Merchant & Mills Scissors and Floss Love

I love embroidery scissors. I buy myself a new pair of scissors every so often as a treat for myself.

I've shared about my scissors in a previous post here.

So when I found these cute little Baby Bow Scissors, I just had to get them.

Maybe I live under a rock, but have you ever heard of Merchant & Mills before? I had not. So I took a look at their website. I love all they have to offer!

Look at the cute little "M" stamped on the scissors.

Just to give you an idea of how small these are - here is a photo next to "normal" sized embroidery scissors.

Now that I have discovered Merchant & Mills, I keep looking at their shop and want to buy everything! 

I mean, how awesome is their pin selection!?!

In other new, it's been a long time since I did a "Floss Love" post so thought these photos would be great for one! 

I am taking the Furry Nice Embroidery class that Nicole from Follow the White Bunny is teaching and our assignment was to gather our floss for the project. 

Here are my floss colors I have chosen. I will definitely post more about the embroidery projects once we start stitching. I am really excited about this class!

Please let me know if you are familiar with Merchant & Mills! Have you bought anything from their shop?

My Tools

One of my favorite blogs, &Stitches is offering a competition for their readers - show our embroidery tool kits!

**Update - the competition is closed, but you can still see all who shared their favorite tools!**

My favorite embroidery hoops are the Q Snap frames. I think they are easier to work with. If I do use a normal round embroidery hoop I always use a plastic one, even though I have a ton of wooden hoops, I choose plastic every time. (Update February 2016: It's funny how things change. Since I posted this back in 2013, I switched to using wooden hoops and now never use the plastic hoops!!)

DMC embroidery scissors. I use this pair the most.

For transferring patterns, I use the Sulky Iron-on transfer pen with tracing paper. For smaller projects I will use Quilter’s Choice transfer paper. I like how it doesn’t smear and is easy to transfer onto the fabric.

I have been buying Dritz embroidery needles and I use that little purple square pincushion to hold my needles.

The pincushion is nothing fancy – I made it out of some felt and put some Velcro on the bottom so it will stay  in place on the couch arm.

Scissor Embellishment

When I did my scissors blog post last week, I completely forgot to add this cute little scissors embellishment I found at the needlework shop!

It's a Susan Clark Original embellishment. I fell in love with this little scissors.

After taking a look at their website, I found out all of their buttons, charms, etc. are hand painted!

I love their family set of charms like this sewing set

Or these awesome scissor earrings!

Or, look at these awesome scissors embroidered by Smallest Forest on Flickr. 

Scissors

I've been eyeing a pair of embroidery scissors on the Sublime Stitching site for a long time - the black scissors.

So I was excited to get them for my birthday last week and I love them!

These black scissors bring my count up to 5 pairs of embroidery scissors now.

1. My first embroidery scissors I bought at Joann Fabrics.
2. My mom's embroidery scissors
3. I bought these DMC scissors at Joann Fabrics also
4. Another pair of my Mom's scissors

I also got a sheath from Sublime Stitching for each pair of scissors. They are great for protecting the blades.

What are your favorite pair of embroidery scissors?