Autumn Halloween and Thanksgiving : The Silver Needle, Fine Needlecraft Materials

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There are so many wonderful designs available that celebrate every season and occasion under the sun... so we thought it'd be fun to collect a few of them, and organize them for you on a set of Holiday/Seasonal Pages. I'm a "seasons" nut... so we'll be adding to these all the time! We have so many other projects and ideas in the shop, and elsewhere on the site, but this is a fun way to show you just a few ..... ENJOY! Autumn Cross Stitch Designs Spring and Easter Designs Christmas and Winter Patriotic and Summer
Some fun 'Creeps' from Rebel Stitcher Jeepers Creepers - This is cute! I think it'd be fun on a gunmetal colored fabric, so those dancing skeletons would show up more. Just 5 shades of thread, it measures 143 x 77, so will finish about 8 x 4 on 18/36ct. Presented as a nice full sized chart - $15.00 Yikes - Another fun one, this little kitty is 143 x 138 in size, so about 8 x 8 on 18/36ct. Stitched on a dramatic orange background, almost all of this is black, and it'd be tempting to stitch the cat outline and then just fill him in! Black metallic would be stunning on the stars, a little wool thread on that tail? Spooky Smalls - There are seven designs in here! Each one is tiny, super easy to do, and the entire set is stitched with the same color palette of Gentle Art hand-dyes. Black Licorice, Orange Marmalade, Grape Leaf, Tomato, and Purple Iris. Foggy Night (bottom left) has purple clouds hiding the golden moon - it looks promising!
Halloween Greetings from Sprouting Lupine Stitch some words of warning to your Halloween Guests and Treaters with these cute designs by Sprouting Lupine. Presented in three different charts, each calls for fun, bright fabric backgrounds and plain, 'ol regular DMC floss. So... after a visit to your stash, you might already have everything you need! Witch District contains Spellbound, Witch's Brew and Toil and Trouble. All Hallows Eve and Trick or Treat come as single charts.
Fall Offerings from The Tiny Modernist Treat Biscornu - A colorful little cushion - candy corn, spiders and eyeballs adorn both sides of this 4 x 4 piece. Presented as a small card chart and coded for DMC, it runs $7.00. Fall Bell Jar - What a sweet scene! If you're in a hurry - stitch just the pedestal and hedgehog with his mushrooms and skip the border - IF you can pass up those brilliant leaves and pumpkins! Finishes 5 x 7 on 32ct, coded for DMc, just a really pretty burst of Autumn color and personality! Chart runs $9.00 Mouse's Pumpkin Pie - Another cute mouse design, this one features 4 little motifs that would be cute individually as tiny blocks or on 4 sides of a tiny cube. Try placing them horizontally so you can make a drum shape. Stitch count is 59 x 59 - but each motif is only about 20 x 25... so super cute! Small Chart runs $7.00
Midnight Cat from December Stitches Remember Elvis the Cat? Here's Dracula the Cat! Worked on a chalkboard colored fabric - we have lots of options - he's only 6 x 7 overall and 40 x 80 by himself. Coded for DMC, this is presented as a single full sized chart for $12.00.
Song of the Forest from The Needle's Notion Here's a fun 'wreath' design - to hang on a door. It's a woodland scene of a forest tree, complete with squirrels. A cottage back there, some deer, even little fish in the stream. The stitching isn't too involved, so this looks bigger than it actually is. Measuring 176 across, it'll be 10 inches on 18/36. Choose larger fabric and make a larger wreath. The fabric is simply cut out, and button-hole stitched onto a felt backing! No sewing, a flat finish... actually really charming! Presented as a chart it is coded for DMC floss with a few hand-dyeds tossed in. (Note: There are a few other designs from The Needle's Notion on our Christmas Seasonal page.)
Flora from The Artsy Housewife Artsy Housewife has a gorgeous owl design - full of luscious Autumnal color. Coded for DMC, it measures 6-1/2 x 10 on 32ct Dirty Linen. (Dirty isn't made anymore, so Country Vintage Mocha is a perfect alternative color.) An elegant border, delicate background and charmingly dramatic owl, this piece is really eye-catching! Presented as a chart, it runs $14.00
Peace, Grace, Byron and Bedelia from The Artsy Housewife This is a four-some of charming designs by Artsy Housewife. Presented in chartpacks, each uses a medley of DMC, Weeks and Classic Flosses. Peace - measures approx 7 x 8. Gigi has used THREE DIFFERENT scraps of linen on this - and even mixed the counts between 30 and 32! She's joined her cuts together with an invisible ladder stitch, but informs that you can use just one color of material in one piece if you'd rather. What a great way to use up smaller bits of fabrics you have! Peace is worked on PTP 32 Oaken, 32 Seraphim Bees Knees, and 30ct Weeks Dolphin. I love the 'permission' to go wild and mix the fabrics - and you certainly don't need three inches on the sides of all your small cutsnixed fabrics! Grace - companions Peace, and is basically the same size. Again mixed flosses, this time she hasn't told us what the fabrics are! Probably the same as Peace, but maybe you could do the bird section on yet a different color but keep the two side panels the same? It's a really cool design concept. Byron Blackbird - Isn't this little guy eyecatching? Stitched on a 30ct creme linen that has been distresssed with RIT dye and coffee grounds, he measures approx 6-1/2 x 4 on 36ct. Coded for DMC, it does use Weeks Schneckley and Classic's Blackbird handdyeds. If you stain this after the stitching is done, it generally softens your colors... so you have a choice of when to stress! Bedelia Bunny - Is darling! She measures 96 x 94 and finishes approx 5 x 5 on 40ct Picture This Plus Veldt linen. Only 8 shades of DMC on this, you might play around with your background fabric a little to help the bunny show up better. So soft and pretty as is though.
Painted Pumpkins from Lola Crow We love this design! Nine perfect little pumpkins - all the same size, they are all patterned differently - but use the same 5 DMC colors. You could go nuts with this one! Add metallics, re-arrange them into a long row for a windowsill cushion, or make a drum, do individual pin cushions, lots of great options. Very cute design, each pumpkin measures only 30 x 30! Full color chart in leaflet format. $9.00
Colorful Designs from Lola Crow Murder in the Pumpkin Patch - The Murder of Crows is decending on the patch of pumpkins... but neither the skeleton or the scarecrow are keeping them away. This colorful country scene by Lola Crow Designs is worked with 25 shades of DMC floss on 32ct Mirage Linen by Picture This Plus. That gorgeous blue-gray dramatic background sets off the bright oranges and cheerful denim of that ragged little shirt. A fun piece 144 x 104 in stitch count, to stitch and display for the season! Buried in Books - Well, everyone knows someone who always has their nose buried in a book - isn't this the cutest thing? Measuring just 64 x 53, it's done on a mangy gray background with 18 different shades of DMC. I love that little cat too. Chart is $7.50. Extraordinary Birds - This has apparently been a stitch along piece that is being finished and offered complete to us. Chart format, it uses 34 DMC shades and measures 181 x 226 in stitch count. I love all the colors in here, and the booklet does come with an illustrated index to identify each bird in the piece! Complete Booklet of charts runs $27.00 Acorns and Friends - If this isn't the cutest thing! The Racoon and skunk are stitching, but the opposum, crows and squirrels are already done, and displaying their stitched pieces that are mounted in hoops! See them hanging from the tree branches? Measures 124 x 105, stitched with 20 DMC shades, the background fabric is Weeks 36ct Sea Foam hand-dyed linen. Cute! Chart is $12.00 Acorn Bonanza - these little guys hit the motherlode! They're picking them right off the tree... measures 80 x 80 and uses 12 DMC colors. Check out that one little individual squirrel at the bottom left... you could stitch JUST HIM and nothing else! Chart $9.00
Mrs and Mr Bones from The Spanish Stitcher Skinny little skeletons by Spanish Stitcher, Mrs measures 51 x 62, while Mr is only 37 x 66. Black Licorice, Moss and Burnt Orange hand-dyeds, choose a fun background color and count of your choice. Both designs are included in the chart pack for $14.00
Peyote Beading Designs from Ghost Boy Needleworks Raymond has a passion for all things embroidery. He says if it involves stabbing something whether it's fabric, or beads or his own fingers, he's a happy guy! He adds 'a little less happy when it comes to fingers, but sometimes art demands a blood sacrifice!' We are featuring some of his Peyote Beading Designs in kit format. Skellymaid - Well, this is over-the-top cute! It is a 5-inch long Peyote Beaded scissor or Zipper fob of a skeleton mermaid. You string those arms and make the little hands, and then the bony tail, it just makes you smile! Complete kit contains both the color chart and numeral directions to do this - just depends on which set of instructions your brain works better with. Then, a vial of two beading needles, thread, clamshell finding and all the pre-sorted beads. Should take about 5 or 6 hours do do... such a conversation piece! Harlequin Poker - All red and black this fob finishes approx 2 x 5 with the fringe. The complete kit contains the beading thread, needles, Delica beads, the fringe beds, lobster claw clasp and instructions. $30.00 Sirena Selene - She is a lunar mermaid! Stars and moons instead of water and fish! Selene finishes 1-1/2 x 5. Her complete kit contains the beading thread, needles, Delicas, fringe beads, lobster claw clasp and instructions. $40.00
