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Elizabeth Hancock Sampler from Little House Needleworks Diane Williams has adapted an antique sampler originally stitched in 1831 by Elizabeth Hancock. 'I sigh not for beauty nor languish for wealth...' begins the verse on this piece. Little House has reproduced only the top half of the original sampler... but kept all the mistakes and design oddities from the original in her new design. It's a lovely piece, offered as a chart, it measures 15-3/4 x 18, worked on 30ct Weeks Straw Linen. Charted for Crescent Colors Belle Soie silk, hand-dyed flosses or regular DMC, Diane promises to present the bottom half of the original sampler -- the Adam and Eve portion -- in an upcoming chart! | |
 The Christmas House -- The Toy Room from Bent Creek Here is the top story of Bent Creek's Christmas House... a tall, skinny cut-away view of a bustling Santa's Workshop and personal resting quarters!!! This scene is of the toy-manufacturing room... we see a little sock monkey, a dinosaur, presents, a little elf riding the rocking horse... someone holding the nail, while trusting someone else to swing the hammer! Then, check out that little mouse down there admiring Raggedy Ann! This is presented as a tiny chart... so very cute! | |
Once Upon a Stitch from Bent Creek This is Little Red Riding Hood!!! Check out her path that leads all to Grandmom's house! Then, check out Gram in the bed... Stitch this and hang it on a red wall... or a kitchen wall... or near the night time story book shelves. Cute little design for the bedroom at Grandma's House, too! Offered as a chart, this finishes approx 6 x 7 on 30ct, and is stitched in overdyed flosses -- a trio of miniature white flower button are enclosed for the wildflowers! | |
Boughs of Holly from With Thy Needle & Thread Here's a snowman planter growing springs of holly! Brenda Gervais has a cute design that she's stitched on large fabric to finish into a 15-ish inch square pillow! It doesn't look that big in the pic, but it really can be if you choose an 18ct Linen! Stitched with Weeks and Gentle Art overdyed flosses, the holly berries are Algerian Eyelets worked over 4 threads -- the rest is simple Cross Stitch. Next, instructions are included to transform your originally cream-colored fabric to that mangy, distressed and relaxed look of *aged.* With a stitch count of 122 x 128... this is a darling design that will look good on most any fabric you choose. Offered as a chart. | |
Queen Bee and Bitty BunnyJust when you thought you had enough tape measure lying around the house, stuffed in the kitchen gadget drawer and gracing the bottom of your stitching tote -- here are two more that are just the cutest!!! Queen Bee is crocheted -- not like our other bumblebee tapes that had fabric covering them -- and notice her CROWN?! It's made of gold bugle beads!!! Bitty Bunny has cute floppy ears, and a stuffed carrot -- so he doesn't require any additional feedings. Just for fun, these 54-inch retracting tapes make great, small stitcher gifts and might be a really fun thing for Santa to stuff into the stocking of someone little who is just beginning to learn numbers and how to measure things!!! | |
Flora McSample Ornaments from Lizzie*Kate A trio of cute, old-fashioned flavored designs, these remind me of coverlets and wool blankets! Each design in the small Snippet card finishes approx 3-1/2 inches on 28ct Milk Chocolate Linen using overdyeds from your stash. Traditional reds, greens and browns, even the finishing is simple and old-fashioned feeling to me. Each is wrapped over a board, and then glued to a bit of felt. Wouldn't they be neat stitched with Gentle Art's Simply Wool thread??? These are presented in Lizzie Kate's small Snippet card format, with threads and fabrics available separately. | |
Giving & Guidance from Brooke's Books Brooke's Books finishes her 12-part Bride's Tree 2011 ornament set with this pair of designs! Guidance's symbol is an angel -- she could double as a princess for a special little princess in your life! Santa is the symbol of giving -- and this little guy is READY for that task! He's decked with a fishing pole, doll house, bunny jack-in-the-box, even a tea pot tucked in his pocket! This was a lovely set of ornaments this year. All are still available, and pictured together. They are offered individually in small chart format. | |
Domes of Yule from The TrilogyThe Trilogy has a new set of charts -- one larger, main leaflet, and three smaller coordinating cards. The main 3-1/2 x 8-1/2 design reads; Christmas Time is for Santa's gifts, mistletoe, kisses and togetherness. You can stitch just that, or leave out the gifts, mistletoe and kisses, and insert the individual 2 x 2-1/2 Dome designs instead! Then it reads *Christmas Time and Togetherness.* Or, skip all that, and stitch the three little designs and assemble them into ornaments! (Confused yet?)  We have some stitched pics here, and a digital image, too, to help clarify. All cute, everything is stitched in an assortment of DMC or hand-dyeds on 32ct Summer Khaki linen, and trimmed with a few gold beads and jingle bells... which surely you have in your stash! | |
Last Stitch Cemetery and Dark Shadows! from Hinzeit Hinzeit has two Off the Wall designs that I didn't bring to you in time for Halloween THIS year... but you have a whole YEAR to plan ahead! (Halloween is already scheduled for next year!) Presented in chart format with the casted charms included each can be stitched on fabric of your choice, and is coded for regular old DMC floss! I LOVE Last Stitch Cemetery! The charms are a skull, a spider, a skein of floss and stork scissors! The grave stones read: 'Started & Forgotten, 1/2 Stitched, Too Old, and Lost Interest!!!' It is just the funniest thing! (Wow... you could even organize your UFOs... and actually label the bins with the individual markers.) Or... what a FUN gift to stitch one little marker to gift to another stitcher!!! The entire piece finishes approx 3 x 13 on 14/28. Dark Shadows is quite the sinister looking piece, as well. With a spider, key and fish skeleton charm trio, these make really unique seasonal decorations -- something fun to pull out every year and smile! | |
