Food and Stitching
I have to confess a guilty secret. I drink all sorts of things (even coffee!) and eat all kinds of junk (especially chocolate) while stitching. I do try to not get goo on my hands, and wash them before touching the floss and fabric if I do.
My theory goes something like this: If I spill coffee on my project, I can always finish the project, and then dunk the whole thing in coffee for a Uniform Appearance. How’s that for rationalization? And if it’s tea, then really I actually -meant- to get the tea on it for that Antique Look.
So far I haven’t spilled anything on my projects, and with luck *knocks on wood*, it will stay that way.
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3 opinions for Food and Stitching
Ternezia
Mar 31, 2006 at 1:27 pm
My, what a bold attitude :) Ya know, tea could even dye the fabric in a nice way, leaving darker shades after washing.
My local stitching friends are over-sensitive about such matters, I recall that I said I would put my finished piece into washing machinne to test the colors strength, and several ladies rushed to *beg* me not to do it. The only way to get away from them was to publicily promise I won’t. Hahaha.
Deb
Apr 1, 2006 at 6:02 pm
I remember using tea and coffee to stain the edges of paper to make it look old and worn. For things like “treasure maps” *g*
I would be completely confident washing anything stitched with DMC. I haven’t ever had the color run or bleed on the assorted towels and pillowcases and such that I’ve stitched in the past.
If I was feeling motivated and using some other type of floss, I might get a piece of cloth, and just do some back stitching with the different colors, and wash that, to see if they fade or stain. But I probably would forget until I’d already stitched something.
Maybe the ladies were so traumatized because they don’t use knots? Knots are our friends! :D
Ternezia
Apr 2, 2006 at 12:06 am
well, they rather had past experience with using other types of thread. There are around 3-4 other brands (polish, hungarian, bulgarian) that are half-price that the DMC. Well, those are awful. They have in total ~250 colors in contrast to ~470 of the DMC, and all that poor quality. The gals might fear that the DMC would run the same way, having no personal experience with it.
I use to joke that because of knots my backs are a separate piece worth displaying, like those weird art styles *g*
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