I have the habit to keep leftover strands of split up embroidery floss in my storage box. This pile became a little mess and I wanted to do something with it before it became too tangled to use the embroidery floss.
So this is what I made out of it – a chaotic mess of random cross stitches out of a chaotic mess of entangled embroidery floss.
When you take some steps back from the hoop the colors blend in
and you can see streams of cold colors (the blue hues) and warm colors (the red hues) floating around each other like with the yin-yang symbol.
Do you have a pile of chaotic odds and ends of leftover embroidery floss? Maybe, you’ll find stitching up something like this as relaxing as I did!
Why you should not use thread left-overs for bird’s nesting
It is tempting to give left-over threads to birds for nesting. However, this is actually really harmful for them. Here is what the Carolina Waterfowl Rescue says about this issue:
Yarn and any type of string, twine and even human hair can easily become tangled around birds legs, neck etc. and cut off circulation causing serious injury or even death. We get in many baby songbirds every year missing limbs due to string like materials in a nest.
Source: Good Knit Kisses & the Carolina Waterfowl Rescue
PS: In the meantime, my leftover threads have piled up again. I might make another chaotic circle of stitches. But which embroidery stitch would work with this besides the cross stitch? Hmm, I might take a look into my stitch lexicon.
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