Good morning! Happy Eve of Christmas Eve – and welcome to the last installment of this year’s Stitcher’s Christmas series on Needle ‘n Thread!
Today’s give-away is a little bit different. It came to me out of the blue, from Phyllis Brown in North Carolina, who wrote to offer a whole set of cotton floche for this year’s series! Needless to say, for your sakes, I couldn’t resist! I’m really excited to offer it to you, because I love floche.
The give-away is for a whole set of 1/3-hank twists of floche (around 56 yards per twist, with one of every 90+ colors), to one super duper lucky winner! I’ll tell you more about it below.
I’ll also announce the winner of last Wednesday’s give-away for Jenny Adin-Christie’s beautiful needlework tools.
Phyllis has a website at Heirloom Beginnings, where you can read a little bit more about her.
She is a smocking instructor for SAGA (the Smocking Arts Guild of America) and an active and enthusiastic member of the EGA (Embroiderers’ Guild of America).
While she doesn’t have a shop online just yet, Phyllis sells floche, since it is a favorite thread for smocking, but tends to be hard to come by. If you are interested in buying floche by the 1/3 hank (or by the full hank), just drop Phyllis a line through her website.
I know there are lots of avid smockers and heirloom stitchers out there who are looking for resources – you should add Phyllis to your list, as she can help you find what you need!
She’s also available for teaching, and she has a vast line-up of classes that she can teach to your group.
Now, about floche…
What is Floche?
If you haven’t heard of the thread, I’ve written about it a few times here on Needle ‘n Thread. This article, which compares floche to coton a broder (another softly-twisted, non-divisible cotton embroidery thread), will probably give you the most information about it.
This article shares three good reasons why you should try floche.
This article – which is quite old, but still good – illustrates a comparison between floche and stranded cotton (that’s the 6-stranded DMC floss we’re all familiar with) and pearl cotton.
I’ve also written about using Floche for long and short stitch, as well as floche with satin stitch, and of course, I’ve used floche on many a monogram – like this R tulip monogram – because it is a wonderful for monogramming.
In fact, I use floche extensively in Stitch Sampler Alphabet, my collection of decorative letters featuring a huge variety of stitches and variations of stitches. So if you have that e-book, but you’ve not tackled the letters yet because you’re not flush with floche (you can substitute stranded cotton, but anyway…), today’s give-away is a great way to give you the whole set to play with!
What Makes this Give-Away a Little Different?
Usually, the give-away gifts for A Stitcher’s Christmas are mailed directly from the business offering the gift. But with this particular give-away, I’ll be mailing the set of floche…. which means I’ll also have the opportunity to enclose a special surprise or two for the winner.
If I told you what, it wouldn’t be a surprise, now, would it? But I’m pretty sure you’ll like the package and everything within!
Give-Away Guidelines
This give-away has ended. Thanks to all who participated!
1. Leave a comment on the comment form below. If you’re not sure how to get to the comment form, click on this link – it will take you straight there. Your comment must be left on the website on today’s article, not on any other article. Comments submitted via email are not eligible and I am not able to reply to them due to time constraints. Please do not comment as a reply to another comment. Replies are not counted.
2. Be sure that your comment has a name on it that is recognizable as yours. You might include a last name, nickname, or the place you live.
The reason I particularly mention this one is that it reduces confusion when the winner is announced. It’s always hard to disappoint people if they mistake the name for their own!
3. Make certain your email address on the comment form is entered correctly, so that I can email you if you win. Leave the “website” line of the comment form empty. Do Not leave your personal contact information in the comment box itself. In other words, don’t sign your comment with your email address or your mailing address! That’s just an invitation for spam.
4. In your comment, answer the following question:
If you had a whole set of floche at your fingertips, what do you imagine you’d stitch with it? I’d love to hear your ideas for the thread!
5. Leave your comment before 5:00 AM central time (Kansas, USA) this Friday, December 27th. The winners will be randomly drawn that morning and will be announced in the blog article that day, along with the winners of last Friday’s give-away from The French Needle (sign up for that one, too, if you haven’t!)
So go forth and comment, and in 2020, maybe you’ll be playing with a huge collection of lovely floche… along with a few little special somethings from me.
The give-aways for A Stitcher’s Christmas are open to everyone, but please be aware that, if you are subject to customs or duty fees, they are your responsibility.
Jenny Adin-Christie Tools Winner!
And the collection of lovely stitching tools from Jenny Adin-Christie goes to Penny S in Iowa – I will drop you a line today, Penny!
For those who have written in and asked, I noticed that Jenny has restocked some of her kits lately, too, so if they were on your wish list – check them out! I’m currently trying to resist her whitework workbasket kit.
Coming Up
I’ll pop in on Christmas with a little homemade Christmas cheer for you, and then on Friday, I’ll announce the winners of the last two installments of A Stitcher’s Christmas, 2019.
Then I’ll be taking a short break until the 6th of January. I’ll be working behind the scenes as usual, but the website needs a little clean-up before we lunge too far into 2020!
Hope you’re week’s off to a grand start!
I would do monograms. I’ve got the Stitch Sampler Alphabet but haven’t used it yet. This would be a great opportunity!
I would use the floche for cross stitch and for stitching smalls. Also to give dimension to surface embroidery.
Oh what a fantastic prize. I love using floche for shadow embroidery. And your E book of monograms, which I’ve had since you first released it, is calling my name.
Thanks ever so much for all you do and share. Merry Christmas!
oooo!!! this is kinda like spending lottery money before buying a ticket – maybe i could embroidery lots of solid fillers instead of mostly outlines like i do now…
I would embroider some Jacobean motifs, making pillow covers. I love using lots and lots of colors when I embroider so having a complete set would be a treat.
Ohh what a wonderful give-away! Flowers, lots of flowers to stitch up! Glorious flowers, and maybe a monogram with flowers!
With a whole set of floche, I imagine monogramming all sorts of things. I haven’t had the chance to stitch with floche yet, but it sounds like a dream.
When I was a little girl (back in the 50’s), my grandmother made all of my dresses and smocked every one of them! They were absolutely gorgeous. When I see photos of ‘back then’ I am amazed at the variety and beauty she created. I would love to learn to smock and be able to make such lovely things for grandchildren some day.
For a while, I wouldn’t use it at all. I would admire it, and touch it, and arrange it, and just enjoy its loveliness.
Then, I would make some classic smocked outfits for my grandbabies-to-be.
I know exactly what I would do! I would love to embroider a I Believe in Santa piece! I’ve seen these in cross-stitch–would love to try embroidering it in beautiful threads and stitches! Merry Christmas!
I think I’d be most interested in learning smocking.
Oh goodness! Flosche is awesome and almost impossible for me to get over on the other side of the pond (I have a few.. and they are treasured).
I’ve been meaning to do a larger embroidered piece but don’t really fancy doing it with 6 stranded cotton or perle, and wool is too thick so having a full set of floche would make it more than possible. I don’t usually plan my embroideries when I go off the cross stitch track, I just doodle and wonderful things happen. It’s so relaxing to just start and then see where I end up.
Merry Christmas!
My “usual” thing is counted work. Our EGA chaper did a surface embroidery project last year and I found I really enjoyed it. It had been so long since I’d worked on surface embroidery and the freedom of not counting was wonderful. I’d use the floche to do some surface embroidery projects I’ve been eyeing.
Wow—a whole set of floche! I recently purchased the Stitch Sampler Alphabet and I have a couple of books of monogram templates. I could really go to town stitching monograms on all sorts of things—maybe start with a monogrammed pillow for my daughter’s dorm room, a needlebook for my stitching buddy, a monogrammed tote for myself…. and I wouldn’t be hampered by restrictions on the colors of floche that I have on hand or have to trust computer monitors to choose colors while ordering online. What a wonderful give-away!
I’d do an insane amount of subtle shading!
I haven’t worked with floche yet, so I would start by doing some experimenting. Maybe a project on high count fabric. Maybe a surface work embroidery project. I have a pattern for an alphabet that I got years ago that would probably be fun to do with this thread.
I’ve only stitched with floche once, a small bargello piece. Didn’t really like it for that. I’d love to try surface embroidery with it, maybe some stumpwork. I think it would make lovely animal fur.
With a whole set of floss I would start by embroidering some fruit and veggies. I’d start with a pomegranate with goldwork, move on to some beautiful asparagus, and then maybe try an orange cut in half. Who knows after that!
If I am the lucky winner, I would spend the year working on your set of mandalas with my granddaughter, bonding over thread!
Jennifer Wollesen – I’m not sure what I’d do with the floss. I would need suggestions.
I have a crewel project I would love to try this floche on – such yummy colours!
Oh my goodness! I first started working with floche for the floral monograms that you offer here on your website, and I fell in love! Floche is just so lovely and easy to work with. I think if I had a whole set, I’d use it to embroider a floral wall hanging for my brand new house.
Thank you for this opportunity to win floche! Beautiful threads!
My dog Betsey!
I’ve come to enjoy doing some canvas ornaments, and I’ve been using the Planet Earth cottons for them. I think they’d look great in floche! I also do a lot of surface embroidery that could use some too.
If I had all that floche, I would do a smocked-top nightgown and housecoat for my little grand-daughter. I used to do a lot a smocking when my daughter was young but she outgrew the style. Now that I have a grand-daughter I would just love to get into it again. I love working with the wonderful fabrics and great threads.
Happy Holidays!
I would start out with learning how to do smocking, which I have always been drawn to…and then would also use floche for stitching original designs I am creating of my memories.
Most of my stitching over the last 10 or so years has been counted work. Lately I’ve been feeling I should do more “conventional” surface stitching. I’d love to experiment with the lovely colors and texture of floche.
If I had a whole set of floche at my fingertips, what do I imagine I’d stitch with it?
Would Love to try embroidery with floche…never have.
I would do a Sampler on linen.
Have only done one and that was over 42 years ago when pregnant with son. It’s time for another.
I have a large stash of DMC/Anchor floss and would love to experience the feel and use of floche. I am moving back to embroidery from Needlepoint and know this would be a good experience! The colors are wonderful providing many opportunities to experiment! Thanks Mary!
Oh there are so many possibilities. I’d like to try it for blackwork for one. I’m also trying to find some different threads to use for a canvas work project I have in mind so I might try some there. I also have another canvas project started where I could use them.
Merry Christmas to all!
If I had a whole set of floche I would start some smocking ornaments! They are so pretty and this thread would be perfect for them. Also would like to do a monogrammed pillow case set! I am excited just imagining it! Lol
Wow! I can hardly imagine having a whole set of floche! I have used it several times and love the way it glides through fabric. I would love to use it for my surface embroidery stitching alphabets and flowers!
If I had a set of floche, I would stitch something that has many colors in it. The sheen on floche is lovely.
I would use the floche to practice satin stitch using the myriad of patterns I have collected over the years. I love combining colors and with 90 colors to choose from! What fun!
Merry Christmas Mary!
If I were to win the floche I would be running to find my smocking patterns and pleater. I used to smock dresses for my daughters who are now grown adults with careers and families. My current husband has kids who have provided us with two beautiful granddaughters, ages 18 months and 2+ years. While I have all the dresses my daughters wore to pass along, I would love to create some new dresses for the new babies. The floche set would be the ultimate inspiration and motivator.
I have always wanted to do a “calendar” in embroidery. Not a typical calendar but a stitch diary of sorts for each day. With a full set of threads I’d like to explore color combinations and a variety of stitch meditations. Using the same thread would give some continuity to the project.
I’d stitch some kind of non-conventional sampler: maybe one stitch for each color of floche, or a garden of flowers.
Who am I kidding? For a while at least, I’d just array them somewhere and enjoy looking at the rainbow of thread!
Oh, if I had the whole Floche set I would indulge me in one of the Betsy Morgan’s projects, as I recently bought “Willings Hands” from Inspirations studios and I think they would look lovely in Floche and linen!!
What would I stitch? What _wouldn’t_ I stitch? It’s such a versatile thread. But at the moment I’d like to stitch a third version of my Tree of Life project (I’m doing one in wool and one in silk) just to see how different it can look with this thread!
I would love to embroider a tree skirt for my christmas tree with the floche. Obviously not for this year! But next year the whole family may be converging at my house and I’ll need to up my decoration game.
Wow. That is absolutely is an amazing Christmas treat for the winner. Merry Christmas.
A whole set of floche?!!!! The possibilities are endless but I think I would do some smocking for a neighbor’s newborn. I made my daughter a smocked dress more than 50 years ago and thoroughly enjoyed doing it so this opportunity might rekindle my interest.
I’m sorry to say I got behind on the contest. I had Pneumonia. Now its Bronchitis and its been going on for going on 7 weeks now. UGH.
If I had that floss I would embroider a blanket and throw pillows to match. (after I got done looking at it for awhile) lol. I love thread and I enjoy looking at it and touching it. I know it sounds goofy but that is just me. I have been wanting to make myself something for along time. It seems everything I make goes as a gift to someone. Because I love to share. I actually own one thing I made. I have a few projects I started for myself. My new years resolution is to finish the embroidery I have started. Hopefully by the end of the year I will own lots of beautiful embroidery.
I would (try to) finally finish the lovely garden picture that I just don’t seem to have time to get around to now I am a Grandma!
I would use floche on throw pillows or pillow shams using a design that would typically be used for crewel work, incorporating both animals and some over-sized floral aspects.
Wow! What a fabulous giveaway! I haven’t used floche before, but would love to have the chance to win this lovely thread. I would use it to do a variety of projects waiting in queue, but the first would be one of Hazel Blomkamp’s crewel designs. I’m finishing ” A Sherry For Jack” and haven’t decided which one to tackle next. Thanks Mary, and Merry Christmas!
Have no idea what I might stitch but with that selection of floche I think I could stitch about anything I choose. And since you taught me how to unravel it I love floche .
What a wonderful Christmas gift a set of floche would be! Personally I would use it largely on wool appliqué and art quilts, but I have a small collection of floche that I have used almost anywhere a small perle would be useful.
I will be teaching a class using Phyllis Maurer’s text Techniques of Armenian Interlacing. We will be stitching with floche because it is perfect for this type of stitching and interlacing.
The sky would be the limit when it came to stitching with this set of wonderful colours! I have always wanted to try and make a treasure box. I have a wooden carcass which I have kept for years and it would be fabulous to design panels for the top and sides with peacocks and floral designs. This would give me all the choices I could possibly need.
Hi Mary,
What beautiful colors! I recently purchased a fireplace screen at an estate sale that has a nicely stitched needlepoint chair back mounted inside. What I have been itching to do is stitch an 18th century reproduction of a shepherd / shepherdess picture….. I have found several that will adapt perfectly. I’m crossing my fingers!
Merry Christmas.
Jan
I would definitely be doing some smocking with these threads, but also experimenting in some Jacobean crewel work. Merry Christmas to all!
I just took a class with Lorna Bateman on embroidering English Gardens (and bought her book as well) so I think the floche would be perfect to incorporate into a lovely stitched garden with colorful flowers and birds with lush greenery.
While I would love to learn how to smock, I love using embroidery to embellish my quilts, as well as the dresses I make for my granddaughter. I’ve been intrigued by the possibilities of floche since reading your posts on different types of thread. What a lovely giveaway! Thank you so much,and best wishes for the holidays and the new year to come!
I think I’d like to learn how to smock!
I’ve been itching to do the Stitch Sampler Alphabet, but I also have a dream in design for a crazy quilt and I think the floche would be wonderful for not only the seam embellishments but also the motifs within the patches.
I would love to have a collection so beautiful to use in pattern`s with the changes of the seasons which are as wonderful as the colours of the threads. So many uses for them and thank you for the chance to win them.
If I had a whole set of Floche threads I would work on flowers. The colors are wonderful just as the thread.
I would use on an embroidery of a bird I’ve been wanting to do. I think this would work so well.
I just joined the EGA. I would like to learn to embroider. The first class they offered was your crewel rooster. I don’t have wool, so I’m doing it in DMC. It would be great to have some lovely beautiful colors that shine so wonderful to choose the colors to do the rooster. Thanks for all you do Mary. You have made starting into the embroidery world much easier.
I think this lovely collection would be lovely for starting a crewel work journey.
Wow!! I would try floche on EVERYTHING!! I love the way the thread works in your videos as well as the way it shows in your finished projects. Merry Christmas Mary! Blessings on and for all you do. Peace.
I would use it for stitching a mandala with flower like forms. What a wonderful giveaway! Thanks
I tend to pick needlepoint canvases with bright colors. Cloche has the most brilliant pigments! The texture of the thread allows for smooth stitches whether long/short or Hilton stitches.
I’d love to use the floche threads with the cotton fabrics I dyed this summer with natural dyes. Shiny is lovely but I think the matte would be a good accompaniment in this case. I’m planning to combine the small pieces into larger ones for either cushions or bags, with hand stitched motifs from nature on each piece.
I would love to try to make a book of stitches. I see them on Pinterest all the time. It would be a way to try a lot of new stitches, and small patterns with a new thread. Merry Christmas everyone.
Merci de partager avec nous vos conseils et vos expériences.
Je broderais un tableau de fleurs.
I would love to try floche. I don’t believe I have ever used it, but with a lovely new granddaughter I need to get smocking, so have an immediate use for it. There is also a plan to stitch some of the fishes we saw when diving in the Caribbean in November, the sketch is ready, just need to put the materials together
Oh, this would be a smocker’s dream come true. I have a granddaughter who has almost outgrown smocked dresses, and have just been blessed with a new granddaughter. Almost all my smocking has been done with floss, until the last project, where I fell in love with floche. I am so excited about being able to sew pretty little smocked dresses for another granddaughter! It would be wonderful to have such a wonderful stash of floche!
I’ve been wanting to do a book sampler of the patterns I’ve already chosen to leave for my daughter when I’m gone. They are really detailed and this would be the perfect threads to do it with. My daughter would absolutely love this keepsake to continue to pass on to other family members!
A delightful surprise which caught me completely unprepared. Think I would have to just lay out all those gorgeous threads and I know inspiration will strike
Imagine a bed or window cover using every color!
I tend to pick needlepoint canvases with bright colors. Floche has the most brilliant pigments! The texture of the thread allows for smooth stitches whether long/short or Hilton stitches.
Kicking myself that I did not get the floche Marion Scoular had at Gateway to Stitching in October!
If you had a whole set of floche at your fingertips, what do you imagine you’d stitch with it?
I could see myself doing a set of kaleidoscopes using a variety of colors.
I would love to try to stitch your alphabet with the floche. I cross stitch and have not done embroidery for many years. Thank you.
I would embroider a table runner that I just purchased (it was on sale). I love the coverage of floche and a whole set of floche would be amazing.
That is beautiful floche! If I had the whole set, I would embroider a series of needle painted flowers to decorate the walls in my new place!
Dear Mary,
I would use it to work on the smock dresses, which I have cut out in all the most amazing colours, not just the traditional flowers, paisley in vibrant reds, greens and cream. Bright orange and fuchsia pink florals. I wonder if the cliche works better than DLC for the smocking on the dresses? This is my escape from all the testosterone which surrounds me with a household full of men….(as the only female, out is my duty to make sure I surround myself with feminine pursuits?…)
I’ve never used it and would LOVE to use it in a major project I’m doing of a forest scene on the back of a jacket and of course on the front and maybe the sleeves. I’m looking for ways to add depth and textures so this would really help.
Thanks.
With 90 colors of Floche I would do a 17th century embroidered chemise book cover that used all 90.
I don’t know exactly what I’d be stitching, yet. Most of what I stitch is for my favorite charity, The Back to School Clothing Drive in Phoenix. Each of the 3000 girls that were approved by their school gets a purse. (in addition to other things) I look at a purse as a blanket canvas for embellishing. And I always hope that something I make might inspire a little girl to learn more about needlework.
And then there is the issue of a rainbow collection of Floche – my heart rate really sped up when I saw that!!
I’ve never smocked with Floche before but have done some of Mary’s floral Monograms on dresses for the granddaugthers with floche. I have several pieces of fabric lined up for spring dresses including 2 yummy Liberty lawns that I’d love to try smocking with floche.
First, wow! Gorgeous! I think I would work a project on wool, black wool. I imagine the beautiful floche colors would truly be amazing on the black wool. Thank you for sharing all the info on this fabulous thread. It is magnificent!
I have been collecting Mandela patterns to stitch and would love to try floche on them. I am an avid cross stitcher so have an abundant supply of 6 strand cotton, so this is an opportunity to try something new.
How is it that a whole basketful of floche would be available in one cache?! While my passion is needlepoint, I read your blog religiously for several reasons: my family hails from Kansas; I grew up embroidering; your writing is delightful; I LEARN so much. So this multitude of colors is perfect for a canvas of painted flowers that sits in my stash drawer, designed by “Colors of Praise,” waiting for all the threads that will make it perfect.
Gail from St. George, Utah
I have the monograms ebook but haven’t created anything yet. All that beautiful floche would certainly inspire me to get stitching!
I love floche. I have several Japanese embroidery books featuring wildflowers that I would love to interpret in floche. So many projects that I don’t know which to choose first. I would embroidery a bunch of kitchen towels to give away for Christmas gifts. Pick me, pick me!
Beetles. I knew in an instant.
I would use the floche for my surface embroidery design inspired by Jane Nicholas. It is an 8-inch circle with a central cross of 4 large beetles (heads butting) inspired by her ideas and techniques. The cross is surrounded by curls of foliage. Tucked in among the leaves are small humorously colored beetles.
I started it on linen, in great colors of 6-strand cotton but, I am not satisfied; I would happily start all over again with a full set of floche. I have wanted to work with it for several years.
I would love to try the floche threads. I do several types of needlework but have done very little embroidery and plan to do lots more in 2020. I am thinking about a floral design for a center of a quilt (which I am getting my feet wet there too). I love all the gorgeous colors and would love to win this set. Thank you Phyllis and Mary. Merry Christmas.
I’d use the gift of floche to try some embroidery on my quilts.
I want to learn to stitch monograms and believe the softness and just loose enough twist would enhance monogram stitching. I love monograms in white – but having the choice of colours to experiment with would really enhance the stitched letters.
Good Morning and Merry Christmas to all ~
What an amazing and wonderful surprise !
I love floche and it is my very fave of all threads.
The colors are amazing and very hard for me to come by.
I hope everyone is safe and warm and has an enjoyable holiday and thanks to Mary for all her hard work and endeavors on a very succesful year.
Each year I make hearts for all the ladies in the family. Each year they are different. I would like to use the floche to embroider the designs on the hearts.
I have never heard of this thread and would like to try it. I do crazy quilting and it looks perfect.
I would love to try floche with some of your snowflake and Christmas patterns!
Good morning Mary,
How sad that this fun time with your goodie-giveaways has come to an end for the year, I have eagerly looked forward to each instalment. Thinking about a response to your question each time, and then reading the responses submitted by all those other stitchers ‘out there’ has been such a pleasure.
I so far haven’t used floche, but have been following your articles on how it performs and how good it is to use, so it’s been on my ‘will try this’ list. On reflection I think I would try using it on some Art Deco designs I have in my stash which make use of laid stitches in solid blocks of colour. And now I have my fingers and toes crossed again….
Merry Christmas to you and yours with hopes that 2020 will be happy and healthy. Thank you for the pleasure (and of course the informed discussions) you have given throughout the year.
I love floche and have used it in several of my designs. With the entire range of floche I would create several more of my garden series designs.
I love floche I have used it in my smocking I I would love more to use in smocking! Thanks for the giveaway and Merry Christmas! pd44
The floche thread is so exciting! Thank you to both Mary and Phyllis for offering this wonderful give away! If I was lucky enough to win I’d use it for 2 vintage tapestries I bought off EBay. I’ve had them a long time trying to figure out exactly what would be right. I treasure them so much I’m almost afraid I won’t be a good enough embroiderer to do them justice. Having great floche will make me more confident. I’d love to incorporate these threads into them.
Floche, beautiful floche …. the possibilities are just about endless. One project I particularly enjoyed using it on was a Marion Scholar class doing Richelieu embroidery. That was done in an off-white, so trying something like that in funky colors would be fun. And, there would be Christmas ornaments to stitch and maybe a sampler or 3 …. or …. or … or?
The feel of this thread is incredible, almost like silk with the durability of a DMC.
Merry Christmas, Mary and and every one else reading this here blog!
I just love the idea of trying smocking with Floche. I do a lot of smocking and would also use it for embroidering monograms. I taught myself to smock when we had a granddaughter after five grandsons! I realised I did not know how to smock and purchased a book of smocking and also a subscription to Australian Smocking and Embroidery, which sadly is no longer published. I smocked for all six granddaughters and now have two great granddaughters and like to make smocks as presents for new little girls. Such a wonderful Christmas gift from Phyllis Brown for your fans. Thank you. Geraldine Melrose
The first thing that comes to mind is a stitch sampler that would focus on colour and stitch design. The range of colours in this gift of floche is wonderful and a sampler made with them would become a heirloom piece. Thank you for your generosity and wonderful inspirational resource that this site provides. Merry Christmas and wishing you a happy, healthy New Year.
Frankly, I don’t have a specific project in mind at the moment, but the lustre of this thread is beautiful and I would like to use it on some gifts I am making for special people.
Wow! I have been wanting to venture into needle painting and I think these threads could be the stimulus! Merry Christmas!
Being in the Uk it is really hard to obtain floche As I love smocking and surface embroidery I would really appreciate the chance to have a set like this to work with. It would make a lovely change to experiment with a different thread.
I would love to do a beautiful A-Z of floral embroidered alphabets with the floche.
I had never used floche until I read your article sometime ago and managed to purchase some in Madeira. I love the feel and texture of the thread and want to experiment more with embroidery stitches in free style embroidery and Madeira embroidery which I love!
There’s never going to be enough time in my lifetime to use up that much thread but I would try – on my Crabapple Hill Studio quilts, my Mirabilia cross stitch patterns, my wool applique projects, and then I would try to donate to people that love to stitch but have a limited budget.
A whole set of floche requires a whole set of monograms. This would give me a chance to choose colours and monogram styles to meet each recipient’s personality for my large extended family.
Oh my goodness me…the possibilities are endless! I think I’d probably use it for a really fabulous sampler to display in my sister’s house. She just moved to Pittsburgh a couple years ago and bought a former convent that’s been converted to a single-family home. Needless to say, her family has LOTS of extra wall space!
You never cease to amaze me – just the thrill of entering for a chance reminds me of wishing when I was a kid for a special gift at Christmas! What would I do with the set? I’d try to design a piece from multiple designs to incorporate as many colors as I could!!! It would kind of be a memory piece of the give away I think. Thank you Phyllis and Mary for this opportunity to win such a generous gift! An Happy Holidays to all. Health and Happiness in the coming New Year!
This thread is gorgeous! I can imagine several projects with pillows and napkins, etc. I think it would be wonderful to complete as you have done with floral themes. It is great to know that a fellow North Carolinian sells such wonderful thread. Merry Christmas to you!
Wow. If I were to win I would like to get back into some crewel embroidery–currently doing mostly counted thread work. Love the designs of Trish Burr and Helen Bloehmkamp and floche seems like the perfect thread to use. Great Holiday wishes to you and yours.
So many charts in my stash, so little time…… I would chose at least one from my “flowers” collection , one from my “Long Dog” collection, and play around with Bargello designs.
I’d tackle Mary’s alphabet! What fun it would be to have such a beautiful assortment of floche to choose from!
I would love to stitch four seasonal garden scenes.
First thing I’d do with a full set of floche is call Marnie to say, “OMG I have a whole set of floche!” Then I would bring out a blackwork cardinal that I’ve been wanting to start (of course it’s in red!).
What a wonderful give-away. Thank you.
I think, at first, I would use it in my cross stitch. I’ve heard it makes the stitches very puffy, which I like the sound of. Then maybe try something I haven’t done before. Thanks for the opportunity to win the Floche!
I would stitch a lovely floral piece!
Like Phyllis, I am also an avid smocked, and would love to have the whole color range to spark my creativity! This is a wonderful gift!
I am embarking on a whole new stage of embroidery for me. I am designing my own piece! I want a Middle East theme and have chosen a paisley that will be embellished in gold and bright colors. They should be soft threads to reflect the Persian carpets they so often appear in. Cotton Floche would do it!! Thanks for the timely offer! Another light bulb for this design just came on!
Paula in VA
If I was lucky enough to win the set of Floche, I’d finally stitch up the Stitch Sampler Alphabet! I’d start with the initials of family members.
I have not heard of floche & will be excited to try something new. I want to make that beautiful tulip monogram. Patsy R from Philly
Wow!
I think I would use this magnificent gift to embroider a mandala/kaleidoscope type of design. It would give me the most scope for playing with as many of the colors as I can!
What would I stitch with Floche? Oh my! What WOULDN’T I stitch? I can see it in small landscape embroideries, household linen embellishments, baby items (I have a new baby niece), accessories, stitched brooches, and maybe even some smocking (see baby niece news above)!
Oh my! I love floche and use it often when doing canvas work. I just purchased some beautiful silk on a trip overseas so perhaps I will try some monogramming. Never tried it before but Mary’s pictures make it look easy!
This is wonderful! To be perfectly honest, I don’t know what to stitch with it. I’d probably leave it out on my table to admire and touch until the absolutely right project came along. Thanks to you and those companies who donated the wonderful items. Merry Christmas! Tresa in Kansas
I have been contemplating doing more monogramming.
I would love to work on you stitch sampler alphabet with the Floche thread. I have never used it so it would be very exciting to try it out on your beautiful letters!!
I would stitch another Stitch Sampler Alphabet using floche with a linen background, unlike my first sampler which I did on a flour sack towel.
I’ve been sitting here thinking of what I would do with a whole set of floche and my mind is just boggling! So much fun! I would first probably do some pix for my 4 grandchildren, they love it when I embroider something for them! Then, I might just create something for myself! Thanks for the opportunity, and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!
This year I planned to make needle keeps for my friends. I think using floche would be beautiful. Thank you for the opportunity to learn about it as an alternative to other threads. Best wishes to everyone for a beautiful holiday.
I love the feel of floche. And to have a complete color set would be incredible. I would use it on a small (17 x 24) wool appliqué piece I am currently working on.
Pam from Gig Harbor
So many possibilities! Certainly on my upcoming owls wool embroidery, but also I’ve been wanting to do some monograms so it sounds like floche would be good for that.
I think, I would try a free form embroidery and would stitch a few pillows on heavy linen.
I would explore using floche with Hardanger
When I see a whole range of embroidery colors, I always think … flowers! A whole, beautiful garden of flowers!
