November ended up being a difficult and mostly unproductive month.  In the last few days I was finally back to working on a project.  This is an old/new project.  I am not sure how many years ago I designed and first started embroidering this scissor case, which I hadn’t touched in many years since I hated the way the stitches I picked were turning out, they were inordinately time consuming, and I didn’t know how to do some of them properly, resulting in a mess that I was not proud of and did not want to spend time finishing.

On Thanksgiving I finally dug it out, pulled out all the original embroidery, and redrew the design so it was easily visible again.  On Friday I started embroidering it in a completely different manner.  What you see here is how far I was able to get by Saturday night.

The borders are all bayeux style couching of blue pearl cotton with purple three-strand cotton DMC floss.  The borders are two-strand purple DMC cotton floss, stem stitched.  I will be embroidering much of the detailed design using padded satin stitch, and otherwise I am undecided on what stitches to use.  The fabric is cotton duck canvas.

I did finish the pilgrim bag early in the month, and hope to have photos posted soon.  I also still need to process and post the photos of the two Regency era dresses I made in October.

Project: Embroidered Scissor Case