Here are two lovely little JBW Designs perfect for stitching with Soie Surfine. Both are stitched over one one 40 count Graziano Ricamo Ivory. I like this particular fabric for over one with the Soie Surfine because it's a dense bodied fabric. The pieces are very small, when I cut the fabric I stitched the Amour design on a piece 3x4 and just held it in my hand. The pumpkin was just a slightly larger piece of fabric at 4x4. I've not yet decided how to finish them off, I may turn them into a fob or one of my soldered necklaces. Time will tell. But I thought you would enjoy seeing more samples of what you can do with your hand-dyed Soie Surfine from the Society of Soie Surfine!
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| JBW French Country Amour #179 | 1 1/8" x 1 1/4" Stitched with Carmine Rose |
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| JBW Alphabet Pumpkin #201 | 1 5/8" x 1 1/8" Stitched with Inca Gold |
With delays in getting fabric and the holidays we're behind on our schedule for the next thread color and fabric. But both are in the dyeing queue! We have received some of the third color - Inca Gold and some of the fabric - Society Charm. It will be awhile before they are sent to all the member shops as we get remaining thread and fabric dyed and packaged. But here's a preview to whet your appetite!
 Inca Gold - 100yd skein |  Inca Gold packages on a ring |
 Society Charm fabric 40 count |  Society Charm with Carmine Rose, Olivine & Inca Gold |
The fabric is a Vintage color so has some mottling in it. There is a slight redish-brown cast to it, which works well with the colors in Series #1. Society members will be able to order extra fabric during Series #1 so once you get your fabric you can order more if you fall in love with it. We certainly think it's a winner!
The first skeins of Olivine have been sent to Acorns & Threads, Attic Needlework and Stitchville USA. So if you're getting your subscription from one of these Society Member Shops they should have them in the next few days. We hope the remaining to Society Member Shops (Needle In A Haystack and Traditional Stitches) will have their skeins around the middle of December. Soie Surfine is a somewhat labor intensive thread to dye and package and it always seems to take longer than we think it will. We know it's worth the wait!
We're happy to let you know that our second color - Olivine, is in the process of being packaged. We will be doing this in batches as happened with Carmine Rose since not all of it is dyed right now. But we hope it available to all Society Member Shops in the next 2-3 weeks. The good news is, it's in progress so it won't be too much longer now. To whet your appetite for this lovely color here is a photo of one of the skeins. This is a medium light to medium yellow green that works nicely with Carmine Rose (and with our samples of the remaining 3 colors yet to be dyed).
We're finally caught up with our shipments of Carmine Rose. The last dye batch has gone out to our member shops so any of you still waiting should get your Carmine Rose very soon.
The next Society thread color will be a lovely yellow-green which is being dyed in the next several days. Once we've received the skeins of it we'll take a photo and post it here so you can see a preview of it.
The Society is hoping to have fabric early in December. It will depend on when the base fabric gets to the dyer. So, think good linen thoughts for us!
We received more Carmine Rose last week and it has been skeined and bagged and is on its way to each of the Society Member Shops. So if you've been on the waiting list for our second batch of this color you should be seeing it shortly through your Society Member Shop. We will likely do another batch in early November so if you just signed up recently and your Society Member Shop won't have enough from batch #2, there will be more!
Most of the Society Member shops have sold out of the first dye run of Carmine Rose but more is being dyed in the next few days. So if you've not yet signed up with your local Society Member shop, don't despair there will be more coming and soon!
