Hi, Monica, no the names aren't familiar to me, but then I am UK born, and have only lived here since 2000. I will ask my Sligo quilting friends when I see them on Thursday at our meeting. The church where Yeats is buried is just north of Sligo and very popular with visitors.

Ducky I have that thread I bought it for a project and it never got finished so haven´t used it, may try it out on this one because I think that might be nice.

Elle

I really think it would look nice, along with two strands of DMC. I am using it on a project now, and it is a real pain to work with -- for me at least. It wants to fray in the middle and break. I'm thinking if it's with the other strands of floss, it would work better....?

Ducky, that filament sounds really interesting...I've never heard of it. I got a notice today that my Razzle Dazzle has shipped, so I can't wait to try it out. It has a metallic thread in it so it should have a nice sheen. We'll see. If it doesn't work like I want it too, I'll be back at square 1. I have scads of the DMC 742 though and it looks great on Lesley's blocks.

Oh Dears! I am not only about to go out of commission but I blinked and you all jumped at least 10 pages on me. How will I ever catch up??????

We got to run over (5 hours away) to see two of our grandchildren and my sweet DIL for the weekend. It was so much fun. I posted photos on the thread "Grandchildren, my future quilters". They are such a blessing to us.

I haven't had time to read through all of the pages. Does anyone know how Molly's knee replacement went on Monday? :shock: :shock: :shock:

LindaAnn we are chatterboxes, you can´t leave us for long, but at least you will have some reading material when you are getting better.

Haven´t heard about Molly, perhaps someone else knows.

Elle

Blending filament is EVIL!!!

I used to do a lot of cross stitch, and hated it so much that I left it out wherever I didn't think it would make much difference to the finished piece. It was always getting tangled or breaking even when the threads it was paired with were behaving nicely. I tried silicone and all sorts of "thread conditioner" on it and it still wouldn't behave. I will never touch the stuff again!

Yuk, I hate when that happens. I was looking at a site last night which might be useful to some of you they sell the most unusual threads and ribbons, just type in shibori dragon. Lovely fabrics as well although not so cheap as some sites. Gorgeous hand dyes batiks though.

Elle, I'm not going to look - I'm not going to look - I'm not going to look. Oh hang it, I probably will.

I haven't seen any mention from Molly, so I hope all went well, and she can hobble to the computer sometime soon to catch up with us.

.........I looked. http://www.shiboridragon.com/

Thankfully, I didn't see any hand dyed batiks - not sure where they were, so I am safe for now.

Lesley its not what I cause a user friendly site, but they are their, do you want me to post the page for you.......mmmm up to you..

Elle