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I've fallen in love with some awesome French designs by Ann Regnier, and we simply had to have them!! All are offered in chart format, and presented in both French and enough English to figure out what's going on... along with those ever-comforting DMC color numbers for the threads!!! Most of them feature special stitches that are incorporated into the design. In My Basket looks like it is loaded with them, and it IS!
Mon bo Sapin LOVE, love, love this tree! We haven't had this pattern in stock for a year, but here it is - like a present from Santa! By Tournicoton, this is a lacy tree measuring 104 x 148. Worked in silks or DMC it does feature a little Rainbow Gallery Petite Treasure Braid metallic and is full of special stitches. Rice, Queen, Eyelets and Satins... the cover picture is pretty awful, so all this is nearly impossible to see in that pic. What is more noticeable, however, are the vintage pearl buttons scattered among the branches. This will require a trip to your grandmother's button box! Just charming, we are thrilled to have charts back in stock!
Pere Noel Unjour Oh My Gosh, this is the CUTEST little guy! He measures 58 x 158 stitches and is worked in Sampler Threads or DMC flosses. On 28ct, he measures 4 x 11... wide because of those words... otherwise, Santa himself averages 15 stitches wide! I absolutely LOVE him... I have several long and skinny ornaments on my Christmas Tree -- one is a Santa painted on a cinnamon stick, another is Santa on a clothes pin. This little guy -- just himself -- needs to join my ornaments!!! (The chart did not go back to the shop after I wrote my words at my desk tonight!!) Offered as a chart -- direct from France, I think there are special stitches in here, but since I can't read French... I'll have to figure that out from the chart!
Pere Noel Charmant Hey, this is a fun little scene! There is a skinny Santa pulling his skinny reindeer, who is attached to a plump little sleigh of presents! Everything in the instructions is written in French, but I CAN read the 11 colors of Gentle Art Sampler Threads, which are converted to DMC if you have that to work with instead. With a stitch count of 77 x 98, this isn't really very big. Kind of loaded with specialty stitches -- it's a little like a Chessie & Me design, in that all those stitches add so much texture and charm to the small motifs. One of the shop gals thought she'd stitch only the bottom part -- Santa, the deer and the sleigh -- and that would be so cute! Offered as the chart.
J'arrive Well... this is so over-the-top charming... I just LOVE those reindeer, and Santa flying away in that little bubble of a sleigh! Stitched in Gentle Art Sampler Threads, there are some silver and gold bead embellishments included in this chart. There are Rhodes and Smyrnas scattered here and there, the stitch count is 121 x 128. Such an endearing piece, you have plenty of time to finish it before this Christmas!!!
In My Basket (Dans mon Panier) Finishes approx 10 x 13 on 28ct, this is loaded with about 20 different stitches, and has 14-ish colors. It is so free-flowing, it reminds me of a garden of Crewel Embroidery! So over-the-top pretty with a classic and antique feel to me!
Jardin de Feuiles A lovely Herb Garden, this is stitched on 36ct Sand Edinburgh linen in DMC, bits of Kreinik blending filament, some overdyed cottons, and features Mill Hill bead embellishments. There is no English included, but I can figure out the threads... and the beads are called 'perles' ... so I can figure out that, as well! Finishes approx 8 x 9-1/2.