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 folk art

  Wool 12

This is a textured thread made of 50% Wool (Australian) & 50% Acrylic. This combination gives the thread the soft appearance, If you have been dreaming of making a penny rug, wagga or other wool embroidery project you will enjoy embellishing your work with Lana. This unique thread gives a soft finish to the woollen fabrics and is ideal for folk art appliqué designs .The thread is available in 192 colours, including 12 variegated & 12 mottled/tweed colours Jenny says : " I had a great time playing with this thread and learning about the embroidery capabilities of my machine. Several years ago I was very impressed by the embroidered wagga that was shown at a Guild meeting. The guest speaker was a textile artist who had come to patchwork from an embroidery background. She had combined both her creative loves into a series of hand embroidered wagga pieces that were really the Australian version of crazy patchwork. Sadly I have forgotten the speaker's name but the richness of her work lingers in my memory. Wanting a project for the Lana threads, it was this memory that inspired me to hunt out some woollen fabrics and test some of the digitised embroidery designs on my machine. I combined these blocks with some blanket stitch appliqué to create a simplified version of my own embroidered wagga. I was very pleased with the way in which the Lana thread worked in the machine. Lana does require a larger needle, preferably a 90 or 100 needle, and we would recommend that you select designs that can be worked in an enlarged format as the thread is thicker than many other embroidery threads. We found that working with wool felt, wool twill, wool suiting and woollen thread did create more lint than usual in the bobbin race. However the lint was easily removed by regular brushing of the bobbin race & needle plate. We also found that both Cotton Mako' Ne 40/2 & 50/2 worked as a bobbin thread for all the Lana embroidery work .We can see many creative uses for Lana wool blend in the future.