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 Announcing Vera Bradley's Medley Tote -- 2010! *Wow... beginning this Thursday, September 9th... you can get Vera Bradley's awesome Limited Edition Medley Tote for ONLY $25 with any $50 Vera Bradley Purchase from The Silver Needle!!!!!* Let us know ahead... (now is good!)... and we'll reserve your goodies and the Medley Tote for you until the Big Day -- Thursday! This lovely bag features patchwork pieces of Vera Bradley's 4 newest Fall colors of Very Berry Paisley, Hello Dahlia, Barcelona and Slate Blooms. A generous overall size, it measures approx 13 x 15 inches and features a black shiny top trim and handle long enough to gracefully hang over your shoulder. Zip top closure, slip-ins and a zipper pocket inside -- this is a really nice bag (with a $50 price tag!) -- and VERY LIMITED in quantity!!! Full Priced Vera items in both the paper goods and Signature Lines qualify toward your $50 purchase! So cute and fun... Vera Bradley's Fall 2010 Advice is to *BE COLORFUL!!!* | |||
 September 7 ROYALTY in Cross Stitch! from Jim Shore & Mill Hill Mill Hill and Jim Shore have brought us a really cool set of 4 playing cards -- stitched on 16ct Aida, and garnished with glass beads! Offered as complete kits, each card finishes approx 5 x 7 and is FULL of clear, bright playing card color. Stitch the King of Diamonds for (Dad?), the poker player of the house, the Queen of Hearts for (Mom?), the bridge player... the Jack of Clubs for (the card shark away at college?) and the Ace of Spades for (Grandma who still plays cards three times a week!!!) You can probably switch out the face cards and suits... if you want a Queen of Spades, for instance... you'll just have to get handy with a piece of graph paper. Very well done, and quite unique!!! Black Frames available by special order. | |||
Introducing to Our Christmas Stocking Page!Over the years, we have collected the most lovely selection of various Christmas Stocking patterns from lots of great Cross Stitch Designers. I've finally organized them and put them all in one place for you. One MUST be ready for Santa and his Christmas Eve Visit!!! Featured designers include Just Nan, Shepherd's Bush, Lizzie Kate, Bent Creek, Better Homes & Gardens, Sam Sarah... and lots of others. You'll enjoy the browsing! All patterns are offered as single charts, and we sell all the necessary fabrics, threads and embellishments for each. (You're on your own to work out *fillings* with Santa!) If you need stocking assembly after your precious stitches have been done, consider our own Magic By Mona to finish your heirlooms. | |||
Punch Needle Class scheduled for Saturday, October 16th, 2010!  Join us from 9 to 11am for two hours of *Getting Punchy!* Mona teaches a great class, and this is no exception. Russian Punch Needle is fun! Everyone likes the models in the shop, and although this is not a difficult technique, there ARE hints and tips to learn that will make your projects frustration-free!!! Not Cross Stitch at all, this is a technique similiar to rug hooking -- you jab the needle into the material, leaving little loops on the backside (which is really the front!) Note: the pic at right IS NOT the class project -- just a cute example of one of the many cool projects we have in our Punch Needle Area! Please call the shop to register. Russian Punch Needle Class runs $25.00, all materials included. | |||
 September 4Swan Lake -- Anniversaries From the Heart #7 from Blackbird Designs Anniversaries of the Heart #7 is here... along with a promised bonus pattern!!! Swan Lake is a lovely winter-y feeling house stitched in hand dyed shades of Dolphin, Parchment and Tin Bucket. Restful and stately. The bonus sampler fits with all 12 of Blackbird's houses in this series -- it is an alphabet with simple vine borders -- and if you're stitching this awesome series on one piece of linen -- Bonus Sampler (it has no name!!!) fits between February and March on your top row. We have 2 more small leaflets to go in the Anniversary Series... then the finale presents October, November, December and the final bonus chart together! If you're confused... just join our auto, and we'll take care of getting you everything you need! | |||
September 3Snowmen 'A Gathering from Homespun Elegance Homespun Elegance's 2010 Snowman Ornament is here. Finishing approx 3 x 3-1/2, several of past year's designs are still available, all have a sampler feel, and feature snowmen! (Not to be confused with the Sampler or
Santa ornaments, which also release each year.) Offered as a small chart with tiny brass charm embellishment. | |||
 
Fall 2010 Releases! from Cross Eyed CricketA tribute to Edgar Allen Poe... Seasons in Letters... and Cookies from the Oven... Vicki is delivering us quite a medley of cute designs! The Master and the Macabre brings us the decaying House of Usher, and all sorts of other *EAP* really scary stuff! (I saw that movie at a drive-in on Thanksgiving Night, when I was something like 8 years old. 4 films... I begged and begged to go along with my older brothers... scared me FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!!!!!) Autumn and Winter spell the seasons with panache -- sometimes you can figure out how to replace the motifs onto different letters, if you want to stitch only an initial. Fresh from the Oven is cute and kitchen-y! All are offered as leaflets. | |||
September 2 Just Cross Stitch Magazine's 2010 Annual Christmas Ornament Issue is HERE!  Quite anticipated, perused with relish, and saved for years and years to come... your annual JCS Ornament Issue is here! 75 little stitched ornaments - all contributed by the industry's current designers... and some recent retirees... you get stories, photos, charts, finishing instructions and recipes!!! The list of contributing designers reads like a miniature *Who's Who*, and it's fun to guess who designed what -- before you cheat and read the key!!! Every year, we're treated to 75 exclusive ornament charts... just imagine... if you'd have been diligent these past 10 years -- you'd have 750 stitched ornaments! This year's issue will sell out -- as the Ornament Preview Issue for 2010 already has... and the Halloween Issue is going fast! (NOTE: We were caught off-guard, as this year's cover price has risen to $7.99. All pre-orders and new-fills subject to the new cover price!... which is actually like 1-1/2-cents more per chart!!!!) | |||
Join us for Fall 2010's Camp Wannasew!!!November 18, 19, 20 and 21, 2010 Come away with a friend or two for a low-key, relaxing weekend of eating, chatting and STITCHING!!! We have lots of pics of Camp Wannasew up on our Weekends and Adventures page... and there is still time to register for this Fall's weekend! We have our own building at Oklahoma's Sequoya State Park, and really get to enjoy the time together, and those uninterrupted hours. Silver Needle dreams up cute, exclusive projects... all those are included along with 'Dinner at Edna's' -- a local amish home-cooked meal -- and the ***most fabulous*** bacon on the breakfast buffet! (all you can eat!......mmmm!) Of course, there is Silver Needle shopping time included... quite the perfect weekend! | |||
Harvest Jack from Heart in Hand A fun little guy, this is stitched on 18ct Lambswool linen in either overdyed flosses (Weeks, DMC or Anchor) or #5 perles from your stash. Finishing just 3-1/2 x 4-ish, the chart comes with the linen and a trio of small button embellishments. Kind of 'pricey', but definitely cute! | |||
 September 1Happy Jack is this month's Secret Needle Night design Designed & Finished by Mona Bost We present a Happy Jack-o-Lantern decorating your Halloween Candy Pail! We've hand-painted our Betsy Ross Linen this month with orange highlights, used lots of bright Velvets and Perle Cottons, and even a bit of DMC Memory Thread to make him festive. Mona has made a darling hard-sided pail/box treatment... fill it with Trick or Treat candy, and perch it on your desk at work. (You'll either scare everyone away, or have to fill your Happy Jack Pail several times!!!!) This month's recipe is for Peanut Butter Cookie Pizza!!! Finishing Kit includes all the boards, fabrics, linings, cords and bow -- you're on your own for the candy! | |||