Jo Jo's Santa from Fern Ridge Collections Fern Ridge has a stunning new Santa Peyote Stitch piece that can be used as a pin, ornament or necklace pendant. Charming Mr Santa Claus is entirely beaded -- no loom, no base fabric. You stitch him in your hands using a beading technique named the Peyote Stitch -- where the beads fit together like miniature bricks! He is basically charted -- complete beading instructions are included with the color coded diagrams. He finishes a mere 2-1/2 x 2-1/2, his face is flat... but that beard is a wonderful mass of looped beads, all glistening with silver star mixed in. Offered as the complete kit, you get all the threads, beads, embellishments, findings... everything... along with great instructions! | |
Little Witches and Hazel from Fern Ridge Collections Well... we missed Halloween this year... but I think it's a pretty good gamble that you could get these ready for next year. Here are two more of Fern Ridge's Peyote Stitch Scissor Fobs that add to their awesome collection of luscious creations! Offered as complete kits, these are all beaded. No Cross Stitching involved. Peyote Stitch is a type of beading... no base fabric... you 'do it -- in hand!' Pat and Peggy have so much creative talent -- I don't know how they find all the cool beads they do -- and the fringes for all of their fobs are WAY Over-The-Top COOL! So much texture and personality in these. They measure approx an inch wide, and 2 to 3 or 4 inches long, depending on the fringes. As far as Peyote Stitch goes -- these are actually more on the beginning side of difficulty. The fringe looks like the hard part -- but that's actually the easiest -- as they are just loops of beads! Bringing our collection of fobs to 9, I believe... our Peyote-Beading-Model-Stitcher, Leanna is busy, busy making our shop models!!! These kits contain ALL your beads, threads, findings, needles... and great instructions! (just not a Leanna to go with them!) | |
Christmas & Sugar Cookies! from Cross Eyed CricketCross Eyed Cricket has two new designs that 'speak' of The Season! Just like her 4-seasons designs... these are alphabet letters spelling out their word with quite a bit of charm and design content.  Offered as leafets, each design is coded for DMC floss, and can be worked on just about ANY fabric you want! Regular Cross Stitch... think about adding some metallics or fun button embellishments. COOKIES finishes approx 4 x 21 on 28ct. CHRISTMAS is a bit larger at 5 x 26. Fun, fresh new decorations... in case you're due for an update!!! | |
Mansion House at Fox Hollow from With Thy Needle & Thread Brenda Gervais has re-produced an antique sampler she owns -- she loved the extra large house and the sweet little fox in the lower right corner. Stitched on weeks 30ct Parchment Linen, this finishes a generous 12 x 12. Elegant with color emphasis on brown and dusty blue -- it takes 5 skeins of Weeks Straw and 4 skeins of Havana. | |
Turkey Lovefrom Plum Street Samplers New from Plum Street comes this charming little primitive piece for Thanksgiving. Dated 1621 for the year the Pilgrims celebrated their first Thanksgiving in Plymouth, your 90 x 89 stitch count piece can turn out small or larger -- depending on your fabric choices. Stitched in DMC floss or silks, the colors are rich, the acorns are plump and the turkeys are skinny! Not sure you'd want to eat them this year! Sweet little piece, offered in chart format. | |
Santa's Sleigh Ride from JBW DesignsJBW has a sweet design that is stitched on the new Fabric Flair 28ct Antique White Opalescent. Stitched with your stash of overdyeds or DMC flosses, Santa in his sleigh finishes approx 8 x 3-1/2 inches. The fabric is simply lovely -- Fabric Flair of England somehow sprays, or treats one side of their fabrics with an opalescent finish. So light... just barely there... I think you'll like the effect. The linen itself has a great hand, too. Santa's Sleigh ride comes as a partial kit of chart, charms and metallic threads, needle and fabric cut. You add the bits of floss for this JBW treat! | |
 
Mermaid Mending Box from Olde Colonial Olde Colonial has introduced a companion box to Grammy's Mending Box. Inspired by Pam's personal collection of antiques... she has an old mending box that is this same size, and features the same unique assembly. The cover of this box begins on the bottom, and wraps around one side to reach over the box to top it. So... the stitched design is worked on 32ct linen with luscious shades of Weeks flosses of Chamomile, Forest Glade, Kudzu, Schneckley, Teal Frost, Chesapeake and Dutch Iris. All blues, greens and browns -- delicious! This complete kit contains the hand-made 3-1/2 x 5-1/2 x 1-1/2 inch burled wood box, (no lid on the box -- remember you are making that part!) lace, charms, linen, flosses, lining fabrics, batting, interfacings and boards... EVERYTHING you need to make this tiny little antique reproduction. Just needs to be in a beach house somewhere! | |
New from Raise the Roof and Shakespeare's Peddler!Good News -- these patterns are here... Pumpkin Joe and three old crows, Joe says 'Boo' and off they goes! A fun little piece of orange and black delight, get that yummy hand-dyed linen, a mangy black hand-dyed cotton or silk, and add a few JABCO buttons, this is really cute!  Ann Dale's Sampler is stunning! Teresa has been busy buying antique samplers and reproducing them... this one is full of fancy birds lacy trees and lavish flower pots. The border is straight and clean, lots of yummy pink, rose and creamy color. Stitched on 40ct linen, this finishes 20 x 12-1/2... so anything larger will certainly make this a commanding sampler! Coded for DMC floss, Gentle Art Sampler Threads or a combination of silks, you have several great thread options with this, which is a treat! Sampler Threads of Green Pasture, Chives, Piney Woods, Cranberry, Victorian Pink, Rose Garden, Oatmeal, Cherry Wine, Roasted Marshmallow are just some of the colors used. | |
| AB Designs has lots of cute new things! 
