soliciting advice on light effects

Jun 18, 2009 5 Replies

What has been your experience with Light Effects floss? I just saw an adorable fairy pattern and thought about doing it for DN for Christmas. It has lots of beads, but I'd put it in a pillow and substitute knots for the beads. Thought that doing them in Light Effects would be neat - a little glow in the bedroom at night, like real fairies.



How much do they "glow"? Bright or faint? For what period of time - short term and long-term? (i.e., for an hour after lights are out...and for a year after finished stitching, do they still keep a glow or does the ability to glow fade over time?)



(I'm thinking about the white glow-in-the-dark and the fluorescent yellow.)



How is it to stitch with?



thanks, Sue



I can't speak for the DMC thread, but my Kreinik Glow in the Dark did fade out after a couple of years.

linda

And I can't speak to how long the glow lasts (I gave the piece away) but the floss was horrible to stitch with! It frayed everywhere and was very slippery in the needle...

Heather

And I can't speak to how long the glow lasts (I gave the piece away) but the floss was horrible to stitch with! It frayed everywhere and was very slippery in the needle...

Heather

I never used the glow one, but I did use Light Effects for something and didn't like to work with it at all. It is pretty, but I would only use it as one or two strands mixed with regular floss and not all six strands on their own.

Lucille

I agree that it was horrible to use. Frayed is not the word that I would use, but it was very bad on that line.

I had to use very small lengths >> What has been your experience with Light Effects floss? I just saw an

It's not bad at all.......if you don't mind stitching with barbed wire!!!

just me, Cathy from KY in CA

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