 August 31Take Time For Friends from Jeannette Douglas Well.... THIS is a title that offers some of the best advice in the world!!! Jeannette Douglas has released a lovely new design dedicated to friends everywhere. Measuring a mere 66 stitches square (this is a FINISHABLE size!) your friendship sampler is stuffed full of Quilt Medallions, Rice, Queen and Twill Stitches, and Bargello. There are initial squares in the corners... that short path between your two houses... and a tiny double heart charm. Awesome silks in the thread packet of butterscotch, denims, mosses and deep pomegranate, the elegance and texture of the stitches are really showcased in each of their tiny border sections. Pretty, fun to stitch, and quite a meaningful gift for a special friend! Jeannette suggests any fabric count 28 to 35ct... you have enough threads for any of those sizes. Offered as the leaflet with silks separate. | |||
IT'S ALL HERE!YIKES! *Introducing Spider Jack Bell* from Just Nan Just Nan's newest Spider Jack Charm Garden Pin is SOLD OUT! When I called yesterday to add more to my incoming order... Nan was busy *dressing up* her Pumpkin Jingle Bells... to make this new pin! Spider Jack Bell is garnished with a green crystal and that creepy little spider just climbed over from her first Jack to the second!!! So... we are no longer taking orders for Spider Jack -- and are now taking them for Spider Jack BELL Pin! (He might not last long, either... so if you want him included in your pre-ordered Just Nan Treats... let us know ASAP!) ***While I was chatting with Nan... a little Goblin in the background told me that Hagatha's Hat Stands *are* in the works! Just a few, hand-made Just Nan originals... on which to perch Hagatha's stitched hats! We know NO MORE! Coming sometime October-ISH.*** | |||
Spooky Spirits of Tombstone Hill from Just NanNan has delivered us the most charming tuffet full of her signature Halloween charm! Little Spirits that are restless and ready to scare... Tombstone Hill's Graveyard is stitched atop your cube cushion, surrounded by little creepy and colorful Just Nan creatures on each of the 4 sides. The resident ghost care-taker (really Nan's very own Tombstone Ghost Charm Pin) floats above his yard -- just making sure you are truly intimidated by his little domain! Offered as the chart, with little Tombstone Ghostie Care-taker pin, striped pumpkin-colored beads, and 'eerie-eyes' paper banding to decorate the cube base, Spooky Spirits of Tombstone Hill is stitched on 28ct Thunderstorm (neat, grungy, black, purply-grey hand-dyed... nothing else like it!) Cashel linen in DMC flosses, with a bit of Gentle Art's Forest Glade and Garden Gate, as well as the new Kreinik Holographic Black #4 Braid! Your little Tombstone Hill cube will finish approx 3 x 3... you might recognize the shape... as this is a Halloween companion to Nan's Tea With Honey, and needs to be the family graveyard behind Nan's Scream House!!! Over-The-Top so CUTE, it's scary!!! | |||
Hagatha's Hats from Just NanOh my gosh... I LOVE these! Stitch a pair of darling miniature 4 x 4 witch hats to perch anywhere (on a shelf or little pumpkin perch like in the pic!) You've seen Tombstone Hill... well, at the bottom of TH, deep in Broomstick Hollow, Hagatha is getting her very favorite and festive hats ready for the upcoming season! (She keeps them on those pumpkin 'wig stands' when they aren't on her head!) Stitched in DMC on 30ct Weeks Carrot or Peoria Purple hand-dyed linen... each hat is stuffed full of Nan's bright Halloween colors and endearing little pumpkins, ghosts, and spiders! Of course, no hat is complete without a special hat-pin... so, Nan presents her Black Cat and Spider Jack charm Pins (which are available separately). Each hat comes as it's own kit of chart, finishing instructions, interfacings, fleece, chipboard hat base, metallic twisted and purple satin cords, beads and a silver hanger ring (as a display option.) Linen, and Hat Pins are offered separately. Absolutely the cutest little hats!! | |||
New Charm Garden Pins! from Just NanMeet Ms Black Cat and Mr Spider Jack! Around for this year's Halloween Season... Nan has created two new beaded pins that perfectly poke into needlecases and cushions -- to add a bit of excitement everywhere they perch! Cute and colorful -- they look great as lapel pins, tiny ornament topper embellishments poked into the top bow, pretty when stuck into a scissor fob... just lots of places. Might be cute on Tombstone Hill... and CERTAINTLY on our Scream House!!! NOTE!!! Before they even arrived, Spider Jack sold out! Scroll up to the top of the page to reserve Spdier Jack Bell. | |||
Tricky Treats -- Meet Ms Screamy Mimi and Mr Jackie Lantern! from Just NanTwo ravens in Halloween attire, Screamy Mimi and Jackie Lantern can be little ornaments as well as tiny needlecases! Stitched on Weeks Dye Works 30ct Gunmetal linen -- you'll need one cut for each bird. Stitched with DMC floss and a bit of Weeks Trick or Treat hand-dyed floss along with Punch Purple holographic braid for Jackie, and Laser Lime for Mimi, each finishes a petite 1-3/4 inches in size! (Just precious -- like Lila, Pinkie and Daisy -- The Needle Tweet Sisters!) Nan offers each as the chart, with their special finishing materials. You receive chart, instructions, embellishments, interfacing, fleece, felt for beaks, snip of ribbon for tail (check 'em out -- designer tails!), wire legs, BITTY BOO, and a hanging ring. Little Bitty Boo is that darling teeny-weeny spider that might be their next meal!!! Nan suggests that you paint their little wire legs with bright orange and purple nail polish... just for fun! Awfully CUTE!!! | |||
Owl Winder Pocket & Mr Owl, Himself! from Just NanThis 3 x 3 tri-folded pocket holds Nan's newest Jeweled Owl Thread Winder! ***Is this Hootzie in person???*** A darling companion to Hootzie, the back (front?) of the pocket features 4 glaring owls, while the front features the stitched pocket that holds this little guy! How Cute is that? Stitched on 28ct Opalescent Cashel linen in DMC flosses -- the chart does include a bit of overdyed silk that adds a burst of color around the edges, instructions, the lining felt, and chipboard stabilizer. Mr Owl features Swarovski crystal eyes and fire opal glitter... so he's quite eye-catching... especially peeking from his special case! WHOO knows is this is really Hootzie or not??? He IS darling! The winder is available separately from the case. | |||
August 28Family Sampler from Little House Needleworks Diane has designed a Family Sampler with all sorts of *extra* people, pets and an alphabet, so you can fit *any and everybody* you want into YOUR Family Sampler! Offered in chart format, the entire sampler is laid out for you... with suggestions for 'people/pet' placements. There are some different colored dogs... three different sizes of children... lots to change, personalize and plan! It uses only regular Cross Stitches -- but there are lots of places you could add some special stitches if you are so inclined. Finishing approx 13 x 19-1/2 on 32ct, the called-for colors are DMC and Crescent Colours -- but you might be changing some of those to match the pets, clothes and house that is special to your family! | |||
Under The Tree from Little House Needleworks Little House's newest 2010 ornament design is here, and it's darling!! Candy canes and a peppermint, a bit of lace, and some greenery, just a cute little piece! The clay candy cane button featured is offered separately for your 3-1/2 delight! (Actually, the cane isn't technically a button, because it has no holes to stitch through. Simply glue, or stitch over the clay.) Offered as the chart. | |||
August 27Thanksgiving Line-Up & Sneak Peek! from The Trilogy Trilogy's latest two designs... Line-Up joins several other really cute seasonal and holiday lines that are all full of rows of custom motifs. Its embellishment is a delicate sterling silver leaf charm. We have several shop models of these that are stitched over one thread, and they are delightful! Sneak Peek features the final two panels in this 5-part design... not too expensive or involved... the entire thing is only 4 x 12. Stitched individually, each motif can be as little as an INCH square!!! Both are kind of fun, and deserve a look! | |||
August 26Favorite Embroidery Stitches from Bareroots Oh my gosh, this is *The Most Charming* little project/primer book!!! Designed as Stitch-Guide type of thing... the white pages deliver embroidery stitch diagrams and general stitching tips. THEN, the pockets feature pull-out sheets of the patterns and templates for all the charming projects pictured throughout the little 6 x 6-inch square spiral-bound folder-folio! You get designs for ball-fringed pin cushions, 6 different 'Sweet Thoughts' hanging pillow designs, 2 darling mini-candle mats -- one is Christmas, the other is hearts -- and a pattern for the Crazy Stitched Pocket Purse! All is worked in good-old-fashioned floss -- and some of the featured stitches include Stem, Lazy Daisy, Chain and Rosette, Feather, Fly, Herringbone... you get the idea. Just the most delightful presentation for awesome little projects, the artwork throughout is just lovely! | |||