 We've been collecting.....!Jack 'N and Jackie 'O are a party couple! FULL of Halloween personality, Amy has them on Chartreuse linen, so they are not to be missed!!! Frost Soon is completely different from J & J. Deeper colors, subtle design, the pumpkin is gorgeous, and actually features purple spots (which of course, DOES digress from that subtle idea!) We're up to 7 Snowpeople of the Month now... these are all so colorful, you can stitch just the person part if time is a factor. These are fun (just do the tops) stuffed into little pillows and grouped into a basket. Kind of shove them around in there to mix up the seasons a little. All of Amy's designs come from her original hand drawings. She is quite the artist, and everything she does bubbles with her personality! (She even sprinkles the floor of her hotel-room-booth with glitter and confetti -- she just leaves an extra tip for Housekeeping!) She delivers us everything in color leaflet format with embellishment packs separately. | |
 Nine New Designs from The Sweetheart Tree (We're teasing you here with only a few pics of some of the new -- everything is presented on our inside pages, so read and click away!) A pair of Quadrielles begin the new. Quaker matches Sandie's Quaker Floral Sampler -- simple, plain, but really very pretty. *Very Stitchable!* Lavender Fields goes with the whole Lavender Blossoms set of designs... the Williamsburg Tea Caddy and Fob set add to it -- so delicate! (This pair is stitched on two different colors of linen in the same finished piece!) Chickadee Winter is your 4th season in that little set, W is for witch is the 22nd alphabet letter. Finally, Sweetheart Tree has three small card designs -- two with basic Hardanger work in the center, and Christmas Fishin' -- for the little elves who would rather be out fishing that shoveling snow! | |
 Fern Ridge Collections has outdone themselves this Season!!! Wait till you see all of Pat and Peggy's amazing stuff! They are making a 4-1/2 x 2 x 1-1/4 inch wooden coffin scissor case -- complete with stitched linens inside! They have a hand-made ceramic painted pumpkin pin cushion... there is a colorful owl needle case kit, and a trio of Peyote Stitch beaded scissor fobs. We have more of their cute things coming... but I didn't want to hold up any of THIS waiting for my second shipment. So here goes! |
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 Ravenmoon Hall, Buzzard's Roost Inn & Black Cat Manor from Praiseworthy Stitches Praiseworthy Stitches presents quite a spectacular trio of haunted houses, actually beautifully *painted and maintained*... the neighbors living within might not fit with your neighborhood! Such knarley trees and so much activity in the yards, these finish just a 'slight' 24 and 26 x19 on 28ct ! Black Cat Manor is a bit smaller at 14 x 19! You'll need a little wall space for any one of these! Stitched in a variety of hand-dyeds, each is offered in chart format... beautifully printed and LARGE! Part of their *busy-ness* and charm are the JABCO clay buttons scattered everywhere -- they always deliver something else to draw the eye! CAN'T STITCH THESE??? Get 'em in stationery! 2 Cards each of our three houses, plus Midnight Fright... little notecards to reduce the stress of not enjoying things that are in your stash!!! | |
Presenting Prairie Schooler's 2011 Annual Santa!For the 26th (?) year in a row Prairie Schooler has delivered us their classic Santa Claus -- always the same size, always the same color palette, always the same charm! This year's edition to the set features Santa with his snow shoes and sack of snowballs. He'd better not throw them at that little cardinal!!! Offered as a single card, we still have *some* of the previous years' designs left, but they are gradually disappearing. Always the *Signal to Begin The Season*... enjoy our 2011 Santa! | |
Book of Daysfrom The Drawn Thread Drawn Thread has a new pattern that is a medley of wildflowers and the days of the week. Designed to be the cover of a date or address book, the front design's stitch count is roughly 110 x 150. The pattern does call for a specific date book style, so we advise getting the chart first... then getting your date book... THEN figuring out what size of fabric you'll need to use! Lovely stitches scattered throughout, Cynthia does use Needlepoint Inc and Dinky Dyes silks, and includes a complete placement and finishing guide to stitch this in the proper place on your linen, that is being made into the entire datebook cover. If you don't want to go the datebook route, this would make a DARLING mail-holder or you could tuck it into the clear front of a binder or folder to hold that week's shopping lists and coupons! I could, of course, stitch this to put in front of the Silver Needle employee time-sheet book... ! | |