Merry Christmas, Mary. Blessings to you and yours.
I recently took a smocking class but have been dismayed by the lack of adult clothing for clothing projects. I’m determined to sew some non juvenile blouses adorned with sophisticated smocking touches.
Such beautiful colors. When I see them stitched up in your tulip letter, they look so soft, inviting me to touch and stroke the textures.
If I was incredibly lucky to win this set, first I would be screaming and jumping up and down! I would bring them to my embroidery class so all my ladies could have a chance to stitch with cloche so as to compare it to floss and perle cotton. Then, I see a beautiful wildflower scene full of bluebonnets, Indian paintbrush, sunflowers and prairie roses with a broken down cedar fence in the background against a clear blue sky. Perhaps a stream in the the background lined with trees – Cyprus maybe? I like dreaming….
Thank you Mary!
Mary in Texas
If I had a whole set of Floche the sky would be the limit for what I could use it on. It is great for backgrounds. I am currently stitching a tiger belt with Floche. I plan on using it for a purse strap.
I’ve read about floche but have never seen it and would love to try it! One of my goals this year is to make several monograms and this would make them spectacular! Thanks for doing this!
This looks like a wonderful package and such an array of colors. Would love to win this.
What would I stitch with this floss?First of all I would just put it in my stitching room and look at it. Then I would pull out a number of linen canvases I have had for years, all with Jacobean crewel type designs and stitch and stitch and stitch. Although using wool would be more appropriate, floche actually looks great with a nice sheen very different from wool.
If I had a full a set of floche, I would get out my smocking machine and learn to really smock
Oh but the possibilities are endless. There is a beautiful pattern for an embroidered blanket in one of my volumes of Inspiration – a bouquet of sunflowers – that I would love to adapt to a quilt. My favorite patterns tend to be wildflowers, so all the colors here would be wonderful.
If I had all this amazing floche, I would use it in so many projects. But, it would be used first for the embroidered clutch I’m making for my granddaughter’s wedding next year.
If I won the beautiful prize of floche I would use it for embroidered monogrammes which could be framed as gifts for family and friends, and also for nursery decor hoops for newborns, which I donate to be sold in aid of my local baby hospice.
Thank you
Wow! Where to start with such a beautiful collection! I’ve been thinking a lot lately about old fashioned samplers and that collection would make a lovely start.
Merry Christmas!
Carrie G Plane Nut
Merry Christmas Mary! Wow, Floche, what can I say. I have been hearing about this everywhere, most recently on Fibertalk with Gary and Vonna. I am getting back into my embroidery, of which my favorite is silk ribbon embroidery. From what I hear the colors and the beautiful feel would really compliment the ribbon. I do mostly freehand embroidery stitching scenery or beautiful flowers I find on my walks or drives. I enjoy mixing Perle cotton, linen and other threads together for depth and texture. I am also going to get out my pulled thread projects and it seems the Floche would be great to work with.
Can’t wait to see who the lucky winner is. thank you!
I had never used Floche until I bought your Twelve Christmas trees and you were using it. I decided to give it a try!
It is a wonderful soft luxurious product and so nice to use!
I am sure that I would find many uses for it!
Thank you
I am a shocker as well as doing other needle work arts. Let’s see, with a full set of floche I would make a smocked baby gift for my neighbor who is expecting their first baby in 2020. Then I would use Susan O’Connors monogram book and do some linens. Then of course there is a night gown I was hoping to smock for my daughter, and then……who knows? The possibilities are endless.
Floche is such a wonderful thread with which to work and an assortment like this would be invaluable. Though I almost always think embroidery first, today I immediately thought that this would be great for temari balls. I have so many designs saved and would love to have a variety of floche to create a whole display of multi-colored designs.
I have never tried cloche because I have been unable to find it in my local area. I would love to try it for appliqué and embellishment on pure wool which is my current passion.
The offering in todays email is beautiful. I have never personally used or seen floche but I think it is soft and a beautiful sheen and looks like it would cover nicely. I don’t know what I would use it for but I use everything in my pieces. Thanks to Phyllis and to you Mary. Merry Christmas to all.
Barb
I would stitch a floral fraktur piece.
I love to embroider many things, animals, organics. I have wanted to try cliche for some time but don’t have a local store where I can get some. I would be humbled if I were to get this set. Thanks for the opportunity.
Maybe a Trish Burr whitework with color project. Your alphabet sounds intriguing, too!
I think I would stitch up a napkin and tablecloth set, how cool would that be? Tanya Heidi from Greenville sc
In 2020 I want to begin a Sue Spargo piece that is heavily embroidered on wool felt. This would be a lovely addition!
I just commented about this thread and much to my dismay my auto correct changed floche to cloche and left me embarrassed!
If I had a whole set of Floche I would use it to design our Guild’s upcoming challenge. Each entry is judged on creativity, colour, and Floche would give it that extra thread ‘bling’ that catches the eye. What a wonderful Christmas present that would be!!
I was taught to embroider on printed patterns, which I still love. If I won the floche, I would embroider blocks of baskets of flowers. I believe the floche would be beautiful as the flowers. Thank you, Mary, for doing A Stitcher’s Christmas! And have a Merry Christmas!
I would love to try long and short stitch with Floche ! Something for Valentine’s or St. Patrick’s Day….
I would want to embroider that sampler alphabet, for sure.
If I had a set of floche, I would definitely try some monogramming using Mary’s e-book designs.
Ninety colors of floche!!! What a bonanza! I haven’t used floche, but it has been on my list forever. Next year I have decided to buckle down and do Sharon Boggon’s Take a Stitch Tuesday program. It will be the last year that she runs the program, and I think I would learn a lot. MI would add the cloche into the mix of threads for this program. Right now I am leaning towards a fire form Sampler with lots of circles, but who knows where it will go? With 104 stitches over the course of the year, there should be lots of opportunities to use all this wonderful thread. Thanks for all you do Mary and MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Well I LOVE the idea of a whole stash of floche to work with. It looks lovely. So soft and beautiful. I imagine I would use it to experiment with and for monograms.
The colours are beautiful and I would like to do a pillow cover with flowers.
If I had a whole collection of floche, I would embroider a set of glorious, multi coloured, monogrammed slip covers for books, for my dear friends and relations.
I have too many ideas, how can I pick just one?! Perhaps a table runner…
I am currently using floche, along with many other beautiful threads, to needlepoint the Nutcracker soldier’s pants on a gorgeous Peter Ashe Christmas stocking for my granddaughter.
I love working with this underappreciated thread. So lucky that one of my ON A carries some of this line.
Thanks so much for your Christmas giveaways and for your blog. I am primarily a counted stitcher and love the way floche works with specialty stitches on linen and even needlepoint on congress cloth. Would love to have the full range of colors–they are so rich! I can picture a lovely sampler full of specialty stitches.
The thread is beautiful. I could use it to finish the quilt I am embroidering
:-O This is the most amazing give-away ever!! Excuse me while I mop the drool off of my keyboard…
OK. I would start off with some monogram projects I have had in mind for my three sisters, and move on from there…perhaps combining it with ribbon embroidery for a pillow for my d-i-l, who has loved her last such pillow, now 15 years old, to near death. And then I would just keep integrating it into projects, for floche is truly just lovely in every way to the touch and the eye. Sigh…
Thanks to you both for this opportunity, and grand congrats to the winner!!
Cheers,
Linda
“ALL the colors” is such an indulgence. I’ve longed to do the Mary Corbett monograms and a complete range of floche may literally move the needle!
I have a new baby in the family – my niece had a darling baby girl. Since there seems to be no babies coming from my two children – my grand niece will be the recipient of my smocking and quilts. Have used floche in the past and have loved using it and actually just took a class with Marion Scoular and we used floche.
Merry Christmas!
I have a Nativity that I have prepped to work on in 2020. It is wool and the Floche would work beautiful with all the embroidery stitches I plan to place on my wool figures. Merry Christmas!
With such a beautiful array of colors I would stitch a garden scene.
What a generous gift. I would definitely do some shadow work and smocking.
I would finally start the bed curtain/coverlet set that’s been running around in my head for years.
Merry Christmas, Mary! Thank you for all you do for us! May the New Year bring new beginnings!
Barabal
With all those beautiful colors I would do some Schwalm embroidery in full color.
On my visit to the Schwalm Museum I saw a collection of German Fairy Tales done in color.
That would be so fun to do. Ana-Maria from Cambridge ON
I love floche for bargello and stumpwork projects!
Oh, my goodness! If I had an entire set of floche, I would smock All The Things on my to-do list as well as practice doing monograms by hand. Floche is also very nice for hemstitching and drawn-thread work, so I would drag out my linens and turn them into beautiful home items rather than lumps of fabric in a drawer.
Thank you to Phyllis (great teacher!) for the donation.
What a yummy give-away! I’m literally drooling at the thought of stitching letters from the Stitch Alphabet Sampler. Well, that, and the lemon bars I just made!
I can see a whole array of stitched monograms done up as Christmas ornaments for so many people. And what a great opportunity to practice all your great stitches on pieces that are small enough so as not to cause too much heartache when I make the inevitable error! Using the floche in all its colors is an added bonus!
Thank you, and Merry Christmas!
Susan
I’d love to embroider an original tree of life wall piece.
I can’t imagine all the things I might make with an entire set of floche, but I know where I’d start — monograms on everything. I have used floche to embroider monograms on very fine linen handkerchiefs and it has the most beautiful pearl-like sheen. Thank you!
Oh my! Thank you Phyllis and Mary for the offering of the whole kit and kaboodle of floche. I would love to use the floche to make monograms embellished with a seasonal theme. I think gardens for Spring and Summer and trees done in Fall and Winter colors would be such fun. Merry Christmas to all!
I would do my favorite stitching , which would be crazy quilting. It makes lovely stitching.
Beautiful collection! I love it.
A whole set of floche?!?! The world would be at me fingertips! I’d be stitching wonderful bullion roses on dresses for my granddaughters! I’d be making little shadow work figures on garments for preemie babies as the local hospital. I’d be embroidering Christmas ornaments or smocked Easter eggs for my God children. There are so many possibilities!
Wow, if I had the collection of floche at my fingertips, I think I would want to use it for many of my projects. Embroidery Samplers, Christmas Ornaments, Needlebooks, etc. Floche is not readily available where I live, so it would be like Christmas! Hee hee!
Thank you for the opportunity to win the collection.
What a beautiful array of colors. I have never used floche but have a new wool applique project that I would love to try this on. Thanks Mary and Merry Christmas.
Wow! A whole set of Floche! I’ve only used it a couple of times, and enjoyed it both times. With a whole set, I’d branch out and try some surface embroidery and do a Jacobean theme piece. I’d also work it into some needlepoint pieces and drawn thread work.
i am working on a crazy quilt and would love to include floche in the design
If I were to get a set of these beautiful fibers, I can see using these to create beautiful colorful designs and maybe use on my casket, which is in the process of being designed by myself. Would love a chance to use them on this beautiful masterpiece
Linda
What a treat this floche set would be! I would do a little woodland scene with some of my favorite Colorado birds and animals and trees. Have been wanting to do an American Kestrel, a very colorful small raptor. Q: how does one pronounce “floche”?
I think this would be beautiful to work with! Most definitely would make a bell pull to help decorate my “new to me” home!
A whole set of floche would be perfect for a patchwork quilt with embroidered panels! I have an idea for a child’s quilt with each letter of the alphabet represented by an embroidered picture and the child’s name across the top of the quilt. The pictures would be creatures – the scene printed or painted on then the animal embroidered on top.
If I had a whole set of floche at my fingertips, I would embroider Monograms on baby blankets and childerns’ clothes. I love making baby blankets and outfits for children and adding a monogram is such a special little touch.
I love floche. I have been using it for years for hardanger, needlepoint, cutwork, and cross stitch.
Having the full range of colors would enable me to use it in more of my projects that are waiting to be stitched.
Also, I could share it with my students so they could see what a wonderful thread it is to stitch with.
I would definitely stitch a pineapple!
Thanks for the chance and Merry Christmas !
WOW! I have such limited access to floche that winning this would be a dream!
I think that the Floche would be wonderful for Japanese Temari. I’m gradually learning how to make more complex embroidered balls and would love to have a greater assortment of colors of the same type of thread to choose from.
I love floche. It works awesome for crazy quilting. Would be thrilled to have this set!
Wow, what beautiful colours! And a full set of floche! I am a relatively new stitcher and have done mostly cross stitch lately. I have done crewel work years ago and would like to give it a go again. I would use the threads to do a pattern that I have had for awhile. Thanks for the opportunity. Merry Christmas.
I have never used floche, but I would love to make some smocked ornaments and Easter Eggs, and then see what else I can come up with.
Merry Christmas Mary! What would I love to use Floche threads for? Well, I can think of two things right away: needle painting and for cross stitching one over one. I think that would give a great coverage, yet not be too ‘heavy’ in some of the reproduction samplers that I love!
I’ve never used Floche before, and I would love to try smocking with the beautiful threads!
What a very generous offer. Many thanks to Phyllis for making someone a very happy holiday winner.
Can’t obtain them in the UK but with the colour range I would love to try them for larger scale needlelace designs mixed with textured embroidery stitches. Maybe something in a 17th Century stumpwork design, my favourite.
Merry Christmas to all from rainy Bridgwater.
I am just beginning to stitch monograms and would love to try this beautiful floche thread! Missie of Roseville, CA.
I needlepoint. A lot. And floche is one of my favorite threads for needlepoint. It works very well for many of the stitching techniques I “borrow” from you Mary to apply to needlepoint. It is also shows up frequently in light background stitches in my work. I can think of five works in process right now that need unusual background colors, so the floche would be out to use right away!
I’ve never handled floche! What I’ve been wanting to embroider are some personalized gifts for my sister’s, their initials plus flowers.
My passion has always been heirloom sewing. If I had a supply of floche, I would be making all sorts of beautifully embroidered garments for the girls in my family.
JoaniK from S Lyon
If I had this set of floche, I’d love it and pet it and maybe even snuggle it while I tried to choose what to do!! And then I’d give my daughter the small collection of floche I already have, because she can’t afford it and is always borrowing mine!!
Would love to win this! I am taking a class from Phyllis in March-can’t wait.
A full set of the floche would be perfect for the crazy quilts I love to do.
If I had the whole beautiful collection of colors I would stitch a landscape scene with some desert, mountains, water and wildlife.
If I had a set of floche, I would work on a Trish Burr needlepointing I have wanted to tackle for a long time
A whole set! Oh my goodness! I would have multiple Di Van Niekerk samplers that floche would be wonderful in, and I have been loving stitching with the little floche I have, making tea towels for gifts! I would also like to try doing some crewel style work, and some long and short stitch!
A whole set!?! Yippee!!! I see a kaleidoscope or adult coloring book pattern!!! What fun and freedom!!! Not only stitch variety but colors too!!! The winner will be soooo blessed!! Thank you Phyllis & Mary!! Just dreaming is almost as good! 🙂
I would love the set of cloche thanks for the offer.
I am primarily a quiltmaker. I have made several quilts with the blocks hand embroidered. This set of thread would be enough to make several quilts, including the crazy quilt I will start this year.
With all 90 colors+ I would finally start one of the caskets I have bought over the years.
I am designing my own to reflect my family and its history. I will be doing mostly cross stitch and pulled work to reflect my Scandinavian heritage. The floche would be perfect for the project.
Darcy Walker
Greetings Mary and stitching friends, if I had the collection, I would probably be too scared to use them right away! It takes me a couple of years the come up with just the right project, but I’m up for the challenge!
Thanks for all you do for us Mary!
Hello!
I always admire the big pieces of embroidered art that get framed and last forever. I think with this floche thread I would want to try a big piece to keep framed. My mom has a gorgeous plant piece that I have always admired. I want to make something of the sort for myself! Obviously I would have plenty of leftovers and then try make a piece for my mom who started my love of crafting! What a wonderful giveaway so close to Christmas! Thank you for the wonderful articles and all the fun ideas throughout the year!
I would love to try needle painting with floche. I’ve done French knot needle painting and would love to try floche for that type of work too. I usually use pearl cotton for crazy quilting seam work, but perhaps floche would work for that too.
Floche! A whole set! Wow! Mary, you are the one who first turned me on to floche. Well, first of all I would just admire the vivid colors, then I would spend some time just touching the luscious thread. It would almost be hard to actually use them, but I think that Nathalie Lete’s lovely stylized and quirky designs that I purchased a while ago would be awesome using these floche threads. Nathalie Lete’s designs seem simple, but you can stitch them up however you choose, so you can make them realistic or funky. Floche would make these designs so fun to stitch!
I’ll be stitching all sorts of cute things (vintage flower designs, teapots, pumpkins, leaves, seashells, hearts & stars – things that represent stuff I like) on my crazy quilt.
How pretty! I’ve never tried Floche but the first thing I thought of was to buy your Stitch Sampler Alphabet and start there. Thank you, Phyllis and Mary!
Two of the words you used to describe why one should try floche are “beautiful” and “affordable”. Those are two words I like to hear! I think I’d like to stitch a garden full of beautiful flowers with little critters thrown in for fun. Thank you for 10 fun days to explore many avenues of embroidery and the many people who help us do it with their fine and sometimes unique products.
Ooh, how lovely. I’m working on ideas for a seascape at the moment with lots of bright corals and fish, so such beautiful colours would be perfect.
I just completed the 2019 Take a Stitch Tuesday (TAST) challenge. If I won the set of floche, I would make a band sampler using all my favorite stitches from this year.
I’d love to try a monogram on a vintage linen towel!
What a magical surprise each day we open our emails! I would be thrilled to receive your fabulous give a way!!
Blessings,
Pat Wys
Silver Thimble Quilt Co.
With two weddings planned in 2021I would love to start monogramming ring pillows and flower girl baskets with the floche.
You have spoken so highly of floche I would just experiment with it. I would likely do some florals.
I love trying new threads and these look especially beautiful. I always have several embroidery projects going at once, so would most likely use them for a pillow top.
Another wonderful gift! The offer led me down the garden path, spent coffee time reading your articles about floche and cotton broder (a friend gave me lots of white). But colors of floche, the possibilities are endless! Another project to start for the New Year, surface embroidery back in my life. After research about floche and cotton broder, I want to try substituting it in a whitework project I have started I am not quite satisfied with. I would never find Floche in Montana!
Thanks!
Wow! First, I think I would just stare in amazement. When my daughter was small, I loved making smocked dresses. It would be a joy to smock again. I might branch out and add the floche to an appliqué quilt which is my current passion.
Interesting thread. I would try it out in wool applique AND in a crazy quilt that I started ages ago and needs lots of hand embroidery.
I have used floche for padding needle painting before. As an avid smocker, floche was not available in my area of the country. I would definitely be returning to smocking many little outfits for grandchildren, especially picture smocking, if a had such a variety of colours. Needle painting would also be calling my name.
Merry Christmas!
I have always wanted to do a “free style” piece…no pattern. What fun it would be with all of these wonderful colors!
An entire set of floche! This is a sign for me to begin my alphabet and corresponding item to fill up the antique print tray my dad gave me- as in the kind of sampler where each section has a letter A and an Apple- for the grandchild yet to arrive!
Having such an array of colors, my brain would be going non-stop with ideas of what to embroider with it. Long/short stitch a turtle, owl, many other birds, my dog’s face, a landscape or two, some flowers, ……… and the list goes on.
I would like to experiment with floche. Maybe it will be a good option for me. Since I have never used floche how would I know? I’m wondering if my preference for more expressionist needle work would be enhanced with floche.
So very eager to try.
Having the whole floche set has been my dream. Since learning about it from you I have been slowly collecting all the colors. I love this thread and would use it for everything I use regular 6 strand floss for now. I have done a lot of monograms with it and have used it for surface embroidery when I do home linens like napkins, dresser scarves and pillows. The thread is so nice for satin stitching and it just makes your work looks so much more professional.
I would stitch a whole group of Trish Burr’s designs. I love her designs.
Floche is one of my most favorite threads. What a great opportunity, thanks Mary and Phyllis.
I am so excited to try floche! Next year I will be gifting for birthdays with the recipient’s initial embroidered and framed. Size will be appropriate for a table tope easel or a small picture hung on a wall. Would love to be able to do these gifts with this luscious floche!
I have heard Gary and Vonna talk extensively about the virtues of floche during several of the FiberTalk episodes but have never had the opportunity to try it out. Both Gary and Vonna recommend substituting one strand of floche for two strands of DMC in cross-stitch embroidery projects. I imagine using floche on a reproduction band sampler with larger count fabric — maybe one of the HATS samplers that requires not just cross stitch but also satin stitch and a few other variety stitches because floche is said to provide such good coverage and to also have a lovely sheen.
I would love to try the floche on a monogram! I’ve only done them before in ribbon embroidery using Di Van Neikerk’s alphabet! I didn’t realize you had a monogram book out, so I would love to try yours as well! 90 colors! Can’t wait to choose!
I love the sheen of Floche. I would use it in my Madeira cutwork embroidery.
I too like stitching with floche. I especially like that fact that it is not stranded ie similar to flower thread and all those colours both brilliant and muted makes it useful for both wool appliqué as well as contemporary crewel pieces – both techniques I use very often. Here’s hoping i’m A lucky winner.
Judith in Canada
Hello-
What a wonderful surprise. I have wanted to try working with floche, but have not been able to locate any locally. I would love to try my hand at a monogram pillow.
Kim
Ooooh, floche! All the colors!
I guess I *would* work my way through the Stitch Sampler Alphabet. I have the e-book all printed out and comb-bound, as I do most of your e-books.
This will be a wonderful gift to someone, and I’d love to be the lucky winner. I got back into stitching in 2018 after a number of years away. I created a wall hanging of 53 designs in wool & pearl cotton on wool hexagons, many of them my own creation. In Jan 2019, I joined a 100 Days of Creativity group and created my own contemporary designs, still stitching with pearl cotton and woo, but this time of a line of cotton fabrics. I didn’t stop stitching after the 100 days. I love this creativity! I’ve sold one piece, and I’ve developed more that I hope to be able to market. This collection of floche would give me another type of thread for my creations. It could be the focus of my next 100 Days of Creativity that starts in Jan 2020……
I love using cliche and was pleased to find a place to purchase it. If I had the whole set … oh my the possibilities ! Like stitching canvas as well as my crewel so would probably incorporate it in both areas. I have a painted Christmas stocking that is suppose to be mine. Never did it but did everyone else 16 and counting! Probably use some of the cliche in it. Thank you for your wonderful newsletters and your generous offers. Merry Christmas and all the best for 2020!
I just recently started trying my hand with your Holly Towels and I also just received your Folky Flakes. Floche is new to me but I would love to use some of the colors for the snowflakes. I am new to this kind of embroidery but I am enjoying learning the different stitches. I have only tried pieces that were stamped cross stitch in the past. I think the Floche colors would be beautiful for decorative handwork on clothing also. I am unable to drive anymore so this is a great pass time for me.
I love getting your emails and helpful tips. Keep them coming.
Merry Christmas,
Cindy
An ABC quilt with critters has been playing in the back of my mind… That many colors with the texture of that thread would be wondermus don’t you think?
I love,love, love Floche! I didn’t realize there were 90 colors!I’m a Needlepointer and love how versatile it can be depending on how many strands are in the needle. 90 colors? I would love to stitch a piece entirely with Floche, be it a sampler of stitches or a needlepainted design. The sheen Floche gives off would make it great for a Christmas ornament accented with clear beads. Love Floche. Thank you for a chance to have a collection of all the colors.
What’s not to love about Flouche. I love the shine and the manageability of the thread. Although there aren’t as many colors as DMC floss, there are enough. Your ability to compare threads and explain the pros and cons of using a particular thread over another I find invaluable. I have used flouche over the years, but not extensively as I would like because I don’t have access to all the colors without ordering them and waiting and waiting and waiting. How many times have I started to use what I have only to find I’m missing the right yellow or the exact green I want? With more colors, I know I would use flouche in more of my surface embroidery and smocking projects.
Although I’ve been an embroiderer for 30 years, amazingly I have never heard of floche! I think I would like to try using it in some of my long and short stitch work, or possibly in monograms. It looks beautiful in the examples you show on your website.
‘Tis the season to be floche.
In my current textile work I’m exploring the connections between embroidery stitches and some weaving techniques (in miniature) and the lovely colours and lustre of floche thread would work beautifully. I would love to try stitching with floche and if I had a whole set of threads to use I would also be able to share the experience with the creative stitching class that I teach. Julie B. Manchester
Oh, my, what a prize! I have a bit of floche and love it. Oh, and the things I could stitch! Monogram Christmas ornaments for family members. I have a bird panel on quilting cotton that I’d like to make come alive with some stitching…the floche would be perfect. Tea towels for everyone…I’ve used floche for them and it works womderfully. I’d like to try floche with goldwork. Thanks for this opportunity.
I would use the Floche in my current project made up mostly of flowers. I love the effect it has when used for flower petals using the long and short stitch. To have that many color choices at my fingertips would be a dream come true!! Like getting a huge box of new crayons for Christmas!!
If I won this giveaway, I think I’d try doing the Stitch Sampler Alphabet. It looks beautiful and these threads would be sew fun to try.
I love doing long and short stitch with Floche, I have a few colours in my stash and would love to add to them.
I have stitched whitwork with colour and also some of your alphabet. It is a beautiful thread to stitch with.
I would love to win this Christmas treat .
oooooooh! This one gets me all tingly inside!
Not sure at this point what I’d use the floche on, but rest assured it would include your patterns and Trish Burr’s threadpainting animals and crazy patch embroidery.
Thank you so much, Mary!
ooooh! Monograms! Flowers! Abstract Designs! Snowflakes! What a generous gift.
I’m making tiny tassels for blouse ties.
Imaging what to do with needle and thread is always fun. After reading your articles about the differences in the various threads and after thinking about how much I’ve always wanted to do some alphabet samplers, I am sure I would start with that. What lovely gifts these initials would make for special people in my life. I’d stitch the letter, maybe add some extra and mount it in a small hoop. I really appreciate all of your thread insight. Happy 2020.
the flche looks enticing – I would love to work with it!
I would use it in my very next needlepoint project. We are starting a new sampler in February and it would be incorporated very nicely.
I have numerous projects and patterns where I could use this thread. I would love to work with it. I have not used Floch in any stitching projects. Thank you for this great giveaway.
The perfect thread to stitch monograms.
I think I would do a floral piece with the floche. I have not worked with it before.
Hello. If I had a whole set of Floche I would finally do a large R initial to frame as I’ve wanted to do for ages. This amount of selection would certainly help make it colorful! Merry Christmas one and all!
If I won the set of Floche I think I would like to use it for some of Trish Burr’s patterns, or some other embroidery. I usually just do counted cross stitch, but have been looking at Trish’s patterns lately.
I first started smocking when my daughter, now 45, was six years old. I grew up in the South and one my favorite haunts was THe Women’s Exchange in Memphis, TN. They had beautiful smocked items — and smocking supplies. I did it all by hand in thoses days, pulling the threads to set up the pin pleats, and following a pattern for a dress that has now been worn by both my granddaughters and will be worn by greatgrand daughters someday I hope. I’ve been thinking lately about combining smocking and Sashiko . . . what I see in my minds eye os interesting and FUN . . . working with Japanese clothing patterns for a finished garment. I think that would keekp me busy for a while in the New Year! Dd in Maine, where I hope everyone comes to visit!
Just read a wonderful article about embroidery/tapestry artist, Ruth Miller. If I won the collection of floche, I would take a crack at a stitched portrait inspired by Ruth’s work.
What a wonderful giveaway Mary. Thanks so much for pulling this together every year.
I would want to do a design that had a bouquet of flowers to use many of the colors .
I love floche. I would use some of it to create a 3D pulled thread pumpkin.
I am an avid needlepointer, and I love to use floche in my projects. It is such a lovely thread, with a beautiful finish. I especially enjoy using it for Christmas ornaments and pillows.
I’d love to use floche on a vintage piece of stamped linen I have had for a long time. It’s a collection of Canadian provincial flowers, my prize from a thrift shop. No instructions or colour guidance, so it would be a delightful challenge.
Merry Christmas to you and all your readers. Thank you for offering all these giveaways as well as all the instructions you give. It is all very inspirational. Today’s giveaway, the floche in all the great colors, brings to mind a cottage with a large flowering garden – or maybe a Jacobean pattern using so many of the colors. Either way, good luck to all!
I was able to find a few skeins of this lovely thread some time ago. I truly covet more! Im not sure how i will use this beautiful stuff yet. I think i will find many ways though.
Right now the few hanks I have hang next to my work space waiting fo the right project.
Happy Holidays to you all.
Floche is probably one of the most beautiful threads I’ve seen. I can imagine a whole forest of vegetation along with little critters stitched up into a beautiful composition to enjoy and pass on as an heirloom. Thank you for the opportunity to win.
I recently lost two elderly quilting friends who did a whole lot of crazy quilting and I was given a lot of their materiald. I would repeat they were elderly and a lot of their material was also elderly and most of their needles were moldy and their thread tore with the slightest tug. This would allow me to utilize their patterns and some of their material. I have been purchasing some newer material and just finished a crazy quilted “kidney” for the Gala held in November. Thank you for the opportunity to win this awesome prize. Krind
Wow. What a generous woman. I have never used floche so would love to get it because those alphabets are on my wish list to do. I have a couple books lol. And now I have the time. Kathy-vegas
First, I would just look and touch all of it. The colors and sheen are wonderful! I think pieces speak to us, so that is where I would use it.
Have a warm and safe holiday. It’s going to be 60 degrees in Kansas!
Happy stitching from Sunflower state!
Mrs. B
Yep – latest I saw for us is 62. Aaaaaargh! I wish our snow from last week had just waited until today or tomorrow. Ah well – typical KS weather! And it is a wee bit more convenient, especially for my elderly parents, so I won’t complain!
I am going to stitch crewel flowers and pomegranate, because I decided that this year I am going to dedicate more time to surface, crewel type of embroidery.
Such a beautiful collection of floche threads. My first inkling of what I would make it to reproduce a Jacobean Tree Of Life I did in the early 1980’s/ It has been my favorite piece of work ever since.
I would do monogramming on table linens with this great gift. And maybe a Christmas ornament or two.
Merry Christmas.
A friend gave me the inspiration to recreate a set of embroidered pieces that includes Santa in his sleigh and 8 reindeer. Each is an individual piece, with some beading and other embellishments, that sits atop a little wooden post stand. The stands are varying heights and are so lovely set into garland greenery. I think the floche would be perfect for this project because I want something especially lustrous, and that floche certainly fits the bill!
