A Dutch Bell Pull and Merry Cox projects

Not much stitching in January I’m afraid. I had to empty my fabric chest, it had to make way for our new fridge-freezer (enormous) in the kitchen, as it is not a good idea to put a fabric chest in the kitchen. So it had to be logged to the upstairs (thanks to a friend who is very strong). In the process I had to rearrange my complete work area and found a finished stitched bell pull (2007), very Dutch and time to put it together now or sometime soon.

And about time to get my Merry Cox stash out, most of it is stitched, but assembling it is another story. We did this in 2006. Although I have progressed in assembly, I better start reading the instructions again, the last time I had a look at it was 2006 yes shame on me, but feel more confident now to finish it together with Carried Away by JduPlessis.

The Stitch Little Darling Sewing Basket is not such a darling to assemble!! You might be able to see it on the picture (or not I hope), but I have stripped the backing off and will have do that again.

On the Strawberry case I did not stitch the mattress pincushion in the middle and am trying to salvage what I can otherwise a new piece has to be made up.

The Swan Lake Mending Bag is so beautiful and I will have to ask Britta if I can borrow her finished one as an example otherwise I might bungle it. The smalls were such fun to stitch and there are a couple which have still to be finished.The toile fabric is very fine and reminds me of Liberty fabric.

Luckily I did all the correct stitching on my Williamsburg Sewing Case (for a change-)


Thank you so much again for your comments on my last post, you are the best!!. Hopefully my next post will be a bit sooner (ones I stop looking at your blogs -)

Pictures of the charts are copyright by Merry Cox.