For kicks I looked up glass on Wikipedia. They know everything. And it’s interesting to see what they have to say about glass. Most of this stuff you probably knew already, but I bet there are a few things you didn’t know. It was first created in Mesopotamia in 3500 BC. Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid material. Glasses are typically brittle, and often optically transparent. Those words are directly from Wikipedia. What I love about Wikipedia is that they do give quite a bit of information about the subject and there is a bunch of reference material where you can go to find out more. I love the science of glass. If science had been as much fun in school as it is playing with glass we might all be scientists. But then again, can’t glass workers be also called scientists since we deal with chemistry and physics and other scientific types of things while working with glass? Nice question, I think.
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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]