Maple Leaf from KiraLyns Needlearts Enjoy this fun Autumn leaf quilt - complete with lounging kitties and a few pumpkins. Coded for DMC floss, it measures 77 x 77 in stitch count - so finishes a petite 4-1/4 inches on 18/36ct. That means, if you split it up and make individual cushions out of the cat on the shelf, the big white pumpkin stack and then the quilt - each of them will be smaller than those 4 inches! Pretty colors, just a bright, simple, cute seasonal piece. Presented as a chart for $8.00
Three Halloween Designs from Plum Street Samplers Bony Bunch - If this isn't the cutest thing... it joins Paulette's stacks of animals... only they 'were' people! Grab any chalkboard colored fabric you like and stitch away - it calls for some DMC as well as Weeks Mascara, Grits and Classic's Cayenne and Just Rust. Stitch count is 54 x 90... it's a 'gotta have!' (Click through the image above to see our shop model.) Grim's Haunt - Quite the festive Halloween barn! The colors in this are yummy... the barn pattern and roof shingles are repeating, geometric and cool, the Jacks on their vines meander everywhere, but the little kitty is just the best! Paulette says grimalkin is another name for a cat - who is definitely the star of this show! Charted for a combination of Weeks, Classic and DMC floss this is done on 36ct Patriot's Brew - a great neutral. It measures 101 x 92 - so about 5-1/2 inches in size. Jack's Candle Pocket - A fun finish for a primitive Jack-o-lantern design... the year 1867 is on there as the possible first year pumpkins were carved for Halloween! Finishing instructions are in the chart so you can make a cute candy sack, or something to hold dried flowers and twigs for the season - that would make a cute door hanger.
The Spooksters are Here from Satsuma Street Satsuma Street's 2023 Halloween ornaments have arrived - super-cute as usual! All are presented as complete kits of 14ct perforated paper with all their necessary sequins or tiny smattering of beads. Too hard to choose just one, get 'em all... once the stitching is done, back them with sticky felt or pretty scrapbook paper, and then cut them out. They make cute magnets, pumpkin pokes or hanging ornaments!
Halloween Spooktacular Ornaments from The Tiny Modernist This is a three-leaflet set of 12 small 4 x 4 inch designs. Cuter than cute, it's a fantastic set of coordinating 'personalities' that I find charming. Worked on a darker background, all with the same 7 shades of DMC - Cheryl has these coded for Weeks hand-dyeds as well. Very vintage in feel, she also includes a digital pic of the entire set stitched together.
Autumn Traditions Sampler and Halloween Terrarium from The Tiny Modernist Autumn Traditions Sampler - This looks like it'd be a fun jigsaw puzzle to put together! A delightful neighborhood - it kind of looks Halloween but really isn't. The smoke plumes coming from the chimneys are not ghosts! The pumpkins aren't carved... and I did look - there are no trick-or-treaters! BUTTT colors are great, and it looks to be a fun stitch. Finishes approx 7-1/2 x 11 on32ct. Coded for DMC the chart is huge and colorful - easy to read. Halloween Terrarium - A cute little FLORAL Halloween scene! I like everything about this, especially the dead relative buried in the yard! Cute an colorful - stitch it and see if anyone notices that in here! Finishes about 4 x 6 on 18/36ct - coded for DMC.
Fun designs looking forward to cooler weather! Autumn Barn Trio by Waxing Moon - This companions several of her other Trio designs... all the same size, all with the saw tooth border, they make nice brick stand-ups and plant pokes - if you do them on perf paper. Sunflowers by Petal Pusher - Bright yellow and gold flowers... Barbie has a small 'Vincent's Pinkeep designs included, pictured on the back cover. Get your fix of yellow colors!
Something New for Autumn and Thanksgiving from Samplers and Primitives A new company for us to carry, these 4 designs - available as charts - will be arriving in the shop the last days of August. The Autumn Quakers - Choose a white or creme for these, pretty acorn shadings with a hint of Quaker borders tossed in! Smaller one is close to 4 x 4, larger is closer to 6 x 6. The Autumn Alphabet - Companions the cushions, right at about the same size... same motifs, colors... all three of these would be pretty together in a woven basket with acorns and dried leaves! 1869 Thanksgiving Pin Cushion - Celebrating the year the US made Thanksgiving a National Holiday! Love the little shade pumpkins and vine... I might re-arrange those numerals on the date a little - but that's a personal thing. Tuck this in with the Autumn Quaker and Alphabet pillows.
Three New Halloween Treats from Kathy Barrick Tis Near Halloween - Who doesn't LOVE this little kitty? Kathy found the verse on an old postcard and gave it a new home on little black kitty. Cool penny rug border, that busy sky - choose a fabric medium in color so you don't lose the bats in the background, metallic for the moon would be fun, wool for the cat would be awesome! Measures 131 x 145, 'When witches go riding and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers tis near Halloween.' Come on In! - 'Take off your skin and dance around in your bones!' Measures 129 x 178 - would be 7 x 10 on 36ct... and we have AWESOME fabric choices for this one! Lots of deep angry blues to look like night sky! Haunted - You get BOTH of these design arrangements in this book! Haunted is super fun... more and more motifs keep showing up - I love all the zig zags and geometrics in here. Check out the skeleton bats. All the cute jacks underneath the house, that awesome tree... all of this! Lots of design options on this one, just have fun with all the pieces and parts!
Just Announced from Just Nan! Presenting Owlvira's Frightful House The Ghosts and Goblins at Scream House have new neighbors! Owlvira has moved in next door! Frightful House stands deep in the gloomy shadows of Haunted Hollow. When the leaves begin to fall, the house wakes up, and all the inhabitants take their places to show us how scary they can be. Owlvira Owl is the house manager. She has a room in the attic where she plans all the entertainment for each frightful night. The Stitch Guide includes behind the scene stories for each side of the house. Fences with garlands of purple lights surround the house, and the front door has a spider knocker. Ghosts, grimacing pumpkins, frogs, bats, spiders, skeletons, monsters and one menacing mummy appear on the 4 sides of the house, and you will find more creatures on the roof and in the creepy crawl space below. Owlvira's attic room features a spider web rug and black felt walls for needles and pins (and a little frog charm). Using DMC (B5200, 209, 310, 581, 646, 648, 740, 741, 900, 937, 947, 972, 3032, 3787, 3837, 3819) and 4 shades of Weeks Floss ( London Fog, Bark, Autumn Leaves and Onyx), stitch the house as one piece on one large piece of linen. The 4 roof sectionsare stitched on another, and Owlvira on a third piece of fabric. Linen choices are Weeks 32 CT Tin Roof Linen. Finished size for the bungalow is approx. 51/2" X 21/4." We are offering fat quarter cuts for fabric, to ensure you have enough for proper piece placement. Owlvira is stitched as one piece, then folded in half. Black and purple beads sparkle on her chest and her eyes are hypnotic orange sequins. A bat flies across a harvest moon on her back. Black hairpin wires are included for her "feet" and a bronze bead and purple flower sequin for her hat. Owl is not available separately. Materials included: Color cover, 12-page Stitch Guide, Linen Layout page, 24" of ribbon, black felt, 1 piece of cardboard, beads, owl eye sequins, 2 hairpin wires, spider charm, verdigris frog charm, bronze bead and purple flower. Your linen and threads are offered separately. Just the cutest EVER... you may remember our Scream House Exclusive Nan did for us years and years ago. Sold out for all this time, Owlvira's Frightful House has come to 'save the day' or 'scare away the rest of the neighborhood!' She is VERY LIMITED and will NOT last till Halloween! Autumn Mix Another little "Mix" of seasonal florals by Nan, joining Wintery, Jasmine, & Pansy Mixes... it's time for Pumpkins and all the pretty colors! Leaves, grapes, pumpkins, acorns, apples, purple asters along with a chrysanthemum are all 'Mixed" in here! Stitched on 32ct Raw Belfast with DMC and Peach Cobbler Week hand-dyed floss, this finishes petite 3-ish inches - just like its seasonal companions. Presented as a chart with embellishments included.
