close to home for me.
It doesn’t really say anything I didn’t already know, but it is good advice that might also serve as a reminder for you to take better care of your needles when you cross stitch or do other hand-sewing projects so that you’ll be able to find your needles again when you need them.
It would help me a lot if I had a dedicated place to keep needles I’m not using, including the needles that are still in their packages from when I bought them. You’d think I would keep them with my embroidery floss but apparently you would be mistaken about that.
Another good idea for me is to have a place to put needles I’ve been using when I am done with them. Because goodness knows I’m not going to put them back in the package. (Which may actually be a good thing because then I know which one I’ve been using and which ones are fresh. Not that I replace my needles regularly, but still.) I own pincushions but I don’t really use them for anything, which is silly.
Check out the post at Crewel Ghoul to see all the options available for storing your embroidery needles properly. I’d love to hear what you do, especially if you have a better system than I do (which, honestly, would be any system at all).
[Photo: Crewel Ghoul]