Floche – ya gotta love it. It’s fine and soft, it’s got a beautiful sheen, it comes in lots of colors. It’s a great thread for stitching! Floche is a 5-ply mercerized cotton thread with a loose twist. A while ago, I compared floche to other better-known cotton embroidery threads so that you can get a sense of what floche looks like. It’s a fine thread – not much thicker than 2 single strands of regular embroidery floss – and it’s non-divizible (in most cases – I have divided it before and stitched with it successfully, but it isn’t easy to divide, as it’s not meant to be divided).

Floche comes in a good number of colors, and lately, a few more colors have been added to the collection:

The picture, I’m afraid, doesn’t do the colors justice. The darker blue at the top is a rich bright blue – almost like lapis. It’s really lovely.

In fact, you get a better sense of the dark blue here, where you can also see the color numbers.

If I had to describe the pinks, they remind me of a cross between… I don’t know… candy and carnations, if that makes sense! They’re definitely great “little girl” pinks, without being baby pink.

Finally, the two reds are slightly different. The one on the left is more of a rich deep red, and the other is more brickish color, with a hint of purply brown.

Gosh. I feel as if I’m trying to describe wines. All the colors have a bright, long finish; they linger on the eyes! No real hint of oak or chocolate or anything like that, though I wouldn’t be adverse to throwing in something about a certain flirty fruitiness.

Forget it. My descriptive abilities fail me.

What it boils down to, though, is that they’re fun colors, bright and cheerful, and they work into an idea sloshing about upstairs in my little head. Something about books and needlebooks and funky fabric and felt…

If you’re a Floche Fan and you’d like to get your hands on some of these new colors of floche, Hedgehog Handworks is carrying them. Do check them out!