 Three New Little Stitchies from Bareroots Bareroots does the cutest 9-inch wool felted candle mats -- they have been shop favorites for years! Our models aren't finished yet... so the cover pics will have to do for the time being... but each is presented as the line drawings. You choose your favorite colors and prints of the wools, trace, cut, and simply whip stitch them together! We sell all the Week Dye Works Wools for these. You can get the larger 1/4 yd chuck for the backing piece, and them numerous Schnigglet Cuts (approx 9 x 9) for all your different pieces. Nothing hard about them at all... just packed full of CUTENESS! | |||
Wraps and Mini-Mats! from Bareroots Oh Wow... make a mini 5-inch mat for a candle, vase or your coffee mug... and if any still seems underdressed... make a matching wrap-around for them! Same fun artwork as in our Candle Mats... each of these packages contains a mini-bottom mat pattern, and TWO coordinating wrap patterns. Winter offers some snowmen and a cabin in the woods. Autumn has pumpkins, leaves and trees -- and its little mat has 8 points around its edge. Christmas has ornaments and stockings... and Easter has the cutest running rabbits and stitch-embellished eggs. So DARN Cute! Trace the line drawings, cut the wool, and Tack, Back, and Satin Stitch to your heart's content! | |||
 August 23 Fall Arrivals from Pine Mountain!  Two for September, and two for Halloween -- I just LOVE that 'Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun!' Pine Mountain delivers 4 complete kits of pre-sewn pillows that are ready for your bits of stitching in their center panels. Always cute, new fabrics and bright, happy colors... you can't go wrong with these! Girlfriends and Eat, Drink are the smaller 6 x 6 style that features the pull-out aida -- leave the pillow at home, take the tiny square of fabric and bits of floss with you -- chart is in color, so they're a breeze to stitch. The September Expressions pillow promises crisp apples... but I don't think Fall is scheduled to arrive in Oklahoma this year... (I think it's been cancelled) because it's still 100 degrees here!!! | |||
 August 19Tiny Tidings XV from Lizzie*Kate Lizzie Kate's 15th (!!) annual set of 5 small-ish ornament-y designs... my favorite this year is that skinny "Feelin' Festive" reindeer! Stitch counts of 50 x 50, each design is quick, colorful and this year, features a small
verse of some sort. All five charts are offered in one pack, the embellishment pack is separate... so you can stitch a bazillion of these! All the previous 14 issues of Tiny Tidings are still current, and lots of fun to browse through on our LK pages! | |||
Christmas Rules Double Flip Series from Lizzie*Kate  
Lizzie Kate's 2010 set of Double Flip designs -- 6 cards of two designs each -- is HERE! Here's the gigantic combo of all of it stitched together, trimmed with her 'Christmas Rules' at the top. Each Rule is really its own small chart, and can be stitched just by itself. If you want everything as pictured... you'll need all six cards, and the FREEBIE border that will be offered on the LK website. We'll be doing an auto-ship for the rest of the cards... makes it so easy for you to collect the correct combination, as soon as each is released. 
 4 More small bits of Christmastime wisdom... here are Rules Number 5 - 8 of Lizzie Kate's Christmas Rules! Of course, all 12 look great stitched together, but you CAN do just one of two, or the whole set -- but just make them into little cubes to sit all about the house. That way, all this good advice doesn't go wasted! I love the 'Keep the Schedule Light', and 'Listen for Reindeer'. Offered as Double Flips, each card includes two of the 12 designs in this set. | |||
 Pumpkin Farm and St. Noel from With Thy Needle & Thread Brenda Gervais has two new cross stitch designs that are just like no others! I wish this verse were charted... (It is in the package... and I bet you could chart it), and add it to this piece! 'Jolly Wolly pumpkin head, you're happy, tell us why? 'I'd rather be a pumpkin head than a pumpkin pie!' What a fun little farm scene with that big blackbird flying over the sunflowers! Stitched in regular DMC flosses, this finishes approx 8 x 8-1/2 on 32ct. St Noel has a Pennsylvania Dutch feel to me... and his pattern comes with complete finishing instructions and full-sized template for that cute Ditty Pocket. (Brenda *even* tells you how to age the sheet music tucked into the pocket!) St Noel measures approx 4 x 7, and offers a great finishing presentation. Large printed charts, these are beautifully presented in full color. | |||
 August 17Stack of Jacks from AB Designs One of 3 new designs... AB Designs has the cutest new stack of pumpkins -- all decorated with Charcoal noses and wired Memory Thread smiles -- stitched in colorful overdyeds on Weeks 30ct Guacamole linen! Offered as the chart, with embellishments, Stack of Jacks measures approx 3-1/2 x 7 inches -- actually kind of teeny! It is the first in 4-seasons... Stack of Snow will be Winter's design, (coming the end of Sept.) Stack of Butterflies comes for the Spring, and Stack of Bees is the Summer edition. The black Memory Thread is a coated wire that you bend and twist, to make any shape you want. It gets 'tacked' onto your finished stitching, and really POPS! I just love the colors on this one -- green linen and backgrounds, bright oranges and yellows in the pumpkins, and that purple moon! Offered as the chart with embellishments, the Memory thread is separate, and comes on a card of 3 yards, which will probably last you forever! | |||
August 16The Halloween Branch -- Hooty Hoo Owl and Border from Bent Creek Bent Creek has a new 3-part design joining their series of 'Branch'
designs... this one features a cute verse; 'When the owl and witch together are seen, There's mischief brewing on Halloween.' So far, we have that chubby little owl, some ghosts and crotchety-looking spiders! This first chart includes the chart for all you see, along with snap and button embellishments. The next two designs will come as small charts, with more snaps. (They usually run $7-ish.) Measuring 5 x 11 on 32ct, you can choose any fabric you like, and you can use either DMCs or overdyeds from your stash. VERY cute... let us know if you want to join the Auto-Ship to receive the last two parts! | |||
 A Gift for You -- Holiday Hang-up from Bent CreekHere's a cute little snowman bringing a sack full of goodies! Stitched on 32ct (Confederate Gray?) Belfast with a combination of DMC and overdyeds, and garnished with a snowflake button, this offers a new finishing technique for Bent Creek! After stitching is finished, you'll gather the linen around a 3-1/2 inch round finishing form (we love those metal forms!) and then glue it to a piece of felt. The felt included in the kit is a gunmetal gray -- to match his hat. Wouldn't a piece of Weeks Lancaster Red or Sweet Potato (that matches his nose) Houndstooth wool be pretty behind that black? If you're a whiz at making twisted cord, you could even dress the linen edge a little! A neat splash of color against your tree! The complete kit includes the chart, linen, flosses, flake button, one finishing form disk, felt and hanging ribbon. Cute and Quick! Don't miss the other new designs... | |||
August 12 Presenting Autumn's Fab Fob! from Lizzie Kate Autumn Fab Fob is the companion to Lizzie Kate's Spring and Summer Fab Fobs (no Winter yet!) Stitched on Tobacco linen in fun shades of overdyeds, Linda has *a special stitch* in here!!! (Big news from Lizzie Kate Land!) Just darling... Linda has exclusive little scissors for her fobs -- Autumn's features green and purple handles to match the design!!! Measuring approx 2 x 3, the kit includes the linen and little orange button. You supply flosses from your stash. Spring and Summer's Limited Edition Fobs are still available for now... and our very own Magic By Mona offers 'official LK finishing kits' for these -- because SHE finished Linda's models! Mona's finishing kits contain the ribbon pictured on the kit fronts, cording, puffy, mounting boards and backing fabric! | |||
 Santa Snippet 2010 from Lizzie Kate 'When you stop believing, you get socks and underwear!' Well... need we say any more? Lizzie Kate's 12th annual Santa Snippet (she actually did one in 1998 and 1999, but didn't start labeling them with the year until 2000!)... these are all about good communication with Santa! Always darling... these are offered as small cards. | |||
