I just received my paper of handmade, tinned brass pins from At the Eastern Door. Now I can stock the several hussifs I am making for my various workbaskets and pockets.
From Chardin's 18thC painting - a pincushion for the table made from Rouenneries scraps from French General fabrics. The top of the pincushion is stuffed with wool threads for ease in adding pins--the bottom is stuffed with buckwheat hulls for stability.
I highly recommend trimming any dangling threads before washing to get the shabby effect. I also chose to bind the quilt, instead of having shabby-raggy edges. I think it will keep the edges cleaner. I used almost 4 jelly roll strips of Aviary to bind the quilt.
Happy Mother's Day, Sarah--here's an addition to your frog collection--a biscornu pincushion designed by Casey Buonaugurio Designs with beaded scissors fob to match and a bourse in which to wrap it.
Two linen shirts made for two petit garçons including handmade Dorset thread buttons.
These buttons show at the collar of the shirt with lace jabot and cuffs worn with a banyan in Liotard's painting.
Bits of ribbon, used to attach brooches of loved ones, often worn in pairs. Here is pictorial documentation from the 18thC by Jean Liotard, 1760.
April 1st, in France, is a day to give gifts and express friendship. This is an old tradition, seen hidden in painted lines on a gift box from the 18thC.
18thC paintings show blue ribbon-edged boxes seemingly expressly made to store and protect furbelows and trimmings for gowns, caps and hats. Here is my version, covered before edging with a few scraps of wallpaper saved from my dining room in the house with the pink door on Kootenai in Boise.
A little stitcher's pocket to hold my thread bobbins and a couple of needles to stitch a current project--a petite pochette tutorial is found on Mon Aiguille's site. Thank you, Véro--your instructions were excellent. Here is a slideshow on how to twist cord for tying the pocket closed.
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