I tend to stick with useful items (tea towels, pot holders) but if I had a whole set of floche I’d add to my collection of hand-embroidered Passover pillows, depicting the ten plagues visited upon Egypt when the Pharaoh refused to let the Israelites go. The pillows are placed on each chair at the seder so that guests can (figuratively at least) recline during their meal just as free Romans did thousands of years ago – it serves as a reminder of the plagues and as a reminder that now the Jews are a free people.
As I am relatively new to stitching I am still finding my skills and techniques. Up to now I have been embroidering tea towels, pillow cases and other smaller items. To date I have been using 6 strand thread and find it a bit fiddly. The idea of using one thread such as floche really appeals to me. It seems to be very hard to find here in the UK. I think floche thread would help me expand my horizons. Happy Christmas and prosperous New Year to all.
I would be happy happy happy if I was to win the Floche thread set. Merry Christmas to you and your family
I have just began experimenting with the sashiko technique of stitching and would love to see how the floche thread stitches out. What fun to have such a wonderful selection.
I have a pattern for a quilt with embroidered blocks. I’ve collected all of the fabrics that I need but don’t have all of the embroidery thread colours. This set of floche would be wonderful for my project.
This is the most exciting giveaway ever! I’ve been wanting to try floche but have such an extensive supply of stranded threads that I haven’t felt like I can afford to buy enough floche to start a project. I can think of sooo many ways I would use this gift if I win! I have your alphabet sampler e-book and this would give me the push to get started! I have also been wanting for a very long time to learn and practice smocking! What a great collection this would be to work with on my smocking practice. I love reading your posts, they are so informative. Thank you for introducing us to Phyllis Brown. Up until now I just let others enter the giveaways, but not today! I am entered! 🙂
I would use the floch to stitch designs from Trish Burrs’ book Whitework in Color. I have stitched some of her designs with floss but think the floch would make them really pop. Can’t wait.
2020 is the year I want to master the long and short stitch. With this great bundle of floche I would be able to create many projects to frame. I love birds..so probably start with that. I would like to complete a set to hang over the fireplace.
I have looked for years at an “h” embroidered on a handkerchief that was bought for me in Paris 50 years ago. Both sides are alike and the stitching is padded and simple but perfect. So it’s high time I learned to do monograms, and a package of floche threads would give me the push I need.
I have never tried floche, yes it’s hard to come by but the results are worth it I believe. A lovely prize. Wishing you a very merry Christmas and happy new year. Thank you Mary for starting NeedlenThread.com your website has been a blessing many times over when I’m looking for a pattern or need answer on a problem. Thank you again.
Mary Ellen
I’m not sure what I’d use it for. Crewel embroidery is my favorite technique and Medici wool (no longer available) my favorite thread. I can see trying floche as a substitute for it. I love Medici because it is fine and isn’t hairy like Appleton’s. I don’t know the gauge of floche but it seems comparable.
I would finally do the alphabet bee and sheep downloaded from Mary a long time ago.
Thank you for such an enjoyable newsletter throughout the year! I would like to use the floche to reproduce some antique samplers I have been collecting. It is fascinating and challenging to study the stitches in an old sampler to see how the young girl did her work and formed her stitches.
Oh my goodness, talk about saving the best till last! I would stitch ALL THE THINGS with this set.
What a wonderful gift! Don’t know what I would make with this but I have always wanted to try Floche and experiment with it to see what I can come up with. Thanks for this giveaway.
Something large. Maybe a fireplace screen.
Recently I’ve taken on what for me is a brave project–stitching my first crazy quilt. I’ve also been an avid cross stitcher for many years. I would love to try this floss in place of my usual floss as I sew cross stitch and embroidery motifs for the centers on some of my quilt patches. Looks fantastic and I’d love to win! Julie from Plymouth
I would finally do the alphabet series I have ye to stitch.
A whole set of floche. WOW! I can imagine a lovely layette or 3 or 4 for future great grands. By the end of May I will have four grandchildren married. I have one great now and obviously more on the way. I love shadow work on baby/children’s clothes and smocking. What fun to have some many wonderful colors of floche to play with.
Your work is So Amazingly Inspiring!!
I’ve wanted to try floche for a while, I’m working on a couple motifs, that I hope would work with the thread well!
Your work is So Amazingly Inspiring!!
I’ve wanted to try floche for a while. I’m working on a few motifs that I hope would work well with that thread!! Smooth filled work is my favorite!
With floche, I might try to use it on cross stitch. Or maybe on some fine needlepoint!
I’d love to tackle one of your alphabets with this!
Thank you Mary and Phyllis for this amazingly generous giveaway. If I win, I will use the Floche to make some new stand cloths for my church and a new cloth for our Epistle book.
A complete set of floche! I think Santa arrived early, and is sticking around for a little, for someone lucky. I love this thread – it’s soft like silk. I used a few colors to work with a kalidescope pattern. I “downsized” the pattern to fit into a 4″ round inset in a jewelry box for my niece/goddaughter. My other neieces are now clamoring for their own!
I’ve been imagining this series of embroideries of Realistic empty rooms with 2-d patterns superimposed on them (hard to explain in words), but I need a lot of colors for the patterns and I LOVE floche!
Oh, I would need to learn what and where it would look best (that shouldn’t take much time), but my immediate thought is, wow, wouldn’t that work and look gorgeous in my art (painted/stitched) pieces that I do for the art shows!
If I had the whole line of floche I would first admire and feel the fibers. I love the texture of floche. I’ve not worked with a lot of floche, but did enjoy the little I’ve used. I think I would like to do a piece of crewel work with the fibers. It has been a while since I stitched a crewel style piece and the floche is perfect for stitching.
What a gorgeous set of thread. My first granddaughter is due in March and would love to use the thread to smock her several dresses!
Peggy S.
❤️ floche! With all those colors it would have to be something riotous like a big floral bouquet. Just a free form extravaganza of blooms!
I would love to make some monograms for special folks in my life.
I have one skein of floche that I used recently for the first time. I love it! I wish it weren’t so hard to get. If I had more, I would be experimenting with needle lace. I like the fact that it is one strand but thicker than one strand of floss. I think it would be better on my eyes! I could do a whole needle lace garden!
I am relatively new to embroidery. I am doing improvisational stitching using a few simple stitches, and I am learning long-and-short-stitch embroidery. I usually use either Perle cotton or a single strand of 6-strand floss, because I don’t seem to get very good results from using two or more strands of floss. Floche sounds like a wonderful thread I would love to try in all of my embroidery!
A beautiful flower garden!
Oooh! So many ideas to stitch up! I think I would work on some things for my grandchildren.
If I had a whole set of floche I would mix it in with a garden embroidery from Tiny Embroidery Tiny Garden. The thread’s different characteristics would add dimension to the embroidery.
p.s. Merry Christmas, Mary!
Too many possibilities to think about! I’d probably be too distracted by staring at all the colors and feeling how soft they are! I do love the monogram you show, that would be a lovely project to try for sure.
I would get personal surface embroidery lessons so my work would be as beautiful as yours.
I am mostly a crazy quilted and I seem to use up thread at an alarming rate! I think the floche would be an excellent addition to my thread collection. Choices are a wonderful part of CQ. I have many plans for themed projects including a set of 48 elephant blocks that I pieced last year that are waiting for my attention. Thank you Mary for your awesome website.
I’m a cross stitcher so would play around with the floche probably stitching small designs first. Thanks for the chance and happy holidays. Teal
I have used floche for smocking but would love to try it out on silk shading.
I love floche for alter linens for the church. I learned about it on your website and have not used anything else since then.
Floche looks like a lovely thread to work with on smocking! I have a back issue from Inspirations Magazine when they had a division of smocking mags. I have 5 grand-daughters, so I would love to try my hand at smocking. I’m going to enjoy perusing Phillis’s website.
I haven’t had the pleasure of working with floche, but from the enthusiasm noted I am obviously missing out on something wonderful. I would love to explore with this awesome collection!
If I had a whole set of Floche at my fingertips, I would learn to stitch monograms, for next year’s gifts!
Annie Bowers
oh my gosh!!!! What an amazing gift!!! Thank you so much for the opportunity. I REALLY need to work on my long and short stitch and blending with it and I can imagine that these would make the most beautiful flowers.
Thanks so much for the opportunity!
I am new to your website – thanks to the recommendation from a friend who is very involved in the local stitching community. After having devoured all of the articles in your links up above, I am feeling excitedly enlightened! I have never liked my results with the satin stitch and have just avoided it – for 50 years!! Learning about floche makes me want to try it out on one of your monograms.
Thank you Mary Corbet!
What a lovely prize! If I had this much floche I would definitely get right to work on your alphabet using the recommended threads This is such pretty thread that I am sure I’d want to try out every colour immediately
Mary, I would use the floche for shading on one of Trish Burr’s fantastic patterns…probably a bird…maybe a flower. I love Trish’s style of thread painting and I have only used DMC floss to complete some of her patterns. I would enjoy trying to use floche to gain differences in shading with thread painting!
What a wonderful gift. I’ve used floche in the past and love. All those colors beg to be stitched into floral designs for quilt blocks. I’d love to make a baby quilt for an upcoming granddaughter with her monogram, flowers and other fun items
My mother smocked dresses for me and my daughters. I’ve never smocked but have always thought I’d like to try. This would provide a reason to do so. I’ve also purchased your Alphabet and would love to try this thread for those projects. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
I don’t know what I’d do with a whole set of floche. I just like thread and floche is beautiful!
I have much admired the work you have done using floche but have been unable to get a supply of the thread to try myself. I have used lots of different threads for my projects including stranded silks and cottons, Coton a Broder, cotton perle 12, 8, 5 and 3 but have never had the pleasure of using floche. The colour range is amazing and the chance of obtaining all of this thread to stitch a complete set of monograms was too great to pass up.
If I got the set it would thread painting time. Maybe get out Trish Burr’s books and start stitching. I find this thread just blends well when stitching and you get beautiful results.
I have a Hazel Blomkamp Jacobean print that uses 40 colors of floss in a 10 x 10 inch design. What fun it would be to be able to stitch this in floche!! I have used floche and love working with it when I can find it. But first I may just put the hanks on rods and drool at the colors.
Oh how I love stitching with floche! I’ve only used white and ecru but the idea of all those colors is devine.
Hi Mary,
If I had a full set of Floche threads the sky would be the limit for using it.
I would use it in thread painting, free style, Gold work, surface embroidery, absolutely every thing . The colours are brilliant and the sheen can’t be matched in cotton threads.
Would be a dream come true if I won the whole set of Floche Thread.
Brenda Scarr
I would love to try the floche for a special new embroidery project. I am always happy to receive your newsletter. It gives me so many good ideas and much needed information. Wishing you a Happy Holiday season.
Ooooooh, if I had a whole set of Floche I’d…well, I’d…then I would…
Seriously, I would tackle the Kaleidoscope patterns that I bought a couple of years ago but haven’t actually started yet.
If I had a whole set of floche at my fingergips, I would stitch the Tuscan Landscape of Trish Burr.
Happy Hollidays Mary!
I would do a blackwork landscape–maybe a southwest design or a spring flowers design.
I have no idea yet what I would embroider with the floche. It’s a fiber I haven’t really tried. As I have seen it mentioned on Needle ‘n Thread frequently, I would go back through the articles and try every use mentioned.
Such beautiful thread. I think it might be time to try a monogram.
If I win the Floche I would stitch a monogram for the display box my husband made me for Christmas.
With a whole set of floche, I’d embellish my wardrobe and everybody’s scarves that crossed my path. Merry Christmas Eve-Eve to all❣️
Thank you and Phyllis for this wonderful Floshe giveaway.
I have never used Floshe, but certainly would love to work with it. Looks like it would be a beautiful thread to use in a stumpwork project. It appears to have a heft that would give a little more weight to dimensional embroidery.
Happy Holidays to everyone!
Hi Mary,
What would I do if I won the Floche?
I would first of all admire the beautiful colors!
I would then look at all of your free designs to see what I would stitch first.
Decisions, decisions decisions…
Hope you have a lot of fun over the Holidays and that you have some fun stitching just for you!
Cynthia M in Maryland
I love floche for picture smocking and hand embroidered monograms. About 25 years ago, some SAGA friends and I ordered a complete set and split it up, so we each had a bit of all the colors. We were all young mothers then and all that floche is long gone!
I LOVE floche! It makes the best satin stitch ever. I’d make gardens full of flowers.
If I had a whole set of floche at my fingertips, I would sit down in a good light, listening to my book tapes in the background, with my pile of crazy quilt backgrounds, and stitch the winter away.
There are endless possibilities but I imagine I’d use it for long and short stitching. Some of your work with these threads is stunning.
Merry Christmas.
If I had the whole set I would be thrilled and I would work on a design I created using Crewel Creatures.
The design is only for me as I want to learn the techniques used in the book.
If I were the lucky one, I would work on a sampler of lesser known Ukrainian embroidery stitches (not cross stitch). So many regional patterns use satin, pulled, whitework, and other stitches found in many ethnic embroideries. Joyce Howell
Thanks so much for offering this. I love floche and am trying to get more of it. I can only think of embroidering part of a dress for my granddaughter. It would work so well in depicting
colorful fruits and vegetables.
Linda S in michigan
I plan to do a Quaker SAL starting in Jan and the floche in all the pretty colors would be perfect for this project. I’m sure I would find lots of other projects, too. I’ve used floche in the past and like the way it stitches.
I believe I would finally jump in and try needle painting, not sure what subject yet. I would let the thread inspire me.
the floche thread looks incredible I would love to try it on a a sampler quilt with flowers and bird patterns the shading would give an incredible sheen and dimension
I would love to create a large embroidery to hang on the wall. I’ve done plenty of covers and cases and dresses and skirts but I’ve never embroidered something just for its own sake
If I had a full collection of floche threads, I would use them to complete vintage linens stamped for embroidery. You mentioned floche has a nice spread, so they should work well in satin stitches on the linens. And having a wide range of colors and plenty of yardage would give me many color options to finish them finally.
Jennifer B. in NEPA
I would love to stitch a floral bouquet with the floche. Thank you! Merry Christmas!
What an exciting and beautiful offer today. I can’t even imagine having such wonderful thread to work with.
I would love to win the floche. I’m just a beginner stitcher, but I would like to try long and short stitch over a 3 dimensional object, with a corded Brussels base.
I *do* have your Stitch Sampler Alphabet and I have *not* tackled any letters yet, so if I won all that floche, I’d start working my way through the book, beginning with ‘E’ and ‘L’ (for my kids). I’ve not worked with floche yet, so that would be fun.
Hi Mary! What a wondering giveaway! If I had a whole set of floche, I would use it for a very special project. I am currently working on embroidering a denim jacket that used to belong to my Uncle Andy, who passed away when I was a little girl. The current plans for it including doing a large mandala design on the back, and embroidering a whole garden’s worth of flowers on the front. This beautiful thread would make my jacket just glow!
I would make a wall hanging full of beautiful flowers.
I would thread paint a bouquet of beautiful flowers using every colour.
I think that after the oooohs and the aaaahs had subsided, I might want to stitch a letter in a monogram style with floche.
If I won the floss I would design a scenery and stitch it in needle painting
What a lovely challenge that would be
The floche colors are beautiful and remind me of spring. I would find a special Easter pattern that had lots of flowers in it to use the floche. I already have 3 hanks of white floche that I am going to use on Modern Folk Embroidery’s Agnus Dei.
If I was the lucky recipient of the floche, the first thing I would do with it is finally work up the gingko leaf design I drew up. I just haven’t been happy with how I’ve doodled it so far. I think floche is the answer!
First I’d make a “sampler” of the floche using a zentangle type design and use various stitches and colors.
Oh my! I remember Floche so well from my smocking days. The colors were delicious and the thread was divine to work with. If I had all the colors of Floche today, I would use it for needle blending certain areas on my needlepoint projects. I always lean towards stitching more artistic pieces, so the ability to needle blend with a whole range of colors is too much to resist! I always look for ways to make my stitching look realistic. I hope I win, but if I don’t, the lucky winner is about to have a really good stitching time! Happy holidays.
Loved the arrival on floche. I have been wanting to do some gifts for embroidery friends with initials on them and this sound like a perfect thread to use. Thanks for the idea.
I do a lot of work with hand dyed wool appliqué with embellishment stitching in many fibres. I have no doubt that the softness of floche would compliment the wool beautifully. I often embroider pillow covers to enhance bed quilts, and would love to use floche for that purpose too.
What a generous gift! I’ve never worked with floche, but I’m intrigued by the description. I think that I would use it to monogram a tote bag. And if that came out well, I’d make monogrammed tote bags as gifts for family and friends!
Floche is perfect for monograms which is one of my favorite styles of embroidery to work.
I’ve never used floche, so first I’d try some basic stitches on a doodle cloth, to get the feel of floche and see how it works. I love to stitch smalls and Hardanger, so maybe I’d sub it in for #12 pearl cotton.
Yes! I too love floche!
If I were to receive this thread I would design maple leaves from green to gold to red and all in between for a foot stool. The ground fabric would be good quality linen.
The stitches would be stem stitch and long and short stitch.
Well…after visiting Jenny’s websites, I’d say one of her wonderful projects would be my next project.
….I’d love to sleep in a bed of floche! So soft!
If I were lucky enough to win the complete collection of floche threads I would use them to stitch some of the creative ideas I have floating around in my head. For example, a friend in Ontario, Canada, posted a picture of ice stars on a frozen lake surface that really inspired me to try to recreate it in stitches. Then there’s all of your lovely patterns to choose from as well.
Have a wonderful holiday season Mary and I wish you good health and happiness throughout 2020 and beyond.
What wouldn’t I do with my favorite embroidery thread??!! Love floche and to have so many colors??? Heaven…
I have never seen or handled floche but I enjoy a variety of needlework techniques and would love to try it with some of them.
I did a turkey design in floche using split stitch this fall and would do similar projects.
What a fab Christmas gifr/give-away! Thank you to both you and Phyllis.
If I won this, I would use it for monogramming and, I think very interestingly, try some crewel work with it! What a lovely and generous pack…
Merry Christmas to all.
I’ve just finished a small project using floche and I am in love with it. I used a variety of stitches in the project and satin stitch is a beautiful use of this thread as well as long and short stitch. Colors blend so beautifully and the thread is soft and supple until the last bit of it. I would love to win this prize so I can expand into bigger projects using this wonderful thread.
I love to do monogramming and very fine Crosstitch on the linen and I think this thread would work well for me
What a beautiful assortment of colors. Not sure what I would do with it.
Probably practice the long & short stitch or the satin as both need some fine tuning.
I’m new to embroidery but I think I would use the thread for a garden full of flowers.
Oh, I love Floche, it is so nice and soft, and the colors have a beautiful shine to them! With a whole set of colors, I think I would go really overboard and maybe stitch up a garden scene or a wreath of flowers, something of the sort. I can already imagine the joy embroidering with this thread would give me!
Thanks again for all the beautiful give-aways, I wish you a very happy Christmas time, and I am looking forward to your posts in the New Year.
Happy Holidays!
When I read about the floche gift, using it to do all of the embroidery on my crazy quilt project immediately came to mind. My plan is to use pieces from silk clothing & ties with added satin & velvet. The floche would be the icing on the cake! This gift is so generous.
I would definitely break down and find the time to stitch one of your beautiful kaliscopes (can’t spell it).
I would do some black work butterflies with a whole set of floche.
I am a new needlepoint person. Besides learning basic stitches I am learning about all the fibers available to add texture to a surface picture. Whenever I visit a store for my supplies I get the opportunity not only to look but to also feel. I am definitly a touchy feely person.
If I won a collection of floche, I’d have so much fun drooling over all the colors. Then I’d get all my books out to find just the right pattern to start with. What an exciting thought. Something new! Would love to try a new type of thread.
I would enjoy just looking at it for a while, the I would do something spectacular with filling and not just outline stitch. It looks like fabulous thread! Merry Christmas to you.
If I won this floche I’d stitch each of my family members their initial in satin stitch. I have been experimenting with floche from the Trish Burr pattern book and find it covers very well when satin stitching. Wow, I’d really like to be chosen to win this give away!
I would use it to make a Hungarian folk style embroidered apron.
I love floche in my lace, and was only recently aware there were so many colors! I have now used it in blackwork and some of your patterns. It really is a lovely thread. I most likely would use it in a peacock garden I’m sketching up. It would be perfect for that!
Hi,
Thanks for the link to Phyllis website because here in Canada Floche is difficult to come by, although I have good embroidery providers (should say enablers), few carry all the colors, I love Thrish Burr white work with color, and she uses it in many designs. I also use it in thread painting because it lies flat and blends well. So I have many uses for Floche and would go a bit crazy if I got the whole set.
Happy Holidays
Lise-Anne Caron
If I were to win this packet, I would stitch a train advent calendar for my great grand child. The Danish pattern stitched with vibrant floche colors will make the train shine.
Thank you and Merry Christmas.
This has to be a really super duper give away for me because I have a piece of printed linen which I bought from Coleen Goy of Roseworks in South Africa before we moved to the Isle of Man which I have been so keen to stitch but it did not come with any thread or instructional ideas as is the norm with a kit, so this would be wonderful for doing this project.
May you have a very happy and blessed Christmas and all good wishes for the year ahead.
Luv
El
xx
I would really like to use the floche to do embroidery stitches on a William Morris appliqué quilt I am working on.
Oh, the flowers that I imagine! I would stitch flowers and more flowers. As I am stitching, I would be dreaming of all of the Spring and Summer flowers that will arrive in a few months.
I’d honestly embroider a massive array of monograms and floral needle cases. I’d be absolutely chuffed!
I have been wanting to stitch a coloring book design for a while now and floche would be the perfect thread to complete this project idea.
Whew what a prize!! Floche is a rarity in the UK. I would stitch a sampler listing all t he wonderful aspects of needlework and how they affect our lives
I was recently lucky enough to be given a set of unopened Therese De Dillmont floral designs. I would love to use the floche for these as they would give a really authentic finish
I have never used floche thread to embroidery. In fact, I don’t even think nearby stores stock it! I like to embroidery on floral and printed fabrics to embellish them. The embellished fabric makes wonderful little gift bags, cosmetic bags, and sewing accessory bags. I would love to try floche as it seems to add a sheen and texture unlike anything I have used in the past.
Betsy S. of Los Gatos
I have never stitched with cloche and would love to try using it for counted work on linen.
IF I had the opportunity to lay my hands on floche … you surely know it isn’t available in Europe? so this would be a great opportunity! (I ordered some “floche” a while ago, produced and sold by Maria Suarez in Belgium, but it turned out to be a finer thread still than the normal DMC floss, without any spread, so it certainly isn’t THE floche.)
… then I would use it among others for needlepainting my self-designed images of historic costumes!
I would dearly love to put some of your monograms on pillow cases and if I had a full set of colours to add to my small stash of white just think of the results I could attain. I am currently putting monograms on some handkerchiefs using DMC to add a little colour to the white floche I have acquired through some kits I have bought. Floche is so very hard to get in Australia and shipping costs can make it too expensive. I am sure the results of using floche would be so much better and if I had a full set of colour, it would make my mongrams so much more interesting and professional. Thank you Mary, so much, for doing these wonderful Christmas give aways. Hope you and your family have a safe and joyful Christmas.
A thread painted picture for my new Grand daughter, Scarlette. Flowers twining round a little girl on a swing, all smooth and shining! That is what floche is for when you can get it.
I have recently begun smocking again and have a couple of young women in my family who are expecting their first child this Spring. I would use the floche in projects, both smocked and embroidered, to make special gifts for the new arrivals. Thank you for the opportunity to win!
What would I stitch with that much floche? I’ve no idea, the mind simply boggles!
I’ve always admired the embroidery I have from previous generations, so I’d guess I’d do something nostalgic to fit in with that work.
Our president’s challenge this year is “20/20”. To be interpreted however. I would pick the 20 most luscious colors and stitch a stitch sampler of 20 different stitches.
Recently I have converted from cross stitch to embroidery and am loving it! I have only done one or two projects with floche but loved the results! To win this fabulous gift would give the me opportunity to create more embroidery treasures!
Thank you for offering these fantastic gifts!
Wow…what a wonderful giveaway! I am a beginner to embroidery and this would be a lovely way to build my stash of threads. It would be great to use in any and all projects!
sue milanak
Happy holidays all! Wow I would dive in head first and do some test stitching and then hoop up a piece heavy on shading and satin stitch to show of the lovely shine of this floche ❤️
Oh the possibilities of sitting on the floor surrounded by all the beautiful colors of floche … my favorite thread for smocking and surface embroidery, but so hard to find. I have had a year of dreaming time and it is time to smock for 3 DGDs and time to tach them about embroidery. And how better than with this magnificent collection of floche. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all my online stitching friends!
Happy holidays all! Wow I would dive in head first and do some test stitching and then hoop up a piece heavy on shading and satin stitch to show of the lovely shine of this floche ❤️thank you
The beginning of Christmas gifts to come is my vision. Initials, trees and
flakes Oh My! Newly retired, I am sure to put the Floche to good use.
The beginning of Christmas gifts to come is my vision. Initials, trees and
flakes Oh My! Newly retired here in Oregon City
, I am sure to put the Floche to good use.
I would do the sampler monogram alphabet with animals to match the letter – i would use primarily long and short stitch with some satin and chain.
I would do love to get these beautiful threads!!!
I have never worked with floche before but from the look of it, it would be a joy to make something special with it. If I had a whole set of floche at my fingertips, what I think I’d first like to stitch with it would be to use it for a big bouquet of wild flowers! I think it would be beautiful all framed up and on the wall!
If I don’t win I might need to go buy some to try it out! It’s got my creative juices going now!
I’ve never tried floche but I’d love to try it on my new Art Deco coffee ad poster crazy quilt project
My friend has told me about floche and how hard it is to get, so I would first share a windfall like this with her. Not sure what I would stitch first but I am keen on trying a crazy quilt and this just might suit!
I’m planning for years now to stitch a family tree including our family crest. Should be heirloom worthy and grace our wall of family photos in the hallway.
With such a supply of color – and in floche – I would have all I need to finally begin the project of monogramming finger-tip towels for each of my four nieces. Your review had me immediately ordering Elisabetta Sforza’s books ‘Flower Alphabet’ and ‘In a Wheat Field’ which I’ve been studying since they arrived. The project could begin!
I’d love to tackle an English garden scene complete with snails, worms, moths and butterflies nestled among the flowers. A fountain in the middle with a mermaid would be a fun addition!
Flouce is lovely to stitch with.
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I love using Floche for canvaswork because it lays so smoothly and you can get the exact thickness you want by using more or less strands. I would stitch one of the colour-wheel based projects I have stashed away that use many colours. Luscious! Thank you again for the opportunity.
I have read your articles on floche thread but haven’t had the opportunity to give them a try. With these it would be such fun to give them a try. Monograms come to mind.
If I had the whole range I’d probably stop stitching with regular DMC stranded cotton and stitch everything I could with floche. I tried it on your recommendation and it’s really nice to stitch with.
Thank you to Phyllis Brown for the generous give-away!
The ideas are absolutely endless – but the first thing I would do is do a set of monogrammed napkins for my mom…she would love them!
Okay: Inhale… Exhale… Better now? Yes? Right. Now, to answer the question…. what would I do… I imagine that a WHOLE SET of floche would make it far easier to needlepaint with, or, at the very least, accent your needlepainting in lovely ways. This! This I would do! This I WANT to do! Oh, poo. I never win anything randomly. (Truly, it has never happened.) I have won things with the smarts in my brain and the talents I was given. I recall, in To Kill A Mockingbird, that it is declared to be bad form to brag of your talents. I completely agree on this point, as your talents are nothing more than what you are able to do well without trying so very hard. But, the awards for talents abound. Oh, dear, I fell off into a tangent. (A talent of mine that will never be rewarded, I expect.) I would just like to say that I am so grateful for all the work you do in creating this site, Ms. Corbet. It especially struck me how wonderful it truly is when I recently began knitting. There is not a single knitting site I can find with such a wealth of information and regular opportunities to learn new things about things you thought you already knew everything about. And the ideas for simply playing and experimenting with embroidery are appreciated, as I do not want to constantly take every single stitch so very seriously! Merry Christmas, Ms. Corbet! And Thank You!
I have recently tried stitching it floche and love how smoothly it goes through the fabric. Is used it on my Victorian Christmas Stocking!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Painesville, Ohio! Beth
I would love to try floche on a winter table runner I have planned. Many Thanks to you and to Phyllis for her surprise wonderful gift! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
I think I would like to stitch an alphabet sampler with animals for my 13 month old grand nephew. I was diagnosed with breast cancer recently and his mom, my niece has helped me so much, been particularly thoughtful. His Dad has cooked me big tray meals too. That would be a lovely thank you. Thanks for the opportunity to win. Merry Christmas Mary and a Happy, Healthy, Joyful New Year!
I would embroider the tree of life in colors.
I would love to win this prize. I mainly do surface stitching. The floche would be wonderful for landscapes and stumpwork.
I have never used floche so this giveaway would be fantastic. I have an idea to stitch an image (a stone mosaic I saw on a cruise ship. It would involve long and short stitch, stem stitch, and maybe satin stitch all of which I need to practice because I am mainly a cross stitcher.
Hand smocking is an absolute art with so many variations. I now want to learn them all.
I think cloche would be amazing to make temari. I haven’t used it for a temari yet, because I don’t have a nice selection of colors. This set would be amazing!
Jane
* floche (stupid spell check! )
The floche is beautiful and such a pleasure to work with! Thank you.
I would use that floche on an Elizabethan embroidered cap. It would be perfect!
Oh wow, I don’t even know! I think I would use it for a whole lot of things, like smocking, embroidering on clothes, and pillowcases.
I am once again moving into my monogram phase. As you mention the floche is perfect for stitching monograms. Then there is always another “Tree of Life” just waiting to be stitched.
Merry Christmas Mary and to all the embroidery vendors who were generous with their gifts to enhance our love for embroidery. Looking forward to many happy hours of stitching in 2020 to one and all.
WOW!! If I had a whole set of floche I’d be set for life (well maybe). I use floche on my surface embroideries. I’ve never found anything but the black, ecru and white where I’m able to get them, so having the colors would be a dream come true. They are absolutely divine to work with. I have about 3 designs already on a sulky ready for work, just need to get to them. The ones in the picture look like the 25s, I love working with the 30s. I would just love to be chosen for this gift. Thank you Mary for doing this for the world of needleworkers.
