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| Perle Cottons and Cotton Flosses for Bitch |
I've gotten my threads together to stitch Bitch. As you can see I have perle cotton from Finca and cotton floss skeins from DMC. The colors are not all good matches to the lettering, but I am hoping to mix and match shades of lavender and lilac on the design. The Finca perle cotton colors and sizes are (top to bottom): 2720 (size 16), 2711 (size 16), 2699 (size 8), and 2687 (size 12). The DMC cotton flosses are (left to right): 240, 210 and 211. In person the best match to the lilac paint on the painted canvas is the Finca 2699.
For those who aren't familiar with Finca perle cotton,
it is Egyptian cotton from Prescencia SA in Spain that is available in five sizes-- 3, 5, 8, 12 and 16. (The larger the number, the smaller the diameter of the thread). Currently there are 122 solid colors and 33 variegated color sets for the perle. Finca's Mouline Embroidery Floss is available in the same colors if you need a combination of perle and floss style threads. Note that Mouline Embroidery Floss has over 300 colors, though. So not every floss is available as perle cotton. This thread is distributed in the USA by Colonial Needle.
http://colonialneedle.com/Perle-Cotton/
Although you can order straight from the Colonial Needle website, quite a few shops carry Finca perles. Among the shops stocking Finca needlepointers are familiar with are Amy's Golden Strand, Come to the Point, KC Needlepoint, Needle in a Haystack (the one in Alameda, California) and Needlepoint Land. Here are their websites (in alpha order). If you know of other shops that carry Finca perle cottons, please let me know so I can add the shop to this listing.
http://www.amybunger.com/home.html
http://www.cometothepoint.com
https://www.kcneedlepoint.com
http://www.needlestack.com
https://needlepoint.land
Many thanks to the King of Threadaholics--Michael Boren--for help assembling the shop list above. And now, I need to start thinking background and embellishments....
UPDATE: Blog's readers have come up with additional good sources for Finca's perle cottons and flosses (and their metallics and more). If you are Canadian, Erica says you can stock up using Sew Fancy.
http://www.sewfancy.com/threads-finca.htm
If you live close to Northern Virginia, Sara Leigh recommends a visit to Web Fabrics. They carry all the colors of size 8 and 12 Finca perle cottons and she says their Cosmo embroidery floss is really silky and comes in 422 colors.
http://www.webfabrics.net/cgi-bin/Store/store.cgi?.s0&lastmenu=&menu=submenu-1100.html
Kathleen says Silk Road Needle Arts carries Finca. too.
http://www.silkroadneedle.com
Thanks folks!
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