The phrase "a blue thread" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific type of thread that is blue in color, often in contexts related to sewing, crafting, or textiles.
Example: "She carefully selected a blue thread to match the fabric for her sewing project."
Alternatives: "a cerulean thread" or "a navy thread".
Get a blue ribbon and thread it half-way through the elastic so you have to lengths of ribbon.
We have, in Anne Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread, a multi-generational family saga told with astonishing sensitivity and command.
Chakrabarti said the panel "went round the houses" to choose Smith as their eventual winner from a shortlist that also included Sarah Waters' The Paying Guests – the bookies' favourite – Rachel Cusk's Outline, Anne Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread, Kamila Shamsie's A God in Every Stone and Laline Paull's debut The Bees. "It wasn't easy," she said.
In each case, they seem to be interested in disrupting expectations, messing up their narratives a little: even Anne Tyler, whose novel A Spool of Blue Thread takes place in her traditional Baltimore setting and customary family set-up, inverts a linear narrative and plays fast and loose with her central characters' fates and (big deal, this, in the modern world) likability.
Joining James on the Man Booker shortlist were three other novels of extraordinary power, any of which would have made a fine winner (I'll pass over Anne Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread and Tom McCarthy's Satin Island, both of which felt like the minor novels of major novelists).
With one omission: Anne Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread (Vintage).
Kimberly Shields, from the website The characters in Anne Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread (Chatto & Windus) are so fully formed I felt I was reading a family album.
The other books were Tom McCarthy's Satin Island; Sunjeev Sahota's The Year of the Runaways; Chigozie Obioma's The Fishermen; and Anne Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread.
The other books on the shortlist were Tom McCarthy's Satin Island; Sunjeev Sahota's The Year of the Runaways; Chigozie Obioma's The Fishermen; and Anne Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread.
