A floss fob

I considered myself very very lucky recently as Paula from Kelmscot designs surprised me with a wonderful, wonderful package and inside the package were her new MoP large rings, now I know that floss fobs tend to be made in a different way, but this just shouted out floss fob to me (and to my SIL Dawn - but thats another story for later on in this posting). So I stitched Nina's pretty little freebie added a pretty matching ribbon and used one of the rings and made the wee fob.
Also inside the package were the very pretty cancer ribbon scissors and although I haven't done the finishing up yet I have stitched Mary Kathryns charity Think pink design from last year over 1 and will be making it up into a scissor fob.

Thanks for all your good wishes regarding my rotten cold, I have gone back to work, but its sitting around my head and I look oh so attractive - NOT!! with my very red and scabby nose and my balance is a all out of sync and I tend to almost fall over if I move my head to fast as I think my ears have a minor infection I'll know more tomorrow as I will just have to go to the docs as I can't sit for long with this awful ear ache!

Oh and going back to the floss fob, Dawn now holds it in her possession and it comfortabley holds 6 skeins of thread around it and she's using it!!

Le Papillion

To A Very Little Maid

She has a little elfin face
And little elfin ways.
Her toes were made to dance upon
Within a leafy glade.

Her eyes were made to swift beguile,
Her hair to toss in glee;
Her hands are tiny pixie hands
That hold the heart of me.

Sometimes her ways are solemn ways
But soon I know will show
That elfin bent to mischief
Within her eyes aglow.

I wonder if she sees two worlds.
I wonder if she knows,
That heavy-footed grownups long
To follow where she goes.

--Marjorie Kahl Lawrence

You know when you see a design and it shouts at you to do it, well this is one of those ones for me, as soon as I saw Le Papillion I had to stitch her. I chose to stitch her 1/2 on 32ct Enchanted fabrics (colour unknown)- Designer is Nimue.
She was an absolute delight to stitch, now to decide on a frame for her. This is what I have been stitching since I changed my name to Florence (as in Nightingale - in honour of the fact I have been nursing Mark). Mark is doing really really brilliantly - he has come off his pain meds today and is fine, his wound is healing really well and is so neat.


There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies? --Richard Dawkins