 Be Naughty & Sampling Thanksgiving Quick-Its! from Lizzie Kate Oh my, best not hang that *Be Naughty* advice anywhere near the mischief-maker of the family! Two more fun designs by Lizzie Kate, just fun to stitch and sit about the house for a grin or two! Offered as small cards with tiny embellishments! Tiny Tidings #15 is also due, along with the next two Christmas Double Flips! Be Watching!!! | |||
 August 10Antique Flowers Sewing Set from Simona Bussiglieri Italy's Simona Bussiglieri has designed a charming sewing case set -- offered in chart format -- it includes three hand-made clay-topped pins of little tulips! Stitched on 32ct, the three colors of DMC -- 936, 677 and 422 -- are so soft, you could change them to overdyeds, easily. The case features scissor and thread pockets inside -- the pic shows some bluebell thread rings -- 'a serving suggestion!' The matching octagonal pin cushion has a large covered button treatment in the center -- that's kind of fun and different! You'll need to find some pretty lining fabric to match your threads, and that 1-inch button form to cover for the cushion... just a charming set -- the booklet measures approx 4 x 6, cushion about 4 x 4. Finishing instructions included. | |||
August 9  Silver Needle's *S.S. Alfredo* Mediterranean Cruise -- Summer 2010Silver Needle sponsored a lovely trip to Spain, Italy and France aboard Royal Caribbean's Voyager of the Seas, in June of 2010. We had a lovely time exploring Europe with our stitcher friends! Some husbands came along, but for the most part, our group consisted of ladies who all stitch together, or who met life-long friends now living miles away from each other.
Our trip was organized by a wonderful tour-lady -- Judy Bradford, of Expedia Cruiseship Centers -- who *does trips* with panache! Judy did all the hard part -- all the flights, hotel bookings, transports -- all the yucky stuff. Silver Needle provided the stitching and the friendships! Spain, Italy and France all came through beautifully -- delivering us days and days of great shopping, perfect weather, awesome sightseeing, and lifelong memories! I've chosen about 70 (of my 800-ish pics!) to share a bit of our trip with you. This was a challenge -- to pick JUST a few, not missing anything really cool!!! So... lets see how I've done... | |||
 Sweet Simple Samplings from Blue Ribbon Designs! Blue Ribbon has a new set of small sampler-inspired ornaments that work well as small fobs and pin cushions. You can arrange them all together, pick just a few, or just one... as a small, quick gift. Charted for either Weeks overdyeds or DMC, these are cute and quick. | |||
August 6 Autumn Glory Humbug from Just Nan  Just Nan's 4th Seasonal Humbug for 2010 is here! Rounding out her tiny set of 4 pin cushions, Autumn Glory is stitched on Golden Sand Cashel Linen in DMC flosses. Sometimes described in the shop as *little pillowy-triangle-thingies* each little Humbug is covered with small stitched flowers and motifs and a tiny verse that is two threads high (!) that wraps around 'the bottom.' (But sometimes the bottom is on the top!) Nan describes Autumn Glory: '...richly colored autumn leaves, luscious grapes, acorns, sunflowers and 2 little crows stitched over 1. Apples in red gold and Granny Smith form the bottom border and 'Shine on harvest moon' is the repeating verse.' Nan's Charm Garden Harvest Moon pin is included and features glass and crystal beads in those yummy autumn hues. We have the other seasons available as well... this is a cute set of smalls! Includes chart, fabric and pin. | |||
 August 5 Mill Hill Presents 4 New Designs by Sticks! This artwork is so fresh, classy, colorful and crisp! Mill Hill has 4 new perforated paper kits (OK... if you're a *fabric-stitcher* -- do these on fabric!) for Christmas and everyday. Sleep Tight would make a great birth announcement... but could hang 'as is' in the Guest Room... or above anyone's cozy bed. Love Me - Love My Cat is the companion to Stick's Dog
piece! Holiday Ornaments and Ho Ho Santa are stuffed with color... I really can't choose my favorite!!! Each is presented as a complete kit of chart, 14ct perforated paper, tons of flosses and Mill Hill seed bead embellishments, and finishes approx 7-1/4 inches square. Something fresh, young, and contemporary... they make everything around them feel good! | |||
 Just Cross Stitch Magazine's Annual Hallween Issue! WAY TOO cute! This year's Halloween issue features 15 different ornament designs by various designers -- it's quite fun to try to guess who did what BEFORE you open and peek inside! There is neat Jack-o-Lantern face that you could stitch multiple times on different shades of hand-dyeds...finish them into pumpkin shapes and make a dozen of the same thing that all look different! Plum Street, Val's Stuff, Artist's Collection... there are some great little designs in here! The magazine includes 10 other designs -- 5 of those just for Fall. Lots of bang-for-the-buck! | |||
August 4 Autumn Stitches from Sue Hillis Designs 
 This is an awesome collection of a Shaker Sewing Basket, with matching pin cushions, needle cases, fobs, and little stand-ups! Stitched in Autumn colors of DMC flosses on 28ct Lugana, the box top fits the Sudberry House Large Shaker basket. The book contains all the charts for the smalls... as well as 12 MORE charming little ornaments that deal with stitching, autumn and nautical themes! So many charming things in this 37-page book -- you can follow any of the 8 different ways offered to finish things, and create like a mad woman!!! The charts are large and clear, and the pictures in here are stunning. I lost count at 75 different pics of the projects and finishing steps! Anyway, I love the leafy acorn border on the basket top, and some of the 3 x 3 square designs will make the cutest little stand-up cubes and such! Sue has done a lovely job presenting this delightfully charming set! You'll love it! | |||
August 3In Celebration of 40 Years... Wichelt Imports is a major distributor to the retailers in the needlearts
industry. They began business 40 years ago, and have chosen to publish a fun book of cross-stitch designs to celebrate their 40th Birthday! Over
the years, they've licensed/purchased/ marketed several exclusive lines to Cross Stitch -- and this book offers 12 different, exclusive designs by
their supporting designers!!! Permin of Copenhagen has florals, Debbie Mumm and Jim Shore have contributed, the original Mill Hill 6 Button & Bead Christmas Village is presented -- all in one piece!!! Sandy Cozzolino offers a Midnight Santa, Sticks has a charming snowman/Merry Christmas scene, Nora Corbett and Thea Gouverneur are featured as well. 40 Pages presented in lovely, glossy, full color pics and charts, this is a really nice collection of special designs that will not be offered individually! | |||
Santa's Bag of Toys from Heaven and Earth Adapted from artwork by Ruth Sanderson, this masterpiece measures 450 x 444 stitches, and is worked in 88 different shades of DMC floss. Enchanting... QUITE the challenge as far as chart-following and color-changing... you have to be a special stitcher to get through one of these! Definite family heirlooms!!! | |||
 Pumpkin Stew Scissor Case from Dames of the Needle Here's a cute little scissor sheath and fob set that holds a pair of Kelmscott's Steweb Scissors! Stitched on 32ct with overdyeds you probably have in your stash, the verse reads; 'I brew for you a pumpkin stew of scary bats and spooky cats with a spider web or two.' Nothing too difficult or involved -- perfect to actually FINISH in time to enjoy this Fall!!! Offered as a chart, it includes a magnet to help keep the scissors nestled in the case. | |||
One Nation from ByGone StitchesWow... this is a neat piece! It's a flag of the United States... but the stripes are made up of the names of the states, in the order in which they joined The Union! Offered as a chart, the stitch count on this piece is a generous 210 x 400 -- 13 x 25 on 32ct! Stitched in ONLY Crescent's Cupid, Blacksmith Blue and Antique Lace hand dyed colors, it's just stunning! The stars are all Cross Stitches... but you could Satin Stitch them if you like. (As a bonus... there is a listing inside of the actual dates each state joined the Union -- kind of fun trivia to know!) A lovely piece for a family room, classroom, library or office! | |||
 Presenting a few of our pics and some musings about our Weekend with Barb
and Alma from Blackbird Designs!Presenting a few of our pics and some musings about our Weekend with Barb and Alma from Blackbird Designs! The girls came last weekend... and enchanted our group with a special project, lots of stories, and lots of
great ideas to make any of our needlework even more special than it already is. Mary-the-webmaster has made little slide shows to go with my words...