 Tree Ornaments -- Something Old and Something New from Sue Hillis Designs We have a collection of 4 leaflets by Sue Hillis that are turning into quite a nice collection of tree-shaped ornaments. Sue has re-done some of her older designs that had been past favorites -- giving them a make-over -- and adding a few new designs to complement them! Noel en Rouge features over-one monochromatic Christmas Trees. Stitch them in any color you want, on any fabric you like!!! #2 Features needlework-inspired trees! You get a floss tree, a spool tree and a scissor tree! Leaflet #3 features traditional trees -- I love, love that feathery one on the right with the teeny star embellishments! Leafelt #4 is Christmas Candy! NOEL isn't a tree shape like the other two, but it'd look great tucked on your tree with it's candy counterparts. Something for everyone in this set of leaflets, kind of nice that they aren't all the same at all!!! | |
 Seasonal Garlands from A Kitty Kat Original Aren't they cute? This is a collection of seasonal motifs -- all dangled together -- to resemble garlands. By A Kitty Kat Original, her set of 5 pieces enchants me! You can stitch them as is -- on one piece of fabric and frame them... OR... you can stitch them on perforated paper or make tiny fabric pillows and actually STRING them... and make stitched garlands! Her cover pics show paper shapes attached together via wire -- that makes them easy to flex and display just the way you want them. They'd be cute on a wreath, too... get some colored lights, some wild ribbon... Offered as charts, you'll find those old-fashioned plastic *google eyes* featured on the personalities in all but the Ho Ho pattern... so retro and fun! Charted for DMC, google eyes included in charts! | |
Christmas Robins Scissor Fobfrom Barbara-Anna DesignsA charming little design -- it's a double-decker fob!!! A trio of chubby winter robins -- dressed in Christmas finery with their Santa Hats on -- they are so simple, yet so cute! THEN... why haven't we thought of this before???? DOUBLE fobs??? What a cool way to use coordinating designs?! What a neat way to use cool beads from your embellishment stash?! (With so many designs... you could stitch a tiny bit of the larger design as an accent... and attach it to the main piece!) Anyway, Christmas Robins's top design measures 39 x 46, while the bottom is a mere 25 x 25. Choose your fabric of choice... grab DMC floss from your stash and get BUSY! Offered as a chart. | |
Violet Biscornu from Faby Reilly DesignsAnother lovely, romantic floral biscornu design from Faby Reilly... this is stitched on 32ct Antique White Belfast Linen in DMC flosses. Garnished with a few gold Mill Hill seed beads... you'll find a few dreaded French Knots in here as well... but, hey, think about violet petite beads for those instead!!! This chart is simply lovely in presentation, and your finished cushion will be equally stunning! | |
Ann Pennsylvania Peacock & Idelia Mae Rich from Little by Little Little by Little's Cynthia Bradford has two charming pieces that feature PAPER faces on Idelia Mae and Ann. Ann Pennsylvania is a distant relative -- Cynthia found her name on some old family records -- and knew she just and to design something with that name! Evidentally paper faces in samplers were popular in the 19th century and sometimes painted directly onto the linen instead. Ann's 10 x 11 piece features a lavish tree, beautifully dressed Ann, and her city and place of residence. All the pretty hand-dyed threads just add to the charm. Offered as the chart, Cynthia has a friend who made a watercolor painting of this tiny paper face included with the chart. Idelia offers the same charm. Her red dress is elegant, you can just tell she was a lady of good character! She finishes approx 8 x 9. This pair of pieces is charming -- especially because of those faces. We added a lot of other designs, too.... so don't miss them! | |
Snowman Kisses from Cherrywood Design Studios'Noses get in the way!' This is such a cute design... we wanted to highlight it in time for this year's SNOW! Stitch it on any blue fabric you want... it has a stitch count of 57 x 187. We have loads of different counts and colors of fabric to choose from. Now, about those noses... the CONFLICT in this story. Don't stitch them on there... use little clay ones! We have extra-bitty-1/4 inch sticky-out noses all the way to 3/4 of an inch. We have flat ones in 4 sizes! We have bright orange or tea dyed... You get to pick your noses for this!!! It doesn't get any better! Offered as a chart, our noses run from $1.00 to $1.75 each. You'll need to discuss fabric and noses in the comments box of our order form! | |
Sterling Silver Pendants and Ornaments from JBW DesignsJBW has introduced three sizes of spectacular sterling silver mini-frames that can double as jewelry pendants or Christmas Tree ornaments. Remember her tiny hearts and trees... when you work them over one thread, they fit PERFECTLY into these frames! Very heavy in feel, elegant in look, choose almost anything tiny for these, and it'll look great. Shiny sterling, you might see a red and white checkered bow attached to the tops -- that is simply ribbon -- change it if you like to match your new piece! | |
