I started this wonderful project by Blackbird Designs on 4-25-09 and absolutely love the old rustic type look of it. It's easy to stitch and the pinkeep only uses two colors of Belle Soie silk thread by Crescent Colours. I'm not sure I would buy the Weeks Dye Works fabric again knowing that it just looks to have been tea/coffee dyed. You could easily make your own! The fabric is actually a bit darker than it appears in the cover photo. I'm thinking to make my own trim out of yarn instead of using the suggested chenille trim. Hobby Lobby has a wide assortment of yarns...I particularly like the kind with lots of bumps and ridges in it. I may even make something that hangs from it. I'll wait a bit and see what strikes me the most :) There is also the needlebook that came with the pinkeep. It uses different threads than the pinkeep and will be my next project in this series. This is the first installment for 2009.....can't wait to see what's next!!!
