Blossom Sewing Kit

Wild roses are blooming!  Just in time for the reveal of my latest design inspired by the wild roses.

It's a Blossom sewing kit.

This design started out as experimentation.  I was thinking of a pink and white bracelet made of seed beads using the square stitch.  Don't ask why - that's an even longer story.  My eyes are not as agreeable to beading so I tried it as a cross stitch design, reversing the colors to see which I liked better.

One day I was looking at the scrap and decided it would fit on a tin.  All the sudden it became an official project.  I made up a leaf pattern that fit between the rows of flowers and repeated the two main motifs to become a scissors fob and a mini pincushion.

I did bring the seed beads along.  It's much easier to stitch them to cloth then to stitch them together.  A little twisted cord and a lot of glue and I have a travel sewing kit.

Everything fits perfectly in the tin with some extra room for a needle threader and floss.  I lined the inside with pink felt and glued a magnetic business card (advertising side down) on top.  I never throw away those magnetic cards when they are stuck on new phone books or on the newspaper.  They are really handy.

This pattern is avail for sale at patternsonline.com.