A couple of months ago I was on a roll - or is it a binge?- with bags for storing jewellery. After making the blue linen into a bag with Zakka embroidery, I had quite a few odd bits of the quite lovely linen left over, along with some of the gold silk lining, so decided to turn the left-overs into more small jewellery bags.
The first one is tiny - good for a pendant, or earrings. It is not evenly cut - and I quite like it for that
The Zakka had worked so well I decided to try some motifs from Karen Holmburg’s book of Scandinavian Stitchcraft I had recently purchased.
The thread is the remains of the silk from the Gift of Stitching kit I used for the Zakka bag, supplemented by a hank of red silk I had from my daughter's gift last year of monthly surprise thread packs from Stitchy Box.
I added a tassel and a needle-lace button (using a scrap of the linen as a base).
There was still some linen left so I fashioned a folding pouch in three sections, lined with silk and folded.
With the last strip I made an of even smaller folded pouch for pearl earrings.
This was a productive way of trying out the motifs and stitches in Stitchcraft: Scandinavian Embroidery, using every bit of this lovely hand-dyed linen, and yielding several useful bags for storing my jewellery.
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