With such a variety of colors I would need to stitch several projects! I do a lot of wool applique so it would be wonderful to see how these threads look with the wool!
If I had a whole set of floche I’d tackle a Di van Niekerk scene. Merry Christmas Mary! Thank you for all the great newsy bits you send. It is a lot of work for you and much appreciated around the globe.
Just finished dish towels with floche. It was a delight to use and the towels are beautiful.
I haven’t worked much with floche, but I’d love to try it. I don’t have a particular project in mind, but I’d love to figure it out! Thanks!
Oh boy — I’ve wanted to create a tree of life in thread for a long while. It would have twisted roots reaching deep into the earth as well as a full and beautiful crown that reflects the four seasons and, somehow, the passage of time (perhaps through some of the many tiny watch innards I’ve collected). Were I to win, I think it would become reality.
I have never even SEEN Floche in my neck of the woods. I do like that R monogram that you have featured and as R starts our last name, I would like to try that as you did such a super job with it and it would mean I could use it for comparison. I love all the many colors our threads these days. I always want to run my fingers and hands through them as if they were rare jewels.
Hi Mary, I would like to try floche with Trish Burr flower designs and white work with color and also on some stumpwork. The shine of the thread will enhance any embroidery.
The floche is beautiful! I am planning on stitching Agnus Dei with Fibertalk and want to stitch it using floche. This will be my first time using floche!
If I had the floche threads, I would continue threadpainting and try to learn stumpwork. What a great gift- thank you!
It would be a bit of a tossup between a multicolored screen or a floral tablecloth using a variety of stitches
Mary – you are amazing! I would love to try Floche!!!!!
I have never used floche before so this would be an exciting win! I do a little bit of every kind of stitching so the possibilities are endless.
If I had a set of floche thread I would use it to do shadow embroidery. I love the way it looks on both sides.
What wouldnt I make with all this?! I have dreams of making an ambitious woodland scene. Full of flowers and animals and hidden clever secrets.
If I had a whole set of floche!!!!! Oh my! What an exciting thought! I know I’m 66 years old but I have a thing for Hello Kitty! I think I would embroider the blocks for my very own Hello Kitty quilt. Never to old, right?
I had an idea for quilt squares with those vintage botanical illustrations on them, the kind with the Latin name of the flower in pretty script… That’s what I would do with floche!
Jacobean motifs and monograms, lots of monograms 🙂
Oh, I LOVE floche! I’d never heard about it before reading on your website. I bought a little to try online and really love the softness, sheen, colors, ease of use…. I guess if I had one absolute favorite Christmas (or birthday, anniversary, or any day’s a holiday!) present, a full set of floche would be #1. Well, OK, I suppose #2, after the gift of seeing my whole family together for that celebration 🙂
What would I do with it…. A sampler similar to what I wrote for the crewel gift package? A set of handkerchiefs for myself and for gifts? I’ve used some floche for that, and the results are lovely. A table runner or even a tablecloth, maybe working all the seasons in around the edges, using all the colors?
Crossing fingers…. 🙂
Holly
For monogrammed towels, pincushions, pillowcases, etc.
I have a really cute surface embroidery piece that has a cottage, yard, bench, flowers etc that I have ready to be stitched. I plan on making it into a pillow for my bed. All of these colors would be wonderful. What an exciting gift.
I love floche! I would use it to embroider more of Trish Burr’s designs.
That looks sooo lush. I have not stitched with Floche yet.
Oh that looks like beautiful thread. I love the sheen. What would I do? Well I’d have to try the alphabet e-book. I don’t have that either. It would be a new project for a new year. Thank you for all you have provided for those of use who are learning embroidery.
Oh I would love to stitch the whole world and make it such a more colorful, beautiful place. May I say to everyone, have a blessed holiday season, and may you find peace, and please offer someone a smile.
I would love to have a palette of floche for stitching my needle felted birds. I’ve been needle felting birds representational of nature since 2008 and often include threads and stitching to bring them to life. Floche has the perfect sheen and structure for stitching over wool and seeing this give-away made me swoon. I sure hope I’m lucky!
—Karen Engelbretson, Stillwater, MN (#KJEFelties)
If I had a full set of floche I would stitch my denim jumper with Jacobean style embroidery. It has a been a dream of mine for a long time to have a denim jumper covered with examples of my needlework skills.
I’ve been given damask serviettes (napkins) on which I’d use the beloved floche in the rainbow sequence of colors to elaborately monogram for the next generation of relatives. Coming to dinner, a niece could choose the hand-embroidered B in blue perhaps if her name was “Brooke,” I in indigo for niece “Izzy,” nephew Roger to pick the red embroidered R, and by the time I finish our 3-year old great-niece “Pepper” could have the purple P if I win this memorable gift. My husband has 17 nephews/nieces and I’ve got 9, plus the additional 32 & 19 “greats” so this solves an heirloom to pass along too. Maybe it would stir up color conversations on the comparisons between “Francie’s” prospective F in fuchsia and “Freya’s” F in fern green. Thanks for furnishing more than inspiration always, Christine in SF
I would add some fancy letters to a sampler. I have the beautiful Stitch Sampler and love the floral motifs. What an amazing give away! Happy Holidays to all.
I like to stitch maps and cloche is the perfect thread. Imagine having the full range from which to choose colours as it’s not easy to find in the disappearing needlework stores.
I love to use this floss to embroider flowers!
I think I’d be too overwhelmed to come up with anything, all I’d be able to do would be to look at them in awe! lol
I would work on improving my long and short stitch. Need to practice to achieve that beautifully shaded look.
I like to do Hardanger in colors. I rarely use just white or ecru and maybe the floche would work well for making a hardanger table runner, with some embroidered flowers on it.
I have had a printed pattern for embroidery quilt that has been sitting in the cupboard for about 15 years,because I was waiting for some inspiration thread-wise to make it for my daughter, and these beautiful threads are it! I would love to win them, but even if I don t I will order them for myself, they took my breath away! It will be my project for 2020 for sure. Thank you for the opportunity!
I am in the planning stage of designing a quilt for my Daughter-in-law. I embroider
quilts, and hand quilt them. The projects usually take about 3 months to complete.
The floche would be wonderful to embroider with. It looks like a fabulous thread.
I love antique style samplers. I can envision spending hours upon hours stitching with these amazingly beautiful threads.
Thank you for the opportunity,
ScienceMouse.
What an awesome give-a-way. This is my favorite for stitching on T Towels, it lays beautifully and stitching small motifs for Tri-fold cards. Maybe I will win this, since my birthday is the next day ~ what an amazing gift this would be.
Thank you Phyllis & Mary ~
Sharon
I am planning a big monogram alphabet wall hanging this year so this would be perfect!
If I had a full set of floche at my disposal I think I would dig through my collection of vintage transfers to find the one that features all the provincial and territorial floral emblems and give it a whirl.
OOOHHH if I had a whole set of floche, I think I’d love to embark on an adventure of hand embroidering a bunch of squares that could become part of a quilt of state flowers or state birds. I’m not sure I’d ever complete such an undertaking but I can dream, right?
I am going to stitch a silk ribbon flowers initial (Di’s pattern) and this would be lovely for the embroidery part.
I would use thread that I’ve read so much about to stitch Modern Folk 2020 SAL
I would love to use the this thread for an heirloom embroidered teddy bear. I downloaded the pattern from an Inspiration pattern. Thank you
If I had a complete range of floche I would stitch monograms and flowers.
WOW…I can’t stop looking at the pictures, so how beautiful would a whole set of colors be!!! I have a couple of Trish Burr bird patterns that would be stunning in these threads.
If I had a full set of Floche I would monogram everything. Everywhere I could find floche they only sell it by the full hank. It’s quite pricey but I love stitching with it. The shine and the way it lays is wonderful.
Thanks
Melinda
If I had a full set of Floche I would work on projects from the Trish Burr books I have collected. They would be wonderful for mastering the long and short stitch. I might get to work on the starch sampler alphabet. It would be a dream to have theses wonderful threads.
Hi Mary, I love your site and the giveaways are always great. If I won this set of Floche, I would stitch your entire alphabet sampler. It would be so gorgeous.
I have a feeling I would like floche as I have a smocking machine and haven’t done much with it. I am already using your monogram designs this Christmas for gifts. I also have a muslin shirt I’ve been meaning to make for myself for the longest time and your Jacobean designs have inspired me toward what I want to use. Thank you for these wonderful opportunities to win and the inspirations they drum up.
Something with flowers to show off all the beautiful colors!
If you had a whole set of floche at your fingertips, what do you imagine you’d stitch with it? I’d love to hear your ideas for the thread!
Mary’s initial book. I bought it several years ago and have had great fun making the initials.
Oooh, I have never managed to get to try Floche ! I would use it to do a special crewel embroidery.
I do a lot of projects using wool which I embellish with a variety of beautiful threads. It would be wonderful to try these lovely floche threads on a new project.
I look forward to Stitcher’s Christmas every year. I would love trying Floche in my embroidery. With a whole set I would definitely have to decide on a worthy & challenging project to use it. Wishing everyone a happy & safe holiday season!
If I won the set of floche, I’d find a myriad of ways to use it in my stash of needlepoint canvasses. As you said, floche is hard to come by, and it would be great to have all the colors to choose from for all my canvasses.
Floche is one of my favorite threads – so many ways to use it, and one often overlooked is for Turkey Work! It makes the softest, most luxurious fur or puff! Floche seems almost like silk to me, with its texture and sheen – love, love it!
Hi, Mary,
I would stitch a meadow full of flowers and every kind of animal. I’d definitely put in a giraffe, and add a pond for a hippo and manatee.
Merry Christmas!
Beth B in Charlottesville, VA
I would spend quite a while just looking and enjoying all the beautiful deep vibrant colours. I would then stitch a set of samplers of different stitches & techniques using combinations of all the colours. I would spend plenty of time thinking and planning these samplers to end up with a set that I would enjoy stitching and would look good mounted & hung on the wall to admire and get pleasure from.
I want to try my hand at doing some heirloom sewing. But with all those lovely colors maybe a few thread painted butterflies would be lovely as well.
I don’t think we can get this type of thread in the UK, so this would be a wonderful chance to try something new and different from the normal stranded. I do a lot of long and short stitch pieces and I love using birds as a theme. I have had it in mind for some time to stitch a mandarin duck with its multi coloured plumage, so I think with this vast colour range, this would be my choice.
Forgot to mention uses for a whole set of 90 colors! Have three Christmas Stockings just calling the the gleam and softness of Floche throughout, this thread would breathe life into each one!
Blackwork! Blackwork patterns in all different colors!
If I had the whole set—-
First be very grateful and amazed
Second caress and dream
Third read everything on Mary’s site about Floche so I wouldn’t waste any of it
And then start dreaming about using it!
I use floche for background stitches in Needlepoint…I haven’t tried it for embroidery yet, but I planning on trying it soon.
I just read all about floche and if I was lucky enough to win this I would stitch a thread painting with it.
Merry Christmas
Sue Thomas
I love Floche. I didn’t realize that it was popular for Smocking. I use it for Hardanger. It is the perfect size for higher count fabric, And the color selection is great. Thanks to Phyllis Brown for this great gift. I looked at all the smocking on her web page. Who can resist just spending time oooh-ing at the sweet dresses, bonnets and adorable shoes.
I think I would Stitch monogram pillow cases.
A whole set? Mercy me. Lots of experimenting at first. Then I may start on the tablecloth I’ve been thinking about for a few years. That would be incentive to actually begin!
I have always dreamed of owning an entire set of floche to stitch bullion roses, etc on my heirloom and smocked childrens garments!
The floche looks lovely on your monogram example. I have been stitching my friend’s initials and putting them in floating frames for birthday gifts. I can see myself going stitch-crazy creating the alphabet. Ah! A thought! An alphabet sampler!
Linda Andersson
Merry Christmas! This is the only place I have ever read about Floche. And since finding out about it, I’ve been wanting to use it. I’m not a great embroiderer, but I’d love to try making animals and flowers. Using the satin stitch or long and short stitch. Then I’d like to put them into the quilts I make.
I’ve taken a long hiatus from actual embroidery (blackwork and cross stitch can be SO enticing) but I have a number of patterns I have had my eyes on for a long while for actual embroidery. I love the high sheen of floche thread – more like silk than standard cotton – so having some to play with would be wonderful. I see a number of small draw string bags in my future!
This may sound a little ambitious (if not a little crazy), but I’d love to make a lovely, large rendering of the Mayflower ship landing, along with a Pilgrim Thanksgiving scene. Both of my parents (and me, consequently) are Mayflower descendants and I know they’d love a special piece of art like that! It seems that the floche would be just perfect for such a project!! Thanks so much for all the opportunities you’ve offered, Mary. Merry Christmas to you!! 🙂
I have found it difficult to get floche and have only used it for white work so with a whole colour range I could use it for silk shading or a crewel design I’m still to choose threads for! Merry Christmas
I have a large silk cushion with a lovely crewel pattern printed on it ready to embroider. I have been looking at it for some time and this would be so much fun to do with such delightful threads.
If I had the entire set of floche I would have to try to stitch your sampler alphabet for sure!
thanks so much for all your giveaways
I have a nice little fabric box that I want to recover. If I won I would like to use the floche to stitch a monogram on the top of the box.
Alice Brown
Olalla BC
Oooooh, the possibilities! Would love to try this. Maybe on your Christmas trees, some tea towels, quilt blocks … and if I don’t have enough ideas, my sister is much more creative than I am.
I haven’t used floche before, but I envision a cottage and flower garden scene, in order to make the most of such a variety of colors! I think I know just the pattern….
I am thinking something Jacobean because of its coverage and its color range.
I would like to concentrate on adding more variety to my stitching. A complete set of floche would allow me to play with monograms for smalls and gifts.
I have never stitched with floche! So I’m definitely deprived, I guess. I would have to try it out, really, to know what to use it for. Since you have used it for monograms, and I follow your lead in this area, I think I would start there. Maybe a small monogram on a frilly handkerchief would be my first try.
If I had a whole set of floche I would try many different things! I would use it in my needlepainting; I would use it for satin stitch as I have heard it has such a beautiful effect; I have a bunch of whitework with color projects that call for floche as well; and lastly, I would try out some smocking stitches with it!
Oh, my! What wouldn’t I do with a complete set of floche? Every since I watched your video of the floche vs. 6 strand thread, I’ve wanted to try it. I bought one skein that I found at a local quilt store, but they had only a very few colors (tied to some patterns they were offering which I didn’t want), so I could try some white on white work–or in this case, ecru on ecru. I’d use all those lovely colors to do some of Mary’s initials as gifts for my friends. There are some dish towels that I found that I could add some mandalas to. And I might use it for some of the snowflakes. I’m still working on thread painting and would love to try doing some of that with floche. Since the local offerings have been so sparse I really haven’t invested in floche the way I have DMC stranded thread, but I’m eager to try it.
I got hooked on stitching with floche when I read one of Mary’s articles about this fabulous fiber. If I should be so fortunate as to win this set that is being offered, I would use the floche to stitch some of the Jeannette Douglas patterns that are on my to-do list for 2020.
I like floche, it is fun to stitch with, cross stitch and hoop embroidery. Because I like to do cross stitch in hand, floss sometimes gets one thread looser and then shorter than the other when stitching over a large expanse, with floche that is never a problem. I had not run across the Heriloom Beginnings website before and found it very interesting.
I would stitch a sampler with floche. Its so soft and the color is matt so it would be wonderful with its many colors.
I haven’t used floche before, so it’s hard to say what I would use it for. However, from the photos it looks like it would be good for crewel embroidery.
Right now, I have 3 colors of blue and white for my entire floche stash. I got them to try needleblending. I love the flower I did, and I found the floche really easy to work with. So more floche, more flowers! I want to try long and short, too, which would be great with floche. Just think, a whole bouquet of floche flowers!
I would love to try out the floche on one or more of the beautiful patterns that are in the new book Crewel Creatures that my daughter gave to me. I think the floche would work really well. Merry Christmas.
If I had a whole set of Floche… Wow! so many possibilities, I was using a bit of floche in my EGA Mixed Media class which isn’t finished so of course there is that, I’ve always wanted to try a few monograms, there is ornaments, and of course all your lovely patterns… I’d probably just stare at the whole set for a bit and then start incorporating them into whatever I cold.
I’d love to play with the Floche for embroidering on my handmade felt. The contrast of the wool and cotton would be so pretty. Thanks!
A young friend of mine is getting married this coming year and I want to stitch several things with the couple’s new monogram. With such a huge selection of colors I’d be able to match their decor exactly! Also, I want to tell you how much I enjoy your Christmas giveaways every year. I spend time at each merchant’s website finding supplies or projects that I’ll treat myself to during the next year. And I get to indulge in a few minutes of stitching day dreams as I compose my entry each day. I hope you have a wonderful, blessed Christmas, Mary, and a spectacular 2020!
I’ve used floche before and I love it so much that I happily substitute it into my needlework but to have a full set would be a dream and I would probably use it to reproduce on silk something like Shakespeare’s flowers as a sweet bag or sampler. The richness of colour and softness deserves to be used to enhance already beautiful pieces.
I would love to have this. I smock for my great granddaughter and friends children. I have never tried this to stitch with this and will be a treat for me to try. Thanks for the giveaway and have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Thank you to Mary and especially to Phyllis. Really nice way to start the holidays.
With a whole set of cloche – I’m not really sure what I would do. I would probably think and research a bit before just diving into a project (or a few as there is a whole set of floche). Maybe also combine it with other type of thread too.
Happy holidays
What would I do with a complete set of floche? The possibilities are endless. I would probably start with some of the stamped embroidery pillow cases for my granddaughter.
Merry Christmas
Oh, my, what a treat to decide what to use it for! I know I’d try cross stitch and also monograms. And who knows what else? I’d let it inspire me.
I think I would embroider an entire coat of flowers and leaves and geometric patterns in lovely rainbow colors!
I am making a mountain scene for my 6 day old grandson’s room to hang up and I struggle with satin stitching and staggered stitches to blend colors. I would love to try the floche on this project. It might make smoother and add more light to the lake.
Judy Satterlee in Arvada, CO
Oh my gosh, how generous!! And beautiful! I think I would start at the beginning of your kaleidoscope e-book, and make every one with this gorgeous thread. Thank you for all you do!
Love trying new threads. Have had my eye on the SAL from linen and threads and would love to try floche out for this.
I’d have lots of fun with the threads.I have 3 crazy quilts in the works. So lots of seam treatments and patches to fill with embroidery.
I enjoy learning new stitches here, and would love to branch out and do some of the beautiful work I’ve seen others doing. The floche would be a new and exciting thread to use while improving the long and short stitch on the monogram ebook.
Most of my work are gifts and the thread would be lovely to use.
Hi Mary – I know exactly what I would use this lovely give-away for—a sampler of your monograms! I have embroidered over a dozen different monograms from your downloadable pattern (including the tulip “R” you showed) as thank you gifts for my quilt guild board members, and while I used floss and some pearl cotton, I would relish the chance to use floche because it looks radiant in your examples. Merry Christmas and thank you for these posts.
I have never stitched with this thread as I have been unable t find it. This would be a treat to have in my stitching supplies.
Not sure exactly what I would stitch with this floche but it looks beautiful! It would be great for floral scenes.
Oh my gosh—this is incredibly generous!! I recently bought a panel of fabric which has four pieces to it. It has an alphabet sampler on one and swirls, flowers and patterns on the other three. I think I need to embroider the panel pieces and then cut them apart to make into vinyl front project bags for my crossstitch projects. I have learned to make these this year and then are beautiful because of all the gorgeous print fabric available. I have never used floche and am thinking that is what is needed for this project.
I have never made a satin stitch I did not hate. However, after reading your articles on Floche, I am willing to try satin stitch yet again. Should I win this lovely thread collection, I would like to do up a textile book of Floche embroidered flowers in a Florida garden.
Wow!
What lovely thread. I love the feel of Floche.
I’d create a lovely 18th century embroidered jacket!
Wishing you many holiday blessings!
I’ve never used floche, but am intrigued. I would do some research on using this beautiful thread before diving in. I envision a lovely, Victorian floral piece.
This has been my first experience with the Stitcher’s Christmas give-away. “Oh What Fun” it has been! Merry Christmas one and all!
what would I do if I were lucky enough to win a whole set of Floche??? After I stopped my Happy Dance I’d sect several colors to “play” with. Then, I’d invite a close friend , Sue over. Sue does heirloom embroidery and lots of smocking for all her Grand kids. With a new grandson and a little granddaughter who is finally home from the hospital with some huge heart issues, the little girl is being gifted lots of quilts and smocked dresses made with a tone of love. Hopefully Sue and I will get a chance to share this wonderful gift!
Merry Christmas!
Makes me homesick for my Mom who loved using Floche
Would very much like to have a go using floche to embroider the face of the “Green Man” with lots of leaves and flowers around the head and falling onto the face. This is a project that I have lined up for next year and have been wondering about using different threads and beads to make it unique.
I think a forest of flowers would be gorgeous in that floche!
Oh, I love cloche! I have only used it a couple of times – only in white – to do a monogram and a small piece for a friend. All those colors, I’d love to do some projects I have in mind for family, monograms/florals in their favorite colors!
Oh my! Who doesn’t love a whole set! I would use it on my stitched and beaded mandalas.
I would love to win a complete set of Floche! I’ve used it before on several Needlepoint projects, and love the shine it gives. I would probably use on my various Needlepoint canvases, to add lots of vibrant color!
Janet from Houston Tanglewilde
I would try some monograms
It looks wonderful and would love to try working on a monogram.
After reading your previous issues on learning to make a perfect satin stitch I would like to use the floche to stitch some monograms. I also think the Whitework Workbasket kit would be a wonderful learning project for the stitching with the floche.
I would like to stitch a large table runner in Hardanger with flowered initials at each end. Maybe I could use the cloche in the Hardanger as well as the initials and flowers. I can see the colours now!
Hi: I recently purchased Embroidered Country Gardens by Lorna Bateman. I would love to use a full set of Floche at my finger tips to stitch a country garden in full bloom. Thank you and Happy Holidays to all!
Charlie
Citrus Heights, CA
If I had a whole set of thread I would stitch a long and short stitch project and do my initial like you showed us a year ago. I love all your work and articles. Thank you for
all you do and have a Merry Christmas. Love & Prayers, Beverly G. Suches, GA
I would love to try the floche on a cross stitch reproduction sampler.
If I had the whole set of floche, I would stitch your beautiful monograms for everyone I know! I’d be able to choose the perfect colour for everyone.
I would be working on lots of smocked outfits for babies who did not survive and making bereavement gowns and blankets.
Dkazia
this is an easy question for me to answer as a smocker! I’d use it for all my projects! I have a few skeins of it and have used it from time to time and found it to be delightful; so smooth and soft! fingers crossed!
Dear Mary. If I had a whole set of floche. I would do a set of kitchen towels for my daughter. Subject Texas flora and fauna. My own designs.
Thanks
Roxanna Hauschild
Love this thread its great as you say very versitle
OH, MY! I would just sit and admire the threads,their softness, their gorgeous colors and then find the perfect pattern to stitch. Probably Jacobean.
With the whole set I would go crazy and start a huge monogramming project for sure!
I’ve been looking at the embroidery I did 30 years ago and thinking that is where I should be heading in the future. Not cross stitch but a picture that I’d choose for my self. I’d love to make it about floche.
Oh my gosh!!! What a glorious opportunity. How generous of Phyllis to offer this gift of floche. I am just finishing my Silk and Metal Embroidery class through EGA and anxious to get back to my other embroideries in the heirloom style. I make cushions and small, embroidery enhanced coverlets and would use the floche extensively in the embroideries. I especially like to do thread painting and have many of Trish Burr’s designs where she incorporates floche. It is such a beautiful, soft thread to work with. I think it would work well with some goldwork technique, too. No matter if I would be the lucky winner, I can now add Phyllis to my list of suppliers who provide product in larger quantities. Thank you to Phyllis and to you, Mary. Have a wonderful, blessed Christmas filled with love and happiness. Jan
Hi Mary and all! What an exciting “Stitcher’s Christmas” this year! Thanks to all contributors and our ‘organizer’, Mary!
What would I do with a full set of Floche? I’ll start designing stuff with it, that’s what! I LOVE stitching with it, just haven’t managed to gather enough different colors to really feel that I can effectively design with it. SO, many thanks Mary for giving us the information on a source for this lovely thread! I know that, one way or another, I’ll be reaching out to Phyllis to get my greedy paws on a nice selection of colors so I can start working more with this lovely thread!
Sharlotte
P.S. Good luck, Mary, at resisting Jenny’s Stitcher’s Workbasket kit! I placed a pre-order for something else from her and couldn’t resist adding that to my order. I won’t get any of it until February or early March – but I figure that by then I’ll NEED something new to work on to pull me through the last of winter!
Floch is one of my favorite embroidery threads. I used it almost exclusively for smocking and I now use it for my embroidery on applique. I love to outline the shapes as will and it gives a very soft three dimensional look
WOW all those beautiful colors make my mouth water. I am making a butterfly embroidered quilt. Those colors and thread would be great to have.
Oh wow…..I think I just found the thread I’ve been looking for! What would I stitch? I’ve been looking at trying to do a crazy quilt and that thread would be perfect for me. Otherwise I love birds, flowers, and insects. What fun to do with all those colors at your fingertips.
Something beautiful! They are wonderful threads.
I would love to do your alphabet sampler….do pretty.
The colors are beautiful. Perhaps a table cover or a fireplace screen.
I visited Phyllis’s website and Oh My! What a talented lady! The Floche colors are beautiful, and I would love to use them in some of my embroidery projects.
I’m a sucker for a whole set of anything. For the floche, which I have wanted to try for a long time, appears to be an ideal thread for any floral or landscape theme; it would appear to work in whitework and other surface embroideries very well. The colors offer lots of options to play.
Thank you for offering this prize.
I love Floche for the ease of stitching with it and the beautiful shine! I would use it to stitch all the Christmas ornaments in my stash!!! (Or pass it all to my daughter if I don’t live that long! She’s a fan as well!)
I would stitch your little Christmas tree pattern. I just love it.
Floche is a WONDERFUL thread! To have the complete collection would be awesome! I love using it for padded satin stitch — VERY padded! I use it for Madiera-style embroidery. And small split-stitch stuff. Smooth and shiny! Thank you for the source!!
I think if I had a whole line of floche I would try doing long short stitch flowers with it. I think it would be so amazing to have such a beautiful amount of choices to work with!
-Heather in Chicago
That is a lot of thread! It would make some amazing smocking. I would also use it for filling of leaves and flowers as well as outlined designs.
I love reading your blog all I wish is that New Zealand had a few craft shops that sell all the products that u ftalk about is Christine Holdaway I know the internet is just a click away but in terms money exchange some times it is not worth hassle returning if not like thanks 4 enjogyment bye bye look forward next read
I would make a crazy quilt in either black or neutral fabrics and use every color in the rainbow for the seam treatments.
Oh my gosh! I love the idea of winning a set of the floche, they are beautiful threads! I would love to use it on some of my needlepoint canvases I have and also for cross-stitching on 28ct linens!
Tedra Raden-Phoenix, AZ
The floche thread looks so beautiful, I would love to try smocking with it.
I imagine doing a painting with stump work butterflies, flowers and birds for my nice to have in her room.
Merry Christmas and a big thank you for bringing joy to so many people.
I have never used this thread so I would probably try many things. Monograms, of course, but mending. Mending is embroidery in a way. You take an old worn out something and mend it with floss and make it beautiful to wear again in its second life. Being a weaver I would try it in a tapestry and beaded cuff or belt. The many uses for string boggles my mind.
Sandy
If I had a whole set of floche at my fingertips, I would love to do a version of one of the stained glass windows at my church with it. Another idea that I have imagined doing is a depiction of a symphony orchestra. I think the instruments would look fabulous in these threads. A third idea I had when I saw these is a massive flower garden.
Ooo La La! The first thing I would do is unpack it all & neatly line it up. Then I’d happily sit & stare at it, maybe gently “pet” it! You’ve all been there, I know it! A beautiful piece of fibre is in front of you & sometimes just admirering the simple thread is rewarding! Then I would probably ‘finally’ embroider something fabulous on the backrest of my antique setee. 😉
I am a needlepointer who loves floche. While I am happy to ply cotton and silk floss, floche reduces the amount of plying that I need to do. You’re right about it not being easily available in more than a few colors, at least in my area.
Happy Holidays! Kathy
Stitch sampler alphabet is my new project after the holidays. I have a small wooden box with the perfect place for an initial on top. It’s just big enough for some small stitching tools.
Merry Christmas Mary !!
Thank you for teaching me and so many others how to embroider. You have spread so much happiness all over the world .
I have recently heard about DMC Flouche in the Fiber Talk you tube, it sounds very nice. I would love to be the winner of this gift.
Joan
Since I have recently developed the itch to try needle painting, and you have written an article on using this product for long and short stitches, I think that would be the perfect place to start.
I guess as soon as the threads were prepared and I was tired of feeling them and drooling over the colors now in my new thread box – I am sure they could not be with the common place thread – I would grab a new project. I have kits that are just waiting for inspiration including one or two from inspiration magazine….. a bunny one I really liked which is just sitting.
OHHHH!!!! Floche… A whole set!! Flowers… gardens & gardens of flowers… Yumiko Higuchi & Kazuko Aoki & Yuki Sagashima flowers….. I have several of their books & they are so lovely & absolutely perfect for floche!!! Oh and what about Hazel Blomkamps crewel designs.. I bet it would weave well. OR augmenting some goldwork. The shimmer with the gold would be amazing… AND your Lavender Honey smalls or your floral letter monograms.. Super sweet gifties for my friends. Sooo Many things… *happy sigh*
Of course I got so excited I didn’t look at anybody else’s responses before responding myself… BUT I just read all of them & LOVE that you asked what people would do with it. I love that question because the responses always point me toward new ideas & designers; usually designers whose work I recognize but whose names I don’t. Anyway, thank you for the pleasant daydreams of stitchery after the grind of our financial year-end. Merry Christmas!!!
I would monogram everything I own!
I love Floche. I would stitch flowers, leaves, animals, and even backgrounds on my needlepoint canvases. Thank you for all the effort you put into your blog. I always look forward to it.
Debby L in Nevada
I discovered floche when making Mary’s fiesta scissor fob. It’s lovely to embroider with. I would use it to make flowers.
