Cottage Garden Threads Stranded Cotton
Cottage Garden threads have been designed by stitchers for stitchers so not only will you love the hand dyed colours but you'll feel the difference too. CGT have thought of absolutely everything to make your work sing all while making your experience as joyful as possible. With high sheen and low knotting rate, you can wave goodbye to some of the most frustrating aspects of stitching! Even the packaging is smart with a pop-and-drop system that allows you to keep the threads info handy at all times. Just pull the left hand side of the skein and the thread untwists ready for use!
Details
- Material: Long Staple Cotton
- Colours: Short colour changes with seamless blends, enabling you to enjoy the variegation even if stitching small detail.
- Length: 10m (393.7 inches) pre-cut in 50cm lengths (19.68 inches) with the same colour each end to create continuity of colour when finishing a length and re-loading and no need to cut yourself!
- Thread weights: 6 stranded divisible into 6 individual strands.
- Dye lots: Always purchase more than you anticipate needed for a project. Whilst CGT aim to have consistent colour batches, as they are hand dyed colours can change slightly between dye lots.
How to remove a strand
Care Instructions
1. If using water soluble marker, wash whole work to remove, do not spray or dab with water.
2. Wash work in hot water with mild soap (as hot as your hands can handle).
3. Rinse well in hot water.
4. Roll up in a towel and squeeze out as much excess water as you can.
5. Air dry before pressing. Do not press when wet.
Cottage Garden Threads are certified colour and light fast by R.M.I.T university. As with any textile product ie: garment, fabric, soft furnishing, there are steps you must take to ensure threads will do as promised. You wouldn't throw a garment in the wash without first checking the care label. Our 'care label' for washing completed stitcheries using Cottage Garden Threads is printed on the back of each thread.
After the curing process, any dye left on the threads is 'non active'. Next, thorough rinsing processes rinse away any non active dye that hasn't been taken in by the threads. If any of this non active dye is not rinsed out during the rinsing process, it will be rinsed away when using hot water. When cold water is used to wash and rinse, or the stitchery is left very wet, any non active colour can be wicked into the background fabric and settle. This is the case most of the time when a blue wash out pen has been used and then sprayed to erase.
It is understandable that people assume the background fabric has been dyed and are too scared to wash it again thinking it will make it worse. This is not the case. All it needs is a good rinse straight away in hot water according to the instructions and the background fabric will release any colour that has settled. This process can be helped by gentle agitation of the fabric using a toothbrush. So the most important thing is not to use cold water and re-wash according to the instructions if you notice a shadow of colour settling in to the back ground fabric.
Colour disclaimer: CGT and UXS have strived to display the colours of products as accurately as possible on our website. However, due to variations in computer monitors/browsers/devices the colours you see may not always be an exact match to the actual product. We cannot guarantee that the colour you see on your screen is an exact representation of the product.
