When packing for this holiday week, I slipped this vintage tin into my bag.
Dalmas boracic dressings used to be produced in Leicester, and this came my way with some haberdashery bits and pieces in it a few years ago. I have been putting ‘small kits’ in it recently, as I have sorted out my craft stuff. Many of these are ‘front of magazine giveaways’ [I had a friend who used to collect them for me back in London, twenty years ago!] The tin is pretty full, and I thought they’d make good holiday projects.
Sharp eyes will spot the felt kit from my new Mollie Makes Magazine.
Anyway, I have started by finishing the half-stitched sheep
You can just see the holes top left where the needle had rusted in!
When I get back to KM, I shall press it, trim it, and mount it in a greetings card.
I am aiming to make June Thirty Thrifty Days of Creativity – using Stash Stuff,and not buying new!
**’Boracic’ or ‘boracic lint’ is Cockney rhyming slang for ‘skint’ – i.e. being in a state of having no money to spare!
Dalmas was established in Leicester in 1823 – more than 40 years before Johnson&Johnson [who did not launch ‘Band-Aids’ till 1920]
Using what you already have is a great idea, and it is what I am hoping to do for the course on collage that I am doing this month.
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