So many of the antique linens I see in thrift shops, and some of the linens passed down in my family, seem to use floche instead of regular stranded thread. I’d love to recreate some of those old designs using floche, because the texture is smoother and I love the way light reflects on the thread.
I enjoy stitching pop art portraits of famous musicians such as Freddy Mercury in bold colors. I have not used Floche because it is extremely hard to get in NZ, so an opportunity to try long and short stitch and satin stitch would be a real treat.
I’ve been wanting to make some embroidered felt bird ornaments to cover my Christmas tree next year.
I’d love to stitch a whole garden of dimensional flowers!
I’ve started quilting again and Would love to try and add various embellishments with the floche to my quilts.
Carol b
This floche looks gorgeous- I would love to stitch some textured flowers!
All those beautiful threads would be used on a design on a self made couture jacket or skirt – such a lovely addition – worthy of the runways!
Flowers? I have just gotten into doing flowers and find I never have the colors I need.
I would practice my long and short shading if I had a whole set of floche.
This would be a dream come true. Floche is my absolute favorite fiber. I would make belts, ornaments, almost any & everything.
Merry Christmas Mary.
I’ve never worked with Floche but i think I would stitch Flowers, Flowers, Flowers with it. Rosann P – North Carolina
If I had an entire selection of floche… I would create fun, lovely and beautiful children’s clothes, such as an embroidered yoke on a little dress.
I would grab some of my plainer shirts and embroider little motifs on them…
I would gaze at the exquisite skeins of floche with wonder and awe.
~Cirese Summerrose
Mary, I know you’ve mentioned floche so many times but I have never seen it in person! You are so right that it isn’t easy to find.
Because of that, I don’t know what I would whip up with it, except perhaps trying out the same idea I mentioned with the wool thread – working up a chunky thread painted “stained glass” from my grandmother’s coloring book.
Although, I do have your monograms e-book so I could easily see myself working with a letter or two! It looks silky in shine, so maybe I would embellish it with some ribbon embroidery accents as well. Hmm, now I am thinking! 😀
Thank you so much for pulling this together (and to all your gracious give-away-ers!). I can only imagine what it must be like to organize it, read through all the comments, and ship it out to everyone. I don’t comment often, but I read your site regularly so thanks for another year of teaching! 😀
I could see myself stitching some linens with these threads. I would use traditional whitework techniques but add colour to them. it would be a wonderful opportunity.
Thanks so much, happy holidays
I’ve never heard of Floche but it looks wonderful. I would love to experiment with it for monograms and maybe a little smocking.
Experiment, that’s what I would do with the thread. I have not used it before, so I would have to experiment with it to see how it works best for me. I love using different threads on my Crazy Quilts. So, it would be fun to try something new. Ellen R.
Wow. I’d poll my stitching friends for ideas. Also my local needlework shop for pattern ideas that use many colors that would work with floche
The colors are really beautiful.
Would love to use Floche to stitch a squirrel embroidery design to see how it looks.
I’ve been hearing lots about floche lately from Gary and Vonna. I would love to try some free style work with it and also see how my satin stitches could improve. This is so nice of you.
I used floche threads for the Stitch Sampler Alphabet project a few years back. It was fun! I have been thinking of sketching some motifs based on those adorable perennials in my garden. Maybe I will stitch the designs with this set of threads 🙂
I would love to stitch a field of various types of flowers.
Great fibers, easy to work with and a great look on flowers and monograms.
With so many colours, there are so mant possibilities. But I’d start with some monograms for the gals who come to our annual retreat in August, then I’d look at what motifs and seam stitches to apply to my crazy quilt.
I have always wanted to stitch an eluminated alphabet & these sound perfect.
You mentioned heirloom embroidery in your blog. I would start stitching on a beautiful Easter dress for a sweet little girl I know.
I would love to receive a full set of floche in all colors. I have stitched with it for years using mainly white and ecr, doing traditional cutwork. I especially like the satiny look and feel of the thread on linen. If I had a full set of the colors I could stitch a lovely pastel scene suitable for framing.
I LOVE Floche!!
I first used it stitching one of Trish Burr’s “Whitework with Colour” projects and found it wonderful to use and giving an excellent result. Have used it in a couple of other designs but getting all the colours here in Australia is difficult. I have splashed out a couple of times to add to my stash but a whole set would be fantastic.
I think I would get the Alphabet ebook and make a sampler with the set of floche. I asked at my lns the other day and got one skein of ecru and will give it a try in the new year.
My fingers are itching to use floche in combination with silk thread in a crazy patchwork project. I think the two would contrast and compliment each other. I haven’t used it before so it would be an exciting experiment.
Jenny from New Zealand
I would use it to embroider ‘Maureen ‘ the owl by hazel Bloomkamp I’ve used cotton broder but have never used this thread,. I would like to thank you for all your stitch videos, they have helped me a great deal
Thank you
Such beautiful colors! I have never used floche before. I’d love to do a stitched portrait of my house and garden with all those lovely colors…Merry Christmas!
I do a challenge Old embroiderypatterns with Tree of Needlework each month. And I’m dure there will be a project vwith floche in it
I would stitch a portrait or a landscape with it.
A full sized Hadaki quilt. These quilts are made by the Siddi women in India and they are appliqued from the perimeter to the center. I am currently obsessed with making these in smaller sizes.
Oh wow, what a beautiful giveaway! If I had a set like that I would do an embroidery of many different realistic insects in tall grass and wild flowers. I LOVE stitching insects, they are beautiful little living jewels.
Renata B
If I had all that at my fingertips I would be too chocked to think for a while.
Well once I’d come down to earth again! I’d love to embroider a Tree of Life, with every animal, and plant I can manage. I already have butterflies in my tummy, with just the thought of it – so they’d make a very good start. A beautiful subject with beautiful threads. What a perfect start to 2020!
I would use it to embroider’Maureen ‘ the owl by Hazel Bloomkamp. I’ve used cotton a broder on your lattice piece and think it would be lovely to use on the owl
I like making alphabet blocks for baby quilts. I’ve usually done applique for the letters, outlining them with embroidery. But if I had this beautiful array of floche, I would be motivated to do the letters themselves in a variety of stitches. I’ve been collecting designs, but haven’t yet had the nerve to jump in 😉
I would pull out one of my needlepoint canvases and start what I dont know, but I know I love stitching with floche….thinking maybe a cactus piece.
Thanks for including the link to the older article on the difference between floche and stranded cotton. What do I envision doing with that rainbow of potential?????
I see a flower garden in mid summer, with the reds, purples and oranges providing the heat of the day, the greens and blues providing the counterpoint of the shade garden, the greys and browns the rocks and the soils and over all the variegated greens as different leaves and other greenery.
Sigh this is an especially vivid picture given that my backyard is nothing but frozen white on white at the moment!
I would use it to try one of the Zen designs
I really love working with floche. I was fortunate to be able to purchase some colors from Hedgehog before it went out of business. In 2020 I am starting the hand piecing of a crazy quilt made up entirely of three inch hexagons. Having every color of floche to choose from for my embroidery stitches would be a dream come true for me.
I’d love to try floche on a full coverage jacket I’m working on. And if not that, then the pile of vintage handkerchiefs I have ready for new life!
Floche – I have always wanted to try some but I always struggle choosing colours so if I buy a few they will be wrong and I will have to buy some more and so on. Wouldn’t it be lovely to have a whole stash to consider and decide on at leisure. Modern takes on Jacobean work, monograms, floral alphabets, wreaths…hours of fun,fun,fun!
If I had a whole set of floche at my fingertips I’d have to think long & hard about what I would make first. There are many pieces that come to mind from the many books & patterns I’ve collected over the years. But recently I’ve been thinking a lot about one particular piece that you have and its the Leafy Tree Kit. I know its not a huge project but I think its one I would start with & while I was stitching it, I would let my mind wander to all those patterns I’ve amassed to find the perfect project worthy of a whole set of floche.
I picture a beautifully ornate mandala out of all of the lovely Floche colors!
This floche would be a great opportunity for doing botanical stitching!
I would use the floche on a sampler – what lovely colours! And I’d also use it as a gimp in bobbin lace.
Thanks for another year of Xmas give-aways.
If I could stop staring at the beautiful array of coloured floche, I would stitch Mary’s Monograms or Mandalas. Mmmmmmmmmm……
If you had a whole set of floche at your fingertips, what do you imagine you’d stitch with it? I’d love to hear your ideas for the thread! – I have stitched the Shepherd’s Bush stockings for my family. I would love to stitch ones for myself and my husband converting the perle cotton to floche.
I am working to embroider blocks for a quilt at this time.
I am quite keen to do more satin stitch type projects along the lines of Trish Burr’s whitework in colour and these, I think, would be perfect.
Hi Mary, If I had all those colors of floche, I’d try doing monograms and some designs from coloring books like your Hummingbirds project. It sounds wonderful for satin stitch and long and short stitch where larger areas need to be filled in. I’d also try some of the designs in the Anchor Book of Crewel Embroidery Stitches using floche instead of wool. The small 1997 edition is filled with small Jacobean picture designs. Thank you for your earlier posts on floche – they are very helpful.
I bought your stitcher’s alphabet several months ago, Mary, and would dive into some letters right away if I would win this set! So many creative options!
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas!
Cindy M in Lincoln, NE
IfI had a whole set of floche I would embroider a dress bodice for an evening gown so that my husband could take me out dancing with my new hip once installed- after waiting two years!!!
While I convalesce I will embroider to pass the time.
I would look up/purchase a beautiful vintage pattern and embroider it completely in Floche.
What an amazing prize! I’ve never used flèche but my gosh those hanks look beautiful. I’d love to use them to do a Jacobean-style embroidery. Thanks so much for your wonderful website and blog.
I love working with floche thread!
If I had an array of colored Floche I’d do a fancy initial!
Have a Merry Christmas!
Shel on Maui
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If I had such a sumptuous collection of floche, I would use it to work up some vintage 1940s transfer designs that my grandmother left to me. Some of he designs are so beautiful and deserve special treatment. Floche will be perfect!
I would use the many colors of the floche for flowers inside my blocks on a crazy quilt. Thanks for this opportunity.Happy stitching, all!
Oh my God, this! I think I’d start by just manipulating them, caressing them, touching them, feeling them, admiring them, and then… as I’m embroidering initials on dishcloths for my three sisters, I’d use them for that. First. Because after that, I would certainly find another project…
Diane from Montréal in Québec
Just starting a short and long stitch project. Would love to use these threads.
Chris McGuire
As I have never used floche, I would follow your recommendation and use I’d for long and short stitch in a floral piece.
I imagine I would be able to stitch all the beautiful things I have seen on your blog. I would like to start with a beautiful stitchers book. I feel like the book “Oh, the places you will go.” I would be limited only by my choice not my pocketbook. Thank you for the opportunity.
I would choose one of my crewel designs to use this beautiful thead.
I’d stitch a beautiful letter monogram for each member of my family!
Angela
Thread painting…. I picture working with multiple colors.
Oh,a whole set of floche project requires every color be used, so I think an alphabet would be great.
OMG! I have a pattern for a midevil tapestry that I’ve always wanted to make and how to fabulous would this be. I so would lock myself in an ancient tower and surround myself with this floch and yards of material and wine and stay till I finished the tapestry.
Very interested in cloche, and would love to try it its so shiny and pretty. Going to read your article on the differences. A girl just can’t have enough kinds of thread. MerryChristmas to you
With this exquisite floche I would finally make a start on designing and embroidering the English wildflowers I have been dreaming of. The colors seem perfect for this.
Oh, my, how generous! I’d definitely do something in long and short stitch which I find too fiddly to do in single strand floss, probably something like landscapes, florals, birds or butterflies based on the beautiful colors displayed in the collection. How lovely!
If I had a whole set of floche at my fingertips I would have to recover from shock before I delved into samplers and smocked linen dresses for babies/toddlers. I would probably spend lots of time perusing magazines and online shops for new projects as well
Sweet!! Floche has always been one of my favorite threads to stitch with! I’m very lucky that my local needlepoint shop carries it. I’m an avid needlepointer and it’s one of my favorite go to threads for stitching backgrounds. I love how smooth it feels in hand and the little bit of sheen that it has. Would luv to receive this very special giveaway! Have a blessed Christmas!
If I won the floche I would do thread painting with it and embroider something for my Mother’s 100th Birthday in September 2020
wishing you a merry christmas and I hope my name comes out in this draw
thank you
Cloche appears to be non existent in UK so the chance to Stitch with it would be really interesting ……and what a treat it would be to use the threads to Stitch Mary’s Stitch Alphabet.
Lynda H, UK
Susan – Nanaimo
I’d be delighted to try using Floche for Sashiko. I know it’s not traditional but the colours are dreamy and I think it would be spectacular for the Sashiko stitches. It sounds firm enough to show off the stitches. I also enjoy slow stitching on Fibre Art and again the colours would be very special with so many fabrics.
What a great opportunity to win such a lovely prize. I have used cotton a broder in the past, but no longer have it. Thanks for the chance of a lovely Christmas and present
I think I would try a monogram as I have not stitched with floche before.
I have a smallish tin box that I keep buttons in that I found at an antique store several years ago. It has a design on the lid that would be lovely stitched. It is sort of a mandala with swirls intertwining and shading into one another. It would be a fun way to use a new to me thread.
There is nothing better than buttery softness and wonderful colors. !!
I’d start with some heirloom items with monograms for a wedding trousseau.
First, I’d look at it and pet it…then I’d start working with all the things I’ve wanted to do and haven’t had a chance to start including the monograms I’ve got planned.
I’ve been doodling a design for stylized rabbits for a while now, so those little guys!
Thanks for reminding me that I own the stitch sampler alphabet and only finished J for Jane. It worked wonderfully with all your illustrated help. So that’ s what I will do with my floche when/if I win. Thanks Mary and Phyllis.
I would love to try this thread. I think I would make some little sachet bags with floral designs.
As with a previous comment, I think I would play around with it for a crewel piece. Or use it on pages of a stitch notebook. Or try it on cross stitch.
Oh my I couldn’t just decide exactly what I would do with this wonderful gift of the floche threads. Perhaps an alphabet?
I know exactly what I’d do with an entire color-line of floche! I’m in the planning stages of designing an embroidered ‘family herald’ project. Elements will include some family-tree information, favorite animals, plants and flowers of my daughters and myself. I’m hoping it will become a treasured heirloom. That floche would be handy! Good Luck to all.
I first used floche while taking a class on Ukranian whitework through my local needlework guild. One of the projects incorporated blackwork in with the whitework. We used floche for the blackwork and it was perfect. The floche looked delicate yet bold. I am presently trying it out in other colors with favorable results. I am also interested in trying some smocking after finding a few smocked aprons at my mother’s which I had made while a young teenager.
Hi Mary,
I think I would like to try smocking with the floche, doing a whole series of little girls dresses……….donating to charity. I think I would learn a lot, have fun and do something for a good cause.
Thanks for all the giveaways Mary.
Happy Christmas!
What a gorgeous range of colours. I think some kind of mandala would be good to use a lot of colours in one project, or else a colouring page with lots of detail such as the Joanna Batsford ones. Reminds me of the beautiful bird you did Mary, a few years ago.
With an entire set of floche what wouldn’t I do? Certainly flowers!!! I’m an avid gardener and I love flowers and embroidering flowers. I’ve already written in past give away comments that I’m embroidering little dresses for a doll I made for my granddaughter so that would be one place I’d start but also an embroidery of my garden I’ve been working on for awhile.
Thank you Mary for this great instructional web site and for having the give aways.
Have a wonderful Holiday and all the best in the new year!!
What I would stitch would definitely be my own design. I can picture a young woman sitting in a chair reading in a garden with flowers of every sort all around, and a bird perched on the branch of a tree opposite her. Maybe her cat is sitting in her lap. Yes, I sure could use today’s giveaway for that. Merry Christmas, Mary, and thank you so much for all your wonderful giveaways.
Would love to have the floche for my smocking. Great giveaway
Oh my goodness, if I had a whole set of floche I would use on your e-books I have. I also have a vision of doing an embroidery of a red maple tree with a birdhouse in the background grass for my sister. It is her favorite, and would have great meaning.
What a wonderful and generous gift from Phyllis; makes me want to contact her now and give me a Christmas present! many thanks Mary
A stained glass window with intricate design.
Oh I love floche thread. I would stitch Mary’s alphabet which I have or I would do a stitch sampler.
I’d embroider beautiful florals on my mother’s tablecloth and small complimentary motifs on the napkins. It’s something I’ve “always wanted” to do, but haven’t had anything in mind that would do the set justice. This would be perfect!
I’d use it to do monograms of all my family for Christmas ornaments.
If I would win this one I’d be looking for a sampler that I could use many colors in. It would be wonderful.
A smocked dress for my newest grandchild I think, and then I’d like to do some white work with colour. The floche is so smooth to work with but I’ve only ever used the white. What a generous giveaway!
I have always wanted to try floche, but never game enough – if I was to be lucky enough to win this I would try it on long and short stitch – maybe crewel embroidery design. I would love to give it a go.
I would love to try this beautiful thread for fill stitches and crewel.
I have so many projects waiting for me……..
I took classes from Mrs. Vreni Landolt at the Junior College in Modesto California for three years in the 70’s. She was the most knowledgeable and talented stitcher I have ever met. I have missed her greatly since she passed, and I am delighted to now have you teaching and keeping this lost art alive. Thank you for all that you share, I have learned even more from you!
Lina Britton
Merry Christmas. ‘‘Tis always the season for embroidery when all through the house stitchers are creating wonderful works of art. I am enamoured by Helen Blomcamp’s fabulous creations. I would love to try some of her patterns. TheJacobean and the Crewel Creatures are calling to me. I’d love to try it with this palette of beautiful colours. I’ve just completed Rosalie Wakefield ‘s 50 flowers in Brazilian Embroidery and am ready to work on my quilts and then will want to begin a new embroidery project. This new year is full of possibilities. Hope you have a productive one too.
If I had a whole set of floche at my fingertips, what would I stitch with it? I would stitch a monogram – I really want to do one but keep shying away from doing it. Thank you to Phyllis for offering such a wonderful prize and thank you Mary for offering the lovely prizes you have this year. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
I just bought a second-hand smocking pleater. I have been wanting one for years. So I would use that floche for smocking.
What a treat to have all the thread to feed you creative side and not spend time looking for that one color you need. No end to projects.
Oh, I love to win this gift. I have the Stitch Sampler Alphabet e-book and would love to use the Floch for this project. Plus, I wan to stitch Elisabetta designs and this would be a wonderful Floss to use.
Here in Aussie land (Australia). Floche thread is hard to come by and too nervous to order via internet. Nervous of quality.
Have loved your monograms and your book, is sitting in my craft room waiting for me too nervously start stitching. Been following all you information for over a year and will still continue to follow. Embroidery has been my saving grace of harmony and peace. Thank you.
Happy Christmas and a Merry great Year in 2020.
Cheers from Robyn.
I have a Trish Burr Owl design that I would like to use Floche on, I also would like to start a stitch book to put my practice stitches in. I have many designs I can see using Floche on, it’s hard to choose.
I would embroider a scene that featured either a forest with its colorful birds and animals or a jungle with brightly colored birds and beasts.
I think I’d either make a christmas stocking for myself (I made each of my children one when they were little, but mine is a store-bought one, and I’d like something I made myself), or I’ve through about getting into crazy quilting, to use up some of my scraps from previous projects.
With a whole set of floche I would stitch a lot of monograms, with great joy.
Jo from Millswood
I would stitch a flora and fauna design that includes plants and animals that grow and live nearby. Especially the owl and the coyotes.
I would stitch a flower garden with them. I have not had the opportunity to try floche yet but look forward to doing so in the future.
I want to get these so that my grandma can teach me how to use them! She is amazing at sewing and all crafts and it is so fun to learn new things with her
What an exciting give-away! I adore Floche! I learned about it here, on your blog, and have loved using it ever since. Great to also hear of another source for obtaining it (you know, just in case I don’t win the give-away)! Ever since you posted about using Floche for Long-and-Short Stitch, I’ve been thinking of trying it for “needle-painting” little animals and birds. If I had a whole palette of Floche, I think that’s just what I’d do!
Thank you Mary, for introducing me to floche! I’ve been experimenting with it in my various needlework projects for the past 2 years. I imagine using floche in my next biscornu project, it would be wonderful to have the whole color spectrum to choose from; I am working up a design of leaves and flowers in cross stitch with knots, beads, and other surface embroidery as needed:)
I have never used it before but would love to give it a try.
Your question is a difficult one since I never used or heard of floche. My best guess is that I will try some long and short stitching, which is something I have not tried. There is so much to learn and it is fun and exciting to try new things. Thanks for your wonderful newsletter.
Would love to get my hands on some beautiful cloche to work on a Jacobean pattern that I’ve found in Therese de Dillmont’s book on embroidery. Floche is hard to find in New Zealand and I’ve been searching online for a retailer. This would be a wonderful start for the new year.
I meant “floche “, darned autocorrect.
I have never heard of floche. I am a fairly new reader on your website. I have been Crazy Quilting for about 10 years now. I read several articles about Floche through the links you provided. It sounds like it will be great for the stitching I do on crazy quilt blocks and other small projects. I might even attempt your alphabet sampler down the road. I would most likely use it on 2 wedding presents I will be starting after the first of the year.
If I were to win this complete set of floche I’d quickly start looking for a project which would use many colors and shades, probably a landscape. I’ve smocked little girls’ dresses using at most 2 or 3 shades of one color, and these turned out well, but having a complete set would inspire me to tackle a much larger work which would incorporate the full range of colors.
I would love to stitch a whole set of heirloom pillow covers. Seasonal and for special family events
Wow. All that floss. I would like to do a sampler, like the monograms, but perhaps motifs along a geometrical theme. I would try and choose different artists or architects. A recent visit to Miami Beach and a previous visit to Napier in nz made me realize how well Art Deco motifs would translate to embroidery. Thanks Mary and happy Tibbs Eve from Newfoundland Canada!
Oh my gosh, I love floche. I’ve had some monograms in the back of my head for a while, and I think it would be fun to do them in colors on some delicate linen or cotton. Floche would be very pretty for that.
Happy holidays to you! Thank you for another year of your entertaining and informative blog!
If I win the set of floche I will use it to stitch the temari ball that will be a stitch along on Temari Challenge in January. It can be stitched in floss or #8 pearl cotton so floche should work well for it. I have used floche for smocking and embroidery and enjoyed using it.
What a wonderful gift! I would make a new year’s resolution to stitch ALL the letters in the Stitch Sampler Alphabet – have dabbled with a couple and it’s very addictive.
First, I would probably stitch the letters for my family from the stitch sampler I bought a while back. Then I will probably try smocking. Floche is so yummy, I would probably try to do a garden/flower scene. Thank you so much for the opportunity and Merry Christmas!
There is always lots of inspiration and the opportunity to learn new techniques.
What a great giveaway!!!
There is a Morris tapestry that I would love to do in floche
I would use the floche to make a quilt that has embroidered blocks…there are 12 blocks one for each month with lots of flowers!
I’m a needlepointer who LOVES Floche. I would use it to create laid fillings for backgrounds. Two ply lay perfectly in the channel on 18 mesh canvas and can then be stitched over with Kreinik to create lovely patterns.
If I had a whole set of floche? I’d embroider the linen dress of my dreams. I have it in my head, I know where I can buy the right linen, but until now I haven’t mustered the courage to begin.
What a Generous gift from Phyllis!! It is so fun to allow your imagination to be free when anwering your giveaway questions Mary…..
I have never worked with floche, never even been in a store that carried it, but based on your articles, I can imagine flowers of all sorts. Experimenting with colors and stitches. I also think your Snowflakes would be a fun way to experiment with such a variety of floche.
You have certainly whetted our appetite for the upcoming months! I would love to see what creations come out of this dreaming session!!
Merry Christmas!!!!
Mary, this is such a great gift. It is true that floche is hard to get but was lucky enough to try it once on a project, what a great thread. I think I would use it for all my bags and covered boxes for Christmas wrapping because we have decided as a family to eliminate waste as much as possible. Given that I am the only one in the family to sew I end up creating many many wrappings. Thank you for the opportunity. Enjoy the holidays
This would be a gift from heaven! I would use those lovely coloured threads to do embellishing embroidery on the heirloom crazy patchwork quilt I plan to make. I hand piece and quilt for the pleasure of the stitching. All the fabric is waiting in my stash and it would be a joy to use these threads to make my quilt into something really exceptional.
There are two pictures that I want to stitch one day……They are a pair, slightly misty in appearance and the first is of foxgloves on a misty morning, the other is of delphiniums. Can you just imagine them with the slightly gleaming floche?
Thanks for running the competitions again and have a merry Xmas.
If I won the floche, I’d embroider an initial for each member of my family (no two of us have the same initials)
I love floche. I have used it for smocking and for monograms. It lays so smoothly. I would love the whole color collection as what I have used are whites or pastels. Just think of the beautiful bullion roses that could be stitched with a dark coral and rust, or beautiful leaves in a more realistic color than mint green. Thanks so much for being so generous with your knowledge we can feel your passion in every article. The joy is in the stitching.
I don’t know what I would stitch yet.. but I would have a wonderful time pouring over books and patterns!
Since I have never worked with floche I will have to wait until I can get my hands on some as I literally want to feel it and let it speak to me about what it wants to be.
What would I stitch? How can someone dream a hundred or a thousand dreams at once? I would love to stitch monograms, family crests, floral patterns, or anything else that once could stitch with floche! Thanks to you and Phyllis for such generosity!
I live to smock and have never had floche to use, but would love to give it a try with other embroidery as well. Perhaps the flower towel sets that I have or some nice embroidery for a little girl’s dress.
Meant to say “Love“ to smock, not “live” to smock!
I would stitch gifts for my family and friends. Special thread is for special people.
To win these threads would be a dream come true! I would like to create a large wall hanging of a beautiful garden with so many beautiful colours for lots of lovely flowers and shrubs. I could use a great variety of surface stitches. So a stretch of the imagination and an extension of my knowledge of stitches all with beautiful threads.
I don’t know, the colors are lovely. I have several garden scenes I keep looking at, I might just get inspired to stitch one.
Hi, Mary!
If I had an entire set of all the colors of floche, first, I would squeal with delight, and do a Happy Dance ! But seriously, I discovered the fantastic quality of using floche for my cross-stitching projects when I used a long-forgotten skein of a beautiful soft gray from my stash, to substitute for a DMC floss I didn’t have, to stitch a pond with swans swimming on it.
I had purchased the gray skein, along with a skein of baby pink, many, many years ago at my LNS, when I was very new to cross stitching, and had never used it, although I had often admired the sheen and color. Once I found out how fabulous it was for my cross-stitching, I was blown away and totally smitten! So, I’d absolutely love to have more colors to substitute in my projects!
Thank you so much for this wonderful opportunity, and best wishes to you and yours for a very Merry Christmas and a Blessed and Happy New Year.
Meline
If I win the Floche, it will be the perfect gift as I am a new embroiderer. I have a beautiful Christmas quilt design I want to do and this will make those dreams come true!
What a wonderful gift! I’d make myself a beautiful pillow for my bed. I love pillows.Thanks for all the giveaways this year. I haven’t won, but they are all great. Have a very Merry Christmas.
I think that I would choose a long table runner with a theme for year ’round use and just have it handy to be stitching on as inspired – no time frame in particular.
Donna R NC
I would use it for smocking. I have had a pattern and the smocked fabric for quite awhile, but just couldn’t find the right place to purchase floche. This set of floche would be great for that project. And I know I would use it with some embroidery patterns that I have been saving for just the floss/floche. Thank you, Mary, for all the gifts. Plus, now I know the places to get embroidery tools, etc.! Merry Christmas, Mary!!
If I had a whole set of floche I would use it to stitch embroidered embellishments on a quilt top.
I’ve never done this before but a few weeks ago I was given 3 pre-pinted linen table cloths to be embroidered. With Floche being my favourite thread I decided to try my luck. Thank you for the chance.
I have been stitching wool appliqué and would like to try floche with the wool. Some wool threads seem heavy when working with small pieces of wool.
Jo Ireland
Hello Mary,
I would use the floche to make a special 60th birthday present for my sister in March. I was thinking a Jacobean style cushion for her bed. Then I would use it for samplers, I have some beautiful Hands Across the Sea samplers. I’ve never tried floche, but love cotton a broder. Regards Mandy Currie xx
I never bought floche before but after reading your articles, I’m super interested to try it! If I had the whole set would definitely make pet portraits with it, playing with the different colors and adding small flowers that I think would look beautiful! (Flowers are my favorite thing to stitch)
I would use it in place of perle cotton in my stitching.
I would like to use the floche for a sampler on 32 or 35 count linen. I think it would show up nicely, the stitches would sit up on the fabric and the colors would look just beautiful.
Mary,
If I had an entire set of floche, I think I’d be in Seventh Heaven. But then I’d have to come down to Earth and decide on how to use it. I love to do stitchery and would try to find something magnificent to stitch. It would probably be a rather large item as I read some of the articles you included with the email. It sounds like it makes a beautiful “fill in” thread for tapestry stitching or crewel work. And I have done crewel. It always turn out lovely.
Thank you for the opportunity to win this item. And I hope you and yours have a wonderful Christmas and a lovely, safe New Year.
A whole set of floche?
I have a project that has been waiting. I have finally found the hand painted lined that is big enough. It will be about 3.5 feet across when ot is finished. It is a scene from the Hoh rainforest on the Washington peninsula.
I love floche too! I love that it’s a single strand cotton with a twist. I needlepoint with it. In particular , I needed to stitch palm fronds, and it was terrific for the satin stitch and long and short stitches. It’s lays so smoothly and neatly.
I am a self taught embroiderer, so would teach myself many more stitches! I would also use it for kumihimo braids too, since I am teaching myself that too.
If I had the whole collection of Floche: firstly I would have to calm the fluttering of my heart! I have used Floche for smocking in the very few colours that were available, many years ago. Then on with everything satin stitch!
I would do shadow work, in many colors!
Heaven has armchairs with very wide arms, I have been told, and most certainly all the time we could ever wish for, and Floche!
I am about to plan colours and threads for a band sampler, the floche would be a perfect thread to try or I could stitch monograms from your ebook which I have tucked away for special occasions.
I have been longing to do some embroidery on the scarves that I weave. This would be perfect to do a bunch of brightly colored flowers.
Swoon! What a gift! If I were to win, I’d stitch up some things for the guest room that is getting a retro makeover.
