I mean to post at least twice monthly but it has already been more than a month since my last post. Time flies indeed.
I talked about the monotonous work when making bi-coloured scales design thimbles in my last post and the magic solution is colour variation. It does not necessarily mean to encourage you to buy new thread in different colours but the colour placement on the designs.
Here is one example. When you got to the half point of the section when stitching the bi-coloured scales, just switch the colours for one round.
Or you switch the colours altogether from the halfway point. Your thimble will look completely different from the bi-coloured scales, as you see below.
Perhaps you may want to try stripes. Add two stitches in the colour for the second stitching path when stiching the last part of the first path and your thimble will look like this.
Or stripes in both paths and it looks rather different.
As before you can make stripes in both stitching paths and ...
Until now I chose the different colours for two stitching paths but if you choose a single colour for both, it looks like this...
I am thinking to assemble a new kit to sell at my Etsy Shop, so that the people who are new to thimble making can still working on the thimbles after "Your First Thimble Kit". It will be a kit with a few of the finished thimble bases with two round of stitches done, a needle, and threads. What do you think of the idea?
In any case, please keep counting the number of the stitches in one section and try to make the same number of stitches every time you make thimbles. It will help you to explore new designs. The stripes designs above require the exact number of the stitches to make even stripes, though uneven stripes are fun, too. However, there are designs which have to be exact and I will show them in my next post, hopefully soon.
