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Description
I made this Owl scissor keep and fob with the freebie kit from the February CrossStitcher magazine.

I used Ghiordes Knot: instead of backstitching for the scarf fringe and I ran out of blue halfway in the second of the 2 wider blue columns so had to rip, re-do and then add other colours to finish the fob as I couldn't match the blue from the kit with my own threads. I chose to finish the brown and use some of the leftover grey.

I used the rest of the leftover threads and some white of my own to make a back to the biscornu instead of using the felt from the kit as that was too flimsy for my taste. I used wheat Hoffman's batik for the back of the keep for the same reason.

You can see the back of the biscornu here:

Size: Scissor keep: 3 1/8" x 4 1/2" / 8 cm x 11.5 cm - fob: 1 2/2" / 4 cm across the middle
Fabric: 14 ct aida
Thread: 7 colours.

Description
I made this Owl scissor keep and fob with the freebie kit from the February CrossStitcher magazine.

I used Ghiordes Knot: instead of backstitching for the scarf fringe and I ran out of blue halfway in the second of the 2 wider blue columns so had to rip, re-do and then add other colours to finish the fob as I couldn't match the blue from the kit with my own threads. I chose to finish the brown and use some of the leftover grey.

I used the rest of the leftover threads and some white of my own to make a back to the biscornu instead of using the felt from the kit as that was too flimsy for my taste. I used wheat Hoffman's batik for the back of the keep for the same reason.

You can see the back of the biscornu here:

Size: Scissor keep: 3 1/8" x 4 1/2" / 8 cm x 11.5 cm - fob: 1 2/2" / 4 cm across the middle
Fabric: 14 ct aida
Thread: 7 colours.