Colour & Cotton Sale

Through the years I've mentioned funny things that happen with Denise and me. Denise and I met through an internet quilting group many years ago . . I don't remember when but it was probably close to 30 years ago. Then about 15 years ago, we met in person at a quilting retreat in Arkansas. I keep trying to convince her to move next door to me. By the way, there's a house next door to me for sale. Anyone want to be my neighbor? There are only two houses on my street so it would be just us and y'all.  When they put up the sign my first thought was . . maybe a cross stitcher will buy it. I'd be happy with a knitter or a quilter though. Seriously, I think someone reading this should want to be my neighbor. I share sourdough bread and garden veggies. You could be besties with Cooper and Oscar! Ok . . maybe not.:)

Anyway, Denise sent me an email this morning reminding me of Colour & Cotton's sale on floss. I had not even looked at most of my email this morning so I went and checked it and, of course, placed an order.

I writing Denise to thank her for reminding me and tell her what I bought. Mainly, well, not mainly but some of what I bought were reds for a specific project. I was telling her that I want to stitch Dasher & Dancer from Hobby House. I have a lot of floss but mostly it's one, maybe two skeins of the colors I have. Hobby House says this project needs 134 yards of one strand for 40 count linen. I'll probably stitch it on 36 count but I'll still use one strand so I'm counting on needed at least 200 yards.

The Colour & Cotton floss is 48 yards per skein (8 one yard cut pieces with 6 strands each) so, according to my calculations, that's 48 yards per skein. I always figure at least one extra skein because I'm famous for losing a skein, even if it's on a floss ring, and there are dogs that can shred a skein of floss before I can get it away from them. I really do try to keep floss totally out of their reach but I think it's like a paper towel - they know when I see them with it, the chase is on and they love playing chase.

I had already ordered a hank of NPI 505. A hank of NPI, again - according to my calculations, has almost 400 yards so that would be plenty but I'm not sure that's the color I want to use.

So, from Colour & Cotton, I ordered enough skeins of Merlot, Ruby, Red Velvet, Dracula, Naughty List and Dracula Red. I think what I want is a bit of variation in the color, not a BRIGHT red, and not a brownish red. Somewhere between a true, deep red and a burgundy. When I get all the floss, I will lay it out on whatever linen I decide to use and go from there.

BUT . . the funny part . . and there's always a funny part when Denise and I are involved . . I typed "Dasher and Dancer" in the email, then I went to Hobby Houses's website to get the link. Nichol Spohr was on Youtube and I glanced up at that while grabbing the Hobby House link and she was talking about Dasher and Dancer and had the photo up on her video. I chuckled, kept writing on the link to Denise. I was telling her the colors of red I had ordered from Colour & Cotton and just then, Nichol mentioned that her linen was from Colour & Cotton. I had to share that all with Denise. 

Those funny little things that happen with me and Denise crack me up.