Stash-y question part three

All of those below.

Needles, needle threaders, stitch counter doohickey, highlighters to mark charts, plastic sheet protectors, assortment of stretcher bars, or something to store stuff in, preferably see through

Scissors. I have several pairs, but always need one when I can't find one!

Linda

needles, I am always losing them....ask my husband ,he always finds them in his foot.While were searching for them..... Barbara

Depends.

Often a picky - feel them kind of thing.

Always good

Stitcher's journal. Marking pins (Zeca has some really nice ones). Labels for your work. Bookplates done in stitchy theme. Thread puller - like a Doololly. Stitcher's magnets - again - Zeca, Kelmscott, & Rainbow Gallery (Hummingbird House) have really nice ones. Nice floss holder (like the wooden ones with magnets on) kind of splurgy to buy for yourself.

Laying tools - again, a very personal feel sort of thing.

A stitching book that you know the person doesn't have - a good reference - not a chart leaflet.

Ellice

Laying tool (especially a hand-carved one), magnetic needle minder, very sharp scissors for hardanger or the like, 'watchmakers' cases (Lee Valley Tools

A pin cushion. A cool, made just for me one or something kitschy like the ones I have picked up in Chinatown stores.

Dawne

I love some of the funky tape measures I've collected. Most with ladybugs....

I saw a very simple one with a good idea in Zakka, a book on Japanese designed household linens. The base was a little fluted tart shell, the filling was batting, and the cover was a nice piece of grey wool felt, with a little snowflake bead tacked on (one could just as easily stitch a little snowflake on it.) The suggestion was that the Japanese tradition is to change household linens with the seasons, so one could make a different "filler" in a colour for each season, with an appropriate small bead or motif.

I have also seen cups which are cracked or missing their saucers made into nice pincushions.

Dawne

I've been thinking of doing something like that on a slightly grander scale. A friend gave me this fantastic clay pot for plant. It is painted and the saucer is decorated too.

I was thinking of simply using wall tack (a gum rubber) to stick the saucer and pot together. (but not permanently) Fill the whole thing with batting (maybe some sort of weight in the bottom). And then either stitching a top or finding a grass green felt or even soil colored felt. And them adding my fancy marking pins, my ladybug pins, a few hat pins for "garden" effect....

Cheryl

I would have to say fobs because I have a lot of different pair of scissors but not all of them have fobs. I don't use a pin cushion and I don't need any more scissors. As for the "other" category, I'm sure there are some stitching toyus out there I would love to have, I just don't know what they are yet :-).

Okay, I like everything but I'm picky about scissors and contrary to popular opinion you can have enough pin cushions. I like fobs and also like needlebooks with some new needles. That's always a treat. Susan

I agree on the pin cushions. That is unless there ladybugs involved.

I like fobs because they don't only have to live on scissors. I saw a picture of a bell pull with a little fob hanging from the point on the bottom where you would normally see a bell.