{"id":14963,"date":"2024-01-02T09:08:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T09:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14963"},"modified":"2023-12-29T10:34:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T10:34:40","slug":"playing-with-flox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2024\/01\/02\/playing-with-flox\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing With Flox"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Well, if I had paid attention, forty years ago, to the adverts in those nineteen thirties The Needlewoman magazines, I would at least have known that Anchor “Flox” was a twisted, fairly heavy thread. I might also deduce that it was fairly new, because the tone of the adverts suggests that the reader needed to have the idea of it explained. So it is a fairly heavy thread, glossy and lustrous, and brightly coloured, creating bright, impactful pieces for interiors, rather than tiny delicate pieces for baby’s layettes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I laid out all my colours from the bunches I bought on the Embroiderers’ Guild stall at the Harrogate Knitting and Stitching Show<\/a> in colour families to see what I had to work with. Bright, colourful, lustrous, yes – yes, all of that. The thread is a bit heavier than the heavy pearl cottons, but the twist is not so tight. I wonder how it will make up? (Apart from “in half the time”!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I look at it in better light, the red is more of an orange, so it’s misplaced, but there’s a fair range of colour here, as long as I’m not going for subtlety..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I went through my magazines, to find a selection of designs that were specifically intended for Anchor Flox, but not so huge (the Persian Fantasy Screen<\/a> was intended for Anchor Flox, and that ends up as five feet by six!) as to demand more thread of each colour than I have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve decided to do one of the floral table runner designs, the middle of the top row here, because I think it will talk nicely to the Queen Anne style teacloth<\/a> which is presently gracing a side table in the the living room. After that, if I seem to have enough, I am very tempted by that parrot…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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