My husband comes from Northeast of England. Although he doesn’t like it much, one of my favorite landmarks is the Angel of the North. It’s a striking sculpture, It’s 20 metres (66 ft) tall, with wings measuring 54 metres (177 ft) across.The wings themselves are angled 3.5º forward to create “a sense of embrace”.
Angel of the North
This morning, while cleaning up my very messy work table, I created my own angel. While she isn’t a large as the Angel of the North, she’s perfect for my space. While my daughters were in Berlin we took a quick trip to IKEA to pick up a few things they wanted and couldn’t get at home.
As we walked by a display of those little jointed wooden figures, I mentioned that I’d always liked them, so the girls decided to get one for me. I’ve been using her for little sticky notes to myself or my husband but today she became my silk angel.
Silk Angel
The skeins of silk that I have for the Trevilian Cap project have been piled up (carefully but not neatly!) on my desk top. Now they are safely hanging from my Silk Angel’s arms where I can see them easily and use them without tangling them all up together. Much better! And she adds a touch of cheerful color to my work space during these grey, rainy, winter days.
How do you store the threads that you’re using on a current project? Do you use anything unusual? Do you have a Silk Angel?
I LOVE the way you incorporated the Angel of the North into your Silk Angel, Kathy. And she does add color. Hope your holidays were wonderful with the girls (family).
Love you.
Love your idea, Kathy! The way I store my project wools is to loop each of them around the bottom half of an embroidery hoop, according to the shades (all blues, all greens, etc.) that I hang on my embroidery stand. I need to figure out how to clip or clamp it to the stand so that it won’t fall off when I accidentally bump it!
I LOVE IT!!! What a wonderful way to display your threads! Sure do love you and miss you (sorry other readers for the sappy daughter comment!).
I love your Silk Angel! I tend to keep my silks wrapped around cards on a split hoop, and it doesn’t make nearly such a pretty display!
What a great idea! My silks are in a jumble in a cloth lined basket for my current project. Luckily there are only three different colors, so there’s not much chance of getting them mixed up.
Dear Medi, I love the sappy daughter comment. That’s so sweet.
That’s a cute way to use your mannequin. You don’t have a cat, do you? I have three of the little thread-munchers, so my fibers get stored in drawers between projects and in decorative boxes while I’m working on things.
Hi Kathy,
Nope, no cats right now. I have had cats and this would be JUST the thing to entertain them, wouldn’t it?
Liebe Grusse,
Kathy
I think the comment from the sappy daughter makes you a very lucky Mom!
I keep my fibers in little piles on a tray. They are not always neat, but since I don’t have cats they don’t get moved around much, although my husband finds threads all around the house! Sometimes they attach themselves to me and fall off all over LOL! I think you’ve got a good idea with your angel!
oh, that is SUCH a cool idea! I like vintage things rather than modern ones, so I’ll have a look around for an old modelling doll. I’m sure they’ve existed since Leonardo’s days (he probably invented them for his students LOL)
What a great idea, and now you can leave sticky notes for Steve and it will be so pretty and colorful.
I love how you’ve used your angel. I have two cats, so that idea is out. But maybe I could come up with something in my sewing room – they are not allowed in there and that makes them very unhappy. lol I keep my fibers wrapped on cards and usually on a large ring to keep them in numerical order. For long term storage, I have a large floss chest that my father made me.
Fabulous! I like this a lot.
What I’ve done with perle cotton is to wrap it on a ‘nostepinne’ making for a small ball with thread coming from a pull-center, with no tangling.
My cats don’t even let me keep my orts disorganized. hehe I have to keep EVERYTHING stored away unless it is in my hand. My cousins cat just ate a needle and thread 3 weeks ago, she is much less organized than I am. (Watch out Cat lovers!) My project thread is on bobbins in a thread organizer box that fits in my project basket. I only need to open it when I need more thread or are putting things away etc. My “stash” is stored in a large three tier accordian style sewing caddy from the 50′s.