Meow-o-ween from Stitches by Ethel Stitches by Ethel has a cute new kitty design to get you into a Halloween mood. Only 60 x 90 in stitch count, her little black cat is dressed for her Halloween party hat, with balloons and star confetti in the sky. Coded for DMC it'll finish about 4 x 5 on 32ct. Might be fun to stitch the moon, confetti and jack's eyes in metallics. Presented as a small chart.
We Are All A Little Batty Here! from AB Designs Amy has finished her set of darling little Halloween 'people'... who are all being batty together! Stitched on bright purple fabric (lots of great choices and counts in that area), all of it is done with DMC floss. Amy had introduced this piece in parts... but now all have been released, and since the color key appears ONLY in the first chart... it needs to come to you as the complete set of the 7 charts. Super cute and colorful, the stitch count is 181 x 146... so it'll finish 10 x 13 on 14ct for instance. You can stitch each 'person' individually; they would make darling stand-up blocks, or pumpkin pokes... or even pokes to stick up from the candy dish!
A Little Halloween from Primrose Cottage Several new charts are here... all published in 4-color leaflet format with huge, colorful, easy-to-follow charts. They like to put the finished model pics on the inside pages beside the chart offering a nice glimpse of what you are stitching. 13 Spooky Smalls is a collection of nothing larger than 5 x 6. Easy stitching, cute finishing, various fabrics were used, everything is coded for DMC, and the graphics on the 13 pages are good enough that you can duplicate the fun finishes right from the pictures. Halloween Letters - a cute way to spell Halloween down the left-hand side... with fun words across. Worked on your favorite fabric, it'll finish about 7-1/2 inches square on 32ct. Coded for DMC along with a few hand-dyeds, it'd be really cute if you made the ghosts opalescent, the bats sparkley black, maybe even bead the main letters down the left side. A lot of room for special things in this cute design! Witch's Kitchen - She's making a mess... I hope the spiders and bird aren't the next ingredients! DMC and hand-dyeds, this finishes about 6 x 6 on 32ct. The Salem Sisters Apothecary - You're going to need 4 skeins of Weeks Dye Works Kohl to stitch this fun shop sign. On 32ct Country Vintage Mocha, it finishes about 5 x 8. The wooden frame is available for this.. details for ordering are inside the leaflet. You could change 'the salem sisters' to Mom's Apothecary, and then change the date to the year Mom got married and started cooking for her family! Home Sweet Haunted Home - This is a half-sized leaflet pattern - it finishes a little over 4 inches square on 32ct and is worked in Weeks hand-dyed flosses. Just a fun sign to put on the door everyone uses to come into the house - maybe it's the garage door into the back hall... everyone needs to know what they're walking into!
Hello Halloween Book from Teresa Kogut! This is a book that contains 11 full color Halloween designs. The main Sampler shown the cover is so cool! I love love love all the repeating rows of motifs, and the repeating cat border. The differently dressed witches are cute, and the haunted house at the bottom makes a great pic of it own - especially if you add that tree over on the left. 220 x 330 - This finishes approx 12 x 18 on 36ct... a mixture of DMC's and hand-dyeds. Shown above are just 3 of the included designs: Vintage Cats are in here... stitched on Weeks Tiger Eye hand-dyed linen... each measures a generous 4-1/2 x 7-1/2. Onward Black Kitty is quite the vision! Looks like it came from an antique postcard... I think kitty is more scared of the moon than the witch! The Goode Witch - another offering in the book... here's another that you can split apart - do just the kitty on pumpkin, or leave that part out, and now the scarecrow is getting the prize offered by the witch!
This is Halloween from The Drawn Thread Cynthia Zittel has a fun new Halloween design... a haunted house with its graveyard and resident spiders and ghosts - all underneath the most glorious gnarly tree! She's put a lot in here - skeletons, ghosts, bats and pumpkins - all of it measures 183 x 74. Notice that huge eerie yellow moon behind the tree - soft and golden, spooky and seemingly quiet - for now! It'll finish approx 11 x 4-1/2 on 32ct... and it would make a stunning drum-shaped stand-up, if you're 'framed out, or an awfully cute flat stand-up to perch on a sill or someplace!
Three New Arrivals from Autumn Lane Stitchery Baba Yaga is another on their intense, super-dark and wild Halloween pieces. It masures 140 x 196 - so about 9 x 12 on 32ct. Get some mangy fabric and don't forget to add some metallics to get those empty eyeballs going! Midnight Ride - Back to cheerful Halloween with a skinny witch with a pretty dress and a awesome broom all against a nighttime sky. Wouldn't it be fun to stitch this for a teenager who's just gotten her drivers license? It measures 10 x 14 on 28ct.
3 Little Boos Kit from Val's Stuff Val's Stuff has a trio of small 1 and1-1/2 inch designs that are worked on the new 18ct perforated paper vs 14ct. They remind me of big postage stamps. Cute as can be, the kit includes the paper, backing felt, chart and pin backers. Use bits of DMC from your stash... these are bright and fun - they'd make cute magnets too.
Limited Editon Halloween from Val's Stuff Val's Stuff has been busy designing Halloween and Wintery things... giving us plenty of stitching time before we're ready for scares and snow again! And don't miss the newest Plant Poke! Halloween Favorites Book II Limited - A set of 6 paper ornaments - all worked on 14ct perf paper. You'll need bits of floss from your stash, but all the stitching papers, the orange, purple, green and black backing felts, eye buttons, bead teeth, and little ghost and star buttons are included. Val's individual ornament kits usually run about $14 or $16 each... but this special collection has SIX for $50!
The Pumpkins of Rosewood Manor! Karen Kluba is working on a set of ultra-colorful pumpkins... she has11 so far... and we've presented 5 of them here! (Click through to see the rest!) Owls, Spiders, Acorns and Toads, Bats, Candy and even Mr and Mrs, the set is delightful. Funky shaped pumpkins 4 to 5 inches each - no two are alike. You have to LOOK into the designs to find those bats and toads, but they are all in there and fun to find. Coded for DMC floss, you could add some beads or metallics from your stash if you want. Some of the charts come with buttons or charms, but not all of them. Offered in small chart format, all of them are stitched on Picture this Plus's 32ct Haunted hand-dyed linen - which is a gorgeous aqua/teal/blue-gray color. THE PERFECT contrast to the bright colors, we have models in the shop and they just POP on that gorgeous fabric. (You'll be able to get 6 pumpkins out of a fat quarter...and we also have Dawn, Echo and Nocturne as awesome alternatives.)
The Collectors, Hocus Pocus and Something Wicked This Way Comes from Autumn Lane Stitchery Autumn Lane has some new designs -- some a little more 'intense' than others! The Collectors are three women of the Salem Witch Trials fame. You get the sordid details in the chart! Stitched on Yule hand-dyed fabric by Seraphim, you'll need 5 skeins of DMC 310, 3 of #500 and 2 of 501. Hocus Pocus is stitched on a barnwood hand-dyed color - kind of a recipe book for all the tools you might need to concoct a great spell! Finishes approx 9 x 9 on 28ct. Something Wicked This Way Comes - This one is done on Picture This Plus' haunted linen, which is a gorgeous aqua-deep sea color. You'll need 7 skeins of DMC 310! I kind of see two halves to this one - you could stitch just the top section or just the bottom part - OR the whole thing! Metallics in the windows or opalescent in the moon and ghosts would be fun too - or maybe touches of glow-in-the-dark thread or beads?