 Winter Bird from JABCO Just Another Button Company's last little wool pin cushion has arrived! (I hope they don't stop designing these... they are so cute!) A rich red herringbone wool cardinal, she sports black lining under her wings and a festive set of NOEL pins decorating her back. Offered as a complete kit of all the wools, threads, pins and awesome real wool roving stuffing... this has been a lovely set of 'upper end!' handmade cushions. Little works of art! | |
 New Projects from Blackbird Designs! Barb and Alma have four new leaflets, as well as their AWESOME SchoolGirl Samplings Book. | |
Penny America from Tree of Life Samplings Freedom*Liberty*Justice! What a perky and cheery pot of Americana! The lavish bouquet of stylized flowers bursts like fireworks from that little pot and the blowing flag is extra-festive. The edge treatments look like the edges of penny rugs -- small circles of wool -- pennies. These are stitched instead, but mirror the swirls and stars from the flowers. Stitched on almost anything you like, the threads called for are Weeks hand-dyed cottons and your stitch count is 163 x 78. Just something cute that came through the shop this summer!!! | |
Monograms by Jim ShoreStitch a festive letter full of shading, swirls, and flourishes. Offered in a 40-page book of all 26 letters, you are also offered border options and motifs to decorate tops and bottoms of letters, so that all can be joined and arranged into a million different design possibilities. (Hope that doesn't sound too confusing!) Elegant velvety-red letters surrounded by green and blues... even though they all *look* the same... they are all actually different. Glass seed beads garnish here and there, as well. Stitch a word, birth announcement, pillows, so many different options. Each main letter block has a design size if 87 x 87 stitches. Add multiple borders or not, all is just lovely any way you stitch it! | |
 The Four Seasons from Filigram Presenting a lovely collection of the four seasons in flora and fauna! Petite pieces finishing approx 6 x 9 on 32ct, each is worked with its own selection of 6 colors of Gentle Art Sampler Threads -- but are coded for DMC cotton if you'd rather use that. The charts are beautifully presented in color -- so clear -- you could frame THEM! Look at each season. See all the different bands and birds that you could take out of these and stitch individually? Very simple, but really eye catching and charming... this has such a unique design flavor... we like them all! Filigram has also finished her 4-Season set of Garden Vegetables, too... more cute borders and tiny seasonal motifs await your stitching fingers! | |
 Fox in the Hen House from Blackberry Lane Designs We have been enjoying the Blackberry Lane trunk show in the shop since September! Designer, Marie Driskill is so talented, her things are enchanting to see and hold. Fox in the Hen House is a set of two 3/4 x 1-1/4 designs that are shown mounted into a tiny, double-sided brass frame. Stitched over one on 40ct, you'll need a whopping 26 colors of DMC floss for these, as well as two hand-dyeds -- for those backgrounds. (That means there are 26 different colors in JUST the fox, hen, and chicks!) Of course, you can stitch these on a larger count if you like... just notice the extreme detail and beautiful color shading. Offered as the chart pack with 40ct linen and one pendant frame... we do have extra frames if you want to show them both at once! |
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Snowman on a Hill & Wee Santa 2011 from Heart in HandHeart in Hand has two new small card designs. Snowman on a Hill is tall and skinny -- stitched on Week's 30ct Putty linen in lots of hand-dyed flosses -- he measures approx 3 x 5-1/2. His hill is garnished with three white snowball buttons, and even though you stitch his stars and nose, those would be fun to embellish as well. Santa 2011 is kind of an olde-worlde-looking kind of guy. Kind of fun how his hat and beard mirror each other in design dimension -- he has a festive sack of treasures -- and his border features a smattering of tiny micro-sized button trims. Both are offered as small cards -- and now, Cecilia is including her buttons WITH her card charts. |
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Hornbook Frames by Pricilla's PocketOh wow... we have 4 awesome primitive hornbook frames and one tiny individual hornbook thread palette by Priscilla's Pocket. *Paddle Shapes* if you will, all are patterned after antique hornbooks -- the wooden paddle predicescors to text books in Colonial American Education. Lessons were attached to the wooden hornbooks -- kind of like a reading book. Priscilla's Pocket has made 4 sizes of black and raisin distressed frames that are slightly irregular in shape, and totally *on the mark* as far as authenticity. Black matte painted finish with hints of raisin peeking through... the painted finish is individually hand-done and bumpy and the edges of the frames are slightly rounded and irregular. (Your framer will have to contour his boards a bit... and you'll hear about it...) Lots more details on our Accessories, Gifts & Gadgets page! | |
