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I’ve been making these beautiful Liberty of London and milk glass scissor holder pincushions, along with using fun vintage Japanese planters. You might like to go vintaging as much as I do, a…

Primitive little cute pin cushion in metal rusty bucket. Old brown calico textile...Rag stuffed. Two repair patches. Comes with pins and needles. Great for your sewie collection! 4 1/2 T to handle!!! $10 plus first class mail. Went to my house ♥ SOLD

Knock-knock. Who's there? Paulette. Paulette who? Exactly. I've been MIA for so long, I almost forgot how to sign into my blog. But there has been a very good reason for this... since returning from Colorado, I've had this insatiable...

The Twisted Stitcher Tutorials: Altoid Tin Finish Tutorial

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Gorgeous vintage teapot sewing caddy ~ flip the lid and there's a built-in pincushion!

Need a little gift for a sewing pal, or for yourself? I’ve listed some pretty darn cute pin-keeps in my Etsy Shop. Click HERE to Get em while they’re hot! (giggle) Later Ga…

Turn a simple mason jar into a pin cushion jar! This project takes 30-minutes so you can whip one up while catching an episode of your favorite TV series.

I am currently stitching the Carolyn Pearce Strawberry Fayre heart etui as a stitchalong project. I am now ready to make the strawberry emery. See the end of this post for all the information you…

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This is the base of the spoolholder from Carolyn Pearce’s book ‘Home Sweet Home Workbox’. Having assembled it over the plastic and interlining in the same way that I did for the l…

Rabbit Hill Primitives and Vintage: Little Critters on Early Work Mercantile

I joined in the Swap with Nina, which has been such good fun, this is the first of what I hope will be many 'swaps', Enza was given to me as who I was sending too, and today she emailed to say that she had received it safe and sound. I chose to stitch and finish a Needlebook for Enza as after reading her blog I saw that these are very much her favourite finish, and she does some really beautiful ones, so I hoped that mine wouldn't disappoint, which I have been very much assured by her that…

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Happy Tuesday! Hope August has been treating you well, with a little time to stitch, too. Here are my new starts that have kept me occupied for the past month or so. First, there's Catherine Theron's Winter Strawberries, an EGA chapter project. This is the photo of (hopefully) how it will look once it's finished. There is the main piece which is a needleroll, a pincushion, plus a cute little scissor fob. Here's my start. The green background for the word Scissors is stitched in "petit point"…

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