Friday, May 26, 2017
Christmas Runner
I like to prepare my fabric pieces all at the same time. For instance, if I have various sizes of white monks cloth, I'll machine stitch the ends of each piece and then wash and dry together. In this instance, because I was doing so many pieces, I neglected to machine stitch one end and now have loads of lint on each piece of fabric. Note to self...double check!!!
Most of the pieces from this lot will be table runners and I'll just have to use my little lint remover plus individually pluck off any remaining lint by hand. A little time consuming but I really should have been more careful when I was preparing the cloth.
I've started one Christmas table runner and am using the Caron Simply Soft Party which has a glitter thread running through it. Something I've learned is that you must use an extra long piece of yarn for each row because the glitter strand will begin to unravel on the end. Other than that, it's very nice to work with.
I've barely started the runner but wanted to warn of the unraveling. I'll post a photo of the finished project.
I had the same problem with glitter yarn - I used fray check on the ends
ReplyDeleteSo far I've solved the problem by using a longer piece of yarn for each row. The glitter thread seems to peel back about 6" from the end.
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