Spool Palette

Behold these lustrous hues of vintage mercerized cotton thread on wooden spools. Which is your favourite?

Suggested Notions in Shop

My Suggested Notions coordinates are now available for sale on fabric, wallpaper, decals, and gift wrap in my Spoonflower shop. The collection features Dress Pattern

Buttons

Spools

and Seamstress Fruit!

Suggested Notions Collection

My entry to this week's Sewing Notions Spoonflower challenge is my Suggested Notions fabric. It is a compilation of the designs in my Suggested Notions collection, which are Seamstress Fruit

Buttons

Spools

and Dress Pattern!

Fabrications

Shadow boxes are great art and decor pieces. I love how I can gather various items that fit a theme and arrange them in a frame to create multidimensional, mixed media art. As you can see here, I used some spools of brightly colored thread, thimbles, pins, and a swatch of my Fabulous '50s fabric. I turned wire into clothes hangers and a spool into a dress form. I embroidered some tulle and crisscrossed thread around the objects. Anything goes!

Spoolery

Spoolery shall be the name of this fashionable DIY. I have, in one of my boxes of random craft items and junk, a bunch of little wooden spools. They are about 1cm in length, and I knew I could make some fun jewellery out of them that would represent my love for sewing, color, and fashion. I used some nicely hued embroidery thread and clear elastic cord as well. 

I wrapped and tied the thread around the spools and then pulled the spools onto the elastic cord.

...and this is how it turned out! 

I also painted a few of the spools and twisted some wire through them to create a pendant for a necklace. My friend was amusingly thrilled by the result, and she bought this white one and a purple one at a craft sale I was in! Spools really are a great way to display a burst of color--always look for beautiful potential in unsuspected places!