so click that middle arrow below the pictures to make the little shows begin... click the middle icon again to stop a picture... (She told me all of you
would *know that*... but I didn't!!!) Our weekend was lovely! The shop was quieter this week, after everyone had gone home. We're re-stocking, straightening, and getting caught up -- all while missing the bustle! Enjoy our pics! | |||
 Peace on Earth from Dames of the NeedleDames of the Needle has a new miniature hornbook ornament that finishes a mere 2-1/2 x 2-3/4. Both sides of the little paddle are stitched, and garnished with Just Another Button Company buttons... very simple and cute! Although the hornbook is technically supposed to be displayed with the handle downwards... where one would hold it... to avoid having to drill holes in your paddle piece... you could always 'adapt' and hang it on the tree from the top hole in the handle! (We won't send the Cross Stitch Police after you!) Offered as the chart, stitched on 32ct linen in overdyeds... linen, hornbook and buttons (8 stars and 1 sheep) all available separately. | |||
 Tokens from Italy -- A Sampler for Lindy from Giulia Punti Antichi Giulia Manfredini designed this charming sampler for The Silver Needle! We spent the day with Giulia a few weeks ago, when SN took a group of 72 on a cruise to Italy and France. Standing on the waterfront in Liguria, Italy... the morning of our day together in Cinque Terra, Giulia presented us with her sampler, inspired by antique Italian motifs! Such a lovely day... and a pretty piece to remember it by. Measuring 10 x 18 on 28ct Antique Tan linen, this is worked with a special color set of Valdani hand dyed Italian Flosses. There are two of rows of Cut and Drawn Threadwork, rows of geometric waves -- they remind me of the marble carvings on all the cathedrals we saw, and Roman Numerals -- not regular numbers!!! Giulia even added a picture to the back of the chart to SHOW you where we spent our awesome day together! So... we share a bit of our Cruise and trip to Italy with you!!! | |||
Beatrix Potter Available in Cross Stitch, Once Again! from Green AppleYou might remember these charts -- Green Apple's licensed adaptations of Beatrix Potter designs -- the oldest here dates to 1989!!! Available again... there are 6 different leaflets/books of designs that have ALWAYS been nursery favorites! You're in for a treat, to see all these charts again! Classic designs of Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-duck, Mrs Tiggy-winkle, Squirrel Nutkin, Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail... just like you remember from the original stories! 6 Different publications in all... do you have all of them in your stash??? | |||
 Introducing The Dublin by Craftlite Craftlite has a *dynamite* new Table/Floor Magnifying Lamp... kind of blows the rest out of the water! This little guy can be a desk lamp -- either free-standing base or optional table clamp -- or two additional extensions make it into a floor-standing lamp. You choose... all the bases, clamps and extenders are included!!! That gooseneck arm in nice and firm, it is long and has a great reach. Next, the light itself -- it features 21 LED lights that surround the magnifying lens completely! They look like a Hollywood movie sign! (The comparable Mighty Bright lamp features only 12 lights.) Dublin plugs into the wall... but also features a portable battery pack... that is NOT hidden way underneath in the hard-to-get-at base. Both the battery pack and the AC power adapter are also included. Super-compact... the box is a mere 10-1/2 x 15 x 4-1/4... the entire thing weighs only 7-1/2 pounds, and that 5-inch lens features the standard 1.75X magnification. The Dublin is super-duper loaded with great features, and those 21 LED lights will blow you away!!!! | |||
Second Spring from Erica Michaels 'Autumn is the second spring... where every leaf is a flower.' Erica Michaels has released 3 new silk gauze designs... Second Spring is featured in our pic. Trick or Treat, a tiny Halloween Stocking, and A Family Sampler are stunning... we have them pictured on Linda's designer page. Like all the others, Second Spring is presented in chart format, so you can stitch it on virtually any count fabric you wish. The chart comes with a bit of 40ct silk gauze... so if you are brave... you can stitch it into a 2 x 2 miniature masterpiece... or a cute 5 x 5 if you chose something like 28ct. Awesome Autumn colors, how can you NOT be drawn to this? It's stunning! | |||
  Presenting: The Bird Cage! from Just Nan A day of pampering in the Fine Feathers Salon at The Polka Dot Palace!!! Just Nan has designed us a darling sewing case full of bright pink, green and purple flirty birds!!! 'The Gals' spending the day at The Bird Cage Spa! Click the pic for lots of details and more pictures... our little birds grace all sides of the 6 x 6-ish case, which is stitched with DMC floss on 28ct Newport Linen. Inside you'll find lots of Just Nan Treats! Ms Dotty Bird is a handpainted Charm Garden Pin, exclusive to The Bird Cage. Next, find the vintage, enameled bluebird thread winder tucked into the polka-dot band that holds your Needleslide and favorite scissors (not included, in case you already have them!) 'Scissors and pins and needles that shine, Helping to make these stitches so fine.' A darling sewing case, The Bird Cage is exclusive to The Silver Needle, and limited in edition! Nan insists Hot Pink, Slime Lime and Purple are my signature colors... therefore... the Perfect Palette for our little Polka Dot Palace! Enjoy the rest of the Bird Cage details! | |||
Heart Scissor Pal from Puffin & Company Puffin & Co has introduced a new piece in their ever-growing collection of hand-made metal-arts for needlework! Made of copper, brass and nickel by local artisans in a small village in Thailand, this project's proceeds contribute to the health, education and welfare of their community. Lovely things... the new Scissor Pals are detachable fobs for your scissors. Puffin's 'signature design' -- their heart -- is the first Scissor Pal design offered. Simply clip to your scissors.. or the loop on a handbag... or a key ring... you get the idea! This charming little heart measures approx 1-1/4 x 1-1/4! This tiny heart joins a fun collection of organizers, rulers, needle minders... all sorts of stuff... that all matches! The copper, brass and nickel are so shiny and *artzy-fartzy* I just love 'em! | |||
 Presenting the 2010 Annual Santa! from The Prairie Schooler We received our first PS Santa in 1984... so this little guy is #27 in the collection! He's a cross-country skier this year... getting in shape for the Big Day! A *Must Have*, he is stitched in the same color palette of DMC flosses as years past, finishes the same size, and still has the same charm as all the rest!!! Offered as the small card. | |||
 Fall, Halloween, Winter & Christmas... Presenting Prairie Schooler's Fall 2010 Releases! I just LOVE 'em ALL!
