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Your floss keeper is delightful!! Really lovely. I'm always impressed when you talented ladies come up with such great finishes.

Very pretty!!!

Your floss keeper is really pretty and very useful as well and I am intrigued by the jar Is it going to be a button box perhaps?

The floss tag is lovely

Puzzled about the jar Are you stitching a covering for it or a lid? The button box sounds like a good idea

That is such a pretty little floss keeper a great finish!

Question about the cording edge treatment on the fan part.. how is it attached? Whip stitched? I had thought of and edge treatment like that for my needlecase, but could not figure out how to attatch it.

Really good well done

Maggie, I'll put a fuller explanation in the new Finishing thread, but I actually used PVA glue to fix the cording. I was very sceptical about that working and thought it would make an awful mess, but actually it was very easy to do. The tag is made of two separate parts - front and back, so after glueing them together there was a groove that the cord fitted into nicely. I just put a thin line of PVA into the groove and smoothed the cord down over it, bit by bit.

Lessa and Dollystitcher - the jar will have a cover and a lid, but it won't be holding buttons

I think the jar is for collecting all your little floss offcuts ?

I'd use the jar for some little chocolate treats, you know, just to keep my strength up while stitching.

Love the floss keeper though and am amazed the cording holds on well with PVA glue!

I agree with Mags. I was thinking a little thread ends jar but then would you want to cover that so you would't be able to see all those lovely colours?

Liz

Lovely floss keeper

~threadbear~ wrote:I'd use the jar for some little chocolate treats, you know, just to keep my strength up while stitching.

Love the floss keeper though and am amazed the cording holds on well with PVA glue!

A chocolate jar - oh TBear, what are we going to do with you

I was surprised at the PVA working as well as it did too - but it actually gave me a better finish than if I had stitched it on

And no the jar isn't for keeping thread ends in

i know our michaels keeps the floss rings!!

Well... anything new added to the basket recently? Whatever happened with the glass jar? My guess is that the top is a pin cushion, the bottom is for leftover floss clippings.

Very pretty floss keeper

The floss keeper is lovely, will have to put something like that on my to-make list the jar is mystifying, I think the idea of pincushion top was good though, but what to keep inside? Maybe spare bobbins?

I haven't been keeping up well with this at all. I missed the last class two weeks ago because I had to take my son to A&E instead - we thought he had broken something in his foot - after x-rays it turned out to be badly sprained, thank goodness. Anyway, got back this week and we've started the band samplers that will go around the outside rim of the baskets. We've been given charts and a mass of Needlepoint Silks and told to choose what parts of the charts we include and decide our own colours This doesn't come easy to me at all so who knows how it will look when it's finished I'll post an update soon - do me if I don't get on with it, cause I'll be in trouble in two weeks if I've not caught up

As for the jar - I haven't had time to finish it yet, so I'll let you all into the secret It's to keep perle floss in when you are using it. The little round spools of floss fit neatly inside the jar and a punched hole in the top allows you to neatly pull out what you need without the spool then rolling all over the floor. It'll (one day!) have a stitched wraparound band and lid.

Actually don't tell my class teacher, but I like T'Bear's idea better