Poltergeist Pirates from Glendon Place Glendon Place's Cheryl has designed a friendly pirate ship that isn't as scary as the skulls on there would like! Stitched on Crossed Wing's hand-dyed BANG! linen... Charted for DMC floss, Cheryl has featured 6 colors of Rainbow Gallery's Silk Lame' braid in this and several Just Another Company clay button embellishments.The Lame is a silk-rayon blend with touches of opalescent metallic in it - gives a shimmer! So, the ghosts are glow-in-the-dark, and so is the skull on the flag. The lightest blue in the waves is stitched with the Lame in frosty blue. I like the shark in the water, the dragon on the front of the ship, the ghosts clinging to the masts, but the little skeleton crow steals the show! He's got his captains hat on, and he's on guard! Offered as the chart, we have the Lame' threads, the fabric and buttons all gathered together as a set - because you really need all the right things to capture the charm of this cute piece.
Ghoul's Crossing from Praiseworthy Stitches Pam and Susan have a new Haunted Halloween Party House for 2021. Come Ghoulies, Shriek, Growl and Dance! Joining their collection of other busy houses... this one is just as colorful as the others, but a little different in finished size. It's a whopping 28 x 14 on 32ct Picture This Plus 'Haunted' linen, and it's garnished with a collection of JABCO clay spiders, bats, pumpkins and a little caldron button. We have several of their models in the shop, and it's fun to find smaller take-out design areas to stitch smaller versions. The dramatic fabric highlights all the cute little ghosts and kids, the trees are all scraggly, the spider webs are thin metallic... a lot of fun things happening on ALL of their Halloween and Christmas Scenes! Presented as a chart... fabrics, buttons and extensive thread list (of 49 hand-dyed skeins or 34 Skeins of DMC and the metallic) are all offered separately. (Fabric and button info TBA)
Black Halloween Series from Twin Peak Primitives There is a lot you can do with this trio of designs. Right now, they are simply black on white. Think about neat fabric colors from your stash with that same black stitching. Or... use a hand-dyed black for more effect. You could add a few stitches of just one color to make them POP - like gold metallic for pumpkin eyes, or black metallics for the spider. Super simple and understated... they'd make striking Halloween decorations.
Jack O Lantern Jubilee from With Thy Needle & Thread Has Arrived! Brenda Gervais of With Thy Needle is releasing a fun new collection of Halloween pin cushions! Presented in leaflet format - like Jelly Bean Jubilee - this is a set of 6 cushions - all stitched with various hand-dyed flosses. Colors used are 3771, 3778, Onyx, Oscar, Pelican Gray, Ultraviolet, Pumpkin, Putty, Carrot, Gold Leaf, Fragrant Cloves, Grecian Gold, Brandy, Avocado, Eggshell, Gingerbread, Hickory Sticks and Copper Penny. Fabric shown is R & R's 40ct Brenda's Brew. For a limited time, we have 36ct Brenda's Brew Linen rather than 40ct. The 36 is lovely! What a fun collection of smalls!
Creepy Pumpkin Stackers from Praiseworthy Stitches Wow. this is a creative way to finish your stitching! Pam and Susan have designed three various-sized stitched pumpkins and then shown you how to finish/assemble them for a cute stacking Halloween display. The feature is the ANTIQUE WOODEN SPOOL they are stacked around! You can choose any three colors of fabric you like for your pumpkins - they tell you how to adjust the templates if you change from the 32ct Weeks Chestnut, Tiger's Eye and Cappucino choices used. Stitching is done with Weeks, Gentle Art and Kreinik threads, with some Mill Hill beads and a JABCO spider button. (You can get creative from your stash with creepies to embellish this too!) Next, assemble the pumpkins - you are leaving the centers open - and then placing them over the spool to stand up! FOR NOW the antique spools are included with the charts - so neat!
Halloween Sampler II and Christmas Sampler II from Cottage Garden Samplings This is a pair of seasonal alphabet pieces that are neat in their own ways! Presented as chart, Halloween Sampler II is worked on Picture This Plus's Murky linen - which the coolest, mangy color - it's just muddy and a MESS! So many things look REALLY good on it! You get all the letters plus some fun words for all of them with a few motifs tucked in here and there. LOTS of possibilities for beads, metallics and maybe a couple of charms or an old skeleton key! Christmas Sampler II is much more subdued. Stitched on Ancient linen from Picture This Plus, the letters chart is huge - printed on one huge sheet of glossy paper - the motifs are super-cute, it finishes about 8 or 9 inches square depending on your fabric count choice. We like them both!
Grateful Hearts by Mary Engelbreit from Imaginating Imaginating has charted the artwork of Mary Engelbreit, and presented it in a leaflet format. I'm not sure how old the actual picture is, but the charting is new for 2020. Coded for DMC, it measures 168 x 142, so finishes approx 10 x 12 on 14/28ct. The model is shown on Aida, but working on Lugana or Linen is MUCH EASIER because of all the half-placed backstitching on this. With Aida, you have to MAKE your own holes... with anything over two - you HAVE that perfectly spaced middle hole already. Next... notice the bottom is solid stitching. It is #369... and it's a MILLION stitches. Consider doing those in half stitches - along with the peachy-part in the center. It's lovely this way, but there are a ton of stitches there that you could probably do without, and not ruin the charm of the picture! Just a thought!
Some Dramatic Pieces from Autumn Lane Stitchery Here are 4 designs that are coded for DMC floss, but beg for some fun metallics to be added in - by YOU! Hallows' Eve Haunting - This is worked on Picture This Plus's Murky - which comes in several counts of aida and linen. You're going to need 4 skeins of black floss, and probably some gold metallics for those windows and that moon! It finishes 10 x 13-1/2 on 14/28ct. Midnight Brew - This one needs 7 skeins of DMC black! It does call for some glow-in-the-dark thread... really a fun scene! Fabric information is supplied in the chart. Woodland Santa - Stitched on a Star Sapphire-colored fabric, DMC flosses, he finishes approx 6 x 15 on 32ct. Easy to tell from the digital image on here that metallics would be fun and pretty easy to add.
Tis H'owl'oween from Val's Stuff A fun chart that comes with clay button eyes, green leaf buttons, and felt pieces to make those leaves. I'm thinking though... if you have some rust or orange felt... you may want to toss some of that Fall color into your leaves! You'll need flosses from your stash for this, can it can be stitched on just about any fabric you like.
Barbara Ana's Girls are Getting Ready for Halloween! Barbara Ana has new designs that are actually pretty entertaining when you study them! Can you find the little dangling lizards (I Believe those would be Newts?) Each pic has a cute little cat, and all the pumpkins, vines, dresses, and quilty design elements everywhere add pops of color. Break up some of the motifs and make some individual pin cushions - the cat with the basket of pumpkins is pretty cute... or you could stitch the witch faces on one side of a pin cushion and personalize your friends names on the other side! (depends on your friends, I guess.) Anyway, presented in three different charts, all are worked on 32ct white. Witchy Pantry finishes about 6 x 6, Three Witches finishes approx 12 x 7-1/2, and Witchy Harvest finishes approx 8 x 6. All are coded for regular DMC floss.
Field Mouse Hollow from With Thy Needle - Due in the shop next week Brenda Gervais has announced a new pattern with little witch mice in their garden of bittersweet. The big 'ol witch shoe might be the 'house' they are Trick-or-Treating!!! Finishing about 5-1/2 x 6-1/2, it'd make a cute hanging pillow over a doorknob somewhere. It would also be cute perched as a cushion in that Halloween Candy Basket you might have already started! (You know the one where you buy the Halloween candy NOW, so you'll HAVE it to give away at Halloween... all you find in the trash are wrappers that nobody knows anything about!) The inference of mice in their candy might scare them away! This comes as a chart... hand-dyed flosses.