Floche sounds very nice I haven’t seen it in the shops here.
Would be really exciting to get some and try it. It looks a lovely soft sheen by your photos.
If I had the whole array of Floche I would want to try it on probably everything I was currently stitching to see how it worked. I do small prairie landscapes (8″ x 10″) with applique and surface stitching and I think my trees, bushes and grasses would look wonderful done in Floche. I am currently making journal covers with silk paper and the embroidery on the front could use some Floche. It is a lovely thread to work with but as I have just recently acquired some I don’t have a great selection of colors yet.
I would want to make something that uses all 90 colors in tiny increments – I bet blackwork would show them off really well. That would probably be a long term project! But if you have 90 of something, how could you not want to use all of it??
I bought your monogram book some time ago but haven’t done one yet. A set of floche, a thread I’ve never worked with or even seen in real life, would be the perfect excuse to sit down and stitch several, and then several more.
I’d use the floche to stitch a canvaswork piece I designed some years ago – it’s a colour wheel/rainbow within a celtic knot border and I think the floche would be perfect on the 18 or 22 count ground cloth. Thank you Mary!
I just joined Betz White’s “Village” class and the floche would be a wonderful thread for the embroidery. I also love combining wool appliqué and floche.
Thank you for your generosity and Merry Christmas!
Barbara
I am not very confident with long-and-short – so because of the floche characteristics I think I would start with something shaded/bargello-like, perhaps using gobelin stitch and variations? When that was done (!!) I would go on to use it for some crewel embroidery..
The thread would call for a myriad of stitches; the fabulous colour palette would invite rainbows, and within minutes the needle would be traveling across fabric and creating….an imaginary journey!
Gail D (NSW, Australia)
How wonderful to receive a gift like this one, whole set of floche for Christmas. I will use them in all my satin stitch embroideries.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
I have not used Floche yet. Your articles were helpful. I would stitch some of Trish Burr patterns. She has several birds and flower patterns I like a lot.
I’d also like to try a cross stitch project with Floche. Thank you!
I love floche and have used it for satin stitch on an Easter tablecloth I made. I have also used it on 32 count instead of 2 strands of DMC. If I had the whole set, no telling what I could do!
A whole set? I would stitch a years worth of your patterns! and enjoy myself totally! I would love it!
I love making flowers! I love EdMar threads when doing Brazilian embroidery. I would love to experiment with the threads for a garden of my dreams!
Oh my! A whole set of Floche! I would smock lots of garments for my Grandma’s “Hopeless” chest (as my children call it). Such a wonderfully soft thread!
I love the look of it in long and short stitch so I think I would try flowers and maybe some birds. What a lovely collection.
I have only done one Schwalm piece that used floche and only white. It was a dream to work with and it would be a lot of fun to reimagine those Whitework pieces in a rainbow of colors. Many thanks for the opportunity and a very happy Christmas to you and your many followers.
I would do everything, the possibilities are endless.
I’ve never tried floche before, but I would love to! It looks so smooth and shiny! The idea of not having to separate strands is dreamy as I have nerve damage in my left hand, which can make things a bit difficult. I do a variety of stitching, but mostly medieval style embroidery. I think these threads would work great when wool or silk isn’t required!
If I had the whole set-wow! I make clothing for underpriviledged kids in Appalachia and I like to add a bit of embroidery to the outfits, when appropriate. Would love to know I always had all the colors needed.
I am experimenting with all kinds of slow stitching and a whole set of floche would just be super to work with! Right now I am doing all sorts of designs on the back and front of an old quilt – have no idea how it is going to turn out, but I am really having fun thinking and doing!
Thanks so much for your fabulous blog and website. I would use an array of floche colors to finish a medieval design of a lady riding a dragon, where 2 stands of DMC are too heavy and one strand too flat. Merry Christmas to you and a happy 2020.
I would love to do some thread painting with floche. As yet I have used stranded cotton but think floche might be better.
Thank you for the giveaways.
Blessed Christmas.
Floss Hurley
I’d love to work on your stitch sampler alphabet while waiting out the winter here in AB
The colors look gorgeous! I have yet to stitch with Floche And I would love to use it to stitch some of your floral monograms.
Hi, I love how much beautiful thread there is in the world and how you introduce your readers to it. I’m so glad I’m one of your subscribers! If I win, you can use my name, Lois Baron.
If I won this, I’d stitch the Garden of Eden, with many flowers and fruits, and little animal faces peeking through.
What *wouldn’t* I stitch if I had all that floche? I would stitch the world.
Oh, to have a large selection of floche! I would start over on the medieval men’s nightcap that I am working on. I thought about it for several years and finally started—-with silk, as that is what I keep reading is traditional. I don’t like working with silk!!!!!!! I almost started over with DMC floss as I can blend so well with it and from what Mary says I should like floche even better. Since the nightcap will have bugs, bats and frogs on it-highlited with gold-I’m hoping that the silk blends into the background. But if I would win the floche, I would definitely start over!
I really had the opportunity to take several classes from Phyllis through SAGA. She is a wonderful teacher!
I would love to use the floche for Smocking my granddaughter a dress.
Oh my goodness – I love floche and can’t imagine all the colors. I have probably about 100 patterns/designs of all sorts of needlework techniques. I think if I were lucky enough to win that, it would entice me to “organizate” the wonderful things I have gathered “to do.” I’m sure there are lots I have forgotten about so I think I would spread the floche out to show all the colors and go thru all my projects, get them in some sort of order and separate the ones I already have threads for – and just pick the Perfect One the floche calls out to !!
Thanks for your, and all your donators’, generosity. Hope your Christmas and New Year are very special.
Floche and singles yarns are my favourite yarns and while I don’t have a particular project in mind at present, and currently working a series of scenes of embroidery on felt. The felt gives a lovely texture for the background and singles yarns are the go to work the design. The colours of the floche range would be stunning for this but unavailable in Western Australia.
Just Beautiful! I would stitch a garden full of flowers. (Fingers crossed)
I would use it in gardens.
I’m a member of the ANG past member of the EGA. I’ve embroidered and stitched a my life but have never had a chance to try Floche. It would be wonderful to use some on my next project and see first hand the results and differences with other threads.
Oh my, that thread is just beautiful. I combine my embroidery with quilting and just finished a 12 days of Christmas quilt and a Rocky Mountain quilt with a lot of thread painting embroidery. We recently moved to North Carolina and I would love to make a Smoky Mountain quilt as my next embroidery project.
Mary I want to thank you for sharing your love of needle and thread with everyone and wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Year.
Floche what a wonderful thread. I would use it for a series of monograms I am doing. I would also use it for a kaleidoscope patter n I want to do. I love these giveaways, I have found some new sources for materials.
If I were win the Floche, I would imagine I would try smocking again, I was taught by my mother and grandma, and did several projects for 4-H. Haven’t done anything smocking related since then, but I now have 3 granddaughters under the age of 5…the ideas are swirling in my head…
A whole range of the floche. The mind boggles. I think the first thing I would do would be to purchase some of your e-books. Monograms comes to mind. I would probably do a lot of comparisons as I usually use stranded cotton. What fun I would have!
If I had the whole set, I would have my Grandma help me make “the wedding set ” of towels for my son’s wedding in June. My grandma has been teaching me how to embroider the last couple years.
WOW! Thank you very much to Phyllis! I’ve greatly admired your stitching with floche but it is so hard to find in those pretty colours. In a wonderful coincidence, I’m teaching myself smocking with the help of the A-Z book and I would love to try floche for that! I’d also love to try a monogram, or maybe a stitch sampler 🙂
I’d love to stitch up a tree with this, maybe a cherry tree, with blossom. 🙂
Hmmm – after I was done fondling them (which, I must say, will take quite awhile!) I would use the earthy tones to add to my fabric landscapes and the rest I would use for cross stitch or embroidery on crazy quilts.
The Floch looks absolutely scrumptious I can see this being used on one of or some of Trish Burrs designs. She has stunning designs that this Floche could be used for./ I have not seen the coloured cloche just the white that I have used and love the feel of it. Thanks or the opportunity Mary.
Happy Holidays to every one and Happy Stitching
Thank-you for such a beautiful present. My first reaction would simply to look and wonder, my heart filled with happiness, then; my thoughts turn to our many fellow Australians suffering from the devastation of the bush fires this year. I am not an expert needlewoman but would love to create a piece worthy of auctioning off to raise funds for the Bush Fire Appeal and hopefully help to ease their anguish and loss.
I would use all the beautiful colors to create a lovely monogram “H” for my new granddaughter, Hazelle!
Hello Mary.
I have a couple of animal and bird pieces to do in long and short stitch. The range of cliche from Heirloom Beginnings would just be the encouragement I need to start.
Elinor Burwash from Canada.
I have never even heard of Floche. The first things that I thought of I would stitch with it would be samplers, if there are any antique looking colors or red, and the other is some beautiful vintage stamped embroidery that I have. These entries have been so much fun! Thank you for doing these!
I have a piece of fine silk I bought for embroidery while traveling Vietnam and it is crying out for me to try reversible stitching – I am a little scared to touch it, but this could be the motivation needed.
I think I’ll some smocking. It’s been a few years, but I enjoy it.
I want to try my hand at your Lattice Jumble. So many colors, so many stitches, floche would be wonderful to use for this project.
My Mom started teaching me to embroider when I was 5 or 6. When I was 19, I joined the military and didn’t have a lot of time for much other than working full time and going to college in my spare time. I managed a couple of Hummel counted cross stitch kits while stationed in Germany, but, other than that I mostly lost touch with embroidery. As a matter of fact, I just found a counted cross stitch stocking that I started for my son that is three quarters done and my son is now 30 years old! In any event, now that I am recently retired, I needed to fill my time so I decided to take embroidery up again. But, I’m really behind the power curve and don’t know a thing about new equipment, and needing to re-learn stitches, and framing, etc. So I am very grateful for people like you, Mary, to drag me out of the 1960s! When you wrote about floche, I ordered some to try it out. It is wonderful! It’s easy to work with and I absolutely LOVE the way it lays on fabric. I have even used some of it on your snowflakes! If I won this set of floche, I believe I would try it on a mandala. Recently, when I was out on my morning 3 mile walk, I found the cutest coloring page of a mandala heart blowing around the neighborhood. I picked it up thinking it would make aa very pretty embroidery and I stashed it away. If that floche comes my way, I am going to pull it out and get to work on it!
Oh how I would love to work the whole Alphabet in the beautiful Floche – the full range of colours would give me so many choices. Being quite “old” in age, floche is one of my “go to” threads. Believe me – with the size of my family, I would need to work the whole alphabet to include them all – and what a joy it would be to give them their very one embroidered name. Beth FH
I would love to try this. Since I haven’t ever used it I’m not sure what I would do. I have been wanting to make some Christmas stocking and the names might be a good place to try this out on. Merry Christmas to you and thanks for sharing your incredible embroidery skills and knowledge.
I would use it to practice all the decorative stitches I am not very familiar with while stitching the Stitch Sampler Alphabet.
I’ve been itching to do some white work from Trish Burr’s book on the subject. I stitched a Christmas ornament with floche and really loved the result and want to follow up with something else.
Colour, Colour , Colour!! Glorious Floche would look great in a box! Choose a colour to do a cat Jacobean style!
Imagination riot. Would keep me quiet! love the feel of floche on a reel
the whole selection of floche to choose from… drool!
I think I would like to tackle my Elizabethan scrolling flower design using the floche. I have taken eight of my favourite Elizabethan flower designs and inserted them into the typical scroll design of the period. I added leaves ad tidbits here and there throughout the design.
If I had the entire set, I would probably smock a new dress for my granddaughter, Helen and a romper suit for her little bro, George. They are the recipients of most of my efforts these days!
I have found floche a great thread to work with!!
Hello Mary, If I had a whole set of floche at my fingertips, I know what I would create with the floche. Designs on flour sack tea towels. The towels are already in my craft box just waiting for the perfect thread. Floche is a dream to work with. Already, I am imagining designs, colorful Valentines for February, a cheerful garden of flowers for spring, daisies for May, ferns for summer, beach umbrellas, the holly and berry design you gifted your readers. I am excited just thinking about the possibilities of floche designs for the towels. Some towels will be for me; some as gifts to friends.
I used floche on a small project several years ago and really liked it. I have a couple of Crabapple Hills designs that I think it would work perfectly.
I love monograms on napkins. I give them to everyone I know. Floche is perfect and it would be lovely to have a range of colours to choose from so I can personalise each one with colours that match the person.
What a beautiful prize! I would love to use with your Lavender Honey patterns and I would love to use them with your Snowflake patterns.
What happy thread! I would have many uses for this but I would love to use on some special Alphabetic stitching I would love to do for my sisters. Initials and border leaves/flowers and adding some buttons that were in my mothers collection! Thank you!
Merry Christmas, Mary! Wow, what a wonderful giveaway! I love floche too, but only have a couple of colors so far. If I were to win this super duper floche collection, I’d try to embroider something BIG to make use of all those colors. Probably something sort of free form that I’d put in a frame.
I have used this before and loved it. If I had access to this amount of threads, I would use it to cross stitch samplers that I have purchased.
It looks like the DMC flax embroidery floss I used to be able to find. I was recently gifted by a relative with a collection of vintage children’s clothes from the 30’s and 40’s. I would so love to use the floche to restore the embroidery on each piece and hand them down to my three granddaughters. My 3 year old gd already sits and embroiders with me. Winning this would be so special to me. Anywho, God bless and Merry Christmas to all.
If I had a set of floche, I would begin stitching up a zoo full of crazy colored animals on soft cotton flannel squares to be made into a lovely lap rug for my favorite senior citizen.
I’ve not used floche but would like the opportunity to try it out with Mary’s Stitch Sampler Alphabet!
If I had a whole set of floche, I’d spend 2020 stitching A-Z from the Stitch Sampler Alphabet. I’ve had the e-book since it came out. I just have to get around to stitching a letter!
I usually do counted work but would like to try surface embroidery. I think this thread would inspire me to start this new-to-me technique.
I would use the floche on a design with a lot of long and short stitches. I also would love to
do a set of monogrammed table napkins or a monogrammed tote bag…..oh so many uses for floche.
Oh my! I’ve never used floche. It sounds so wonderful. I have wanted to try long short stitch and this bounty would definitely move me right into developing that new skill. Your alphabet is waiting in my i-books
What a wonderful gift! I haven’t used floche yet, but it looks just exquisite. If I had this set, I would start with smocking, a favorite needlework technique, dresses for granddaughters and nieces, then explore using it in Mary’s alphabet ebook, lastly, or maybe first, just look, fondle and dream.
Joan van Velsor
I would try the floche for some smocking and doing monograms.so many beautiful colors.
If I had all these beautiful colors I would finish several Christmas ornaments that a friend of mine started before she passed away. She was a beautiful stitcher. I haven’t tried floche yet, but would like to. Thanks for the giveaway.
I have to enjoy it for awhile until I can decide what to use it for. Thank you! Sue Montano
Oh. Just imagine the joy of receiving this floche…..I would start stitching that very day..a country garden in Australia with gum trees shading a native garden with our beautiful flowers. A gravel meandering path looked through from a trellis gate . Dappled sunlight I can almost smell the mix of kangaroo paws boronia and taste the nectar of blossoms. Ariel in Australia.
I would stitch a Berlin wool work type design on large-count canvas or Congress cloth. The colors are gorgeous.
If I won this floche I would play with it, never having used it before, stitching a collage of shapes and motifs including the initial letters of each of my children and grandchildren. I would leave some open spaces for future initials for future grandchildren.
I’ve never used this thread but would sure like to try it. Also some friends and I were planning to do some smoking in the new year and I would share with them.
Thank you.
Dee in WI
Just the thought of an entire collection of threads makes me dizzy with anticipation! Every chart that Trish Burr has created, all the monograms I could conjure up, Christmas stitchery. Well, the list is just too long! Merry Christmas!
I’m just getting back into embroidery, as a child that’s what I learned and that’s all I did, then switched to cross stitch. I have so many patterns of both embroidery and cross stitch I don’t think I would have any problem finding a fantastic use for it. I’m thinking flowers, maybe with a hummingbird would do the thread justice.
I like floche! I would like to have the whole set of colors to do flowers in satin stitch and eyelets, and to do monograms on table linens. I would like to win this one! Merry Christmas!
My mother-in-law gave me some homespun which has an open weave. I’m thinking that the floche would be a good thread for doing something on the homespun. Also, I would invite some of my friends over and we would have fun dreaming up what to do with all of the beautiful colors. I would share with them.
A friend shared some with me and it was a heavenly experience. If I were to receive this, I would love to use it to cross stitch some sampler patterns I have bought. Hope your holidays are filled with love.
I love floche. If I had the whole collection I would stitch table linens for my daughters. Then children’s clothes. Whitework in techno color ……
If I had an entire set of floche I would just drool over it. I’m not sure what I would stitch with it, but I would find something special.
If I had a whole set of floche, I would like to try something like the hummingbirds you embroidered from the adult coloring book a few years ago. I might attempt to transfer a design onto canvas — perhaps congress cloth.
I love Floche. I have some colors that I used for embroidery. To have every colors would start my digging out every issue of Inspirations magazine and start stitching. What a joy that would be.
What a fabulous prize give-away. If I had the full set of floche, I would have to stitch everything in the Stitch Sampler Alphabet e-book which I purchased some time ago. I would make this my 2020 project.
I would love to stitch a Christmas sampler!!!! I’ve always wanted to do that and would love the challenge. Floche is hard to come by now and I’d cherish receiving it and put it to good use, also doing some ornaments to auction off for charity. Merry Christmas Mary!!!
I’d make a tablecloth, runner & napkins
I’d smock a bishop and embroider bullion roses on top.
If I won the whole set of floche, I would stitch a whole meadow full of fantastic flowers.
I would probably use this floche thread to try and render a nativity scene I can hang up at Christmastime. Merry Christmas! I hope I’m ready by tomorrow…
Ah, a set of floche, so many things to do. I would use it for “white work”, wool work and embroidery. There are so many things to use it for. Jeano in Oregon
If I should be so blessed as to win this set of exquisite threads I would start smocking for my grand daughters… they have so far missed out on smocked garments, and this would give me the incentive I need to get back to smocking
Blessings
Maxine
I have a wonderful Jacobean/Crewel pattern waiting to be stitched. Itwould look amazing using these threads
I would use it for monograms in Crazy Quilt blocks and projects.
The colours look beautiful in the pictures. I will find a special project to try out this new to me embroidery threads.
I am a member is SAGA and have been pleased to take classes with Phyllis Brown twice, once at my home chapter (Cardinal
in Richmond, VA) and once at the SAGA national convention. How cool that she is the sponsor behind today’s giveaway!! And yes, as a smucker, I love cloche, but it’s also super-fun for small-scale needlepoint.
I would use this new kind of thread on monograming some hand towels.
Hi, I’m Bryony from Everling Accessories. If I had a whole set of this beautiful floche I’d get super excited and start stitching hat pins and brooches. I’ve been wanting to make some for ages. I’ve started learning some smocking stitches , practicing in white on a green linen for Christmas decorations. I’ve got so many ideas for small embroidery designs too. More colours and patterns to suit small projects for every season would be amazing. Making small embellishments for hats or people’s favourite jackets brings me so much joy, and sharing that joy with them as they find just the right piece is a privelidge. I love getting inspiration from your emails and reading along all your stitching adventures.
I would love to try Floche. My favorite stitch is long/short and use it to create Comic Book scenes for my grandchildren. They love it and it introduces them to embroidery.
Floche!! I would love to give it a try
If I received the floche, I would make a smaller with lots of wildflowers.
I think I would try smocking something for my three granddaughters!
What a difficult question that one is Mary. Firstly I would probably just want to look and arrange and rearrange them. Then I might use them to work samplers of stitches that I have been wanting to do for yonks. Or perhaps monograms. Or more Jacobean embroidery…..
I love floche!!! It is my favorite for christening gowns, monograming on handkerchiefs. Thanks for the #10 giveaway!
I will love to work with this thread. thank you for all the intro.
Have a nice Holidays.
I have a book on shadow embroidery and have never used it yet I would do the shadow embroidery using the floche. The book illustrates children’s clothing that is smocked and little ducks or animals using the shadow embroidery technique.
Hi again….apple bread in the oven so thought I’d take a moment to tell you that I have never worked with floche but I can imagine myself doing some kaleidoscopes maybe. Maybe a pretty iris. Who knows?
All I know is that this old girl is too tired to think.
Merry Christmas to all & to all a good night..
Many years ago, I learned a few Brazilian embroidery stitches and was captivated. I loved the Edmar thread I used, and, if I won the floche, I would try more Brazilian embroidery. I have the older book, Brazilian Three-Dimensional Embroidery: Instructions & 50 Transfer Patterns (Dover Needlework Series) by Rosie Montague. I love the feel of pearl cotton and I think floche would be even better! The sheen is incredible.
If I had a whole set of floche, I would definitely do a lot of smocking for my new baby granddaughter. I’d also incorporate it into the panels on my needlework casket.
Thank you, Mary, for the wonderful giveaways this year!!
I would use the floche to embroider detailed flower embroideries. I am a botanical artist and I usually do my work in coloured pencil but I also love embroidery and so sometimes the two things combine and I do embroideries of the artwork. I have used floche and I love the way it covers and sort of sticks together. and the colours are awesome!
I learned about Floche when I read your articles about it. I’ve never used it and can’t find it locally. I would love to try it. I am working on a project of 4 1/2″ embroidery blocks and enjoy using different threads. Thank you for your website and emails.
I just love Floche thread. I have just used the finer version than the standard floche thread for some pin stitching on a hand towel. It would be lovely to have a range of this beautiful sensuous thread.
Floche is a lovely thread. I have used white floche in a whitework Sampler, for the satin stitches bands, and it lays beautifully! If I were lucky enough to win all the colors I would be in floche heaven! And my first project would be a thread painting byTrish Burr, one of her beautiful all over designs “Tuscan Landscape”. I can picture it now….fingers crossed for luck…
Thank you Mary for your Christmas giveaway fun, and for continuing to provide so much Needlework information and inspiration.
What a gorgeous collection of colors! I would use them for shadow embroidery on baby and little children clothing. Merry Christmas everyone!
Floche seems perfect for bargello!
I think I would try stitching one of the Kaleidoscope projects! They have such vibrant colors.
Thank you so much!
Jenny
ooooooohhhhh what a lucious collection! I would first like to use some of the floche on a smocking project.
A whole set of floche???? Where to start. I think I would like to do a surface embroidery of a floral garden with brightly colored birds. Lots of colors in the flowers, trees and shrubs too.
What do I imagine myself doing with so many, many lovely colors of floche? Flowers! And maybe some birdies and some butterflies.
I think I would do an alphabet sampler using as many of those beautiful colors as possible!
I look forward to using new materials, and learning new crafts. Thank You for the opportunity to try and win some fiber arts materials! Wishing you a Merry Christmas, and A Very Happy New Year 202”!
I would feel like a kid in a candy shop if I should be the lucky winner of this collection of threads. I have only had the pleasure of touching it one time, when someone was talking about it at a retreat. What a wonderful hand it had. I think it would have to be a very special project to use these threads in it and I am sure it would be the most beautiful thing.
I absolutely love floche, too!
I am a member of Saga.
I would use this floche for embroidery on children’s heirloom clothing, and on smocked garments.
Merry Christmas!
I look forward to using new materials, and learning new crafts. Thank You for the opportunity to try and win some fiber arts materials! Wishing you a Merry Christmas, and A Very Happy New Year 2020!
How exciting! It would be lovely to receive a whole set of floche. The first project would be to monogram some beach tote bags that I plan on making my sister and two daughter-in-laws for our annual beach trip this coming summer! My second project would be to re-do a pre-printed tablecloth that my mom bought in the late 60’s. When I was an early teen I “embroidered” this tablecloth with embroidery paints in tube, LOL! Do you remember those? Anyway, I would like to really embroider that tablecloth now and covered up that horrible fading paint. Merry Christmas Mary!
If I had a whole set of floche at my fingertips I would have to spend some time petting it like I do my fabrics. Then I would need to add some bins to my collection of embroidery threads and then lay it by groups of colors from light to dark. Then I would find the most beautiful pattern of flowers and I would use the floche to make lovely soft flower petals.
What a wonderful giveaway! I have no idea of a specific project or projects I’d do at the moment. However, some of it would be used in my own art work. Thanks
I have a Long Dog sampler that uses almost 100 colors, so the floche would be perfect. Just the motivation to get started on this project. Before I stitch with it, I think I would make it into an art display to just enjoy the texture & colors.
Merry Christmas & an interesting 2020.
Gail in GA
I learned to embroidery when I was about twelve and periodically had stretches of adding embroidery to gifts and clothing over the years. However, mothering six children, being a single Mom and over 50 years of working as a Registered Nurse left me precious time to hands on. When I got directed to your site two or three years ago, I knew I had all the instruction and helps on one site to up my game in becoming more skilled in embroidery. Now that I am retired I want to keep my hands in good shape and my brain active with creative projjects.
I envision using the floche to embroider angels with voluminous flowing robes.
I’ve been dreaming of trying floche…this would be a wonderful opportunity to try some Jacobean designs, maybe some of your kaleidoscope designs, Mary. I also have tried my hand at your monograms with DMC thread, perhaps I would try it with floche!
I have never been able to find any Floche to experiment with so have forgotten all about searching for this thread. After reading Mary’s description of how she often uses her Floche I’d love to try it out with long and short stitch for flower petals and fur on rabbits and I want to use it for satin stitch because I don’t much like the way my satin stitch looks using stranded cotton.
I’d love to restitch a Christmas tree I just finished in DC cotton and do it again with the floche to see how differently they turn out.
Wow, there are so many I would stitch with this wide varity of threads. Embroidery, blackwork, and a few more things.
Several family members have requested a monogram after seeing a couple I embroidered for two granddaughters. I would love to embroider them in floche. It is so beautiful. I can just imagine the colors and finish of the beautiful monograms.
I’ve worked with all kinds of fibers but not with floche. I would love to give it a try with some stump work. If it does as advertised, long and short should look great and may work up quicker than floss.
If I had a whole set of floche at my fingertips, I imagine I’d stitch all the letters in your Stitch Sampler ebook! OK, maybe just certain letters but in all the colors and styles.
nedra c/ca This article was very informative. I’ve always used DMC and never thought of using something else. Just retired this year and am starting sewing and embroidery again and one of the things I want to try is the long/short stitch shading. It would be exciting to use something new and to learn the shading technique.
I’d use the floche from Heirloom Beginnings to make a floral monogram, like the one you did in negative space. I’ve already been practicing the different flowers and vine-like stitches and different leaves! I’ve recently come to embroidery, so pleased that I found this site. I’d love to try using floche.
Deborah on Helen Ave
What a privilege to be messaging on this forum regarding floche! What a dream to have at my side so many colors of floche ready to create a monogrammed artwork of Mlina_GM of succulents. To me it is most unusual as it is not your everyday succulents. I am going to alter it a bit to have it surround the monogram S for a friend’s 50th wedding anniversary. It has mostly satin stitching and this medium would be so extravagant to the eye! I enjoy this site where I have gained new ideas and practical advice to help me to achieve a more pleasing finished piece. I am running out of wall space, but every time a friend stops by I have not seen in a while, I listen to which she likes the best, and on her way out, I hand it to her. I do not get out much, so when friends come to visit me, it means so much and I like to show my appreciation for being remembered. Thank you so much for making this offer. Regardless whether or not I win, I will continue to be an avid follower.
Deborah
With all those beautiful colors I’d love to stitch a knot work garden.
Since Mary has mentioned so often how well this thread works for monogramming. my first choice would be someone’s initials. Thanks for this opportunity.
I had read your article about floche and managed to purchase a few skeins.
It wasn’t easy. I made a beautiful set of pillow cases for a wedding present for my niece. With a set like the one described, I would love to create a set of floral linens.
I have never used this thread, but I would like to try it for smocking.
I would like to try the Stitchers Sampler Alphabet, as well as the wheat design on your free patterns page.
I am about to retire from my day job and will finally have time to experiment and play in the studio. I would love to test out floche in every imaginable way. I am working on a set of flags in pulled and drawn threadwork. (Picture the banners of Mexican cut paper rectangles but in fabric and stitch) I think the floche would be great. I am also teaching a class this spring on making book cloth and using it in books and boxes – monograms would be perfect embellishment. Everyone like to see their monogram on something. Please, please, please pick me Mary. It would be a great retirement gift.
There are a set of art noveau patterns that I would love to stitch up in a larger size-say 18 by 14. Floche would be perfect for this size project.
I would stitch some kitchen towels and curtains.
I’d love to use the set of floche to make monogrammed ornaments for my sons, daughter-in-law, sisters, sister-in-law, nieces, nephews and great nieces/ nephews!!!
I’ve never tried floche, but I’d love to use it on some of the Stitch Sampler Alphabet letters. I have the wonderful ebook.
I would probably start something for Christmas 2020! 🙂
What a fantastic giveaway Mary. I have purchased a couple of colors in the floche for a project after I read your earlier article on it & I loved working with it. I have never done smocking but I do remember my grandmother making me a couple of dresses with the smocking & I loved them. She was so talented, I use to sit & watch her do magic with her hands. It seemed at that age I thought she could create anythig.
I have your kaleidoscope pattern which I haven’t started yet & I would love to stitch that with the floche thread.
Enjoy your short break & thank you for sharing your knowledge of stitching.
A whole set of floche, Wow! Who wouldn’t love to get that!! How generous!
I would make A shawl — a huge shawl with fringe and embroidery all over like the shawls of the the aristocracy in the 1700-1800. Maybe with paisley patterns.
Or maybe I’d use it to embroider a Norwegian Bunad costume to honor my gene pool.
In either case it would start with historical and cultural research — I like to weave history in my embroidery.
I’ve been on the verge of buying A stitch Sampler Alphabet for a while now. Having these threads would absolutely tip me over that edge! I would then probably make initialed items for my whole family. Thanks for yet another incredible give-away, Mary.
Oh my gosh! All of that glorious color! Learning shisha work now, and it would be lovely to combine the color and the mirrors to make a larger piece.
I’ve never stitched with floche. It would be fun to play with, even in my very simple embroidery. You keep tempting me to do some more crazy quilting! Sounds like it might be especially good for satin stitches. Oh, to have a full palette to choose from! Someone is going to be very lucky indeed!
Handmade felt dolls all embroidered including their clothes, jewelry, shoes that I finish with ears, masks, and tails – to turn them into animals.
