Finished

 I've been working on this little embroidered scissors case for awhile. It was very fiddly but I am pleased with the results. It was a pattern and kit from Mary Corbet, embroiderer extraordinaire. She writes a wonderful blog, which I get in my emails and I could have made the case without buying the kit. I can't seem to buy nice linen and the kit came with the linen, all the threads, silk Dupioni for the lining, and even a needle and button. The needle is a size 7 John James embroidery which I thought would be too small, but it was great and and I used it through all the stitching. It was all done with one or two strands of floss.

Her directions are fabulous and there were copious print outs. Go to her website, Needle and Thread, and see all the interesting things she has. She also gives freely of her advice and has many, many stitch videos on Youtube. I used her a lot when I was doing my daily stitching.

Front where you can also see the buttonholed loop, which was made by doing the button hole stitch around a loop of threads.

I learned some new to me techniques, whcih is mainly why I bought the kit with all the directions.

Here you can see the prettty silk lining. It will hold one or two scissore that are no more than four inches long.It will hold my special litle Gingher embroidery scissors that were given to me by my sister many years ago. I have never lost them and I always put them back in the leather sheath.

I am linking up with Off the Wall Friday.