Invisible Woman, a kind of love story

I've had invisible thread in my stash for yonks, using it only occasionally, usually snarling at the snarls and the difficulty in threading a needle, any needle, with it. In the last couple of days, i have finally whipped it into submission and am falling in love with it.

I like the way the needle leaves a hole as the nylon pulls just the slightest bit, i like the delicately raised strip it leaves when you use a zigzag, i like the texture it gives quilted over a sheer or a tulle, over metallics and heavy areas of paint. I really like the way it blends torn strings of sheers right into the background. It nudges aside the weft and warp on cotton and sinks into velvet, resting on the bottom like a fallen strand of hair.

It lets the fabric speak without an edge to its voice.

Coupled with the takeout box pattern and this sly line, i have 3 more cutout and ready to go! One box will be a deep foresty green rayon velvet that i've stamped turquoise ferns and lilac flowery circles on, one is from the fabrics below, and one will be my beloved rusts and rusty bits.

The black and white w/ a splash of gold background is a monoprint done with Polyfab, 15 years ago!  The script is mostly backwards because at the time i forgot about mirroring, and i have no idea now what it says, (something about a forest?)......The dragonflies will be cut out and appliqued---originally they were on a sheer vest that was made too small for any decently sized woman. I've stamped a few areas of the "background" with turquoise, purple and bronze as well.

And i do know myself----i will probably create 4 in a breathless week, then not make any for months or years :}

Comments

[Midge]

OMG - just noticed that I have to fill in the boxes above this comment box. (Too many boxes in that sentence, but lack the wit to think of synonym.) Sorry, babe, cannot be convinced about the invisible thread. I am sure, though, in your masterful mitts it will transform cloth as lyrically as you wax about the shitty shit it is (for me, still). I think I lack the patience to keep fiddling with tension adjustments on my machine and have really only just grasped a way of dealing with different kinds of metallic threads.

[arlee]

Midge, a secret--i have NEVER i repeat NEVER NEVER NEVER adjusted my tension on any sewing machine. Maybe i'm just lucky......
All my metallic threads go in the bobbin and i sew from the back so they show on the front--i have also NEVER been able to use them topside no matter the needle or thread--and i don't touch the tension :}

[irene ryder]

To each his own. Can't say I've found invisible thread thrilling. Interested in what you have to say about it though.

[MA]

Invisible thread? Nope, can't convince me that stuff is good for anything but making the cats barf (and yes, I know all about the cats shouldn't get near it). Darn stuff is kinky. Glad you are managing to use it tho! I, too, never change the tension on my machine...too darn scared that it will never return to where I had it!!

[deb]

On the rare occasion that no other color is called for I go for the invisible stuff especially on smaller things....