[identity profile] malicious-pengy.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] craftgrrl
Needleworking craftgrrls, what brand of embroidery floss do you use? Has it always been the same one? Where do you live?

One of my more random interests is regional differences in the little things in life. Plants, animals, brands. I was in another community recently, and a couple of Brits were saying how they just couldn't believe we Americans don't have hedgehogs, and I was saying I couldn't believe that they didn't have skunks. In America, Hellmann's is the major mayonnaise brand on one side of the country, and on the other side, the same company sells it under the name Best Foods. This is a strange hobby of mine, so I'm just trying to explain it, but it just sounds stupid now. :/

In all of our local stores, DMC is the only brand they carry. My mother says they used to only carry Coates, but in the late 70s, suddenly DMC got the area's monopoly. We have normal DMC floss, DMC linen floss, glow in the dark DMC floss, fancy metallics and neons in DMC...

I just bought a pattern from England, and it's using Anchor colors. I found DMC equivalents for all of one of them, but still, erg.

Oddly enough, the DMC floss I have says it is not for sale in the European Union. I don't know what that is about.

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