Rosewood Manor : The Silver Needle, Fine Needlecraft Materials


This is a neat collection of designs by Artist Karen Kluba. Inspired by lots of quilts and samplers... there are a couple of really nice patriotic designs here as well. All offered as leaflets, Karen is really considerate about offering lots of different ideas for smaller 'take-out' designs from her larger works. Each pattern has ideas for smaller ornaments, scissor fobs, towel borders, sampler bands... all sorts of good things. It makes your pattern book so much more versatile... doesn't it take away any 'quilt' associated with 'collecting???'
Welcome Home Rosewood Manor has two new publications that have caught my eye. Welcome Home is a vase of blooming vines... only the flowers are a spectacular array of creamy Mother-of-Pearl buttons. Everything unique, every button different... this finishes approx 6 x 18 on 28ct. The urn and words are all stitched in Algerian Eye Stitches... if you want something faster to stitch or less on the structured side -- stitch JUST THE VINE -- it is LOVELY!!!!!! The entire thing is stitched in only one color -- Weeks Dye Work's Baby's Breath hand-dyed floss on Antique White linen. Elegant, this is offered as a leaflet, with that button set available as a separate option.
Surrey House Sampler What a pretty antique-y-feeling piece! A delicate floral basket beneath a very Victorian alphabet... the fabric is of special note with this piece. See the 'wallpaper lines' in the background??? THAT is printed very lightly on the 28ct Antique White Surrey Fabric specially made JUST for this particular piece! This main design finishes approx 12 x 12 and is stitched with regular DMC floss. The fabric features those pale motifs for your background that add such a flavor! Charming! Offered as the leaflet (you can stitch this on any fabric you like..) with this awesome Surrey Fabric offered separately.
Old Glory Rosewood Manor has several new releases, and this one, Old Glory, is one of my favorites! A medley of the different American Flags through the years, Karen has them all together, along with a bit of history about each. If you stitch the whole piece like it is here, it'll measure approx 11 x 20 on 32ct. It's stitched in plain 'ol DMC floss -- you'll need 16 skeins total of only 5 colors: 221, 712, 924, 926 and 3799. Rhodes and Eyelets, Smyrnas and Diamond Stars, along with LOTS of Cross Stitch, this is truly a piece to teach American History! Offered as a leaflet.
Peaceful Dove Inspired by the textile designs of William Morris of England, the main piece measures approx 6 x 7 on 32ct... but notice the teeny pin cushion? It is stitched over one thread on 32ct and mounted into the top of a Sudberry House Vintage Pin Cushion. Very elegant! Offered in leaflet format.
Dogwood Lace Inspired by an antique lace pattern, this piece measures 182 x 182 stitches. Choose a pretty hand-dyed thread in your favorite color, and stitch everything in that one color! This would be pretty finished as a table doily! Offered in leaflet format.
Bargello Sampler 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!
Barnwood Buttons This is a striking piece! A garden of pretty buttons... When one tugs at a single thing in nature he finds it attached to the rest of the world. Choose a background fabric color, and stitch this in Weeks Dye Works 'Linen' hand-dyed floss (matches the buttons the best) and garnish with Rosewood's lovely set of mother-of-pearl and ivory buttons. Actually not much to stitch in this 5 x 21 piece, you have several design options besides the one pictured here. Change the fabric color, stitch the greens using a couple of different overdyed greens... add your own buttons instead of the original assortment -- colored or ivory -- you decide! Stitch only part of the piece... I love the verse, but if you just can't do all of the stitching... choose your favorite 4 or 5 inches... and do a smaller version! Very unusual, every button in our 21 piece set is different -- but the same as those pictured on the leaflet model. I love the butterfly!
Blossoms in Baltimore Inspired by the lovely Baltimore Quilt Album quilts, Karen has designed one for Cross Stitch (and stitched it) because she doesn't have time to quilt!!!!!! Traditional, lovely flowing blocks... all organized, traditional colors, everything about this is pretty. Each of the squares is charted on its own page, and there is a huge 17 x 22 inch 4-page pull-out master chart that shows the border chart and block placement. Charted for DMC, the main piece measures approx 20 x 26 on 28ct, while each individual block comes in at 5 x 5. Beautiful!