Hello,
To be truthful, I don’t know what I would do with all of that wonderful floche! I usually don’t know what I will do with embroidery threads until I have them in my hands and can see the colors! Even when I order thread for a specific project, I usually don’t use it for the project intended as it doesn’t seem right. It’s as if I have to feel and see it to envision the correct use.
I hope this doesn’t disqualify me! LOL
What would I do with a whole set of floche? I think I would finally start the set of 30 Jacobean flower patterns I bought a couple of years ago. What an incentive to finally start that project!
I would love to get started on some monograming with the floche. I have worked with it a little but would love to do more.
I have never used Floche before and would love to try some on Monagrams.
If I were to win all that floche, I would continue my seasonal kitchen towel project with it. One of the few things I don’t enjoy about doing embroidery is dividing 6-strand floss. It has been my intention to try floche, but I like to see colors in person when I buy floss and since I haven’t been able to organize a trip to Alameda yet, it hasn’t happened.
Kelly Ann D in Modesto
What would I do with floche? To be honest, I wouldn’t keep it for myself. I have a good friend who likes floche and I would give it to her.
I’ve used floche a few times in the past, Mary, and you are correct! It is a lovely fiber to work with. After I finished admiring the complete set, I think I would use the floche to embroider some beautiful flowers. In fact, I am going to start looking for the perfect design tonight. Thanks to you and Phyllis for the giveaway. Merry Christmas!!
OMG…What would I do with Floche? Well, I am a beginner and just learning how to work long and short stitches. So why not begin my beginnings (working the long and short stitch) with Floche!!!
I’ve never worked with floche before but think I would like to try some kind of Jacobean pattern with it. Would enjoy looking at all those colours for awhile & thinking of the infinite possibilities too. Thanks so much for the chance!
I have a family tree design mulling away in my head that really needs to come to fruition, the floche would help the creative dream become reality. =)
Also, thank you for the ‘Stitcher’s Christmas’, wishing you, your family and everyone here a blessed Christmas and a fabulous New Year. =)
My husband and I are soon to be moving into a small new home to be closer to his parents. I love botanical-themed stitching and will have all new wall colors to play with… I would be very excited to try floche!
Wow…what an awesome gift. I don’t know if we can get floche in New Zealand. I’d love to do a floral sampler…or several floral samplers!
I’ve always admired those stitched quilt patterns. Stars and flying geese, wedding rings and drunkards path. Most patterns are for xstitch but I liked use different stitch types. I’d have to look back at your work Mary and make sure mine is at least aesthetic stitch and colour wise. Mmmm, good luck to me and…
Thank you Mary,
Christmas Cheers to you and yours, keep safe and happy.
Kath Grabham
If I won today’s floche I would be able to embroider one of your designs for the seat of my antique sewing chair and I would smock beautiful for my beautiful granddaughters!
What an incredibly generous and awesome prize!! I would use it to complete my UFOs and to create some new projects for my family.
Merry Christmas, Mary. Thanks for all your great posts, tutorials, contests, and all around friendly chit chat!
I would love to use floche thread in the crazy quilt jacket I am designing with remnants of family items I am collecting. I can visualize it now…wow!
I’m envisioning stitching a vast array of sugar skulls! That’s the first thing I thought when I imagine all those colors of floche. Thanks, Mary, and have a very Merry Christmas!
I have wanted to try floche for such a long time but it is not readily available in Australia. I would follow and stitch your long and short, satin stitch and stitch sampler. It looks an amazing thread!!! Fingers Crossed. Merry Christmas
I would do a landscape painting with this thread if I were lucky enough to be picked. I am intrigued with the amount of colors that are available. Sounds yummy. Susan Beer
Okay, so I have some used embroidered blouses from Guatemala that I want to reuse as decoration on my old jean jacket. So I imagine that if I had a full set of floche in every available color, I would use it to continue the design from the embroidered blouse onto my jean jacket so that it flowed from old blouse to new embroidery seamlessly. I think it would give me the opportunity to create a truly unique one-of-a-kind special jacket. I would love to have the opportunity to try out floche and I think, because it is used for smocking, that it would be a good weight for a denim jacket.
What a beautiful collection of threads! Here at the monastery we have nuns who are interested in working on ecclesiastical embroideries; starting out small with gospel bookmarks, book covers etc. The floche threads have such a beautiful sheen which is ideal for this type of embroidery. The collection would give us a great start!
Loads of flowers and monograms too in surface embroidery and cross stitch. And Christmas ornaments. What a lovely stash of floche!
Since I would be getting the full range of colors and so much of each, I imagine teaming it with my collection of hand dyed silk scraps I bought from another artist, and conceiving of a wearable piece of art maybe a jacket. It would take some planning, but I would welcome the challenge.
Oh so excited…since I first read about floche from your website I couldn’t wait to try it. I first used it on a set of linen napkins as a gift for my son. They turned out so nice. I would love to make a matching linen table runner and tablecloth to match. In addition I would like to try it on a large rooster I have plans for as a gift for my sister. I really like to stitch with floche…so smooth and feels so lovely while working with it.
Thanks for all you do Mary,
With appreciation
A fan from CA.
I am brand new to your website and new to needlework, well sort of (I did lots of counted cross stitch in the 1980’s and 1990’s). I’ve gotten interested in more of a free form idea of needlework and also crazy quilt embellishment; your generous gift would make a wonderful addition to my almost non-existent stash of threads. I would also use them to embellish designs on wool blankets… Merry Christmas and I look forward to pouring over your website during the holiday.
Nancy H
Prescott, AZ
I’d love to try a folk art inspired piece with cloche—with geometric patterns, birds, and flowers.
Wow! What a wonderful Christmas gift this would be!! I can’t even imagine all the things I would do with this floche. I look forward to making a monogram for each of my family members. And where I go from there, who knows????
Those colours are gorgeous – wow!
I can picture cushions embroidered on a black or navy background, with each cushion a different scene of meadows full of flowers.
Thank you!
2020 is going to be my year of Stumpwork embroidery! I have all the books and always need more threads! Happy Christmas.
I would use these threads to finish a story book quilt, hexies with illustrations from my favourite child hood books
I would use these threads to complete a story book quilt, hexies with illustrations from my favourite childhood books.
I would like to try blackwork and raised embroidery with floche.
The Floche giveaway is so exciting! I would love to do some large florals on an upcycled denim jacket I am planning. I think the sheen and texture would be beautiful.
Floche, as well as coton a broder, is impossible to by in Sweden. And expensiv or complicated to by on the net from abroad. So I would just love to get a whole set. I’m thinking smocking, dresses for my grandchildren. And flower embroideries on blouses for myself. And all sorts of colourful embellishing on towels and table cloths and … many things.
If I won that glorious floche, I would dance gleefully all around the neighbourhood – before settling down to begin stitching my memory quilt. Have been collecting bits and pieces of material from my own well-loved clothes for years, plus special little pieces of antique lace, crochet and tatting and now have it all planned, along with the embroidery stitches to embellish and highlight each piece. Most embroidery I do was learnt at your ‘internet knee’! Shame I am no longer of child-bearing age, for if I won, I would name a daughter after you!! (Have a wonderful, well-deserved Christmas and New Year, Mary).
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If I won that glorious floche, I would dance gleefully all around the neighbourhood – before settling down to begin stitching my memory quilt. Have been collecting bits and pieces of material from my own well-loved clothes for years, plus special little pieces of antique lace, crochet and tatting and now have it all planned, along with the embroidery stitches to embellish and highlight each piece. Most embroidery I do was learnt at your ‘internet knee’! Shame I am no longer of child-bearing age, for if I won, I would name a daughter after you!! (Have a wonderful, well-deserved Christmas and New Year, Mary).
I have no idea, I mostly do counted thread but wonder if it would work for canvas work? or if I get really brave – one of your snowflake patterns?
Merry Xmas! I think I would use it to embroidery my daughter’s name for her nursery door, perhaps with some flowers.
Wow what I wouldn’t do to acquire this beautiful set of floche – I would be in monogram stitching heaven! Imagine the beautiful rainbow of colours that I would have at my fingertips. I love embroidering alphabets and doing satin stitch. It would be total stitching perfection.
What would I do with floche?!?! I have used it before for white work which turned out wonderful to work with. Having more colours opens up the door for more surface embroidery extraordinaire! I would have such fun working with it because it is just beautiful to play with but I think I would like to try monogram embroideries. That would be very fun to do as well as more white work in colour of course!,
If I was lucky enough to win I would look long and hard at the beautiful colours until something came to mind which would inspire me to stitch. Maybe a wonderful Ink Circle geometric crosstitch design. Have a wonderful Christmas
Hi Mary
90+ colours did you say??? Wow. I think that calls for a large, elaborate garden, with flowers of all kinds, and green grasses, leaves and shrubs, plus brown/blue trees in the distance, or maybe a fence line. I really can’t even imagine what 90 colours look like.
I guess another possibility would be to do something geometric and rainbow-ish, assuming there would be reasonable coverage of the spectrum in the 90 colours. I’ve got years of zentangle notebooks that I have been turning into embroidery now and then. That could be fun with lots of colours.
Here’s hoping!!
And thank you very much Mary, for your generousity in arranging and managing so many fabulous giveaways. I see you get well over 1,000 responses to each, so it must take a lot of time to administer them, day after day!
Have a happy holiday and do some stitching just for the fun of it, if you get the time. Wishing you- All the best for 2020.
Jess B.
I would like to win it very much. It would be used for some smalls, because i have never tryed this kind of thread.
Hi Mary happy Christmas!!
I would like to embroider flowers to gift my newly married daughter!!
Thank you
Lakshmi Sadala
I would stitch one of Hazel Blomkamp’s Creweel Creatures!
If I had a whole set of floche I’d surely consider a Jacobean design. Any design that uses lots of colours, I love the various African traditional colours, so perhaps for a traditional Xhose or Zulu scene. I love the various countries national costumes so maybe I’ll design one myself….
This year I have stitched Hazel Blomkamp’s Tortoise and really enjoyed the variety of stitches. I intend drawing up my own pattern in a similar style and if I had a complete set of Floche I would use it for this. It is a lovely thread.
Like a child in a candy store it would be a case of what do I try first – some bright floral pieces, a collection of butterflies or some abstract Christmas patterns. The dream list is endless.
Thank you Mary for the opportunity to enter these giveaway competitions. The comment sections resulted in some lovely day dreams based on what if.
Best wishes for a peaceful Christmas with those you love.
I can see using the floche for a sampler, maybe an alphabet sampler. What a generous gift!
Thank you for the opportunity to win this wonderful thread! I am not familiar with floche! What a delight! It appears to add some natural dimension to the stitches, so my first thought was a landscape scene with flora and fauna!
I love Trees and have stitched several in counted work. I would love to do a stylized tree with perhaps a bird or two with the floche. It is so beautiful for the sheen on leaves. I also love it for the extra body it gives the stitch.
I would love to embroider a peacock that I’m working on because the floche has an amazing shine n that would really enhance my work.
I’ve always wanted to try floche so this is very exciting. As I’m not an inventive stitcher and need to follow some kind of pattern, I think monogramming seems like a wonderful start!
Your Alphabet seems like a good place to start.
What a gorgeous array of colours to choose from. I’m thinking that floche would be lovely to thread paint a series of the four seasons in a particular favourite setting, maybe a garden or landscape.
I have recently started embroidering on my own clothes, specifically jean jackets! There would be no limit to what I could embroider with such a range if floche!!!!
Thanks for the giveaway!
If I had an entire colourway of flache I think I would have a go at needle painting an existing work of art. Something by Van Gogh I think. I love his paintings and think I could translate one into thread. I have three or four in mind. Which one would depend upon the colours available.
I do a lot of wool applique which calls for a lot of embellishing stitches — those are what really make it sing. Most designers suggest using #312 perle cotton but I use DMC floss because I have it in every color. I think the floche would stitch up really well in that application.
What a great giveaway! I would use them to to make something from Embroideries from an English Garden: Projects and Techniques in Surface Embroidery by Carol Andrews that you reviewed, such pretty designs!
lindalovestoquilt here! What I could do with that! Some of your alphabet embroideries, perhaps? WOW!
Years ago (25), when I smocked my daughter’s dresses, I used Floche whenever I could find it! Floche has the smoothest hand and best coverage for so many embroidery projects. My stock is low, I would love the entire set!
Oh WOW! A whole set of floche, I would be in embroidery heaven. I might start with a mountmellick project, and than a project to incorporate the beautiful colors.
I’d love trying my hand at a new thread and techniques with this give a way !
I learn very quickly and I have a beautiful granddaughter who is just 6 months old and already I’ve hand embroidered a wallhanging for her that I hope she will cherish her whole life.
You have taught me everything about embroidery and I always tell others to ,” find you online,” because you are so amazing.
Thank you and I hope I win a treasure of thread!
Thank you for helping so many of us who have a love of needle and threads and are enjoying creating such beautiful pieces.
Merry Christmas!
Rita
What a wonderful gift! Thank you for offering it. I have several sets of ornament designs that would work up well with the different colors.
I have to admit I was completely unfamiliar with floche until my first Trish Burr pattern, and I immediately loved what it brought to the piece! If I had this set, I’d embroider a Jacobean garden, with maybe a tree. I think the richness the floche would give would be amazing. Thank you for the opportunity!
What a lovely giveaway! I’m new to embroidering and am having a lot of fun learning stitches on a variety of nature-based designs. I would really enjoy using the floche as a textural contrast to my (fast-growing) collection of DMC thread.
Happy Holidays!
First off, I would just stroke the Floche he just because I love it’s silky feel and then look for floral patterns to satin stitch.
Julieanne50, SC
If I were to win this set I would use it for silk shading. I have my fingers crossed!
Gosh, what a beautiful bunch of threads to play with. I would need to do some smocking first. Have been wanting to do this again. My first attempt was a dress for my baby sister during the home ec part of my schooling. Now that is going back a few years, lol
So much floche, so many project ideas, so little time. Oh, what I wouldn’t try with this gift!
I’ve got big plans for a wall covered in tiny hoop framed insects and flowers, this thread would be perfect for that!
I’ve always had a dream of producing a piece celebrating the history of my home town, Dover in England. It’s a massively over-ambitious and unfeasible idea – Dover has a lot of history (from the famous Bronze Age shipwreck, Roman port and fortifications, Henry II building his
man cavecastle, through both Wars and to the (absolutely useless and non-functional) nuclear bunker under the Castle. What I’d like to stitch most of all would be Henry the Second and his (very colourful, hopefully) court at the Castle. There is a current and amazing reconstruction in place including large embroidered wall hangings. The Square Keep looks like a miniature version of the Tower of London (and often substitutes for it in movies – the Other Boleyn Girl is a recent example).I have never used this thread, but always up for new things. I have a few projects in mind and this would be wonderful threads to use.
Je ferais des monogrammes. Ce serais l’occasion d’essayer car je n’ai jamais brodé de monogrames. Quel bel série de couleurs merci pour ces belles opportunités .
Passe de belles fêtes et bon congé
If I had a whole set of colors at the ready I would do a sampler that moved through most of the set in a color study.
I have just learned about Floche, and am very anxious to try it on a sampler in 2020! I would love to have this set! Thanks for all you do, Mary!
I have never experienced using this thread so would be very excited to try it.
Wow, what would I do? I do have to say you inspire me. I’d love to try some flowers, and may some little critters. Maybe a little scenery would be fun.
Where to start! I have never worked with floche before and would be thrilled for the opportunity. I love the soft sheen and the smoothness of how it lays while also adding so much texture. I’m extremely impressed with your satin stitching and my New Year’s resolution is to practice until I reach an acceptable level of imperfection. 🙂 I love Jacobean design and can just imagine how beautiful it will look stitched in floche!
What beautiful threads Phyllis has created! The colors would be amazing in an embroidery of an English garden.
What an exciting give away. If I had a set of floche I would start learning thread painting perhaps from Trish Burr’s book that has been sitting on my shelf waiting for me.
With so many colors, I would do at least 2 projects – one pastels, the other in strong colors. What to do?? That takes more time to figure out – but what fun – I think I like the planning and prep work almost as much as doing the stitching. Marty
I have never used Floche but I am an avid listener to Fiber Talk and of course, read every issue of your blog. So I am hearing may good things about Floche. I am a fairly new sampler stitcher. I like to stitch on 28 or 32 ct linen (eyes??) with 2 threads. I hear that Floche plumps up stitches and I would be able to stitch with 1 threads instead or 2. This might end my days of using DMC floss. As a needlepointer I’m thinking I might also be able to use it on Congress cloth. Oh, what about perforated paper???? I like to stitch on perforated paper and I hear that someone is making it bigger than 14. Hummm, endless possibilities I’m thinking. Thanks for the opportunity and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Hi Mary,
With a whole set of floche, I’d try some of the traditional patterns I’ve been collecting. Thanks for the give away.
I would like to try making kumihimo braids with the floche as I have a lot of cabochons to be made into necklaces
I would love to make a pillow with Jacobean design using the gorgeous floche.
If I were to be chosen as the winner of these threads, I have envisioned creating a set of needlework “smalls” based on some French designs I have gathered. I anticipate this being my New Years needlework project.
I love to try new things! I love the sheen and colors of this thread. If I win I will embroider some look alike jumpers for my four little granddaughters. They are 7, 5, 3 and 1 1/2.
Thank you Mary for all your wonderful ideas, teaching and pictures. You are a Kansas blessing! May God bless you and keep you healthy in 2020. Merry Christmas!
This looks fun. Please enter me in the contest. Thanks. Merry Christmas!
Oh my! I can’t imagine having so many resources for embroidery! I will admit, I’ve only been embroidering for a couple of years and almost exclusively use thread that was left to me by my grandmother when she passed, unless I have purchased a kit with thread included (rarely). I try to be frugal in my selections when I do purchase, so I can’t imagine having so much! I rarely keep anything I embroider (usually for gifts) so if I had the opportunity to win, I am sure I would choose something very special to keep for myself such as a cushion or tapestry!
Hi! I love all the colors of the floche! If I were to win them, I would use them In a landscape picture, with the sky full of different colors, & a field of beautiful flowers of different colors!.
Keeping my fingers crossed I win!
Thanks for the offer!
Joan
I would look, stroke, look and stroke again then…I would use them to embroider one of my precious sampler patterns
If Were the winner of that beautiful floche — oh my!!! So many beautiful projects to be made. I might just purchase Mary’s Stitch Sampler alphabet and make that!!!
Floche! So pretty! I’ve been using it in multi-colored blackwork, but have been wanting to experiment with in surface embroidery, likely a floral design.
I love needlework because it is such a beautiful craft and I want to help keep it alive. Your site is such an inspiration!
I have stitched with flèche for many years, using it for embroidery and smocking. I am now interested in cross stitch and was amazed when the cross stitch community discovered cliche just recently. Most had never heard of it but now everyone has picked up on its beauty as a floss for cross stitching. It sits proudly on the surface of the linen and adds great dimension to the work. Most of my colors are pastels suited for delicate embroidery so I would love to experience the full range of colors and use it for some of my cross stitch pieces.
A whole set of floche! O my the possibilities. I would first try it out on one of my crazy quilting projects (or maybe start a new one). And I have a skirt hem that I want to embellish…these might be perfect. There are a couple of quilt tops that could use something…so you get the picture. I might use it with everything! Thanks for a wonderful season of giveaways – I enjoy answering the questions and looking at the websites of the products/persons you point us to as well. Merry Merry Christmas!
I’d love to use the Floche to stitch an embroidered journal. This is a project I’m really looking forward to in 2020!
I’ve recently been bitten by the crazy quilt bug. I love all the stitches and color and texture. The floche would give such a better dimension to stitches than just floss.
Have never used floche before but would love to try it on my next needle painting project. It’s all hooped and ready to stitch in the New Year.
Embroidery is my go-to comfort stitching. I learned from my mother at a very young age and have always loved it. Through the years, I have explored different uses of embroidery stitches in various art forms. I aspire to create some heirloom pieces like my friend produced. I called them her “Life in Stitches.” She had embroidered many scenes from her childhood, from photographs. They hung proudly on her walls and eventually passed to her children along with the stories behind them. I think this set of floche would provide a perfect opportunity to explore a new-to-me material and an opportunity to create a legacy.
Hi Mary,
What beautiful thread! I have been wanting to spend more time with cross-stitch, and would use the floche to stitch flowers in a wide array of beautiful colors. Thank you for bringing Phyllis Brown to my attention.
Best,
June House
If I had a whole set of floche threads I would monogram sheets for my family, all of them are fans of monograms, everywhere. I once bought this thread and embroidered my mother´s monogram onto towels. It was really good to embroider, soft, and the result came out beautiful.
Thanks,
Lolly, from Brazil
A whole set of Floche….wow! I love fibers and I’ve never tried floche. Perhaps I’d start on your Stitch Sampler Alphabet or use it for one of the many embroidery designs I have.
I think a Mandela or kaleidoscope would look beautiful in floche. The colors look so soft and peaceful, yet inviting. …kinda like this holiday season. I would really enjoy working with these. …maybe share a bit with friends. Jane Costello.
I’ve always wanted to try floche – especially now because I’m working on a guest towel and using 2 strands of floss. Floche seems to be a much better choice. All those colors, it’s hard to imagine what I would do. I’ve been planning to do a mandala and I think that would be perfect to use on it.
Thank you again for this wonderful Stitchers Christmas.
I would definitely use the Floche to try out your monogram e-book, and also use on some samplers I haven’t started. Happy Holidays and new year !
If I had the set of floche I’d try my hand at satin stitch and some surface embroidery. I haven’t really tried much surface embroidery much and want to build my skills – especially satin stitch. Having read Mary’s article and comments about floche, I’m itching to try it. Thank you Mary Corbet…. you are an angel
I am new to the world of embroidery. Last year I joined a local fibre arts group, subscribed to the Inspirations magazine and newsletter and now I’m even thinking of going to Australia for their 2020 Beating Around the Bush stitching convention. I am learning new stitches weekly through Mary’s wonderful tutorials and how to books. If my name were drawn for that awesome collection of floche threads, I could take on Mary’s Stitch Sampler Alphabet that I also purchased and downloaded last year. Imagine having the whole collection at your fingertips. Heaven.
Hugs from Calgary
I’ve always wanted to do watercolour painting with thread, and floche seems like a fun tool for that. Also, I enjoy smocking, and really fine coton à broder is getting really hard to find. So I’m really glad to learn of this new resource for threads!
I am new to the world of embroidery. Last year I joined a local fibre arts group, subscribed to the Inspirations magazine and newsletter and now I’m even thinking of going to Australia for their 2020 Beating Around the Bush stitching convention. I am learning new stitches weekly through Mary’s wonderful tutorials and how to books. If my name were drawn for that awesome collection of floche threads, I could take on Mary’s Stitch Sampler Alphabet that I also purchased and downloaded last year. Imagine having the whole collection at your fingertips. Heaven.
Hugs from Calgary
I love floche but can never find it at my local craft stores. It’s so soft looking. I have a project that I am creating from scratch myself. The first time I’ve ever done that. It’s of a griffin looking down regally from his royal height. I’ve been struggling with the thread choices. Nothing seems quite right. I think this would be perfect. Thank you for the opportunity to win this fabulous prize. Phyllis is awesome for her generosity. Thank you both.
Thank you to Phyllis for such a great prize! And you, Mary for making it possible for us. I love floche, too, I use it for everything including smocking and heirloom embroidery on christening gowns for my grandkids and on special occasion clothes. I’ve been wanting to embroider a colorful tea cloth covered with flowers and garden critters, these threads would be perfect for that. Thank you again and have a merry Christmas, Mary and everyone!
I would certainly enjoy trying out floche! It is beautiful!
For sure satin stitch!
Have a great break and Merry Christmas Holidays!
I recently acquired the ‘Warm Embrace’ digital pattern from the Inspirations newsletter. I would attempt that cute little bunny with the floche. My best friend just had a new grandson and it is a gift for him.
What a very generous give-away! I do not have any place nearby to purchase floche and since you have used it and talked about it, I think it would be wonderful to use as I dive into more surface embroidery this year, starting with some of your kaleidoscopes. Merry Christmas!
If I was lucky enough to win the floche I would use it to smock a bishop dress for my six month old granddaughter. I have taken classes from Phyllis at SAGA convention. She is a great teacher and talented
If I were to win the floche I would embark on a dream trip down the Madeira embroidery hole. Lillie McAnge first introduced me to floche in her school in 2003 and I was hooked. The way this thread acts when stitching with it is amazing and everytime I use it I hear Lillie’s soft words”just pet it a little” and it makes me smile.
I love floche! If I had the whole set, I would experiment with four-way bargello because there is so much opportunity for shading and contrast. I also would use this for needlepointing flowers, again as the shading would be fantastic.
With a whole set of floche, I would stitch two things. A most wonderful stitch sampler book with every stitch I could find sampled there. Then I would stitch a rainbow crazy quilt using those stitches along with bits of lace and shiny beads.
I would make a sampler of my design. Using surface embroidery. The theme would be a children’s theme and some sewing designs mixed in. I would try to do it with my niece who is just being embroidery.
I honestly don’t know what I would make with it, but I do know what I would do with it…the first thing I would do would be to set the whole thing out and just admire the beauty of so much wonderful thread! And then I’d probably pet it on the way by every time I walked past it.
i would use these threads in my crazy quilting — i imagine they would be great for words and monograms that i sometimes include & for any fill work.
This would be knew to me but I am sure I could weave it into something special.
Happy Christmas Mary and thankyou for all your lovely items of interest.
What would I embroider with that much thread? Anything and everything. I’ve been gathering material for crazy quilt for awhile and this would be a fantastic addition.
I think I would select the colours I like best and I would draw a design that will be inspired by those beautiful colors.
Then I would use as many stitches as possible, from the good videos provided by this site, including multi colors stitches to enhance those threads.
I will use a few ones as a basis and multiple others to highlight them.
Anyway, I would enjoy the whole process a lot!
I hope I will win!
I would use floche to make my monogram – SHS.
Working with this would be great for an alphabet sampler. Beautiful colors!
I have not used floche before, but after reading your articles about it, I am quite certain it would be ideal for embellishing a new linen dress I am sewing for myself. I would love to experiment with it. Merry Christmas Mary!
Hi Mary,
Now that I have a new little Grand-daughter I would love to do some smocking. A very good use for floche, I think.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Liz from Deep River
I would love to embroider some of my mothers beautiful designs using floche. She used wool when doing crewel and I think her designs would be lovely using floche.
I’d use it for a Jacobean pillow pattern in my stash.
That would most definitely be the time to do the Stitcher’s Alphabet as a sampler!
I would make something for myself by embellishing a favorite sweater or jacket. Then I would use it to make gifts for my family.
If I had all of that glorious floche, I’d floral monogram every pillow, towel, & sheet in my home! Thanks for helping us find another wonderful vendor. ❤️
I am currently exploring Arts & Crafts embroidery designs published by Gustav Stickley in the Craftsman Magazine from 1903-1918. The simplicity of the designs (which combine applique and surface embroidery) lends iteself to a heavier thread such as floche.
I would start with your Stitch Sampler Alphabet but would want to do some pretty florals with it as well. Thank you for these wonderful resources!
I am interested in making a set of embroidered storage containers for my embroidery tools. I have a hard time using the divided floss because of arthritis and would like to try the Floche instead. I wouldn’t mind adding some smocking too.
I would use the floche to embroidery a Christmas stocking for my first granddaughter Ansley.
Thank you!
Becky Smith in Bryceville
What a wonderful Christmas give-away !! I fell in love with floche during an embroidery class I took, and have preferred it ever sense. I used it to hand monogram a set of sheets for my niece’s wedding present, and would love to embroider crib sheets with scenes from fairy tales with an assortment of colors ! Another niece and nephew have married in the mean time, so I need to start on a number of crib sheets !
Thanks for the chance to win them – and for your blog which I read and save in a special embroidery folder !
Susan
I would be so very happy to use the floche for projects in which I reproduce some medieval manuscript devotional pages. I wish to use embroidery more and more for devotional works, and I found some beautiful French illuminations of feast days, done in the 15th century. I’ve only been able to use floche in white and gray, after reading Mary’s blog about it. It has been hard to track down. It was lovely, as Mary describes. I would love to use the floche for these reasons. Thank you.
If I had the whole set I would do more designs like Trish Burrs whitework with colour but try out other main colours instead. I’d also give some designs by Susan O’Connor a try 🙂
I read your article on floche and am very interested in trying it in projects combining embroidery and quilting. Thanks for your very informative posts!
I would try some of the Jacobean projects that I have been contemplating
I love floche. I could stitch ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING with a whole set of floche. A better question would be: what can’t you stitch with floche?
Pick me!
Wow! First up, I’d just enjoy the thread lottery a bit and then there are tons of projects to stitch up – samplers, embroidered frocks and skirts, table runners, pillows and cushions, jewelry boxes. This one would keep me busy a couple of years. Rushing out to get some linen …. Thanks in advance. :). Happy New Year!!!
Vera Vera
Oh Mary! With such wondrous color, I think one of your kaleidoscope designs would be in best to stitch! Something to display such a colorful array!
Merry Christmas to you, and a Blessed New Year!
Whatever it is it would have to be floral. Floche makes everything a little softer but more.
Wow! This floche May be what I’ve been looking for. I hadn’t embroidered for several years, but I picked it up again last spring.
I decided to make hand embroidered ornaments for a crib mobile for my expected (now four month old) grandson. I’ve also made a few toys.
I’ve been primarily using make-it-up-as-I-go surface embroidery. I’ve been learning lots of new stitches, especially filling stitches. I don’t want any long stretches of thread to catch little fingers, and I do want lots of texture.
I’ve been using DMC floss, sometimes doubled for texture and fill, sometimes even soft crochet thread. I think floche might be just what I’ve needed. I would love to have some to keep creating for him.
Diana teaching in Illinois
I’ve been thinking about embroidery on knitted wool hats, what a wonderful opportunity to try floche. I’ve used it before and love the way it “blends” with fabric. I’m crossing my fingers!
I would love a set of floche to use on a Spring themed crazy quilt. The colors are perfect for Spring and floche would be beautiful for the many different stitching techniques that I could be used on a crazy quilt.
I’ve been wanting to try embroidering scapulars and badges with little icons on them (e.g. with the Sacred Heart), floche seems like it would work nicely for projects like these!
