Magazine Giveaways

Do you make the gifts that come with the stitching magazines?

The Flashing Scissors

Last year I bought a copy of a new quilting magazine "Love Patchwork and Quilting" which had a needlecase kit with hexagons.  At the time lots of bloggers commented that they throw this sort of gift away because the materials were not very good quality.

The Flashing Scissors

However, I made mine up as I thought the tiny hexagons were really quite sweet.   I made a pincushion and added a pocket on the back for my needlethreader and tiny bobbins of thread and my scissors fitted nicely in the open back of the pocket.

The Flashing Scissors - My extra pockets and pincushion

I have used this almost constantly, despite having many other types of pincushions and needlecases.

Do you take the time to stitch magazine gifts? And if so, do you use them?

A little bit of stitching

When I'm travelling by train I hate sitting with nothing to do, so I stitch!

This is a tiny purse I stitched on my recent journeys.   It is 3 x 4" approximately, with a wrist strap of 10".

The Flashing Scissors -  Tiny Purse

It was embroidered using Perlè thread.

The flowers are Sussex Puffs with buttons and beads in their centres.

The sides were attached to the zip, again in Perlè.   Then the purse was finished by continuing around the three open sides.

I included a name label just for added cuteness, hopefully!

I'm sure I'm not alone in stitching on the go?  If you stitch on the go, what are you stitching now?

A knitted tunic

This is the back:

In case you are wondering about the white wool it's the length of the back with knots at measured points so I know when to increase or decrease.  Not my idea!  Saw it on Pinterest and I think it's on my Pinterest board -  "Fabulous Knitted items" and headed "Keeping track of rows".