Dazzling Ornaments – Stitcher’s Tools
I tend to think there is too little beauty in our everyday world. Not in nature, but in the things we uses everyday. Why use a folded up piece of paper, when you could use a bookmark which is letterpressed. Why eat off a paper towel when a plate can be lovely and you have to do dishes anyway?
This is part of the philosophy behind Dazzling Ornaments and the wonderful stitcher’s accessories made by Wawanna. I have been trying out three of them, and I just love them.
Each is embellished or made from beads and all are both useful and beautiful. I’ll begin with the laying tool. Each is made from tapered wood, painted and varnished. Some of them have faux finishes as well. At the top is an ornament, usually a bead.
I just love wooden laying tools. They come to a point, but not one so dangerous as to poke you. They are light, but thicker than metal laying tools, so I find them easy to hold and manipulate.
They come in a range of 12 color families, with a wide variety of finishes and colors in each.
Dazzling Ornaments beaded accessories come in sets or as single tools. They include chatelaines, scissors fobs, stitch markers, and earrings. Have a scissors fob set. It has two pieces. The fob is about 6” long with a charm and two beaded ends. There is a lobster claw clasp big enough for most traditional embroidery scissors.
The other part of the set is an all-purpose needleworker’s tool called a Little Helper and is ingenious. There is a tapestry needle at one end, so it can be a stitch marker or used for frog stitching. The other end has a hook, so it can hang from any hole on the canvas and a small, covered rare earth magnet, so you can park your needle. There are also two split rings along the length, one with a needle threader already attached. The other is for you top use for your favorite threader or other tool.
Wawanna is always coming up with new ideas. Her latest is Dazzling Drops. These are embellished thread drops. I use thread drops all the time when I open skeins of thread and it has always bothered me that thedy are so plain. With drawn decoration, two different shapes and scalloped edges, these add beauty to that unadorned area of your life as well. They come 20 to a package.
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