A Long Time Coming...

 

"The Strawberry Collection"

by Beth Twist of Heartstring Samplery

(photo shown with permission.)

 

A long time ago (June 2012), I fell in love with an inspiring pattern.

I had to stitch it right away.

 

Everything else just had to wait.

 

And so it did. 

The sweet strawberries stitched up very quickly.

and then it sat,

and sat,

and sat.

 

Finally, it couldn't sit a moment longer and demanded to be finished immediately.

How could those sweet strawberries sit in a dark box with no one to admire them?

 

And so they came back into the bright summer daylight and became:

 

a sweet sewing collection

 

A scissor fob, perfect for a pair of antique scissors,

 

A long pincushion filled with crushed walnut shells, perfect for weighing down a cross stitch pattern in a soft summer breeze,

 

 

and a little sewing book with an antique bone ring and a piece of old ribbon to close it

 

An antique fruit fabric backing them all

and inside the little book a place for needles, scissors and pins.



And they lived in my sewing basket happily ever after :)

 

Thank you to Beth Twist for continuing to inspire me with her delightful patterns. You can visit her lovely Etsy Shop here.

 

There is still time to enter my little giveaway for a little homespun heart and wrapped votive candle here.

 

"Lord, you have been our dwelling place
throughout all generations.
 Before the mountains were born
or you brought forth the whole world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God."

Psalm 90:1-2

 

Blessings, Patti