A Witch's Hat of Bats from Bent Creek Marsha and Elizabeth have finally done another design in their Thing of Things Series! Just in time for Halloween - which really IS just around the corner - stitch this cute little hat full of bats, cats, pumpkins, and a little spider! Lots happening in there! Presented as a complete kit, you get the 18ct natural linen and DMC #5 Pearl Cottons. Measuring just 6 x 6 when finished, make a box stand-up for a cute holiday decoration. These kits are just like my Secret Needle Night designs - same size, same fabric, same threads (only we toss in some Rainbow Gallery specialties.) A great size for in-the-car-stitching... everyone loves something fun and quick to stitch now and then! There are at least 10 other Things of Things in this series - Candy Canes, Candy Corn, Snowmen, Ornaments, Pumpkins and Leaves, Easter Eggs.
Get Away Ghost Needle/Sewing Case and Matching Beaded Fob from Fern Ridge Collections Fern Ridge's newest Scary Smalls Set is here, and super cute - if you are into scary-looking little ghosts! Offered as complete kits, you get ALL the fabrics, beads, buttons, charms, threads, findings, linings, EVERYTHING but your time to stitch them in the kits! Get Away Ghost Needle/Sewing Case is worked on Weeks 32ct Spanish Moss linen with weeks flosses. It features tulle to make those 3-dimensional ghosts on the front. Several cute silver charms appear on the inside of the case - a little skeleton, gravestone and flying bat... everything is gray, black and silver! Measures approx 3 x 4 when closed. Get Away Ghost Beaded Fob is simple Peyote beading... again, that little ghost, with beautiful gunmetal beads and crystals. He's just the right size to finish in about 4 hours... fringe and all. Some of the Fern Ridge fobs have tons of 'fussy' fringe, but this one has a little less, so much easier to control. Kit contains all the beads, threads and findings you need.
Five New Designs from Plum Street Samplers - Gobble Gob and Autumn Saltboxes are just two! Paulette Stewart has sent the cutest new designs! Click the pic to visit her page with all the details! Gobble Gob - This is the newest animal stack - it features a turkey family all perched in a field of Autumn corn!!! All the autumn/checkerboarded/quilty sunflowers are charming... and so is that little turkey chick! Finishing the same size as the rest of the Animal Stacks... about 3 x 5, Paulette discusses two different fabric choices for this one! Autumn Saltboxes - Nick-named the Salt Shakers! 2 Houses, each 63 x 81 in stitch count, these look gorgeous! She has them finished as flats, but they would make 3 x 4-ish pin cushion pillows as well. Great colors, and again those charming quilted flowers in the backgrounds!
Black Cat Hollow - All Three Parts! from Barbara Ana This is a whole village scene complete with pumpkin vine border, little haunted houses, black cats, and witches with big behinds!!!! (better them, than me!) Cute as can be, it is full of stars and moons, lots of Autumn vegetation and witches and bats everywhere. Originally released in three separate charts, we have all of them together, so you can have the set at one time rather than chasing down all the parts. Double double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble. Measuring 151 in stitch count, this will finish approx 11 x 11 on 28ct, and is charted for just 9 shades of regular DMC floss! Go for it, and add hand-dyeds, metallics for the house windows and bats... wool thread for the cats??
Halloween Sampler from Cottage Garden Samplings What a cute medley of Halloween-themed words all bunched together into this alphabet piece! Stitched mostly in hand-dyed blacks (There are three different shades in here... Blackboard, Raven and Soot!), you get just a hint of bright coppers and oranges here and there! Finishing approx 10 x 10 on 32ct, they suggest Weeks Dye Works Havana Linen, which comes in several counts. Maybe add a little black Petite Treasure Metallic Braid to the capital letters???? Offered as a chart.
Autumn and Halloween are on their Way from With Thy Needle & Thread! Due in the shop August 8th... they are all charts... here's the scoop!!!! Basketful of Autumn Time -- This is the 3rd of a 4-part series. 93 x 83 In stitch count, preferred fabric is Summer Khaki, which comes in lots of different counts. There are a few over-one stitches in the Jack-o-lantern faces, and all is worked with hand-dyeds. No houses in the basket this time around... just that pile of pumpkins! Bittersweet & Broomsticks -- 115 x 90, Super-cute! The golden color of the fabric highlights the flosses nicely on this... but something mangy and gray might be fun too! Autumn in Baltimore -- The 3rd in this series, this time, you are seeing it stitched over one thread on 28ct Mushroom Lugana. Pin cushion, basket wrapper and even a little wool pumpkin, this all fits into a 5 x 3-1/2 x 2 oval paper mache box! Lots of stitching options with this one, each of the quilt motifs would make pretty little cushions and smalls... The Cat & the Moon -- The 3rd small peat pot design, this makes a cute 52 x 53 pin cushion if you don't want the pot and ruffle finishing option. Notice how she's stitched the cat's face vertically so the thread variations are not horizontal??? I think it makes him look more 'vintage.'
Happy Halloween Companions from Artful Offerings This is just a cute design to make you smile! By Artful Offerings, it is stitched on Week's Havana linen (several counts available, on 30ct this finishes about 6 x 7) and calls for Sampler Threads or DMC. You could stitch the kitty in fuzzy black threads -- we have several options, you could add glass beads for the spider and cat eyes -- you could do the moon, bow tie and kitty hat in Fyre Werks metallic... you could bead the border... or add a couple more rows of a complimenting color to make it more jaggedy! Lots of options with this, because it has 'good bones!' Presented as a chart.
Halloween Quaker from Lila's Studio WOW, is this a cool piece!!!!! By Lila's Studio, this is stitched on Picture This Plus's Murky Linen -- it's a dark, drab but dramatic muddy grey-brown fabric! (Simply delicious, as it's name does not suggest!) Halloween Quaker measures a generous 261 x 180, so it finishes approx 16 x 11 on 32ct. Stitched with Classic Colorworks hand-dyed flosses, this has several cool elements to it. The Quaker-inspired motifs are fun, especially the unusual spiders in one, and the black cats in another. That little village at the bottom is cool, the witch legs and boots are colorful, but your eye really goes to that silouette right in the center! Beautiful colors of thread against that fabric, chart calls for 40ct... we can order that for you... 32 is a little less scary to see!
A Trio of New Punch Needle Designs from Teresa Kogut!!! Super-Cute designs presented as line drawings to transfer onto provided weaver's cloth, each of these is punched with hand-dyed or DMC flosses. Happy Halloween -- Wow, talk about eye-catching! Finishes approx 5-1/2 x 7, punching around the circle gives you all that color variation! Beeutiful Garden -- Charming floral border surrounding a beehive -- everything is muted in color on this... just gorgeous! Finishes 5-1/4 x 7.
Giving Thanks from The Workbasket The Workbasket has a pair of designs sharing some of the same motifs with a Thanksgiving flavor. Squirrels and squash accompany acorns and corn on the cob. Charted for Classic Colorworks silks or DMC floss... the silks are almost $8 each... pull the DMC and convert those to hand-dyed cottons! Then, see about doing some contour stitching on here. See the squirrel? See the horizontal lines on him? If you stitch him following the outside curve of his tail, he will look much better. The basket is OK with horizontal lines, but the pumpkin needs vertical lines as well. The hand-dyed colors on the corn and leaves are spaced well... see what you can do with threads on that squirrel and pumpkin to give this your own special touch! Both designs are presented in this chart.
Squirrely Acorn Banquet from Artful Offerings A banquet of Acorns stashed away in this little guy's very best top hat... isn't he spiffy and cute? Stitched on Weeks 32ct Parchment linen this finishes approx 7-1/2 x 6-1/2, and is coded for DMC floss. You might want to grab a few of the hand-dyeds from your stash too... just for fun! Presented as a chart, you could add some Just Another Button Company acorn buttons to the border, or maybe some leaves!
Moonlight Haunting from Blackberry Lane Designs Blackberry Lane's Marie Driskill has designed the most delighfully colorful Halloween-y night scene! Presented as a chart, it is stitched on Picture This Plus' 32ct Mirage Linen with 15 different hand-dyed shades of flosses. Finishing only 4 x 5-ish, (we're cutting 9 x 9 in size) there is a little toad down there in the left-hand bottom corner that she says you could stitch as an individual fob as well. The giant moon has that wonderful smiling face, the Jack looks great too, not to mention all the circling bats -- and everything is set against that wonderfully dark, moving sky color! It'll finish small enough for a pin cushion but you can make your pillow larger with the fabric strips and cool trims in the cover model pic.
