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.