Garden of Eden Karen found an antique quilt dated 1830, with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. So... not being a quilter... she designed and stitched it instead! (probably saves time!) This is a beautifully delicate and flowing piece, I can just imagine if the original quilt was applique! The Adam and Eve design element seems to be toned down somewhat -- so Karen adds an option to stitch 'Welcome to My Garden' instead of the Garden of Eden block, and I don't see a serpent anywhere... just lots of butterflies and gorgeous florals. With a stitch count of 258 square, this finishes a little over 16 x 16 on 32ct Cream Belfast. No special stitches... just lots of pretty!
Past & Present Another awesome Rosewood Manor creation, FULL of colorful stitching details, pretty motifs, and LOTS of possibilities! Stitched on 28ct Cream Cashel Linen in mainly DMC flosses, the entire piece finishes approx 20 x 20. Karen always tells you to be creative and split the whole thing up into all the smaller bits. Check out all her Blackwork panels, all the Darning Stitches, the Quaker motifs, the Hardanger in the center, and all the pretty floral bands and motifs. You could do cushions, ornaments, basket bands, all kinds of cool stuff! Anyway, this is really a very pretty piece -- great balance, lots of color, very eye-catching! Offered as the leaflet.
Keys To The Kingdom Here's a medley of different keys! Charted for either a black presentation on 30ct Weeks Parchment, featuring black seed beads, or metallic keys on Creme, you'll get a totally different look depending on your color choice. Karen talks about ideas for her keys: inserts for key racks, or trays to hold keys, a welcome here hook to hold incoming key rings, New Home/Housewarming idea -- frame the key to the first house, frame the key for the new business, first car key... old keys have charm... Key to My Heart... lots of possibilities with this one! Offered as a leaflet, main sampler finishes approx 10 x 10 on 28ct.
Emily Munroe Quilt Wow... we like this one... every square IS different!!! If you work the whole thing, it measures 183 stitches square. Each tiny square is only 25 x 25 stitches -- you can do a lot with tiny motifs like this! Karen offers lots of 'frame' options -- extra stitched borders for the squares along with arrangement ideas. Stitched in regular DMC flosses -- 29 different colors!
Rainbow Butterfly Pin Oh wow... this is quite a pretty and UNIQUE project! Stitch a Rainbow Butterfly on 40ct silk gauze, using the hand-dyed Dinky Dyes silk provided. Karen has charted initials into the butterfly wings... so you have option of stitching your special letter in there, or not. Next, each butterfly is placed inside a 1-1/2 inch square glass and silver foil pendant... but there is also a piece of colored paper that goes behind your butterfly -- to show through the background of the gauze. Next... that little pendant hangs from a 'giant' 3-inch silver safety pin finding, that is then decorated with all sorts of beaded 'pins' and little silver squares! EVERYTHING is in this little kit... charts, silk, paper, beaded and silver trims, and the glass pendant. Very difficult to describe, but really VERY classy and elegant! Definitely hand-made ART! Each is one-of-a-kind because of the hand-dyed silk, the paper and the beaded trims!
Spring Quakers Rosewood Manor has a new sampler full of Springtime florals -- but Quaker-Inspired! Choose just your favorite flowers and make them into ornaments or fobs, or stitch the whole, and hang it in your garden room! Charted for RM's new set of Valdani's 3-Strand flosses... there are no DMC conversions offered... so if you want to use overdyeds from your stash, you get to be a little creative with color! Lots of pretty motifs in here, the main piece finishes approx 12 x 19 on 28ct.
Trip Around The World Quilt Rosewood had designed an alphabet of block capitals, each surrounded by rows and rows of special stitches in it's 5 x 5 square. You can choose your letter, and next, go shopping through the book for your border! Smyrnas, Rice, Leviathans, Klosters, Algerian Eyelets, Mosaics, Herringbone, and of course a few X's... this is a lovely collection of letters and small borders. You could stitch the entire alphabet, but that seems extreme for most! Just choose an initial or two!
