Fic for queenoferebor: Matters of Luck

[holmesticemods]

Title: Matters of Luck
Recipient: queenoferebor
Author: graycardinal
’Verse: Elementary
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, Joan Watson, Jonathan Bloom, historical characters
Rating: teen audiences
Words: ~6100
Warnings: none
Summary:
“Those who depend on luck least will be rewarded most generously.”
When Jonathan Bloom offers Holmes and Watson a challenge, little do they expect that resolving it may require rewriting history.


Read on AO3: Matters of Luck

Art for ghostbees: Labours of Love

[holmesticemods]

Title: "Labours of Love"
Recipient: ghostbees / vernets
Artist: strampunch
Verse: ACD canon, Granada
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: Suitable for general audiences (mild nudity in second to last image)
Warnings: None
Summary: After the gift receiver mentioned "scrapbooking" and "English paper piecing" I went down a rabbithole of research and learnt about this wonderful quilting technique.
From the EQS website: "English Paper Piecing is a method of quilting that involves using a paper shape, most commonly a hexagon, to add stability to the quilt. The quilt is hand stitched with pieces of fabric cut a ¼ inch bigger than the paper shape. The fabric is basted to the paper shapes before the shapes are sewn together. Once the quilt top is completed the papers are removed." The technique dates from 1770s and was popular during the early 1800s in the UK, then in the mid 19th century in the US and it made a comeback during the Great Depression of the 1930s, when the pattern was called in the sewing magazines "Grandma's Flower Garden", but before that it was simply known as hexagonal pattern or (you guessed it) honeycomb pattern.

The paper used for these quilts were usually recycled from newspapers or scrapped letters, and the fabric used to come from old garments that had seen better days, and since a lot of the times the paper was simply left in these quilts are marvelous time capsules that contain a wealth of information about the person who made them and their environment. I encourage you to look up English paper piecing (EPP) quilts from the early Victorian decades, they're fascinating!
So this little series of illustrations shows Watson dealing with Holmes still indulging in scrapbooking, and how the doctor picks up the discarded pieces and their old 221B era clothes to make something entirely new and uniquely theirs.

(Technique: India ink, watercolours and gouache paint over cold pressed cotton paper)


( Labours of Love )

Fic for penaltywaltz: Your Friend is Your Needs Answered

[holmesticemods]

Title: Your Friend is Your Needs Answered
Recipient: penaltywaltz
Author: milverton / AlgySwinburne
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Characters/Pairings: Mary Morstan/Janine, Molly Hooper/Greg Lestrade (mentioned), Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Summary: Old friends, new flames.
A/N: Dear penaltywaltz: I glanced at your AO3 and Tumblr to see which femslash pairing I could take a stab at and loved the idea of Mary/Janine. I also see you’re a Molly fan, so I gave her a bit of lovin’ too. Apologies for the slight angst at the start; it is ephemeral, I promise. Happy Holmestice! (Title is a line lifted from "On Friendship" by Kahlil Gibran.)

( Your Friend is Your Needs Answered )