* October is the 6th month designed so far... they are not being released in any kind of organized order, so we have an auto-ship for these! All the formats for each month are the same... so you can change the little panel in the upper left-hand corner of the sampler with any block from the other piece... AND all the other pieces from all the other months can be mixed and matched, as well! * Sweeping Cobwebs has darling companion leaflets that are already out of print from PS! (Hopefully they are safe and sound in your stash!) Cute Halloween sampler, and those same-sized little panels that match the monthly designs! * Snowy Nights has lots of companion leaflets that are still available. Darling little ornaments, check out leaflets # 142, 153, 155, 156, 157, 159 and 163! They all feature the same design format, and cover so many seasons!!! * And To All A Good Night features 2 charming Christmas pieces! Check out the little reindeer stamps! | |||
 Salem House Stitching Box from Liberty Hill Introducing Liberty Hill's 2010 Halloween Limited Edition Needlework Etui! Salem House is a 6 x 4 x 8-inch high house (add the chimney height!) that is hand-painted by Carolyn... JUST Carolyn... on every single side! Each window has a lighted candle, and the angel on the roof beckons you to lift off that roof to discover your needlework 'Soulful Stitching Smalls' inside! Inside the drawstring fabric bag, you'll find a tiny decorated box for pins, a combination project ring/ first stitch finder, and a miniature black house scissor fob box. Something totally fun to add to your needlework display, you can use it to hide your scissors and threads during the Fall! Nothing to stitch... this is your Halloween TREAT... you don't need to WORK to enjoy it!!! Nothing to add to your stash... you get us USE this right away!!!!!!! Limited to 300 Houses... our shipment is scheduled for early September. | |||
 This Is Halloween from Raise the Roof '12 Million ghouls and goblins can't be wrong!' Raise The Roof has a fun new design for Halloween -- a medley of stuff, crammed and scattered -- here and there -- in it's 8 x 8-ish design size. Stitched in overdyeds, the clay button embellishments are everywhere in here! Bats and cats, owls and toads, there is a vampire, and even a poison apple! Very busy, very cute... offered as the chart with button set separate! | |||
Blackbird Needle Minder and Lace Scissors from Kelmscott Kelmscott has two new gadgets. First, a new Needle Minder of a (golden) blackbird against a matte black background -- which joins their growing collection of minders. Second, an unusual 2-3/4 inch pair of square-handled scissors, designed to remind you of lace. They totally remind me of those little butter cookies you buy in the grocery store! Fun things to add to special stitching cases and displays! | |||
Saltbox Chickens from Kelmscott This is a fun little piece! The next edition of the Thread Palette Prims, this time, we have a little red saltbox house palette that measures approx 5-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches, and features 7 window-holes for threads. Painted a deep red that matches DMC 498, your chickens and sunflowers are stitched on Weeks 30ct Confederate Grey hand-dyed linen in 8 shades of Gentle Art Sampler Threads, which are all included in the complete kit! It is just darling! Fantastic Autumnal colors, spunky design, fun wooden piece... you even get the boards and padding, along with a complete skein of the 498 to finish and make the twisted cord. Don't miss the other new designs, also shown on our Kelmscott page! | |||
 Sweetheart Roses -- 3 Biscornu Set from The Victoria Sampler #4 In The Beautiful Finishing Series by Victoria Sampler, this leaflet offers patterns in two different colorways for the three different sizes of Biscornu cushions, and excellent assembly instructions for each! The smallest is a fob -- 2 sided. Next, is 6 sides (it looks like it has 4 panels on the top -- but that is all one stitched piece!) It features Hardanger on its 4 other sides. Finally, is the grandest -- the 15-sided piece! 5 on top, 5 around the sides (again, these feature Hardanger Embroidery) and 5 on the bottom. Absolutely intriguing... their assembly is really very easy, when you have a minute to study the pictures and instructions. Stitch your Sweetheart Roses in perle cottons and silks of fresh lime greens and rich lavenders or pink and ecru. The Violet thread pack features a gorgeous, deep purple silk ribbon for the spider web roses, the Pink pack uses peach silk ribbon. Each cushion is embellished with bits of beads, and a pretty central button. The leaflet features 38 ADDITIONAL actual photographs (besides all the regular charts and stitch diagrams!) of the Hardanger steps, and the assembly process for each of the three cushion sizes. Unbelieveably clear, you can really tell what's going on here!!!! An *excellent* reference tool for future Biscornu finishing!!! | |||
Count Your Blessings from The Victoria Sampler 'Count your life by smiles not tears, Count your age by friends not years.' This is a charming needlework case with matching 'smalls' to stitch and use, or tuck into your curio cabinet of neat, finished needlework projects!!! Stitched as one long piece, this is actually folded -- kind of pleated -- to create two pockets inside, to hold the pin keep and scissor sheath, or just anything. When opened, this measures approx 5 x 19. It is stitched on 28ct Platinum Linen in lots of varied silks and metallics, and garnished with lots of petite seed beads, tiny gold balls and stars, and a gold filagree heart charm. Loaded with 29 special stitches -- notice the outlining vine -- NO Cross Stitches in it anywhere! Every leaf is a Lazy Daisy, every flower is a different stitch! The 18-page leaflet is jammed with charts, full instructions for everything... tons of photographs of the assembly process, just amazing to page through! There is even a Hardanger Heart for the case front that is optional -- and Thea has done a DVD to teach you its basic stitching technique! Quite a lovely etui! Offered as the leaflet, with thread accessory pack and DVD separately. | |||
 Olgafrom Plum Street Samplers Oh my gosh, isn't this the cutest little cat? Stripes and stars, even her pumpkins and flowers have attitude! Approx 100 x 100 stitches, she is stitched in Crescent Colours hand dyed flosses or DMC. Stitch her beneath her sky of alphabet letters, or leave them off... this will be charming either way! Offered as a chart. | |||
Announcing the Fall 2010 Vera Bradley Line!!!Today... all the new is unveiled... and WE HAVE IT!!!!! In only the few lines of space I have on my Just Arrived Page, I want to excite you as much as we are!!! New Colors: Very Berry Paisley: Matches your DMC flosses of: 3834, 3804, 604, 414, 310 and 472! Charming paisleys of berry, grape and green! Hello Dahlia: Matches DMC's 3803, 3804, 3832, 934 and 469! Vibrant splashes of pink and coral flowers with soft, olive greens. Slate Blooms: Matches DMC 938, 932, 728 and ecru. Retro in feel... AWESOME with denim! Barcelona: Matches DMC 310, ecru, with TINY bits of 321, 728 and 825. Classic black and ivory with a touch of color.  New Pieces: Metropolitan: AMAZING, padded laptop area, short and long handles, pockets and zippers everywhere, VERY CLASSY way to organize your Office-on-the-Go! Laptop Backpack: OTHER AMAZING new piece! Super-duper padded sections for laptop, extra-padded back and straps for comfort, tons of pockets and compartments. Side by Side: Like a Hobo, opens WIDE, great sling handles, huge outer pockets, lazy styling, great for everyday! Overall, a larger handbag. Hipster: The newer, redesigned style -- a little smaller than the last, very slim. Features that 54-inch adjustable handle. Julia: A boxy, tailored little handbag, two different handle options, semi-hard-sided. Double Kiss: A cute coin purse, with 2 kisslock closures, one inside the other! PERFECT to keep money separated or jewelry! VERY versatile. Kiss and Make-Up: Great 7 x 4 x 2 vinyl-lined cosmetic organizer... easy to open, SUPER easy to see what is in there... New Stationery is here, too!!!! Binder Clips, Notebooks, Note Cards, Laptop Skins, Pen and Pencil Sets!!! (so over-the-top classy!) Highlighters, sticky notes, pencil sets... there is even a Pencil Box and Pouch Promotion that begins TODAY! Yum, Yum! | |||
 Christmas is Coming... and we have the trees to prove it! JBW has released 4 additional tiny Christmas Tree designs -- to bring this
