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SBQ: Overdyed Floss or Hand-​​dyed Fabric?

1 September 2008, 4:57 pm. 2 Comments. Filed under Needlework.

I’m quite late with the cur­rent Stitch­ing Blogger’s Ques­tion, which is:
If you had to choose, would you rather spend money on overdyed floss
or hand-​​dyed fabric?

Overdyed floss, cer­tainly. I’ve only pur­chased one piece of hand-​​dyed fab­ric, and nobody is likely to go, “Oh, wow!” about the effect in the fin­ished piece (although I’m happy, because I couldn’t find any other fab­ric that was exactly right). I seri­ously doubt that any­one but another devoted stitcher would ever know that the fab­ric is hand-​​dyed.

The overdyed flosses I’ve used, though, fre­quently lead to incred­i­ble effects that are appar­ent to any­one who views the pieces. They’re usu­ally a joy to work with, as well.

2 Comments »

  1. avatar skitten. 1 September 2008, 6:25 pm

    ummmm… how come you don’t use live­jpour­nal posts that we can reply to?
    Just wondering.…

  2. avatar cyn. 1 September 2008, 6:37 pm

    Because I can’t keep up with com­ments in two places very well :-)

 

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