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the binding for my summer quilt has been made and all that is left is handstitching it onto the back of the quilt.
This thing he held on to would be off and gone in a moment! She took out the only thing she had: the little metal cup that fit on the tip of her finger.
She held it out to him. He alighted near her, and she knelt and held it close to his bill. He thought her hand trembled. Certainly his bill did; the cup was so small, and how could what he held fit into it? Because it was nothing, that’s why, and could fit anywhere. It slid from his bill as though still desperate to cling there, but in it went. Fox Cap set the tiny cup on a knee of the great Beech, and they both looked in, heads almost touching. The pebbled bottom of the cup could be seen just as before, but there was no doubt that it was in there, the Most Precious Thing; no doubt at all.
“I couldn’t touch it,” she said. She was still trembling. “I can’t.”
“It’s caught,” Dar Oakley said. “It can’t get out of that—that—”
“Thimble,” Fox Cap said, for that’s what it was—Dar Oakley would see many, and steal one or two, in later times. A thimble.
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In later times, in centuries after, when the tales of Dar Oakley were known by Crows in many places, this one of how Dar Oakley nearly brought the Most Precious Thing to the Crows so that they never needed to die would be one of them. It would be said (though it wasn’t so) that the way Crows everywhere find and hide glittering and shiny things in secret places, how they’re always on the lookout for them wherever they go, the way they steal them from the People to have for themselves—all that’s because Dar Oakley lost the Most Precious Thing that he stole and made off with, and Crows ever after have been looking for it.
from Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr
(I hid one of my extra thimbles at the base of a nearby tree. I don't know if a crow would be interested in taking it, but it would amuse me if an animal took it away.)
design: bi-colored scales,18 segments
size: 88mm
padding: sewing thread
thread: Venus crochet cotton (similar to Perle #8)
Amelia Thimble dress and purse, handmade by Vanessa Ford of Etheria Dolls.