All the
ongoing things and pressure before I left for teaching a workshop at the
Nadelwelt in Karlsruhe and subsequently premiering as a vendor at a larger
patchwork event in Einbeck had slowed down many of my internet activities in
the first part of the month – I hadn’t really been keeping up with reading
newsletters and stuff. But thanks to Kathy Loomis’ first post on the SAQAAurifil Signature Thread Collection I was
alerted to this poll while it was still ongoing and voted for my favorite
selection sometime during the week before I left.
These were the three options you had:
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| set A |
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| set B |
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| set C |
When I had completed
my click (on C) I immediately found out that I had voted for what was until then the majority’s
choice, so in a way I was told that, amongst those who had already voted until
then, my taste is nothing out of the ordinary. Of course my decision was based
on a much less sophisticated reasoning than Kathy’s line of argument in her
second post on the topic,which
appeared about two days after I cast my vote. I really only chose according to
“which of these combinations would I want to have in my supplies?”
When I look at the
beauty of palette of the entire Aurifil color card and my own favorites on it I
think my very personal Signature Selection might have been a different one than
the ones SAQA chose to include in their three different choices. But we werent' asked to pick our personal signature collection in this case.
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| Aurifil's color card - I just fell in love with the range of beautiful colors when I first saw this card. |
Aurifil has
been one of my favorite threads for quite a while – which is one reason why I
was so upset when I started having the breakage problems while trying to
practise my machine quilting around/after Christmas. Aurifil, however, is not
easy to get in Germany
The other
brand of thread that I bought in search of the thread that wouldn’t break during
my machine troubles is King Tut. These also come in a nice color scheme,
and the thread has a very pleasant feel to it.
I admit that I am not too thrilled with the length
of color changes in their variegated colors, which follow too quickly for my
taste, especially in the ones that have more contrast. But I do like their
color palette, too. My plan right now is to pick out whichever color is needed from my supplies,
regardless of the brand. I need to really find out how the new machine takes to
them anyway.
Oh - and by now the
result of the SAQA-signature election has been published, and I found out that
I voted for what became the final winner. Given that I will take up the post as second co-representative
for the Europe/Middle East region of SAQA on the first of August, I am quite
pleased to see that my taste is in accordance with the majority of voters with
regard to the threads that were chosen to represent the organization.