| Such Delight - Cinnamon Stick Christmas XXII from Homespun Elegance 
 Ok... Homespun Elegance's 22nd Annual Cinnamon Stick Santa design has arrived, and is worlds different from past years! This year, Santa is stitched on 30ct hand-dyed linen, and finishes approx 4 x 14! His coordinating pattern that is finished as a greenery pocket measures approx 4 x 6. That long, skinny shape is really fun for a novelty pillow... if you opted to stitch him on 10ct like some of the previous year's patterns... he'd be approx 6 x 21! Offered as the chart, overdyeds and Rainbow Gallery's Wisper are used, and you can see the trio of Olde Brass Star buttons garnishing him. VERY CUTE! |
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 Fleur de Lys from ScissorTail Designs We have pretty pin cushions and scissor fobs, beautifully stitched in hand-dyed silks -- all with a gently, swirled Fleur de Lys motif! Pictured here are three of the five designs that are so simple and elegant... the red (cushion finishes approx 3 x 5) are offered together in one chart, the green (large square is approx 4 x 4) and then the blue. Remember that you can stitch any of these in ANY colors you wish... what makes them enchanting is that graceful Fleur de Lys motif, and the gentle shading of your silk thread. | |
Gingher's Tessa Scissors are Here!So fresh, modern and cheerful this year, Gingher's annual patterned scissors and shears have arrived! A colorful medley of navy, bright blue, yellow, orangey-red and beige, these are crisp, clear and fun!!! Unfortunately, Gingher has not gone forward with the metal collector tins from previous year's styles. Each DOES, however, come with it's plastic or leather protective covering sheath. Always fun in your stitching bag... several of the previous patterns have been retired for years now. Available in 4-inch embroidery, 5-inch sewing and 8-inch dressmaker shears -- the 8-inch are offered in both right and left-handed! (Our set of three will be 4, 5, and 8-inch right handed -- unless you specify that you need the left shears. The 4 and 5 inch are not available in left-handed.) | |
 Emma & Eliza's Christmas Hat from Just Nan Just Nan has sent sneak previews of her Christmas releases... this darling 3-dimensional hat is just one of the trio of new. Part 3 of Emma & Eliza's Story, this hat can be hung as an ornament, or perched on a red and white round box -- you can see it in our pic. Stitched on 28ct Dark Teal Cashel Linen, with a 28ct White Opalescent Tree Skirt below, what a charming little piece! Turkey Lurking is a humorous depiction of the scared Thanksgiving Turkey hiding out till after the *big day!* A 3 x 3 design on 32ct Flax Belfast. Finally -- Nan presents pair of Wee Whimzi Ornament Boxes -- 1-1/2 inch square antiqued brass treasure boxes garnished with tiny Christmas trinkets. Tuck a coin inside, a special photo... or something small and precious to hang on the tree every year. A neat idea for a keepsake ornament each year -- like a miniature time-capsule! | |
They're Here!!! Presenting Crescent Colours' Hand-dyed TRIMS!Sharon Crescent has been dying for months and months and is ready to debut her new line of hand-dyed cotton trims to match some of her cotton threads!!! PERFECT for finishing any cushions, ornaments, pillows and things you've stitched with Crescent Colours flosses (The other overdyed brands will look great with these, too!). You'll get that soft, hand-dyed look to make your needlework look stunning!  Beginning with 10 different colors in 7 different trim styles... we will have 70 different choices!!! Trim offerings include 4 different sizes of Rik-Rak, a 1-inch cotton Cluny lace, 1/2 inch cotton twill tape, and chenille cord! Color offerings so far include Blue Moon, Purple Aster, Wild Berries, Secondhand Rose, Cherry Tomato, Bamboo, Toasted Marshmallow, Cocoa Bean, Bean Sprout, and Poblano Pepper. The image at right shows these colors in the Crescent flosses. Our pic shows Secondhand Rose Ric-Racks, Cluny and twill. Everything is offered in small 2 and 3 yard put-ups... and feature a soft, ***hand-dyed*** feel and finish! We have them ALLLLLLL! These are lovely -- over-the-top -- lovely...! You can really tell that they have been softly hand-dyed... definitely worth the wait! |
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Vintage Needlework Postcards & Tradecards -- On Fabric!This is an endearing collection of familiar, classic vintage images that first appeared early in the 1900's via needlework trade card ads and postcards. Reproduced onto 4 x 6 sheets of cotton sateen fabric via an 8-step color printing process, they feature an iron-on backing treatment (very light in weight, but super strong) ... so if you want... you can attach your picture to any fabric to make a mini-quilt, tea towels, etc. You could even frame these just as they are, and not iron them on to anything! Advertising various products and services before WWI, including thread and sewing machines, the original trade and post cards are still very collectable. 
