For cotton floss, I use 30cm (abt 12 inc) of 2 strands, made up of 1 long strand of 60cm doubled up. This is about 2 pulls of the skein (or 4 times the length of the skein). To minimise knotting, dampening the strand helps a lot. When the strand has dried, I run it thru thread wax (Thread Haven works as well i guess).
30cm (2 strands) makes 30 stitches comfortably. This includes the tucking in at the end of stitching. If I need to stop and restart, then no more than 26 stitches.
Post time 2012-10-10 01:39From mobile phones|Show all posts
By the way, those of you that measure thread the length of your arm might be interested to know if you measured to your nose its be a "dressmakers yard", i.e. about a metre ("meter" for our friends in America!)
It seems to be an obscure phrase: I had a lot of trouble finding an example online (and now I find I cant post a URL anyway!)
Does anyone know the phrase? Im British, but I found it used on a forum on an Australian site, where everyone seemed to know what it meant.
I think its to do with an effort to standardise cloth lengths in the middle ages. At markets, cloth was measured from the sellers thumb to his nose and nobody would buy from a titchy man! Later on
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