Lighthouse Island Rosewood Manor has a really cool new Biscornu-shaped seaside village... houses and businesses on one side, and the mad, churning waves gracing the other! Stitched on 32ct light blue linen... each building that goes around the whole piece is unique, and full of lots of tiny details. Lighthouses, shops, cottages, hotels, a market, City Hall, the boathouse, schools and churches... just charming! They are on the top side. The bottom is a brilliant medley of rolling waves, so full of color and motion. Simply stitch both sides, and hand-attach together to make your 8-ish inch cushion! I've not seen anything like this, so it has been endearing. Karen shows some wrapped fish thread winders tossed into the center cavity, just for decoration. Offered as a leaflet with huge charts and great assembly instructions! Just an awesome sit-about!
Quaker Diamonds Rosewood Manor has a new Quaker-inspired sampler that is full of diagonal, lacy features. Stitched with the SAME color palette of Valdani hand-dyed flosses as Quakers and Quilts, this finishes approx 12 x 19; it's quite large, and full of details and vibrant color. Just x's... this is very elegant... and a fun way to use the 3-strand Valdani overdyeds! Offered as a chart.
Sailing Ships Sampler This is a cool 14 x 16 piece... you can stitch it just as it is... or take specific motifs out of it and make smaller samplers, or add little ships to other designs you already have! Karen Kluba has lots of different ideas for this medley of sailing ships... she has initials in here to signify weddings -- kind of like a family tree. You can use waste canvas and stitch ships and anchors on napkins and placemats for your 'luxury yacht'... or lake house! The whole thing is simple cross stitch, and suggested colors are Deep Sea and Bordeaux Weeks overdyed. You can use almost anything you want! The leaflet includes several other smaller charts, with the borders and motifs arranged differently... quite the creative and charming piece!!! (Everyone always loves the samplers with ships in them the best!)
Language of the Flowers Inspired by their beauty, and the messages flowers send to all, Rosewood Manor's Karen Kluba has designed an awesome random spot motif sampler that lists all sorts of different flowers -- along with their specific meanings! During Victorian times, small bouquets -- Tussie-Mussies -- were given as gifts, usually with secret messages hidden inside! Definitely a quicker way to communicate to your secret love than stitching this piece... THIS is much longer lasting!!! Offered as a leaflet, there are flower motifs for each letter of the alphabet, and loads of floral urns and tiny individual motifs. As with all of Karen's patterns, you can pull out small designs, stitching them into pin cushions or fobs -- really just anything. Coded for DMC flosses, the main piece finishes approx 18-1/2 inches square on 28ct! Just lovely, like the real things, your floral garden is delicate, lacy, charming, and speaks volumes!!!
Flowers, Plants & Fishes ... beasts, birds... rivers, trees... There's nothing near at hand or farthest sought But with the needle may be shaped and wrought. Rosewood Manor has a new sampler -- very 'organic' in feel!!! All things found in nature -- we stitch them all!!! As always, Karen's pattern is full of smaller 'take-out' designs suitable for ornaments, fobs, cushions and cases... you name it! The center panel at the bottom is also charted as a Chinese Proverb Tree -- Keep a green tree in your heart, and perhaps a singing bird will come. Lots of small details in here... regular cross stitches... DMC flosses. Main piece finishes approx 13 x 15.
Watch Over Me A cool birth sampler -- you get to personalize the WHOLE THING!!! Alphabets are supplied, along with a huge planning sheet of graph paper (if you need it!) to design and re-arrange to fit the family. Basically, this piece celebrates the new baby, and lets you surround her/his information with the initials of as many ancestors as you can!!! Stitch it as is... or got to town!! Offered as the leaflet with lots of extra motifs and helpful suggestions. Main sampler -- just as it is -- finishes approx 11 x 13 on a 14/28 fabric.
Quakers and Quilts This is a really cool 3-part piece... I didn't realize its versatility, till I saw the monochromatic Quaker half pictured on the booklet's back cover. Look carefully... the top third is a simple alphabet which would be pretty all by itself. Next, add the row of Quaker motifs. Stunning... you even have enough information in the charts to duplicate the missing tops in case you want just that row! Finally, finish off with the intricate row of quilt blocks! Each one of those in incredible just by itself... but put them together, and wow! One of Karen's trademarks is all her extra 'Bonus Charts' scattered throughout her patterns, this one being no different. You get smaller Quaker samplers, more little borders, and all sorts of project ideas for needlecases, etc. The entire piece measures 19 x 10 on 32ct, so its quite generous in size. Just stunning! Rosewood Manor has also packaged up the Valdani threads for this remarkable design, and we now have them available for you, too.
