I’m excited to have created the October challenge for the Mighty Lucky Quilting Club for Lucky Spool: Create Your Own Embroidery Pattern. Here’s a preview and if you haven’t signed up to try this challenge yet, this month would be a great time to start! I’ll be checking out the progress shots this month on Instagram using this hashtag: #mightylucky . So be sure to follow along! I can’t wait to see what embroidery projects you take on during this challenge!
If you’ve been following along on Instagram, you probably caught my super exciting book announcement awhile back. If not, check out the book that I wrote with Lucky Spool, Boho Embroidery. It is scheduled to be released this fall/winter and I can’t wait to share more about it here!
In the meantime, let’s just see that pretty cover!
In conjunction with the release of the book, I am also excited to be presenting the October challenge of the Mighty Lucky Quilting Club also with Lucky Spool. Each month a feature designer creates a challenge to help inspire new ideas. I’m finishing up the last of my projects to go along with that!
Thanks for following along and being patient with my lack of fresh content here! I think all of that writing took a lot out of me and I’m finally gathering speed for some new projects!!
Enjoy the last few weeks of your summer…it probably went as fast as mine did!
As a stitcher who has used, almost exclusively, DMC floss for years now, i’ve been excited to recently add some other floss and thread brands into my stitching arsenal. If you’ve been following along on Instagram, you already know how much I love the Sue Spargo Eleganza perle cotton…if you haven’t tried that yet, I definitely recommend it. It comes in a saturated color palette and adds extra shine and texture to your stitching.
Here you can see pictured from left to right: Cosmo, DMC and Eleganza.
Cosmo floss is not as easy to find in the US. In fact, there are not any stores local to me that sell it. It would be nice to actually see the colors in person before deciding what to buy, but, alas…. Fortunately, there are online shops that carry Cosmo floss. DMC floss is stocked at every craft store, from Joann Fabrics, to Michaels, A.C. Moore and Hobby Lobby.
Pricing is a factor that you may want to consider also. DMC Floss costs $0.40-0.50 a skein. Cosmo is around $1.30-1.60 a skein. And Eleganza is about $5 for a (70-yard) spool. With DMC and Cosmo, you are able to separate the 6-strands into however many you like to stitch with. Eleganza Perle cotton does not separate into strands; it is about the thickness of three stands of the other varieties of floss.
As far as stitching difference, I would say the most noticeable difference is the feel of the threads. Cosmo has a silkier feel when compared with DMC. It is also slightly easier to separate the strands and there are fewer tangles. When stitching with all 6 strands, Cosmo provides a slightly thicker line of stitching than DMC. Eleganza rarely tangles and also has a silky feel. DMC comes in more colors and is easier to find, but Cosmo and Eleganza are well worth shopping online to find.
If I had to rate them in which order I would choose a thread to stitch with, I would start with Eleganza first, Cosmo second and DMC third. All are excellent threads, though, and I certainly won’t be giving up DMC when I need a quick floss fix!
Let me know what other differences you’ve noticed between these threads or if you have another favorite that I didn’t mention here!
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