charming collection to 6 cards of 2 trees each for a total of 12! All finishing either 1 or 2 inches in total size, each is different and quite charming! Hidden motifs, tiny charms to top each, and Mona's cute rouched ribbon finishing treatments... HOW can you pick an absolute favorite from this set? Each card offers 2 different trees, shown stitched over one or two threads. Models are exquisite... and some reside at The Silver Needle! Visit our JBW page to see Judy's other new releases! | |||
 The Journey from Shepherd's BushShepherd's Bush has 5 new releases... The Journey tells us to; 'Take joy in the journey and the friends you find along the way.' Dedicated to all the friends who are with us for years and years... and others who leave along the way, this is stitched on 32ct hand dyed French Vanilla linen in 12 shades of hand dyed Gloriana, Thread Gatherer and Crescent silks. Luscious shades of roses, plums, olives and taupes, there is a trio of buttons and charms to embellish. Offered as the complete kit, this finishes approx 8 x 8. Full of Shepherd's Bush character -- the Shepherd and his little sheep, the round roses, the little basket of flowers, the funky lettering, that gorgeous color palette, and of course all the scattered motifs -- just charming! | |||
Wedding and Anniversary Sampler from The Sweetheart Tree The Sweetheart Tree has a new design that can celebrate any number of special days! Lovely and lacy, full of specialty stitches, beads, crystal paillette embellishments and a set of sterling silver wedding bells, this can be stitched two different ways, depending on your whim! The main sampler measures 72 x 197 on 28ct Lambswool (included), but notice the smaller 'take out' piece... it is the middle section, with a couple of the other borders tucked around it! Stitch this on white, cream too... everything will look stunning on just about anything you choose. Traditional verses... lots of versatility with this design... stitch as little or as much as you choose! Awesome stitches, elegant greens and soft taupes. Offered as the complete kit of charts, linen, threads, beads and silver bells! | |||
Berries & Shortcake Biscornu and Scissor Fob from The Sweetheart Tree This is a sweet set of smalls... companions to lots of others Sandy has designed... a very lacy Biscornu cushion, with matching fob... each is stitched differently on both sides! The biscornu is offered in complete kit format, the fob is simply the small card with pearl embellishments. ALL of these designs in this series are charming. Each is stuffed full of special stitches in their tiny area, so they're really kind of fun to stitch. Lots to do in a small area that is FINISHABLE and FUNCTIONAL! Love 'em! All the rest are scattered throughout our Sweetheart Tree pages... it's fun to see them all. Make sure to see 4 MORE new releases... we just didn't have room for all on Just Arrived! | |||
Kris's Stitches -- Colors of AutumnThe is the third leaflet in a set of nine... a medley of designs dedicated to memories of Kris Stott, a needlework distributor our industry lost last year. Kris had lots of friends who remember her well. Over 70 of them are contributing 45 x 45 designs, following the same color palette, of their special memories about Kris. Prairie Moon, The Samplar Workes, Artful Offerings, Designs from Pamela, Mosey 'n Me, Scholehouse for the Needle, Samplers Revisited, Dames of the Needle and Cherry Wood Studios are this collections's designers. Such a neat set of designs... all sorts of different themes and seasons are represented... everything, a small story about a friend! | |||
 Loves Me, Loves Me Not from Trail Creek FarmTrail Creek Farm has a charming new pillow design that is awfully cute and quick to stitch! *Loves Me*, *Loves Me Not*... stitch each brightly colored sprite of a design on Susan's hand-screened Weeks overdyed 30ct linen. Loves Me for one side of the little pillow, Loves Me Not for the other! You get the pre-made apple-green textured pillow, 2 different top-tie ribbons, the charts, the lovely hand-screened linen, and 8 pink fabric-covered buttons to attach your finished stitching to both sides. So cute, so fresh, bright and young... you simply add a few bits of thread from your stash. CUTE! | |||
Libertyville by Raise the Roof Raise The Roof's charming Libertyville design that has been delivered in four parts in finally finished! 'See our flag waving from high on the hill... another fine day in Libertyville.' Stitched in Belle Soie silks of Blue Lagoon, Icing, Beanstalk, Scarecrow and Poison Apple -- deep navy, moss, butterscotch and a brick red, this is a neat Americana-feeling piece, complete with the sailing ship, little downtown, and old red barn. Little clay buttons embellish everywhere... there is a fish by the ship, a gull, a flag on the town hall, bees on the farm, and even a bell on the tiny grazing sheep. Just cute, the entire design size is 71 x 275, and is offered as the 4 charts with silks and embellishments. You choose any fabric you like best! | |||
 Quilters' Travel Companion - 11th Edition 2010-2012The newest edition of this wonderful travel guide for any quilter - or lover of fabrics and stitching - has arrived in the shop. It is 640 pages in soft cover format that lists shops in all 50 states; shops in all the Canadian provinces; and, even shops in The Bahamas! Wow!! There are over 2050 featured shops and 450 of those have never been included in this publication before. Each state has a map showing the location of the shops along the highway system and each location is cleverly numbered so that you know exactly which shop corresponds to which city on the map. The shops are listed alphabetically by city with their address and phone number. Some of the shops have advertisements included in the book and just a few do not. There are pages for each state's quilt shows, too! This is book is mesmerizing! You can spend hours looking at the advertisements - seeing the location of shops on the maps - and reading about the various quilting festivals and exhibits throughout our country and Canada. If you are planning a road trip (or even if you plan on staying home and ordering by phone or the web) this is a must for all needleworkers! | |||
 Graffiti Scissors from DovoDOVO has sent us some new scissors -- Carbon Steel -- 5-inch embroidery style, that are the cutest things! (We had purchased the first and only 11 of these that they had made as prototypes, and featured them in our last e-mail newsletter. Promising an introduction into the permanent line... we're so excited that they came to us so quickly!!!) WONDERFUL cutting action, these are a 5-inch style that feature a white enameled finish decorated with child-like graffiti decoration! I said, in my initial e-letter, that they were TOO good to give to a child, but that any teacher or scissor collector would LOVE them! Dovo is now embossing the metal blades with their logo, and Solingen 'license' logo -- which is a very nice, elegant touch! Very nice, very fun... I keep asking the difference between forged (those first 11) and carbon steel, and they keep telling me... only it never is anywhere in my head, when I need to find it! (know what I mean!?) | |||
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Introducing A Gingerbread Mouse House! Presenting... our Weekend With Teresa Layman!!! October 1st and 2nd, 2010  Join us to stitch and construct THIS little Gingerbread House!!! Teresa has sent us her class model to entice and inspire! YOU WILL go home with this darling cottage, after Teresa's lace presentation Friday evening and knotwork classes on Saturday morning. This Etui house features a pin-cushion roof (Teresa has handmade all of those for us already!) that lifts off to reveal the tiny 1-inch mouse living inside... he's included, and truly a hand-made miniature masterpiece! His arms and legs move, and his pajamas are precious! Teresa's original watercolor artwork of gingerbread men is highlighted against her custom-printed fabrics that cover this tiny turret. Elegant die-cut doors and windows, trimmed with antique lace... we'll be stitching the topiary trees and garland above the door, and putting the little house together. ***You will learn everything you ever wanted to know (Or Knot!) about French, Colonial and Bullion Knots. Instead of spending 4 hours in a class doing them repeatedly... you'll learn to conquer them QUICKLY, and Get On With Things! Stitch them on your custom printed gingerbread fabric, and then BUILD your mousie's dream house!!! (Complete with antique lace curtains!!!) Our Gingerbread Mouse House measures 8 inches high and 3-1/2 inches in diameter. It is lined with berry red flannels, features a velvet base, and is large enough to hold several special pairs of scissors, your Santa Wish List, your Christmas gift $$ stash... or just that darling little mouse! Class Space is Limited... as of Wednesday, June 2nd, we only had 29 spaces left! More details follow on our Class Page... there is also a PDF, so you can print it easily. After you've conquered those knots... you'll have a better appreciation of all of Teresa's awesome miniature knotted rug designs we carry! | |||
