Small things
Like a lot of people, I have been cleaning or rather tidying or sorting or to be honest just re-arranging things. Opening up boxes and bags, looking at them, and putting them in a different place, maybe putting some in the give-away pile.
I haven’t made masks in huge quantities but I have made a few; some for grand-children, sons who must venture into the outside world as their jobs are deemed essential and packed up a small box with some of my mother’s quilting fabric to send to a niece who has taken on a Girl Scout project making masks.
And I have been sewing. Finishing up projects. Quilting all the tops that awaited finishing—they are all done! But now they all need bindings. While I have plenty of decorative threads and machine quilting threads in a variety of colors and black, I was down to my last spool of ivory colored thread.
I ordered thread and awaited its arrival.
I wondered if I had really ordered it.
I checked my emails and found the confirmation of the order.
I called the company to inquire.
Thread is now back-ordered for weeks.
who Knew thread would be in short supply?
Imagine my joy when I discovered this in a box I had used for a workshop a couple years ago!
Yes, that is Coats and Clark in a 500 yard spool size. It is poly and so there is very little lint collecting in my sewing machine. I have tried other brands but always return to this one as my go-to construction and bobbin thread.
Sylvia Weir Art 