The ring that Ellis is wearing in my last post was given to me by my Great Aunt Jean ... my mother's mother's sister, who never married. Jean lived with my mom's family, helping to care for my grandmother's three children and my grandparent's house in Rockville Centre on Long Island. When my own parents wanted to get away for a weekend, it was Aunt Jean who came to watch my brother and me. As with my grandmothers, I remember her wearing boxy belted housedresses and black tie shoes with chunky heels. It amuses me that the eyeglasses they all wore are now retro-trendy ... amuses me, but I doubt I'll ever wear them myself.
As you can see in the close-up, the stone is chipped and pitted. I've thought about having it polished, but I doubt anyone could guarantee that the stone would survive intact. So I keep it as is. It fits my right ring finger perfectly, and I'm giving serious thought to wearing it again.
I decided it would make a good memory patch for Remember 2026, so I hunted through my Deb Lacativa thread stash, finding these two silk/cotton bits ...
If you look carefully, you can see the purple flash that appears in the stone when it is turned in the light. I don't know that I ever heard what the stone was, but some quick Google searching leads me to believe it might be ametrine, which is a portmanteau of amethyst and citrine.
As ever, I loved seeing Deb's threads serve up one subtle color after another as I split backstitched a la Jude Hill ...
And I don't think I've mentioned this, but each patch is my usual 1.75" with the turned-under edges secured with yet another Jude Hill creation, the glue stitch. Really I don't know what I'd be doing if I hadn't encountered her incredible Spirit Cloth blog and classes back in 2014.
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