It's always fun to start a new project, but finishing it is just as great. I have joined several exchanges this year and it's been a lot of fun learning to put things together that I have never done before. So far this year I have assembled a scissors case for a chair necessaire. This was the first time I had ever done either of those types of finishing. It was great fun and I loved working with the different fabrics for the inside lining. I also have stitched my first biscournu, which is an 8 sided pincushion. Putting this piece together was a lot of fun, as you join the corners to the sides of the opposite piece, if that makes any sense, and you stuff it full of fiberfill and then add a button in the center, to tuft it...and it really is a very unique kind of pincushion. This probably was the most enjoyable assembly job I did all year. I have just finished working on another exchange, this one had to have Quaker Motifs on the design, and autumn colors. That was fun! Picking the fabrics and fibers to do this. I could have gone on and on stitching as the ideas just kept coming. But time is the bigger problem when you are working on something like this. I did manage to get an altoids tin done with a piece that says "Mend Thy Ways" on the top, Also, I lined the tin with felt, and filled itwith stitching tools and goodies. I also lined a wooden box with green felt, and it turned out really well. I"m going to make myself one as soon as I get a chance to sit down for an hour. Also I stitched a pincushion with several quaker motifs on the front, and added 2 different linen fabrics on the sides, and a piece of cotton plaid fabric in golden yellow an dorange, with some darker lines in it...it actually worked very well becuase it had the orange and yellow that I used in the linen strips. The front piece was stitched on Light Mocha, the sides were two strips of cognac and tobacco and the cotton plaid on the back. I bordered the front with twisted cording in Watercolors by Caron, in Fiesta. Which was a perfect match to the colors of threads I used to stitch the motifs. All in all, it was great fun and I will be stitching another set of smalls like this for myself, and making myself a box as well. Should be fun putting it all together again. I'd love to add a picture here, but not sure how to do that. So you'll have to go look at my album under the 2006 New Starts...and you can see what I've done.
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