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Okay I am working on an angel for a (decorative)pillow... and the bottom of her dress has designs worked in that stupid metallic gold thread. ARG!!! How oh how do you get that stuff to behave? It keeps getting caught on EVERYTHING and getting tangled. grrrrrrrrrrrrr

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Hi Jessica

Use that clingy quality to advantage. Pair the metallic with a more cooperative (non-metallic) strand of a similar color. Enough of the metallic will show for the desired sparkly effect.

Keep a spritz bottle of water handy to reduce the static electricity. You might also run a slightly damp cloth quickly down the thread.

Thread and yarns are made by inserting a twist in the natural/artificially-produced fiber. The first twisting is called a single which will twist back unto itself if not processed further.

Another technique uses this natural twisting to advantage. Two singles are plyed (twisted together in the opposite direction) to make a 2-ply yarn. This process may be repeated several times. Even-plyed yarns have virtually no twist. Therefore they should be relatively kinkless.

There is one property of individual fibers which tends to mess up things. Under extreme magnification, it's revealed that natural fibers are not smooth. They look similar to tree bark. Manmade fibers are smoother, more like locust bark. These protrusions can snag on each other causing tangles.

To keep the tangles to a minimum, use shorter lengths of thread...18" or less. When pulling the thread through the cloth, use the needle or thumb of nonsewing hand to help guide the thread.

Also when embroidering or other hand sewing/mending, ALWAYS sew from the end that comes off the bobbin first. This may seem like a brain-dead statement. Yet it's possible to mix the ends after they have been clipped from bobbin or worked piece.

Manufacturers of floss usually indicate which end to work with. I have selected the wrong end when separating strands. And again when I've used the left over floss for other projects. Not much fun.

I hope this is helpful to you.

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Thank you, it was very helpful. Usually I use the "shimmery" threads mixed with another color... but sadly the part that I am working on is the gold patterning on the bottom of an angels dres... and it calls for pure metallic gold thread. Well, I got past that part, now I'm on to the beading. I find myself working on 4 or 5 crossstitches at once... then stopping all of them at the beading stage lol. I end up spending a week or two doing nothing but beading. Well, at least for that week I feel like I'm accomplishing something <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Anyway, thanks again, that did help me a lot <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />


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