Seafaring Santas for 2010 from Mill HillEvery Year, Mill Hill releases 3 Santa Claus ornaments, all stitched in DMC on 14ct perforated paper. These three are # 34, 35 and 36 in that annual set! ALL of them are still available and pictured on our three Mill Hill Kit pages, so I know you'll have fun finding them all. The first nine didn't really have collection names, but then Musical, Alpine, Mountaineer, Polar, Medieval, Appalachian, Rocky Mountain and Arctic all came along, to make this a really neat set of ornaments. All are offered as complete kits of the chart, flosses, a smattering of beads (not many), needles, and the paper. They don't always look like the Santa you might remember... but I guess Santa looks different in every country -- and all during the year!!! | |||
2010 Winter Button & Bead Kits from Mill Hill This season's newest Mill Hill Designs are on their way, and your stitching bag is going to need to make room for them! They're all expected to arrive at the end of this week. Some fun and different designs this season... The Clock Repair Shoppe joins the Village series, Let it Snow is a frosty snowflake scene looking out of a frosty window. Frosty seems to go with Let it Snow -- we just love that frosty snowman. The Through The Woods sleigh scene looks so 'retro' and heartwarming, and joins that Village series as well, and the Gingerbread House looks good enough to eat! Offered as complete kits of 14vy perforated paper, along with tons of beads, DMC flosses and a Mill Hill hand-painted button! (Our shop models are always on 28ct linen... if you want a color to match the paper in the kit, other than Natural, please tell us!) | |||
Festive Trees Ornaments from Mill Hill This is a new collection of designs... a set of 6 different Christmas Trees... that are shown as ornaments. Approx 2-1/2 x 3-1/2 in size, each tree is stitched on 14ct perforated paper in DMC flosses, and garnished with a small brass charm. We think they'd be AWESOME on fabrics, and finished with a bit of stuffing, a pretty bow, and a bit of cording on the edges. Six trees, each one is as pretty as the last! Three indoor and three outdoor... I'm not sure which is my favorite! Offered as small ornament kits, such a pretty set, each kit includes the paper, chart, flosses, beads, embellishment and necessary needles... they'll also arrived at the end of this week. | |||
The Nativity Story from Blackberry LaneBlackberry Lane designs has a set of lovely table dressings -- a Runner or
Topper - each offered separately in chart format. The 8 x 29 (stitched size on 28ct, before any border) Runner features the Nativity story in a long row... the Topper 33 x 33 (on 28ct includes a 5-inch border), is basically the same design, stitched into a square.  Quite classic, each design is monochromatic -- pick a favorite hand-dyed to match your decor -- and features the Star of Bethlehem in gold metallic. Each side of the Topper tells the story of Joseph taking Mary to Bethlehem, Shepherds gazing at the Star, the Shepherd's visit, and finally the 3 Wise Men. The runner is charted minus Joseph's trip with Mary. Really nice pieces, very classic. I don't know which version to tell you to stitch -- they're both elegant! | |||
The Three Wise Men and The Snow Day from Blackberry LaneBlackberry Lane Designs has two *ornament* designs that are beautifully detailed and FULL of lots of DMC color! (Kind of generous in size for ornaments!) The Three Wise Men has a stitch count of 120 x 120 -- features 44 different colors, and will be exquisite stitched over one on anything!!!! The chart includes three bead 'jewels' and a tiny brass camel charm, along with a one-page history lesson of the Story of the Three Kings. It is going to be the first of Marie's 6 First Noel Ornaments... the chart's back page teases us about the rest coming in future years. The Magic of Snow Globes first design is The Snow Day. A classic, antique scene, complete with plump snowman... this one measures 80 x 80 and calls for 48 different colors! Simply lovely pieces... offered as charts. | |||
Presenting Tournicoton!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!!! I've chosen 'In My Basket' and 'J'Arrive' to show here... but we have 10 other designs as well, so you're in for a treat! 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! NOTE: Our Shipment to you of Spring Frills has been delayed. It seems the hand-dyed Lavender Whisper Cashel Linen fabric -- which is en-route from Germany -- has been held up by the Iceland Volcanic Ash Cloud!!! We are watching for early May delivery! | |||
 DOVO Curved Lefty Embroidery ScissorsTalk about Specialty Scissors... these are a wonderful new offering for left-handed stitchers ONLY! (Hey, check out that Left-Handed Stitch Diagram Book we have as well!)  DOVO of Solingen, Germany, has mastered their regular left-handed embroidery scissors into a slightly curved style, which is AWESOME to use! The slight curve to the blades gives your hand the room to get really close to the cutting area without your hand crushing, brushing, bumping, and smashing which you've already stitched on your fabric! Just like cutting through hand-rolled butter... these are SUCH a delight to hold and flex! DOVO's brushed stainless finish, super-tapered hot-forged tips, the finger holes are generous, the finish is smooth, and the points and blades razor-sharp. Luscious!!! | |||
My Pinkeep from Dessins DHCMarie Suarez brings us this *exquisite* little pin keep design... you'll LOVE it! The kit contains a beautiful hand-carved bone medallion that measures approx 1-5/8 inches in diameter. You can see it... it takes up one entire side of the tiny round keep. Next, you get a piece of linen banding -- it features your tiny heart stitching that wraps around the keep! We've never SEEN banding that is 7 stitches wide!!!!! Your initial is stitched on the included 40ct linen -- ALL 26 letters are charted for you inside their tiny vines. (not just the letters... you have 26 disks of floral initials in here!)  There's felt, cardboard and batting in here, along with the finishing instructions, as well! You'll need to supply the linen and materials that makes the small case to store your precious keep, but those instructions are included, too. The shop gals kind of went nuts over this piece when I brought it back from Market! It's so delicate, so unique, I think the medallion and banding are over-the-top cool, and it's a steal at $23! | |||
 Autumn at Hawk Run Hollow from Carriage House Carriage House's 5th set of scenes all around the village of Hawk Run Hollow is here! Celebrating Autumn, it covers the harvest season, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. Joining Houses, Village, Shores and Christmas... Kathy says this is her last HRH set. We stood together in her booth at Market... all 5 of them were there on display, just stunning! Just like all the rest, this piece features 12 squares of designs, that can be stitched individually or together. Every single panel is neat... it's kind of fun to look at the set of patterns and TRY top choose your favorites! Autumn is stitched in a different configuration than the rest, so linen has been ordered. Charted for silks or DMC floss... overall finished size is approx 9 x 32 on 40ct, or 13 x 44 on 28ct! Offered as the chart, all other HRH charts are still available! | |||
 Moonlight Madness by Debbie Mumm from Mill Hill Mill Hill has a new set of 6 Halloween bead kits that are bright, bold, funky, fresh, and too darn cute!!! Designed by Debbie Mumm, they finish approx 4-1/4 x 6-1/4 and are stitched on 14ct aida. Three are on bright apple/lime green, the other three on black... all are stitched with DMC flosses and smatterings of beads (more cross stitching than bead work.) I just LOVE 'em! All are contemporary, only Witch Hazel has skinny legs... everybody else is very *rotund* in this set... and every one is cuter than the last! Complete kits include the chart, needles, flosses, fabric and beads. Very JAZZY! | |||
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