Autumn and Halloween The Drawn Thread Way are Here! Welcome Autumn -- Cynthia Zittel of The Drawn Thread is beginning a new set of Seasonal Welcome Designs -- This is the first! 30 x 216 Stitch count (2 x 13-1/2!), it is worked on 32ct Antique Lambswool linen and is coded for Dinky Dyes hand-dyed silk. FOR A LIMITED TIME, our charts are coming WITH that silk packet of threads. Very pretty with all it's textured specialty stitches, the colors are gorgeous! Make the individual letters into cushions and dump them all into a basket together, see how long it takes someone to figure out they spell WELCOME! Trick or Treat -- Skeletons, ghosts, crows and spiders... what could be better? Everything ELSE you want to see when you're out Trick or Treating!!! Drawn Thread's Halloween look is all over this charming row of pumpkins and birds. Special stitches everywhere, this stitch count is 50 x 210 and it is worked with Dinky dyes silks on 32ct. Presented as a chart, there are three black button embellishments in it, and for a limited time, our charts will come with the packet of Dinky Dyes hand-dyed silks. So many cute motifs in here, another one to split up and make into a set of small cushions! Simply Scary -- Another in Cynthia's Simple Sampler series... this is only 53 x 95 in stitch count, so quite petite! It is coded for either Dinky Dyes silks or Gentle Art Sampler Threads, and the chart includes a pair of bitty black buttons to make those little spiders! Very cute... I imagine this will be a 4-part piece -- just like her Simple Samplers for the 4 Seasons -- which have just finished!
Happy Halloween and Scary Things October Brings from silvercreek.html Silver Creek Samplers has a pair of cute designs that you can add to your stitching stash for next Fall! Happy Halloween -- Weeks and Gentle Art over-dyeds in this, it finishes approx 5 x 6 on 32ct. It'd be fun to add buttons and bead embellishments to, metallic in the eyes, opalescent in the ghosts, Wisper thread for the kitty... you get the idea. Scary Things October Brings -- This one finishes approx 6 x 6-1/2 on 32ct, and would look good with lots of thread and embellishment creations. A neat rhyme, something like this makes a cute decoration finished into a fabric 'mat.' Just add some fabric strips and make a mini quilt hanging, only don't hang it -- just lay it on the coffee table. (Of course you have to be one of 'those people' who have empty spots in your house for that. Maybe the wall is a better idea!?) Both are offered as charts, and will go great on so many different fabric color and count choices.
New Arrivals from Blackberry Lane Designs (I am at the Houston show this week, and have not SEEN our new charts!!! Here is what Marie told me about them before I left and she had them in the mail. I promise to do more descriptions when I get back!) Hollow's Eve's Trees -- Wow, this is a pincushion tree, ornament, and/or scissor fob! Offered as a chart, it's similar to her new Christmas feather tree., I can tell there is over one and over two stitching. Sir Scissors Hollow -- He's an addition to Marie's Fright Night series which includes Baron Von Bat and Rest Ye Pins. So darn cute, it is pictured with a 4-inch sized embroidery scissor.
Over The River from Jeannette Douglas Oh, this is a super-gorgeous, super-textured piece full of Autumn flavor... do Grandma's House for Thanksgiving instead of Christmas! Choose a neutral 32ct linen, your silk threads are all cinnamons, browns, brick reds, ambers, teals, mossy greens, a bit of cream and even some aqua metallic to make the little river glisten! Jeannette has packed this full of special stitches -- the border is Saw Tooth, then that gorgeous section of small star motifs on the upper left -- they are all Milanese and Scotch. The water is all Satin, the turkey is over one... and lots more Milanese in the bottom row of leaves. I think by the pic you can tell the variety of pretty colors in here -- in person, the model is just stunning! It finishes approx 9 x 12-1/2, and is offered as a leaflet with threads (Gloriana, Silk 'n Colors, Splendor, Needlepoint Inc and Accentuate metallic) separately. (This is not, however, coded for DMC.)
The Drawn Thread's 2015 Fall Releases are Here! Cynthia has been busy, and has sent REAL CUTE new things for Autumn and Halloween. Everything is offered in chart format and for a short while, we have silk thread packs for most of it! Special stitches here and there -- nothing is too involved so you'll have fun stitching all of them. Do you remember seeing her working on these models while she was here for our Event this past summer?????? Simply Autumn -- The first in a new set of seasonal samplers -- this piece is worked on 32ct Dirty Belfast Linen in Gentle Art Sampler Threads of Brandy, Terra Cotta, Oatmeal, Brethren Blue, Walnut and Carriage Black. It finishes a bitty 6 x 3, and sports Satin Stitches leaves in all those gorgeous fall colors. Not huge... you could even stitch the right half and leave off the alphabet! Offered as the chart. The Haunting -- This is really cool! There is so much going on in here... it is worked on 32ct Cobblestone linen and measures about 9 x 18. Coded for Dinky Dyes Silks (this is what is featured in our thread packs) or Gentle Art Sampler Threads, this is full of color and really charming. Nestled among the alphabet are motifs of everything Halloween -- and a lot of them are worked in Satin Stitches or Eyelets. She's got a Bat Stitch in here, which is a series of 9 straight stitches stacked so they look like bitty bats! The hand-dyed threads are gorgeous rusts, mossy greens, cream, a touch of antiqued honey and black. Offered as the chart, our silk pack is offered separately if you'd rather use silk than cotton. Tangled Up in Boo -- A skinny skeleton (I guess there isn't any other kind!) perched on a pumpkin, you have several different design options with this chart. Work it on 32ct Dirty Belfast linen -- that's the long sampler. 18ct Brown Mono Canvas delivers the framed piece, and there is a tiny black box (Amazon ordering info inside the chart) option worked on 28ct Touchstone linen. The silks we offer are Dinky Dyes for the long sampler - the other pieces call for Gentle Art cottons.
Wilhelmina and Eat, Drink & Be Scary from AB Designs AB Designs has a pair of new charts for Halloween that over-the-top colorful, funky and wild -- just like so many of her other creations!!! Both are presented as the charts with a few button embellishments. Stitch them on Weeks purple, orange, green or yellow hand-dyed linens... there are tons of color choices! Wilhelmina the Little Witch is stitched on a light purple with regular DMC floss! She measures 50 x 105 -- so she's not too large to finish in time for the Big Night! Eat, Drink & Be Scary is on more purple, and agian DMC floss -- 67 x 107, so these could be a pair!
Halloween Royal Family from Madame Chantilly Isn't this a ridiculous little piece of Halloween charm??? By Madame Chantilly, this should bring a smile to your face, it does to ours. Measuring 161 x 123, it is coded for DMC floss but you know, metallics and bead embellishments would be great on this! See what your stash holds in store for you!!! Just think this is darling! Offered as a chart.
Seedy Pumpkin Cottage from Praiseworthy Stitches Praiseworthy Stitches has released their 8th annual haunted house scene and this year's is SO AWESOME! Seedy Pumpkin Cottage is full of wispy ghosts, shiny spider webs, black cats and carved pumpkins... and all of it is underneath the glowing Jack-O-Lantern Moon. Stitched on Picture This Plus's 32ct Echo Linen (an awesome grey/teal midnight-sky color), there is so much going on in here that it has enchanted us in the shop! The model arrived today -- patterns should be here soon -- clay button embellishments and fabric follows later this week. Finishing approx 21 x 15... it is HUGE and quite the eye-catcher! Coded for DMC or Weeks and Gentle Art hand-dyeds you'll need multiple skeins of 12 of the 41 colors called for, along with silver metallic for the spider webs, petite Mill Hill glass beads and a FULL clay button pack of spiders, ghosts, bats and even a little owl. The white fence around the porch is really neat because it is done with long stitches of white thread but they have added three teeny orange beads to each railing post -- it glistens! Yes... this might take all year to stitch... but WOW, what a fun and creative seasonal decoration that everyone can enjoy year after year!!! Seedy Pumpkin Cottage is the place to be on The Big Night!!!!!