Sixteen Birds A pretty piece, that does, of course, feature 16 birds!!! Finishing approx 6-1/2 x 22 inches on 28ct, this is another piece by Karen Kluba that is stuffed full of project options! Each Dutch-inspired band is just charming all by itself. The alphabet that matches the numerals near the bottom is included for full personalization, and there are three more pages of bonus charts provided for ornaments, needlecases, small samplers, fobs, just WHATEVER!!! All the pretty DMC shades of 315 and 316, 645 and 647, 926 and 927, 3041s, 3045s, 3051s, ... verrrry pretty!
And a Garden Grew Rosewood Manor's Karen Kluba has designed another awesome medley of flora and fauna! A companion of sorts to 'And a Forest Grew' this piece celebrates everything that grows and lives in your garden!!! In paging through the book, I found 12 different little creatures -- birds, bunnies, bugs, even a hedgehog -- all hidden among the pots, urns, and vases of blooming flowers. Finishing an impressive 18 x 18 on 32ct, this is coded for DMC or Anchor floss, and uses crosses, back stitch and a few Algerian Eyelets. Stuffed full of detail, color and charm, the book also offers lots of smaller 'out-takes' from the main design to create pin cushions, fobs, needlebooks, smaller samplers, just all kinds of things. There is so much you can do with a pattern like this... it's just so much fun paging through it! A complete alphabet is also provided to personalize anything you want. The featured verse is from Henry Ward Beecher; 'Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.' So... check that thread stash... you'll need 120 different colors for this one!
Something Old and Something New I've had a wonderful time paging through this book... counting 44 different designs!!! The cover hints at only 16... but there are TONS of cool things in here! A collection of Rosewood Manor's past offerings, it's her 10th Anniversary Collection of ornaments, freebies, little exclusives and what-nots from her past years of designing. Included with each chart is the original published date, and sometimes where it appeared. Everything under the sun in here... lots of floral baskets, welcomes, a few patriotic things, lots of little samplers and Christmas ornaments... actually there are several charted alphabets as well... which always come in handy! You'll really enjoy this book!
Seasons of the TreesSpring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... see all the trees -- their many greens and browns -- throughout the seasons... Spring at the left... flowing into Winter at the right. Rosewood Manor's Karen Kluba has a real talent for her trees, her lacy motifs, her full, balanced, busy and intriguing designs! You can study her things over and over again, and each time, you're treated to some new little detail tucked somewhere in there! Seasons of the Trees is no different! Offered as a leaflet, this is stitched on 28ct and measures a generous 11 x 18. Worked with regular DMC flosses... you'll use 48 of them from your stash! Her charts are huge... and best of all... in paging through the leaflet, I find 14 BONUS charts... little (and some a bit larger) take-outs from the main design that are suitable for needle books, ornaments, fobs, and mini-samplers! There is so much in here... if you like this one, check out 'And a Forest Grew' and the two Christmas Stockings -- Cranberries and Pines! Really unique, definitely worth your stitching time!
Cranberry Row and Cranberry in the Pines Wow... Rosewood Manor has delivered us two stocking designs that are stuffed FULL of evergreen trees and nothing else, but charm! Stitched on 28ct Platinum Cashel Linen in just a few shades of DMC greens and browns, each is generously garnished with Mill Hill's metallic burnt red bead color of 3003. (Like 3 to 5 packages of beads per stocking!!!) Great motifs, pretty color, quite a neat and different subject matter for a stocking, WHO KNEW there were this many different Christmas Trees??? Extremely well done, each is offered as a leaflet, and each stocking finishes approx 12 x 18. PERFECT for that 'non-frilly and cute' person on Santa's List!