 I love all the antique sewing and needlework themes, but couldn't pass up a few Christmas designs as well. You'll notice the Santa Set -- it features the original images that Dimples Designs has charted for us into cross stitch!!! Each package of fabric prints features 4 different vintage pictures... and they are CHARMING!!! I think they'd be fun sewn into a wall hanging... or gracing the front of a envelope-shaped stitching case! You could iron them onto white dish towels, and embroider just a bit around the edges, and make AWESOME gifts for stitching friends! Happy Browsing... click the images to see all four prints offered in each set. | |
| Halloween Night Scissor Block & Tray Set from Liberty Hill  A new Stitching Station by Liberty Hill! Check this out... it's totally fun and functional! No stitching required to enjoy, either! Liberty Hill's Carolyn has a new offering... she's been handpainting for the last few months and has created this very useful stitching station. Beginning with your 5-1/2 x 9 x 1/2 high primitive work tray -- painted in antiqued orange and decorated with black stars -- the scissor block sitting there is decorated on 4 sides to showcase your Halloween scissors. Her charming houses, hills, cats and nightime skies... each side of the3 x 3 x 3 block is painted. There is a place to store a pair of scissors -- the Kelmscott Steweb design is pictured... along with your tiny handpainted pumpkin fob that attaches. You can keep track of your scissors while stitching, and fill that tray with thread orts (all the little end clippies) or M & M's! Our shipment has arrived, it's a cute set. |
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Black Cat Hornbook from Needlemade DesignsOh... these are CUTE!!!! Be Needlemade Designs, choose your favorite kitty-color and stitch him on almost any count of linen, to finish onto one of Priscilla's Pockets hand-made chunky hornbooks! Stitch a black cat or a Siamese, and trim with a border of Nun's Stitch. Offered as a leaflet, there is history of the Nun Stitch included, as well as advice about loving your kitty. Designer, Linda, warns that these are easy enough to stitch and give away as gifts... and the easiest way of finding new homes for your cats!!! |
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 5 New Needle Cards! from Sajou Sajou has 5 new needle assortment sets... these are BEAUTIFULLY printed and presented collections of needles. Both sharp and blunt tapestry needles are included -- approx 40 varied sizes in each paper pocket, they are charming, and ALMOST too pretty to use! Gorgeous in a framed shadow box, fun in your stitching tote, stitchers can never have too many needles!!!! |
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 New Treats from Lady Dot Creations We have the most delightful collection of fun new *necessaries* by Lady Dot Creations! A classy heart pin cushion, an elegant beeswax waxer trimmed with gorgeous engraved mother-of-pearl buttons, a neat pouch that stores a trio of cork-topped bead bottles, a pair of fabric button boxes... and sets of stick pins that are topped with delicate paper flower cut-outs! Everything is lovingly and individually hand-made in California. Moda fabrics are featured, the trims are usually silk, and the button-accents are always more mother-of-pearl! Because of their nature, Ms Lady Dot does not promise an endless supply of her creations! Fabrics run out with the manufacturer's runs... so as Moda removes them from the line... Lady Dot will find something else just as chaming!!!! But for now -- enjoy these dreamy little pieces! |
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Hazel's Hat from Acorn HouseWow... this is CREATIVE! I have never seen a scissor case quite like this -- and it is CHARMING!!! Offered in chart format, you get compete instructions and the chart to stitch this witch hat that doubles as a scissor case. Worked on a mangy gray linen, it is finished 3-dimensionally, and features DMC Memory Thread inside to give the hat band the stability to stand out. Can you see the little spider? He is hanging on there by a bit of Kreinik opalescent #4 braid -- it's his web! He is stitched over one thread, and features tiny beaded legs. Then, he has a super strong magnet in his body to cling to the scissors stored in the hat! Unbelieveably cute, he swings all over the place on his web-string! The whole hat finishes approx 4-1/2 x 5, and is perfect for any black scissors you have. VERY UNIQUE, the model is quite impressive!!!!! I don't think it's hard to DO... I just love the fact that Susan could imagine and create this unique piece! A Stitched Trophy! |
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CROW from Acorn HouseOh My Gosh... Haven't I always wanted to stitch a big 'ol buzzard??? This little guy is just the cutest! He's almost 7 inches tall... and is perched on a STITCHED branch! Worked on the front and back, his beak opens to reveal felt needle pages. It has a strong magnet in there... and it clings to the scissors stored on his backside -- so his mouth is tactfully closed to gossip! See the leaves hanging from the branch? Those are handmade clay leaves... hung on there with beaded vines! This whole thing is an exercise in creative needlework and finishing! Stitch this little guy and perch him among your pumpkins for the fall... put him onto a wreath... stick him to the frig... hide him on a bookshelf so anyone who is really studying your books will stumble upon him... ENCHANTING! (And he's a darn CROW!!!!) Offered as the chart with those clay leaves! |
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New from Dames of the NeedleWe have 5 DARLING new designs by Elizabeth... I'm showing just two of them here... but if you click into our Dames of the Needle Page, you'll be treated to all of them! Small Americana Hornbook is done on our medium-sized 2-1/4 x 2-3/4 wooden hornbook on 35ct Weeks Straw Linen over one thread. It is precious!!! Nantucket Beach is a beach scene from the olden days. See the neat bath houses on wheels? All the people are dressed in their old-fashioned striped swim suits... and they are stitched over one. Love them all! |