Playing with Jax from The Cricket Collection Cross Eyed Cricket's Vicki Hastings has a new Halloween design -- a nifty arrangement of delightfully different pumpkins and ghourds! All five in the group are really cool... and I think my favorite is that black and charcoal one on the right. Stitched on 28 Sandstone or a yummy golden hand-dyed fabric, this finishes approx 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 and is worked in 29 DMC floss shades. DO NOT MISS the little bonus Halloween owl -- Little Boo -- up there in the mitten design in the upper right corner! Vicki has a million different mitten designs for you collectors -- they have been topping TONS of her leaflets for years!
A Smidgen of Halloween from Heart in Hand Heart in Hand has a new tiny design, and it's really cute! Just a bitty medley of even bittier stuff, it finishes approx 3 x 4 on 32 -- but choose something else to do it on if you want to. The small card chart comes with an orange button (down there by the 31st) and a few green and white beads you'll use in eyes and that top border. I think that green jack-o-lantern is so funny -- he steals the whole picture! Just a Smidge of a thing!
Gobble & Give Thanks from Heart in Hand Here's a neat piece -- perch it flat on your table or horizontally on the wall! Absolutely precious, this has a stitch count of 21 high by 269 wide -- so it is approx 1-1/3 inches by almost 17 worked on 32ct Lambswool linen. It would be so cute as a stuffed cushion filled with walnut shells -- decorating the dining room table or perched on a windowsill!!! Charted for DMC or overdyeds, there is a set of clay buttons embellishing -- it has leaves, birds and pumpkins. Quite a fast piece to work up, the chart is printed very large inside the leaflet, and I'm thinking just an evening or two TOPS to get this stitched! It is CUTE! Offered as the leaflet with buttons separate.
Halloween Parade from AB Designs This is SO CUTE! Ms Amy has outdone herself with this fun pagent of Trick-or-Treat hopefuls! Worked on the delicious 30ct Weeks Peoria Purple Linen in both Weeks and Gentle Art overdyeds, it finishes a petite 6 x 9. You can do the whole thing, or split everyone up and make smaller individual stand-ups. Colors are fun, subject matter is over-the-top creative... you could even do those stars in metallic, and put beads in the witch's dress. Offered as the chart with packet of mini metal brads and rubber band embellishments!
Bittersweet Pumpkins from Just Another Button Company Just Another Button Company and Art to Heart have teamed up again to bring us 4 MORE cute quilt designs in Cross Stitch! Bittersweet Pumpkins features a pair of pretty spectacular pumpkins stitched in lots of gorgeous Autumnal shades of DMC, Weeks and Gentle Arts or Anchor flosses. They've garnished with a small smattering of buttons -- but if your stash has some cute ones that are 'homeless' -- add them! Stitched on Week's 30ct Parchment and finishing approx 8 x 9 ... you might want to look at Week's Straw or even Zweigart's Dirty Linen ... just a color that is a shade darker than that Parchment -- so the right pumpkin (which is stitched in GAST Peach Ice Cream) shows up better. It is WAY TOO CUTE to be lost against the background fabric, and I think it is now. Anyway, adapted from Art to Heart's quilt designs, this is a beautiful piece of needleart! Offered as the chart with button set.
Witches Night Out from Blackberry Lane Designs Blackberry Lane has introduced a stunning sillouette of witches playing in their lairs... presumably in anticipation of Halloween! The main design features a big tree -- branches flowing everywhere and surrounding each of the design vinettes. It measures 136 x 465 stitches! (That's 9 x 29 on 32ct!!) Stitched entirely in black, as you can see, lots of different fabric colors look good with this. Every little section is enchanting -- there is so much going on in each. All of the smaller projects are take-outs from the main design -- Marie has re-charted bottom edges so they can stand alone. VERY imaginative... quite a stunning piece... this is offered as a chart.
Widow Black's B & B from Praiseworthy Stitches Praiseworthy Stitches annual huge haunted house has arrived!!! Widow Black has opened her very own Bed and Breakfast to Guests. Tasty Delights are served every afternoon in her private parlour... she thinks it is simply delightful that many of her guests have been tied up for the entire afternoon... and that many linger way past check-out time! Widow Black does remind guests that they may have to share their rooms with her long-time boarders... who love to watch for fresh arrivals! Stitched on 32ct Murky from Picture This Plus with 31 different hand-dyed or DMC flosses, you will need multiple skeins of 12 of the colors in here. There are Mill Hill beads scattered about, and a JABCO button pack with three gravestones, three bats, 4 spiders, two jack-o-lanterns and a little owl! There is so much going on in this piece -- it is CHARMING -- and makes the best companion to Croaking Toad Manor, Ravenmoon Hall, Buzzard's Roost Inn and Black Cat Manor. I don't know about you... but I think Pam and Susan are out-doing themselves every year! Offered as the chart, we have the fabric cut separately, as well as the clay button packs! (Fabrics for the previous 4 Haunted Houses are now here as well, if you are needing them!)
Halloween and Christmas are right around the corner -- according to these new releases! Classic Prairie Schooler style, I think my favorite is Trick or Treat! #188 Trick or Treat is so fun. Check out all the activity in that Halloween Evening scene! Ghosts flying from chimneys, little people scurrying everywhere, toadstools and spiders, it is just the cutest. I love that row of characters down in the lower front! #190 Happy Christmas features a sleepy village against the deep midnight black winter sky. Finishing only 5-1/2 x 7-1/2 on 18ct black aida, there are only 8 colors of DMC floss in here!!! The snowflakes look like stars in the sky and the dark windows tell you that everyone is fast asleep. You can hear the quiet... all except for Santa's sleigh bells up in the sky! #191 Nordic Holiday features 9 designs that are all the same size and use the same two colors of DMC floss -- 699 and 817. Simple and classic with a Nordic design inspiration, you could repeat and repeat these to make a cool table runner!
Croaking Toad Manor from Praiseworthy Stitches Praiseworthy Stitches has another annual haunted house, and this year's is just as busy and (charming?) SCARY as the rest!!! Presented as a chart with clay button set additional, this finishes quite large -- just like all it's companions. A whopping 15 x 20 on 32ct -- if you are CAREFUL (only 1-1/2 inches on the sides)... we can get this on a fat quarter(18 x 27) of Thunderstorm for you. (otherwise the 21 x 26 cut is $43.68!) The design is full of great details -- just so much to look at and enjoy. There is a toad in the pond with a witch hat... He's the culprit who's stirring up the landscape! Charted for DMCs or lots of Gentle Art and Weeks overdyeds. It also features a smidge of silver metallic and a few Mill Hill beads.
Halloween Jumble from The Drawn Thread! Drawn Thread has a new piece -- a companion design to Be My Valentine -- it's a series of MINIATURE blocks that include bitty Halloween motifs and letters to spell out 'Trick or Treat.' Really a very tiny thing -- 2-1/2 x 6-1/2 -- Cynthia has used a few Satin Stitches and a smattering of glass beads to embellish her squares a bit -- but each square measures ONLY AN INCH on 28/14 count and even smaller on the recommended 32ct Dirty Belfast. So cute, you can make some initial scissor fobs if your name has the right letters... you can stitch a set of small ornaments for a little tree branch... you could stitch these all in one horizontal row (1 x 21!) and hang it above a doorway... or you could stitch them all vertically (again 1 x 21!) and hang it on a skinny wall somewhere. You could even finish them into individual cubes to make a set of alphabet blocks! Offered as a chart. As you can tell from the pic -- rich rusty oranges, fun greens and purples and lots of black!
Halloween Quilt Sampler from Rosewood Manor Rosewood Manor has a new sampler that is full of Autumn color and Halloween attitude! All tucked inside her Blackwork border of acorns, you'll find 15 different quilt blocks worked with 8 different shades of Weeks overdyeds. Amber, Eggplant, Lancaster Red, Moss, Sweet Potato, Teal Frost (retired color!), Indian Summer and Swamp Water... pull them out of your stash... a gorgeous collection of color! Finishing approx 7 x 14 (not too big at all!), the leaflet comes with a stunningly REAL looking sterling spider charm that is featured on the Cobweb square of the sampler. If that little guy showed up live and in person on my wall, I'd be freaked out!!! Offered as a leaflet with Mr Scary Spider charm, this is a fun diversion from classic Halloween... into traditional quilt motifs!
