To celebrate the feast of St Piran , I made myself a new little pin cushion .
Oh ! St Piran is the Patron Saint of Cornwall .
I had a few tiny scraps of linen that I didn't want to waste .
Also I really have to stop my bad habit of holding needles and pins between my lips .
The white Cross on the black background represents the tin that streaks through the hard black granite .
I attached my copper scissors on a nice long and strong ribbon .
Folk always associate Cornwall with tin , but copper was also mined and in great demand back in the day .
St Piran is the Patron Saint of Cornwall .
Gool Peran lowen onen hag oll ! Happy St Piran's Day one and all !
I'm in between projects at the moment , and just doing little bits and bobs of embroidery to keep my hands busy while I think about my next bigger project .
I joined a group called Stitching A Round and it is all about making an embroidered wheel type calendar . I joined it rather late and have been very busy trying to catch up .
I thought it such a lovely idea , to embroider one tiny icon every day into the pie slice of every month and have a beautiful record of the year at the end .
Someone suggested using a fabric pen , but I didn't have one and couldn't wait to get started and so I just used a pencil . Pencil is fine !
I had to find a suitable font for the months and it took me ages and ages to stitch the months of the year all around this basic wheel .
I most often embroider with crewel wool and hadn't really taken into consideration how it might be to stitch such small icons with this . I decided to use DMC embroidery cotton thread to stitch the icons .
So here are my first offerings ! I still have a couple more icons to go into January and March .
I have also decided to only do not more than three or four icons for each month of the year . This will be more manageable for me to achieve .
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