What are those little gold walnut looking things?

Little Gold Walnut Things

Two of them are etuis with thimbles really too small to be useful and with the barest essentials for maybe sewing on a button or pinning a hem up in an emergency. But they are cute. The third one is a tape measure - perhaps more practical. The etuis show up pretty regularly on ebay.

Thank you Front Range Stitches for asking.

And thank you and Deb for encouraging me on Gleneagle. I used dark red with 3 strands of copper DMC metallic for houses and it looks pretty kewl.

New project WIP

What's this about?

It is Gleneagle by Jean Hilton

Yup, needlepoint, canvas, pearl #3, 5, 8 and floss that must be carefully laid.

This is the second time around,
I finished one in 1998.




I started this on 14 count which is what it was designed for. Last time, I did it on 18 count, with pearl 5, 8 and 12. I like 18 count a lot more, so I have ordered that plus 3 different colorways because, of course, you can't get #12 in colors like you can with 8.

What is new this week:
finishing a little tape measure by
I'll cross that stitch when I come to it

In how do I stitch
Johanna's needlework stitch diagrams

In finishing
Violarium heart shaped pinkeep
Tintock Tap for 15 sided biscornu
Banukarotti SAL
Stitch Creations

In Mystery
An important flower by Alessandra Adelaide Needleworks.
And a word of advice: If you see it, like it or find it useful, save it or print it. I have found two very good resources for conversions are gone - just can't keep up with updates. I wish there was a place for such orphans that maybe we could keep up to date as a community. Oh well, life goes on.

Happy Valentines Day and little pins to decorate

Happy Valentines Day!
I hope you celebrate in whatever way you like most.
If you have been looking at the new releases from the Nashville wholesale show, you have probably seen a few designs from a certain designer that use cute little figural pins as accents. In my travels this week, I found an online store, The Threadbasket, that has quite a few different pin designs you could incorporate into your needlework smalls, ornaments or sewing basket. I am showing just a few, go check them out!
Fancy Pins

Photographing Needlework

This was the poll winner for what you want to see next. I have the document completed, I just have to figure out how to make a link in Blogger and host the pdf somewhere. I know it can be done, just need to read how. Meanwhile, it looks to be a beautiful sunset here on the river, and I have a dinner date. More later...
Well, I have been trying for over an hour to upload a 2.5 MB file to Google docs. To no avail. I think my IPS is throttling me. I give up, it is well past my bedtime.
The fifth time is the charm, I hope. If this link doesn't work, please let me know - comment does work. Again, sorry for the delay....

Just a little thing done

This is a design from Aury's blog. I used a fat quarter to finish the log-cabin style frame and back. It has iron-on quilt batt on both the front panel and the back panel. Maybe I should go ahead and quilt it.
It is just sitting on the frame to hold it up.

Here is a link to the designer Aury's blog