Halloweenies from Plum Street Samplers Well... if this isn't the cutest picture for Halloween! A pair of festive dachunds dressed for The Season, do you think they are deciding who gets to use the fire hydrant first? Plum Street delivers this cute design -- stitch count of 157 x 65 that will look great on tons of different fabric choices. Worked with Gentle Art and Crescent Colours hand-dyed flosses, Paulette has kind of dedicated this pattern to her little Yorkie -- a most mischievous little beast! Offered as a chart -- reminds me of her Boris and Olga pair!
Mr Baron Von Bat - The Needle Minder from Blackberry Lane Blackberry Lane's Marie Driskill is amazing! Check out this Over-The-Top scary and realistic stitched BAT!!!!! Mr Von Bat takes his job seriously and tries to be intimidating with his fangs, but he's too cute of a fellow to take seriously. He has a baby bat button (JABCO's little black bat) as a bowtie with two dickeys made with (Week's) overdyed wool where he guards his needles well. Stitched on 36ct linen, (fabric options vary for this) with DMC flosses (only 25 colors!) he measures 8 inches from wing-tip to tip and 3-1/2 inches high. He is stitched on BOTH sides -- so you see his back on the outside, and his tummy on the inside. You'll need to get a couple of those super-stong magnets to put inside his wing-tips to help then close. (A pair will do, but you might want more.) Offered as the chart, the instructions to assemble are all here. You'll need the bat bowtie button, those dinky magnets and bit of Weeks wool to finish. I have never seen such a cute needle case like this... the design is incredibly detailed, such a different and unique subject matter .. this little guy is a MUST HAVE!!!!!!!!! Models are a possibility for us in St Charles and Houston!!!
The 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!
The Frankster from AB Designs Witchypoo's Main Squeeze! ab Designs has sent us the cutest little Frankenstein monster to stitch, and we have plenty of time to finish him before The Big Day!!! The 5 x 9 Frankster belongs to previously-published Witchypoo, and while she is stitched on Weeks Dye Works 30ct Peoria Purple, The Frankster is stitched on 30ct hand-dyed Banana Popsicle. He features right, fun Halloween-y colors, and some DMC Memory Thread on his pumpkin's smile! Actually, we think that Memory Thread is totally awesome, and it'd be fun on all the spider legs, too!!! Offered as the single chart, check out the trio of smaller matching pumpkins, with those same wired-thread smiles!!! Such a cute set of designs!
Vintage Halloween Stockings from Blackbird Designs Blackbird Designs will be releasing a little book of 13 Halloween Stockings -- to match their on-going series of mini monthly stockings!!! Blackbird Designs will be releasing a book of 13 Halloween Stockings -- to match their on-going series of mini monthly stockings!!! It has 36 pages and lots of color pictures for you to enjoy! In addition to the 13 stocking patterns, there are several other projects too. Stitched with Weeks, Gentle Art and Crescent overdyeds, I imagine we'll offer some thread sets, but details right now are sketchy, and I can't give you specifics about threads. 5 Of the little stockings are stitched on 30ct Cafe Kona, 5 on 18th Century Brown, and 3 on Witches Brew. We're offering the book, or book and linen cuts. Blackbird is one of the companies that doesn't reprint sold-out patterns, so we want to MAKE SURE you don't pass this one by before it's gone! We just love those little stockings... so we can't wait to see the new collection! Fabric Set ($57.50) includes 1/4 yd each of Cafe Kona and 18th Century Brown (enough for 6 stockings each) and 1/8 yard of the Witches Brew.
Bone Appetit from The Cricket Collection Well... never trust a skinny cook! Chefs 'Click' and 'Clack' are stirring up a big pot of haunting stew... that YOU are welcome to try! (I'm on a diet!) What a fun kitchen decoration to offer a lighthearted warning that this IS the haunting time of year... 'and one must beware of that which is simmering in the soup pot!' Stitched on 30ct hand-dyed, it uses regular DMC flosses, finishes approx 9 x 9, and has a couple of little blackbird embellishments. Offered as a chart, Vicki has also included a really cool strawberry pin cushion design in here... that is only pictured in the top little preview area of the pattern cover! It finishes approx 2-1/2-ish inches around, and is stitched in a medley of awesome fall colors. Full of little maple leaf motifs, she includes the finishing templates and instructions for the emery-filled berry and wool topping. Both designs in this pack are dynamite... you'll want to stitch them ASAP! For Bone Appetit, Weeks hand-dyeds Straw, Kudzu, Scuppernong or Guacamole would be great color choices of fabric, for the berry... you might want a darker -- Onyx, Gunmetal, Aztec Red, Chestnut or Havana, as the topper is Chestnut Herringbone (but I like Houndstooth better!)
Autumn Snapperland!from Bent Creek 'Autumn is a second Spring, when every leaf is a flower.' Bent Creek's final celebration of the Four Seasons -- in Snapper Card Designs! Presented in 4 small individual designs, Harvest Time is the first, with the barnyard and scarecrow outside. Autumn Walk is the second... the trees wander and follow the hikers a bit. Pumpkin Hunt and Turkey Farm finished it up!!! Each square design is a small 'Snapper' card, that includes a snap as its embellishment. Tying all these small squares together is the complimentary border chart and embellishment package... just like we have been treated to for Winter, Spring and Summer Snapperlands!!! A really cool series... we just finished an auto-ship for the rest of the cards in this set.
Moonlight and 11:58 PM from Fern Ridge This stitched and beaded needlecase and scissor fob set is over-the-top with Halloween personality!!! You'll see from our pics, that each has so many fun little details in the beads and stitching, I don't know where to begin my description! Designed by Fern Ridge, these are offered as complete kits that contain all the necessary beads, threads, findings, charms, fabrics, needles, lining fabrics and linen, beading threads... just everything... except you! The needlecase features a beaded edge, a sterling spider and skeleton charm, is stitched on 28ct Silvery Moon Cashel Linen in silks, silks and more silks, and overdyeds flosses -- all of which are included in the kit. With special stitches and finishing instructions, the verse -- in a crooked alphabet font -- reads, "Moonlight and it's 11:58pm. Don't just stand there! Come on in. Our Stitch-in is about to begin. The linen we use is a spider's web. Our threads are the hanging moss. The needles we use will delight and amuse. So, come on in. There's no time to lose. It's 11:59 pm and the stitch-in is about to begin!" Lots of black, greys, bronze and brown... this is CHARMING! Finishes approx 4 x 4 when closed, and because of all the cool beading around the edges, this feels heavy in your hand. The RIP fob is stitched in Peyote Stitch. It's trim features a sterling skull charm, hematite stars and amber beaded accents...all the beads have a frosted matte finish... and make this look old and weathered! So creative and unusual, this is such fun!
All Hallow's Night from Birds of a Feather This year's totally, awesomely scary pumpkin faces join our other two Halloween favorites by Birds of A Feather! The same flavor as Scared Silly and Fat Cat, All Hallow's Night is stitched on the very distressed hand-dyed linen of 32ct Sparrow, dyed by 'Birds.' Great, bright overdyed colors of Weeks Dye Works flosses, I don't know what about these draws people -- you either love them, or can't stand them!!! (I hope you're of the former!!!) Anyway, available as a single chart, we do carry the fabric -- which is just one of the most wonderful shades of hand-dyed linen available -- and COLORFAST!!!
Spooky Row Another very long and thin alphabet by Bent Creek, Spooky Row is full of the cutest Halloween motifs! The cauldron at one end... and my absolute favorite -- that little buzzard/vulture guy down at the other -- this is stitched in black, browns, oranges and creme overdyeds. Spooky Row by Bent Creek now has a package of embellishments! A darling set, it includes quite a few new clay pieces from Just Another Button Company. Notice the cute Jack-o-Lantern guy, and those new "Wild" pumpkins! Cute, each Row-Pack, dreamed up by the gals at Abecedarious in Atlanta, really adds a lot of charm to this series of Bent Creek Rows! The entire series of "Row Designs" is so much fun to have! All our models are hanging together in the shop... and they look great!