I did a little bit more with those small threads, King Tut and Perfect Quilter. Okay, mostly to work them off my shuttles 🙂
The butterfly at the top is in Lizbeth size #20, the yellow on the right in Perfect Quilter, the smallest in King Tut. They are tatted with the same number of stitches (though the picots may not have the same ratio to stitch size.) The edging is also Perfect Quilter. Making this, and the crosses I posted about last week, show that I have trouble getting the picots the right size for the size of thread.
IsDihara left a comment on last week’s post about what she found out about the quilting threads.
“Since I have a ball of size 100 thread to compare against, I can confirm that WPI (wrapas per inch) for King Tut thread matches size 100. Perfect Quilter has more WPI than size 80 Lizbeth but less than size 100 thread. So it seems to be in between sizes. But that could also be an issue of different plies. Pretty sure Perfect Quilter is not a 6-ply cotton. (Don’t know why I didn’t think to check these details before now.) Thanks Madtatter80 for wondering!”
Thanks, IsDihara, for sharing this information.
We recently went on a vacation to Colorado, to the Buena Vista area – yes, again. For the last several years this has been our favored vacation spot, and September our favored time of year. We have been very blessed with seeing the Aspens change to their fall colors – until this year. They have had so much rain all summer that, unless you were at a pretty high altitude, the aspens were only barely starting to change.
This is the Mary Murphy Mill, not far from St. Elmo, Colorado. You can see that the Aspens have turned here, but this is at about 11,000 feet.
We stopped for lunch at a likely looking spot – there was a somewhat flat area with a convenient large rock to use as a table. The altimeter app on my phone showed we were at 11,433 feet.
After lunch I took time to take a few stitches using our ‘table’ to sit on. You can see it was a little cool here.
Sherry Pence, LadyShuttleMaker, is doing a TIAS, found here. Her pattern won first place at the 2013 Idaho State Fair. This is my day four. It doesn’t quite look like the pattern 🙁 I might have to un-tat a bit and try again. That’s okay, it’s still fun!
“By all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With summer’s best of weather
And autumn’s best of cheer.”
Helen Hunt Jackson
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Lovely little bits, thanks for sharing the information, I was sent some perfect quilter and yet to try it as I have a lot going on at the moment.
Your TIAS is looking good, mine cupped but I read on a blog that she stitched it and laid flat so I have done the same with mine and it's flatter, which will be ok for me.
Margaret
Very cute butterflies and very beautiful edging!! 🙂
Wow! 11,000 feet is pretty high up, and I would think you would feel some effects from that. Glad you enjoyed the trip. Great photos!