Little House Needlework: An Adaptation

I’ve been  away  from home for the past week.  I hardly made any effort to check my emails or read the forums.  Then  later  today I found out  that  my partner  has already received  my  package. 

  

Here  was  what I  have made for her.  I wanted to make a stitcher’s  pocket  or most stitchers commonly call it “bourse”  in French and also a mattress pincushion.   As a result, I make it as a 2-in-1 stitcher’s  accessories. This time for Specific Designer  Exchange on SBEBB  was for  TerryP.  Both  the  fabric a 28 ct  Cashel and the threads are my own DIY  version of overdyes. 

 

 

Although  I have  different  mailing  date for this exchange and the Quaker,  but  I stitched and finished this  mattress  pincushion earlier than the Quaker mattress pincushion.  I  could tell that  different technique gives  different finishing effect.  From now on, I will stick using PC#12 for backstitching  and  either a quilting thread or #80  tatting  thread for the whipstitch/ladder stitch.