One of my sisters, is a quilter, that means she can sew but I cannot. She requested a spool pin doily to gift. It is used to protect wear of a spool against the machine. I believe it also prevents the spool from continuing to spin once you stop pulling thread. I made one with various ring counts and chains and settled on a simple pattern.
Here are a few I created for her. The Shuttle is to show size. The finished spool pin doily is about 1.5 inches or 4 cm. Don't pull the center ring too tight so it will have some give to fit most machines.
I found some size 20 thread in her requested colors. I put 2 yards of thread on shuttle one and 1.5 yards on shuttle two. I started a ring of 3ds then 7 picots between and climbed out to the second round with a mock picot. The split ring was 3-3-3/3-3-3. Chain between rings was 3-2-2-2-2-3. I put six picots on one and it still worked out.
There are going to be some very well dressed sewing machines!
ReplyDeleteTerrific!! :)
ReplyDeleteI love the tie-dye on the shuttle!! :)