ABC Tapestry Rosewood Manor's most recent release... we thought her Inspiration Sampler was simply the tops... and then THIS came out! Who has enough time to stitch all these awesome designs!!!? Karen Kluba has done it again, by bringing us 28 samplers ... one of sampler motifs, one of heart motifs and 26 more -- one for each letter of the alphabet... all in mono-chromatic Redwork! All of this is offered in a single 30-page book. Each letter has its own page, and each design features the letter, along with several featured cross-stitched motifs. (S is for seahorse, squirrels, sailboat, snowflake, swan and snail... T is for tulips, train, tree, turtle and teapot...etc) The backgrounds of each sampler are filled in with all sorts of sizes and fonts of it's letter -- so actually, if you are in need of some charted alphabet letters for other design applications -- get this book!!! Anyway, the entire thing is stitched in red. (Redwork!) BUT... you are allowed to change colors... and overdyeds would be awesome! Different finishing options pictured on the book's back cover, each sampler block finishes approx 5 x 6-1/2 on 28ct. You can stitch a 'word' of blocks, or a 'name' of blocks... anything you want. Total size is a whopping 290 x 690, which is approx 21 x 49 on 28ct!!! Who has time to waste by eating and sleeping, when there is this much good stitching waiting for you!!!?
Inspiration What an understatement!!! Karen Kluba of Rosewood Manor has outdone herself with this breathtaking piece! Offered as a leaflet, you'll find 30 pages of the main chart split up into smaller sections -- to fit the pages, and make stitching easier. Worked entirely in 32 colors of DMC flosses, this measures approx 14 x 18 on 32ct. Along with the main sampler piece, there are all sorts of smaller charts included for two scissor fobs, a needlebook, mini-sampler, a larger floral bouquet piece, as well as the tiny charts of one-over-one detail in the main piece. So pretty and colorful, so delicate and intricate, there is so much to see in here, it's one that you keep paging and paging through. Execute the Double Running Stitch instead of Backstitch in this piece... it will save lots of thread and make the backside of the needlework lovely! You have lots of fabric options with this... even count! The 32ct Moonglow called for by Picture This Plus comes in a 1/4-yard piece (24.00) -- but that gives you only 2 inches of extra fabric on each side... the 1/2 yard piece ($48.00) is twice the price... the 28ct Moonglow ($48.00) would require the 1/2 yard piece... we have lots of other 32 and 28s (in the price range of $21.60), too!!! You can tell us what you'd like in the comments box of the order form or give us a call, and we'll help you choose.
And a Forest Grew Ok... pull out your DMC floss... this awesome piece uses no less than 100 of them!!! Every green you can imagine... lots of chestnuts, butterscotch, and terra cotta earth tones, this sampler is delightful to look at! Karen, the designer, says she was researching trees for samplers, and found so many different ones... that 'A Forest Grew!' Filled with so many charming details of tiny forest wildlife, and delicate, lacy trees, you just keep looking at this and finding something new all the time. Stitched on 32ct Cream Belfast Linen, this finishes an impressive 26 x 12-1/2. There are several ideas and smaller charts included to help you pull out little bits here and there, to add to a needle case somewhere, or create some bands for another sampler. So different, such pretty balance with the sizes, colors and detail! Offered as a leaflet. Need floss? Check your stash first! Need Linen? On 32ct... you'll need 19 x 32. On 28ct ... you'll need 20 x 36. We can provide you those cuts, or 'Fat Half Yards' which measure 27 x 36... giving you enough extra linen for a couple of ornaments, pin cushions or needlecases -- in a matching fabric dye lot. Study the pattern and then decide!
As Ye Sow All the Flowers of Tomorrow are in the Seeds of Today is the verse in this lovely piece, that is a generous collection of alphabets and floral vases!! Check out all those delightfully different little floral motifs in this! There are 36 different ones in just two rows... how cool if you need one for another piece, a needlecase or scissor fob? Offered as a leaflet and charted in regular DMC flosses... overdyeds would be awesome in this. Finishes approx 31 x 14 on 32ct -- Huge, actually!!! Its very pretty.

Acorns, Pears and Grapes All Around This is a neat set of four different designs -- each offered individually in leaflet format -- that are all the same size. Stitched on 28ct Natural Linen, they measure approx 8 x 10, and are worked in regular DMC floss. My personal favorite here is the acorn... but look at each of these. First, the border that contains miniatures of the central fruit. Then, you get the actual fruit, itself... complete with a sampler alphabet inside! Then, there are little bugs and birds -- the acorn has squirrels, the strawberry has bunnies. Something about these is charming, pretty for a kitchen wall.