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Bargello Sampler from Rosewood Manor WOW... this is SO cool! This is a booklet stuffed FULL of pretty Bargello variations that Karen as organized into a Random Spot Motif Sampler. Very different in the world of samplers, this really IS a sampling of stitches. Bargello looks hard to stitch, but it's really easy. It is simply Straight or Satin Stitches all lined up next to each other, with your color variations making up as much of the design impact as the stitch placements themselves. Bargello isn't as good without the color stripes -- you want it to *move!* I tried to design Bargello *once* and gave up! It's harder for a designer to create than it looks, so I really appreciate this publication. It's like a miniature handbook of 37 different motifs!!!!! Just beautifully done, you can change any colors in any of the motifs if you want. THIS is what you used to see on antique foot stools, and still do on eyeglass cover and that sort of thing. This sampler measures approx 7 x 13 on 28ct Ivory Cashel Linen. Coded for DMC, you really don't want to use hand-dyed instead, because you need the individual rows of colors to be distinct from each other. Just use good old DMC! Pick your favorites and make some little fobs or ornaments -- or get ambitious and do this whole thing. It's a show-stopper! The leaflet makes an excellent reference tool! |
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| Announcing the 2011 Fall and Christmas Just Cross Stitch Magazine Issues!   Wow... you caught us shopping instead of working!!!!!! Our Just Cross Stitch Magazine Halloween Collection 98-page softcover book has JUST arrived! It is AWESOME!!!!!Honestly, not just all ornaments, there is not a single dud-design in this!!! TONS of cute projects -- one of the more unusual is a set of pop bottle top eyeball earrings!!! Beautiful graphics, heavy pages, pretty pics and clear charts... there is no advertising in this book -- only seriously great cross stitch!!!!! (it WILL sell out from the publisher!) |
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Fun New Offerings from The Stitching Shed We have a huge new shipment of the cutest designs... I chose just three to highlight here... and have the rest pictured on our inside pages. Stitching Shed's look is young, cheerful, colorful and clean. Offered as charts -- they are all coded for Anchor floss. The covers are very clear -- so changing to DMC or hand-dyeds is pretty easy, as you can see the colors so well on the covers. Look into your button and embellishment stash, as well... some of these offer great opportunities for little extra bits of decoration! A Year in Stitches finishes approx 5 x 6-1/2. Woodland measures 8 x 9, and Chicken Sampler comes in at 8 x 8-1/2. I just love them ALL! | |
Gingerbread Church from The Victoria SamplerA charming companion to VS's Gingerbread House... you can begin a stitched village of miniature fabric buildings! Joining our Gingerbread Stitching House comes the cathedral decked in white perle cottons against the Antique Almond 28ct Cashel Linen. The roof can be stitched on black or the almond... notice the color for the main piece is really only in the tiny stained glass windows. Looking MUCH harder than it actually is to assemble... you CAN do this! I think the whole thing finishes approx 10 inches high by 9 inches long... I am adding up the piece dimensions in my head. A delightful addition to the House, the accessory pack includes all the silks, metallics, flosses, pearls, gold cross charm, and snowflake buttons. Charming! | |
 Hearts! ... and Needlebooks! from Nikyscreations Nikyscreations has three new releases that are all relaxed, antique-y and charming! Hearts is a small booklet full of the most lovely pictures! It features 8 small heart-inspired pin cushion and other what-not designs. All little bitty designs, I just want to cut out the pages and frame the pictures!!! (Remember that Blackbird and With Thy Needle do a lot of finishing and framing with distressed prints of needlework??? KEEP THIS BOOK IN MIND for some lovely graphics!) Seasonal hanging Pockets for Fall and Winter -- just DMC floss -- your primitive finishing with cool wools on these takes the cake! Needlebooks features charts for 4 buttoned cases. NO KIDDING -- dredge your needlework in coffee, and SAND the linen and threads to make a couple of holes to repair with buttons and hand-sewing. You'll treasure your beautifully distressed pieces just as much as the pristine ones! Why wait 200 years to get this cool look that you can make in 5 minutes! | |
HALLOWEEN from Rovaris of Italy!By Rovaris, this is a cool piece! Halloween is spelled out -- but each letter is a stylized little picture! Offered as the chart, the stitch count is 511 x 84 -- so you'll need to consider how you big you want your final piece to be. Just the witch hat measures approx 50 x 70 stitches -- so this isn't particularly small. You can see charms scattered about... get into your stash and find your favorite scary buttons and charms to add -- this is a classy piece! Charted for DMC #815 -- or anything YOU want! | |
All Creatures Stitched and Small and Words to Stitch By La D Da's Lori Markovic has commissioned Leisure Arts to re-publish 14 of her (Out-of-print? Not sure all of these are published previously) designs!!!!! Offered in a pair of full color leaflets, All Creatures features The White Cat, Trek in the Woods, Three Dogs-a-Leaping, Sachi the Elephant, Leaping Cat, and The Ark. Words to Stitch By includes By Her Hand, Mares Eat Oats, The Tie That Binds, My Friend, Roses are Red, Nice Matters, My Sunshine, and Merry Sunshine. Lovely re-prints of fun designs... you will NOT GO WRONG with either of these collections!!! Charted for DMC, clear colored charts and great pics... lots of fun to just page through!!! | |
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