Tangling

 During the week between Christmas and New Year I had a job to stitch a book. It was a hefty book and required quite a lot of thread; and quite a lot of needles.  I knew I needed a long stretch of time and a whole lot of quiet to do a single sheet binding on this scale.

The book is not yet revealed, but in the interim here are some lovely shots of thread, and the capacity for tangling!

So I started to unfurl and cut eight lengths of thread - each 2.8m long.

Got just a little bit distracted by their loveliness. And the shadows.

How nicely they played together as organic forms within a grid...

The linen top and skirt I was wearing acted as nice back drops to a bundle of thread.

16 needles and 23 metres of waxed linen thread - what could possibly go wrong?!?!?!

As I began to stitch this is how the threads draped to the floor.

Here they are slightly better aligned than above.

To organise them I often wheeled way back on my chair...

And all that back and forth not unsurprisingly, led to this a couple of times.  A new way to tangle threads!

The good news is that it all worked out OK.