I would love to win a whole set of floche!!! I would use it exclusively for a created, wool appliqué design, designed around the colors as well as the type of stitches that would highlight the floche. Merry Christmas!
Thank you Mary & Phyllis—your floche give-away is quite a Christmas bonanza!! Yes, floche is great for a variety of stitching techniques—Marion Scoular’s classes often utilize floche—but I can see it used as gimp for making lace. Floche is similar in size & construction to DMC coton a broder 30 so it should pair nicely with 120/2 thread. It’s always a challenge to introduce color when making some of the finer laces so this would be a terrific opportunity to kick it up a notch with Binche or Bucks Point lace. My mind is racing, fingers & bobbins are crossed! Merry Christmas
Many years ago while in a class with Marion Scoular, she commented on how well floche blends in long and short. I went home and embroidered a pansy bouquet on a denim shirt. Many washings later I have bright pansies on avery faded denim shirt. I LOVE FLOCHE
I am currently stitching a Hardanger piece titled Ivory Blush. I am using the palest shade of pink floche in places as well as perle #8. The floche is a joy to use and lays so nicely on my linen. I love floche.
A lush landscape with lots of flowers and birds!
I would stitch a large landscape to go over my sofa. Thanks for the chance to win!
Here is a giveaway I can’t resist. One of my favourite forms of stitching is crazy quilting and I often use your flower alphabet as one of the motifs. But I have never used floche before. What an ideal giveaway for my purposes! Merry Christmas, Mary!
I have long envisioned a cross back apron with all the letters of the alphabet, in floche using the stitch sampler alphabet. I did a sketch using random letters placed all over an apron, but alas, all I have is gray floche. So I await rainbow colors.
If I had an abundance of floche, I’d dedicate it to my Melissa Shirley Santas on 18 count canvas. I’ve used it in the past for beards/hair, Santa’s robes, cuffs, etc. Of course I’d add a little bling here and there but floche is such a versatile thread in
‘open’ stitching and by stranding ‘up’ for various stitches. Its warm feel and wide variety of colors works great for Christmas canvases.
My dream for the floche would be to embroider a full size bedspread for my grand-niece, part applique and part embroidery, actually, of the state of Ohio where both of us were born and where we now, having left the state for different periods of time, both live again. I’ve learned a lot in the last year and think I’m ready to give floche a try. Thanks again and again, Mary, for all you do. Happy holidays and a grand New Year to you!
I could make a sampler that I’ve always wanted to make, but never have. All those beautiful colors for all those wonderful stitches! Perfection
Suzi’s MiMi
Ohh Mary! Where to begin? Well I’d probably pounce first on the white and neutral shades of floche because I would really enjoy trying them out with a fine white work embroidery design. (Speaking of which, please please don’t try too hard to resist the Jenny A-C Stitchers Workbasket design because it’s one of my favourites and I’d love to follow you working that project!) 🙂 Anyway … back to floche … after the white shades I’d be keen to use some of the coloured threads to try a few of the Lorna Bateman designs from her new book. I’m eyeing those longingly just now … so those coloured threads would definitely not go to waste! 🙂
A Daily Journal of stitches. One stitch for each day of each month to be framed and hung on a wall at the end of the year.
I would use this amazing prize to do some design work of my own in all the beautiful colours. Merry festive season x
With a whole matte rainbow at my fingertips, it would finish the trick to creating several large brooch/pendants (at a quality jewelry findings company they have a lock in place pin back with a convertible pendant loop on each end) covered in flowers real and abstract and use lots of greenery. And the floch would add the matte to the mix to make it believable. I’ve tried a couple and with all about the same them up with glossy silk or rayon’s. The sides would have to be covered so petals and leaves would be woven down the sides to overlap the dome of the piece and hide the edges.
Then there’s no worry when pinning it on the right cardigan because there’s a little of every color on it and not much for a clash!
Floche……..beautiful floche. I just love this thread. If I was lucky enough to win this wonderful gift, I think I would just sit and look at all the beautiful colours, then set about deciding what I would embroider with the threads. Using floche to stitch Trish Burr’s design “Katarina” was my first experience with the thread and my satin stitching improved immediately. It was such a pleasure to use and so smooth in hand.
Merry Christmas Mary! Thanks for all the lovely giveaways this year, it’s been so much fun!
If I had a whole set of floche I’d like to do some monogrammed items but I’d also like to see how it behaves with some things like Parma Embroidery, Punto Antico and other Italian techniques that use pearl cotton today but which were traditionally used with embroidery cotton threads in the past. Cost is always so prohibitive when experimenting but if I had quite a bit to use, I could experiment to my heart’s content!
All the best!
Love Floche, and if I had all the colors, I would design a color wheel using them. I have purchased from Phyllis Brown in the past, she has lovely supplies.
If I had a whole set of floche at my fingertips I’m thinking I would stitch a Christmas tree skirt with the twelve days of Christmas theme….I can only imagine how gorgeous it would be.
I’d make a basket of beautiful flowers !
So pretty!!! I’d do some smocking for my granddaughters and embroider to my heart’s content. Merry Christmas!!!
I would love to try floche in a stumpwork kit/pattern. It would be good to compare the results with a pattern I have already done in DMC floss. I try to design a little and have wanted to try floche.
If I were fortunate to win this beautiful prize, I would use it it to choose perfect colors for smocking and shadow embroidery. I love using it for those applications. For this Christmas, I used floche to embroider Phyllis’ ‘Baby’s First Christmas’ on two granddaughter’s Christmas dress collars.
I imagine using this for a larger piece depicting the landscape of the rolling hills of the Palouse region where I live in Eastern Washington. I’ve wanted to attempt a more ambitious piece and would love to use the floche to illustrate my sketches.
I imagine using this for a larger piece depicting the landscape of the rolling hills of the Palouse region where I live in Eastern Washington. I’ve wanted to attempt a more ambitious piece and would love to use the floche to illustrate my sketches.
Foche would turn into vegetation, and lots of flowers from my hands. The sheen, the appropriate thickness without stripping any threads, the ease of stitching are all reasons why floche is adored.
An entire 90+ set of floche would grow to represent every flower known. Scenic foliage, likely several small animals frolicking in the wilderness. A small cityscape would be tucked into the background with a field of grazing sheep a bit closer. The sky would be dusk with purples and burgungy at the horizon, a creamy crescent moon in the sky. The more I think about this image the clearer it becomes.
Congratulations to the winner of this fabulous floche.
I would simply play and see what comes forth.
Can I be honest? I have no idea what I’d stitch with it and I wouldn’t expect to have an idea until I’d seen it and played with it a bit. I’ve never embroidered with anything but 6-stranded cotton (probably Anchor or DMC when I was little, mostly cheaper brands later and now I have a little DMC). I have literally no idea what it would be like to work with something else (or even to work something entirely in better quality stranded cotton). Don’t know if this answer qualifies for entry, but it’s the best I can do.
[I don’t think cheap thread is as bad as people say. At least, not the stuff sold in East End markets in the 80s, which is the source of most of mine. But it isn’t mostly made in China, but India. It isn’t as strong or as shiny as DMC and half of it is much harder to get off the skeins, but it isn’t horrible to work with at all. You can’t trust the colour numbers for consistency, though they’re 90% reliable. But it works fine for a fraction of the cost of branded thread.]
Hi Mary.
I know exactly what I’d make with the floche: some whitework in colour which I’ve always wanted to try after admiring Trish Burr’s designs,
Keep well and merry Xmas.
Lucky, lucky person who wins! I would use them on all my embroidery.
After I sit and admire all the colours!
Thank you for the chance, and happy stitching to all!
I would use the Floche for a class I am taking over the next 10 months with my ANG group. Hearts of Gold which I will be doing in many colors.
I would get a beginners pattern or book and learn how to do it.
I would be thrilled to own this marvelous gift. I have been smocking and embroidering for many years, And floche is my favorite thread. I love monagraming as I am an old southern lady (80 years) where monagraming is a must for linens.
If I was the winner of the Floche I would use it to make my lighthouse panels for the quilt I want to make stand out more so the embroidery would not look so flat. I have not started on the Panels because I have not been able to find the right Thread that will work to make my embroidery make a statement. I like the way it looks on the monogram. I am keeping the info from your news letter so that way when I don’t win I will still be able to get some. I feel the Floche is the tread i am looking for. I really would like to finally be able to make a Quilt for me. I have made so many for gifts for others. I would just like to have a quilt with embroidered Lighthouses for my self since lighthouses are my favorite item.
What an extraordinary gift to use all the floche on. The first thing that came to mind was Ann Hathoway’s Cottage. All of designs
Or pics I have of this design show lots of colors for the cottage and a wonderful gardens in such abundant color, a person could lose themselves for hours. I also am working on a unique project which involves a family tree I hope to start stitching after the new year. I enjoy mulling on a project before I start it. It feels like I am editing in my head. Yes all those colors involve a lot of delights!
Dear Needle N Thread
Thank you for the opportunity to win this absolutely fabulous aray of Floche’s. I havn’t worked with Floch before, but looking at your pictures, they look fantastic quality and vibrant colours to choose from. I would love to use them for a Birth Sampler for my grand daughters, I have three, So I would love to do one each for them. Also with the variety I would like to do some patterns of my own creation, to make for my children as a keepsake, something practical so they can either hang it up or use it, like table clothes, etc., I suppose there will be a lot of people looking to do their own creations, but I am in my late 60’s now, so do not have extensive time to do what I would like to do. Appreciate the chance to win.
Regards
J K P
Patreon
Merry Christmas from New York City! If I were to win this whole set of floche the first thing I would do is get together with some of the children from our parish to continue their lessons in embroidery. It would be nice to have them make whimsical wallets with their names and other floral designs adorning them.
I haven’t yet had the opportunity to work with floche–I just used perle cotton for the first time in the past couple of days to monogram a couple of pillowcases for Christmas presents! I have a Big, Exciting Idea for my next new embroidery project which will be much bigger than anything I’ve tried previously or worked on recently; I’m planning on embroidering abstract landscapes on black linen, inspired by the visions I see when I hear sounds (particularly music)! I can’t wait to start on it, especially because I’ve tried to paint or draw these visions before but I’ve never been able to adequately capture them, but the more I get into stitching and build up my repertoire, the more I’m beginning to think of these visions in terms of different embroidery stitches. Regardless of the outcome of this giveaway, I think I’m going to incorporate some floche into the project!
I would have to spend a whole lot of time just looking at it first —then quite a bit of time touching it—then lots of time arranging and rearranging it—then exploring lots of books to find the perfect projects for it! Oh, what fun!
If I had a whole set of floche at my fingertips, I would use it to stitch the same things I have stitched so far, various samplers I make up as I go. The samplers resemble miniature American quilt blocks, or traditional Welsh quilt designs. I like to to use different types and weights of thread in the same piece and have wanted to try floche for awhile, just haven’t ordered any yet. It would be amazingly fun to have a whole set, I probably won’t win, but it’s worth a try.
I’ve never stitched with floche , so I really don’t know what I would do with it.
I have used coton a broder in Schwalm embroidery, but I would *love* to try floche when stitching on fine linen and add color to the German and Nordic motifs that I love so much. I would also like to see the effect it would create in some of the Hardanger patterns I have.
Some friends and I have decided make a set of The Twelve Days of Christmas ornaments together for next Christmas. The floss set would be perfect for this project I think. Thank you from Atlanta.
I can see embroidered flowers on a quilt border done up in these beautiful threads.
I would use it in my wool applique and embroidery. A friend of mine uses it and said it is lovely to work with and has great results. I can’t wait to try it.
I would use it in my wool applique and embroidery. A friend of mine uses it and said it is lovely to work with and has great results. I can’t wait to try it.
Used cloche on a dress smocked for a grandbaby. It was lovely would love to try it again
I have just bought the new RSN book on embroidered boxes and would love to use floche to stitch some floral designs on a box – the smooth finish would be gorgeous.
I would need to look at and love them for sometime, then make a decision on what to stitch.
I think I would select the colours I like best and I would draw a design that will be inspired by those beautiful colors.
Then I would use as many stitches as possible, from the good videos provided by this site, including multi colors stitches to enhance those threads.
I will use a few ones as a basis and multiple others to highlight them.
Anyway, I would enjoy the whole process a lot!
I hope I will win!
I’ve been meaning to get some new materials for tatting and maybe floche would be just the right thing.
Oh my goodness what would I do with all this floche???? There are sooo many things I would use it for!! First of all, I would use it for needle weaving and making different patterns from all those lovely colors. I’d use it for Aztec stitch in my work (I think it’s perfect for that). I’d use it for long and short stitch, I might use it for picots (I need to feel the weight). There is so much that ca be done with this thread! I would definitely use it for edging ad hem stitching. I would play around with it in a tatting shuttle to see what beauties I can make. The possibilities are endless with floche. I only wish it were more readily available, especially in many colors!
I’d arrange them, and pet them, and hug them, and name them George! Oh – what stitching I’d do? No definite idea project ideas, other than stop kicking myself for not buying some when the LNS had their retirement sale 🙁
Wow. There are so many possibilities. I would like to get back to making fabric books. And some Sue Spargo projects. And perhaps I could start smocking again.
I would use floche on cross stitch. From what I read, coverage will be great with floche which is what I want.
I love, love, love floche. I would use much more of it in embroidery if I had a wonderful color range. Mostly I have used the softer pastels in Smocking and really like it. Also Phyllis is teaching for our guild this coming year. I’m sure she will use floche in the embroidery! Thank you so much for the opportunity.
With a full set of floche, I will start my full frontal attack on the nearly full dresser of vintage stamped tablecloths I have. Floche is a dream to work with, lays beautifully, and even feels good to the touch while working with it. Without a doubt, the best info and most used idea I found on Needle’n’Thread.
Colors! 90+ colors of flèche! This is truly incredible – I didn’t know that they existed without hand dying. Well of course I would be found working on just hundreds of monograms with personalized symbols in complimentary colours. Thank you to Phyllis!
I design custom monograms in pen and ink, but I’ve been wanting to design them so I could also take the design and embroider it by hand. And, I’ve wanted to try my hand at smocking forever and have recently started making some clothes that will have smocking in the design, so now’s the time to learn! And all these colors….LOVE!!!
Carol Colvin, Loganville, GA
I would love to use the floche to stitch colorful birds, flowers and insects. The pictures of finished images in floche that Mary Corbet provides are gorgeous.
The floche would be used for a family sampler that I am planning to do for my children and grandchildren. I think it will work nicely on a heavy linen using all the colors of the rainbow!
Mary, you have written so much about floche I have always wanted to try using it, but never bought any. Using it for monograms sounds like a great idea. I already have your ebook to give it a try.
I thought your Assisi initials were so pretty that I was inspired to start one. However I didn’t get around to it – floche would be a perfect fiber with great colors to get me back on track. Blessings for the New Year. You are such a wonderful inspiration- my prayers are with you.
Floche is such a lovely thread to work with. I’ve only every used white and cream – with a complete set of colour – I think I’d try some monogramming. Floche makes my not amazing satin stitch – look much better than it actually is.
Merry Christmas to All!
Toni
Hi Mary,
I have begun collecting floche and as you say it isn’t always easy to find. I have a small tablecloth with a floral design on it that would look wonderful done up using cotton floche.
S. Sparks
How lovely! I’ve never worked with floche before, so I’d probably start with a sampler to get a feel for it, perhaps the monogram sampler or maybe a set of pretty mandalas. After that, the sky’s pretty much the limit!
I think I would like to try it with Hungarian style flowers since it give a great coverage with a satin stitch.
What a wonderful gift! I looked at Phyllis’ website and was excited to see she is just an hour and a half from me. Will contact her about Stitching on the Neuse :)So I’ve already won just to find a workshop so close.
I purchased your Stitch Sampler Alphabet a few months ago, so I would the floche in that project. I would also challenge myself to use every color in 2020 whether it be in a stitch sampler roll/book in the TAST project (Take a Stitch Tuesday), in doll dresses, or crazy quilting.
Thanks Mary for all you do!! Merry Christmas, Dee
Since I have never used this thread before, I think I would try a little bit of everything! An ornament or two, a small sampler, a pincushion or needlebook. I do mainly needlepoint, and have heard this thread recommended by other bloggers (Janet Perry, Melita). Ooohhh – a whole set, what a dream prize.
WOW a whole set of floche! I would love to use it in my cross stitch & needlepoint ornaments. Thanks for the opportunity.
SueB of Escondido
I was looking at the Jade Dragon from Roseworks Design (South Africa) and the floche would add some pizzazz.
Marie-Claude
Vancouver BC
I have a Tenango design that a bought a few months ago. I think it will work out great with. Thanks and, I don’t comment but always read your emails (I love your sense of humor).
I’d use it for Madeira embroidery or shadow work. I have taken a class from Phyllis and I really enjoyed it and learned a lot!
Oh, my ! If I had an entire collection of floche, I would feel sure that Santa had come ! First, I have promised to smock dresses of Liberty of London lawn for two great nieces who are sisters. I would be sure to have exactly the right colors. Also one of my goals for 2020 is to try my hand at thread painting.
The colours are beautiful and make me think of a spring flower garden with irises and primroses etc. on a table cloth or on a bag.
I would love to try Floche in a small stitch sashiko and in my Celtic saints embroideries which are mainly done in stem stitch and satin stitch.
I would definitely stitch some more monograms with your stitch sampler alphabet. I absolutely love that ebook. Odds are I won’t win but a person has to dream.
I’ve stitched a priest’s stole with floche and it turned out well. I’m working on a second stole and using combo of floche and silk. I plan on making two more stoles so a set of floche would make those projects beautiful.
I honestly don’t know. With all the colors, I wouldn’t know where to start. Maybe that’s wimping out, but it’s the truth.
Lori from Mountain View
Thirtysomething years ago I bought a used copy of Woman’s Day book of American Needlework. Of course the patterns were missing. Last year I found the box of patterns and I yearn to make the motifs from a vintage bed curtain that is a museum piece. I am assuming you have seen the book. The curtain is linen with all the early American flowers and a few insects. I want to make a rather modest wallhanging, instead, and floche is a perfect thread for this Jacobean design. There’s quite a lot of soft shading. I will need a wide variety of colors so this is a perfect opportunity! Thank you and Phyllis for making available such a wonderful giveaway!
I love floche and use it often. If I had the whole set , it would makes it easier to choose the perfect colors to match any given fabric since I like add embroidery to children’s clothes. Thanks Phyllis!
I have a small 6in by 4 3/4 in icon of the Arch Angel Michael, and I have wondered about reproducing it along with several other small icons I have. These would be embroidered on linen “leaves” each one facing a linen leaf with some sentence from Scripture. The finished item would be a embroidered 6″ x 6″ book. Reason? Just want to do it. Why not?
I’ve never used floche but after viewing the texture of your embroidered monograms. I would definitely look for an item worth monogramming and use a design from your alphabet sampler.
I do mostly counted work, so I’d like to try using floche on a counted thread band sampler as an alternative to floss. Thank you, Mary, for your informative and entertaining website!
I would love to use this prize to design a set of memories of the past. Either on a quilt or a box. Thanks for the opportunity.
Oh my goodness, the whole line of floche is an amazing thought. How I love thread, as all my friends know. My first order of business would be to thoughtfully arrange them. I have always wanted to do an alphabet project and wouldn’t a full set of this fabulous thread be the icing on the cake.
I would stitch different birds on tree
branches. Below would be a small pond surrounded by flowers.
I’d stitch pillows, in minem, with roses, that include a lot of satin and steam stitches
I would use this fiber to stitch monograms on pillows for both of my granddaughters in their favorite colors.
I haven’t heard of floche before. I would use it for smocking as I really enjoy that craft and my pleater machine has been put away for far too long. Thanks so much for posting about this as there is now, no store in Perth where I can buy smocking needles etc and it is nice to know of a reliable on-line source.
I would do a sampler on linen with ALL of the colors
i think i’d love to do a large tablecloth. but that’s just one thought,
so many ideas come flooding in thinking of this. thanks so much mary,
hope you hae a wonderful christmas
I love floche! what would I stitch ?….everything. from alphabets to smocking . monograms, winter scenes, spring scenes, summer scenes, fall scenes, and birds from doves to wrens. flamingos to peacocks. the question should have been ” what will I stitch first?” love stitching, fabric, thread, and patterns. thanks for the chance to win and the daydreams.
I would love to give Floche a try. I love to embroider, so it’s about time I tried a new thread.
What a lovely indulgence to have an entire collection of thread! I would make something from the Stitch Sampler Alphabet to get the feel of the thread since I’ve never used it before.
I have a few skeins of Floche, but I haven’t really tried it out. I have the Monograms booklet from you and I’d certainly use it to try out the Monograms for my daughters: L & S. 🙂 Thanks for all your informative posts: I love them!! Hugs, H
I’m not really sure what I would stitch with the floche, it’s not a thread that is available in the UK, so it would be great to try and compare with Coton a broder. With all of the beautiful colours though, I think it would have to involve lots of flowers.
I’ll enjoy spending time with my Daughter who for the 1st time ever has expressed an interest in a Craft/Art to Embroider names & drawings of guests on her Thanksgiving Tablecloth. Blessings!
Oh wow! My smocking sesnses are tingling……I have not used or come across floche before. I am planning a smocked shirt & shorts set for my new grandsons christening…..I would truely be very excited & pleased if I could use this new thread.
Maree T
I have never stitched with floche before, I think I would love to work stylized flowers and other motifs from an old pattern book I got in long and short stitch shading and other surface embroidery stitches onto a tote bag, so that it can be reasonably hardy and doesn’t take forever to finish.
Mary: I would love the floche set for a ‘new’ (is anything really new?) idea I’m rehashing around in my head; the thoughts of a series of small embroideries centering on the theme of ‘good luck’ talismans. Research into different cultures and countries adds to my interest also.
Thanks also for all that you do for the embroidery world!!!
I would start by making some samples since I haven’t used this thread before.
I’ve been pondering this one for a couple of days. I both do a lot of historical work and give much of my work away. It might be nice to do something for me. I think what I would love to do with the cotton floche is a spray of flowers, either cherry blossoms or dogwoods, on a twirly skirt.
I have used floche on canvas work and have a couple more canvases that could use this lovely thread. I’d also like to try some monograms. There would even be enough to share.
If I were fortunate enough to win the floche set, I think that I’d most like to start with the lilac breasted roller from Trish Burne’s book for my daughter. She saw one for the first time this year when we went to visit my mother, and she was entranced by the vibrant colours!
I have Trish Burr’s ‘Whitework with Color’ and Hazel Beauchamp’s ‘Crewel Creatures’. Many of Trish Burr’s designs call for floche, I could finally take on the challenge of Maureen the Owl, she’d be gorgeous. Plus, all the possible monograms, and cards, and…the possibilities are endless!
I would love to give floche a try on a quilt I made for my little grandson. It’s ready for some hand embroidery to embellish the nursery rhyme characters (my mother painted) with verses and other personal details.
Carol_SS – Brookfield
I have in my head a stitched map of my favorite place…. Leelanau Peninsula Michigan … with all of the beautiful colors and seasons.
I have never used floche however I would love to experiment with the wonderful colors and texture in perhaps a stitch simpler of some sort.
With a lovely collection of floche I would like to design a monogram sampler of sorts with an assortment of letters in different colors using a variety of alphabet styles.
How wonderful it would be to have floche for smocking. Having used floche in as class for a smock sometime ago it seemed to look better to me than any other thread I tried. It is great to find it available, although pricey for me since I am a common tea towel, napkin, table cloth embroiderwe at 89 with failing eyesight. Your light recommendations have been very helpful. Thank you.
OOH! I think I would buy your alphabet e-book and give monogramming a try. Also, I have the printed Holly towels and I believe that might be a good project too.
Actually, I could just search through all the projects you’ve provided!
Happy Christmas (It IS still Christmas Season!) and New Year to you and yours.
I am a recent subscriber to your newsletter who loves embroidery. As I read the articles included in your post, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities of doing a project using Floche. The project I believe would be great to do with this thread would be a landscape, possibly a garden scene. I believe that would make the best use of the range of colors you indicated in your post. I hope I win. Thanks for the opportunity to try.
Endless ideas but I want to do some embroidery on a top of mine for starters and an edge on a 36″ square of linen I have been hoarding for just the right design. I have never tried this thread so it would really be fun to use it for something special that I will always keep. Beautiful colors too. Krissy B.
I don’t even know where to begin describing what I would stitch with floche; anything that didn’t run away from me, for a start! I’ve been wanting to try it. And I remember reading that “quite old, but still good” article when it first appeared. I guess that makes me quite older, but hopefully still good.
Thank you, Mary, for another fantastic year of beauty, instruction, and fun. May God bless you in the coming new year.
I only have white right now. I would use on a Trish Burr project that I’m wanting to do in 2020. But who would not want this wonderful treasure after hearing so much about it from you all these years!
I’m always intrigued buy the great gifts you offer to needleworkers. You’ve definitely ‘got our number’. This Christmas is no exception. This thread! I have some patterns of wildflowers that are still in the thinking/planning stage. These wonderful threads would be perfect.
I do enjoy your articles and send all of my students to your website and videos. Thank you for all of your sharing. Maryann
Floche is an amazing fiber. I love its feel, texture, and silkiness.
If I had a whole color range of Floche, I’d create a flower garden on a lovely linen. The flowers would glisten with beads and buttons and I’d be certain to use padded satin stitches, some bullion knots, and try some of those wonderful background stitches that change color as you alternate direction.
Hmmm, my mind is humming with ideas for Floche.
That is a very exciting Christmas present for anyone who enjoys embroidery !
My very first project would probably be to try your tulip monogram, as the stitching looks beautiful. If floche can make my work look anything like that, then I’m a convert ! I would also be interested in trying this thread for some schwalm embroidery or for sashiko. As you can see, I am currently on an embroidery voyage of discovery, although I am not particularly practised, just inspired by the experts in each style. There are so many beautiful embroidery techniques across the globe, and I want to try them all!
As I am based in Europe, I may not be eligible for your prize, but thank you Mary for your inspirational blog, and as they say down my way,
Joyeux Noel!
Hope you had a nice Christmas, Mary.
Since my birthday is coming next Tuesday, and since I love to work with floche when I do satin stitch, I would really love to win.
I would do one of the pieces from my lovely book Whitework with Colour from Trish Burr, that my husband gave me (I asked him to order it for me) for my last birthday. Probably the Beetle car. Or may be another one too. May be the african lady. This book has so many lovely ideas.
I wish you and your readers the best for the New Year.
I would like to stitch a colorful paisley, maybe finished into a cushion. When finished it would have a lovely feel to it,
I have a mandala pattern that’s just waiting for the right threads to come along. These cotton floche would be the ones!
I would stitch all the patterns and e-books I’ve purchased from Needle n Thread site. I’m getting a good collections and will need some thread for all those patterns. Hope I win.
Happy Christmas Mary and to everyone looking in ! Now I have never used this Floche , I hear you talking about it ,but not sure that we can get it over here ..I,ve neve 🙂
Yet another generous gift! Thank you! With a set of floche, I think I would start with monograms and get a head start on a 2020 wedding gift that I’ll want to make something special for.
I would love to try this flouche on an embroidery pattern we found in my mother in law’s belongings. We do not know where it came from. It is an oval shape big enough for a table cloth center, with butterflies and roses. I did it once as a wall hanging with a crazy quilt border. I gave it to my daughter and would now like to do it for my son. Thank you Mary for all the inspiration.
Hi Mary,
Threads, I love them all. I would love to have the Flouche threads. I will start to use them on a French General project I am working on. I think it will add great texture to my picture. I will love to play with them,
Thank you for all you do.
What would I do with a whole set of floche colors? Oh heavens, what wouldn’t/couldn’t I do?? It lays nicely on small-gauge needlepoint canvas/congress cloth, and I’ve previously used it for bargello, which comes out beautifully – so I’d enjoy doing more of that. I’d also experiment using it on larger-gauge woven fabrics instead of floss, or even use it for fine crochet since there’s such an array of colors (unlike crochet thread).
Floche is not easily available here but I would love to try it. I would love to try it on a design of flowers particularly done with thread painting
Wow! What beautiful colors!!! I’m drooling over here. I’m a complete newbie and hubby got me the RSN Book of Embroidery for Christmas and I can’t wait to get started and learn. I would like to make some pillow covers and curtains!
I would use the floche for some satin stitched flowers. Maybe a bee or two thrown in!
All the best to everyone for 2020!
Thanks, Mary.
Oh, a whole set of floche! Let me wrap my mind around that…ok, what would I do with floche? First thing that comes to mind is monograms. Love how floche fills in so nicely with just a single strand. Second, any satin stitch designs would be perfect. I would enjoy using them for the monograms e-book, for sure. Another use would be for smocking and heirloom embroidery.
Thanks for another amazing giveaway!
Oh my! What an incredible give-away! I would love to use this beautiful set for cross stitching and to stitch some of your lovely kaleidoscope designs.
Thank you for hosting all of these wonderful give-aways again this year.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
If I had a set of floche thread I would use it to stitch a Trish Burr needle painting design.
Oh wow! What an amazing give a way! I have been very tempted to use floche from what you have written, but haven’t bothered because of the difficulty in finding any to purchase. I have two planned projects that would be perfect for cloche. One is stitching an owl and the other is attempting to stitch an icon. I sure hope I win, but will be checking out Phyllis Brown’s website.
I would use the Floche to try some colorful whitework stitches.
Many thanks for your blog!!!
I think it might be fun to try with some of the snowflakes from your new book. I made 6 ornaments using bosal interfacing that was precut for coasters and the turned out beautifully!
Wow, what a marvelous give-away! Having never had the opportunity to use — or even see, much less feel — floche, I really cannot say what specific thing I would do with it. HOWEVER, I have enough projects in mind to do that I’ll probably never live long enough to get them all done, and I have to believe that some of them would be perfect for cliche. If I’m lucky enough to win, I’ll read everything you’ve posted about floche and will be in touch with you if I have any questions. Many thanks to Phyllis Brown for providing us this opportunity!
With a whole set of floche, which I have never had the chance to embroider with previously, I would embroider an old-fashioned sampler, using every stitch on needle thread website!
Including state flowers, trees and a homestead!
I think I would start with a large monogram and figure out a larger project that could use all those luscious colors!
A beautiful mandala.
If I had an entire set of floche I would continue to work on the buillion roses I have been practicing. After looking at Phyllis’s page I can only hope that someday I will be able to make them as beautifully as she does.
If I had a great big pile of floche, I would do a classic alphabet and number sampler. I’ve always wanted to do one and that would push me in the right direction.