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Christmas Last Minutefrom Sara Guermani One of 6 additions to our Sara Guermani page, this is super cute! Everyone has left all the Christmas chores till the 11th hour! The family Christmas tree is there in the car... BOTH the elves and Santa are doing their laundry with water heated on the fire! You can see everyone waiting around in their shorts! (Santa's are red polka dot, of course!) and... there are reindeer delivering wrapped packages on sleds. Finishing about 17 inches square on 32ct... all of these in this series make into REALLY NICE substantial couch pillows. Festive decorations to bring out every year -- just for a special few weeks! Coded for DMC, but she's easy on you this time - only 19 shades! | ||||
 Reproduction Samplers from Hands Across The Sea Samplers Here are antique samplers -- all beautifully re-charted -- so we can enjoy them again, for years to come! Presented in full color leaflet format, these publications are ABSOLUTELY LOVELY! The paper is glossed and heavy, the charts are printed in full color, and there is a bit of history included in each about its particular sampler. After you read the descriptions, you gain a new appreciation for the content of each piece and it's historic significance. If you can get one finished -- what a gorgeous heirloom you will have! Choose any fabrics you want -- they'll be YOUR samplers! Even if you don't stitch a single one of these -- these are so beautifully done! | ||||
Chipping Sparrow Biscornestfrom Crossed Wing Collection A cute play on words here, Crossed Wing has designed a birds nest pattern, and then added the eggs over one thread! To make it even more realistic, she then finished it into a biscornu-shaped pin cushion -- so it actually resembles a nest! Alongside that cushion, you'll see the bird stitched over one and finished into a scissor fob. For color and size reference, you'll recognize the little 3-1/2 inch blue Cotton Candy Scissors we have! Beautiful blues and browns of DMC in this, presented as a chart. | ||||
Noel de Souris from Tra La LaBy Tra La La, this is a fun little Christmas piece that can be stitched together in its long row, or broken apart into single mice and trees. 4 Different mice and three different trees, the wrapped presents add some straight lines to this... but don't miss the tiny red-spotted mushrooms!!!!! Stitch count on this is 191 x 81. You are on your own for color and fabric choices, and it might be fun to add Wisper or some other fuzzy thread to those mice!! Lots of options here! | ||||
 Miss Lucy Calcutt 1825 from Just Stitching Along This is a STUNNING reproduction of a sampler stitched in 1825. Finishing approx 15 x 22 on 36ct, the chart is coded for DMC or silk threads. The colors in this are beautiful!!!! Rich reds and greens, the border is pretty and balanced. All the interior pots and vines are organized and all lined up neatly. The red house anchors everything down at the bottom... and notice how those motifs are centered above it? | ||||
Dance Forever from Madame ChantillyThis is a charming design for a special little dancer in your life! By Madame Chantilly, this chart offers several different little mice all dressed up in their pink ballet finery! Cute vines on the swing, a pretty set of shoes, there are several ways you can stitch this... and the cover pic previews several clever finishing options. The entire picture measures 209 x 102, but the individual mice are just 52 x 61! Just precious, it is coded for DMC. | ||||
 A Trio of Designs by Fairy Wool in the Wood! This are some fun little designs we picked up at Market a couple of weeks ago. All three are charts. None of them go together or anything... they're just cute!
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 New from Carolyn Manning We have four new designs right now... here are three of them that catch my eye!
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Christmas in the Woods and Paradise Street! from Le Temps Une Croix
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Tiny Modernist's Year of Animal Fun & Frolic -- AprilThis month's small card installment in this cute 12-part piece features a little kitty dressed up as the Easter Bunny! His tiny chick-buddy is standing by... which would never happen if this was a normal kitty!! Part of a set of whimsical animals that would be cute in a child's bedroom, this finishes approx 3 x 4. | ||||
Oscar (The Teddy Bear) & Bord de Merfrom Madame La Fee We have two new designs by Madame la Fee. Presented in charts, each measures approx 190 stitches square, so they finish about 12 x 12 on 32ct. Always charming, her things all feature kind of a 'block format' so they make into very attractive 'medley' designs. I especially like that teddy bear one for a baby's room. Even though they are coded for DMC, you COULD stitch that bear in a little of Gentle Art's Simply Wool! AND... you COULD add metallics to that Ocean-y one!!! We know the prices on these are kind of high... I cannot control that... ... but I do know that they are charming when they are stitched!!!!! | ||||
 Stitcher Sewing Sampler from Niky'sCreations Nikyscreations has several new charts... I thought this one was pretty darn cute, and the picture is good! Charted for regular DMC floss, it measures 100 stitches square. If you do this over one on 28ct Mushroom Lugana (like the With Thy Needle Abcedarian Schoolhouse Series), it'll finish LESS THAN 4 inches in size and make a darling pin cushion!!!!! Niky has a lot of cute things... take a look on the interior pages and see what you like! | ||||
 Beekeeping Festive Little Fobs from Heartstring Samplery Beth's 4th chart in this series is here -- celebrating little buzzing bees! This is a delightful set of VERY SMALL designs meant to be finished into miniature pin cushions or fobs. (Since you probably don't have that many scissors for all of these... mini-cushions are probably the way to go!) Worked on Weeks 36ct Parchment (or really any fabrics you want) you can use a variety of trims and make them into lots of different shapes. This chart features 9 different designs that Beth has finished into berries, rounds, squares, and even a tiny velvet-topped acorn! Joins Stitcher, Valentine and Springtime Festive Fobs so far! | ||||
1726 Garden Pinkeep Kit & Ann Wright's 1726 Pinkeep Drum Kit -- Two Nashville Market Exclusivesfrom Samplers Not Forgotten I guess 1726 was a busy year for pretty pin keeps! Kimberly Nugent has a pair of kits that include lovely linens and really pretty printed finishing fabrics!
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 GROW! Our April 2018 Secret Needle Night Kit NOTE! This month's design is sold out... Thanks! Visit our SNN page to see past designs and sign up for future ones! April Showers bring May Flowers... and it looks like our little tin bucket planter is sprouting lots of young flower buds! The 4 x 4-ish design is stitched on 18ct linen -- over two, so it's really 9 ct! I chose Weeks Dye Works hand-dyed Pearl Cottons for bucket and stems. We are featuring the new JABCO Sprinkles as the flower buds! Your kit contains all the threads and linen and about 35 of the tiny hand-dyed Sprinkle buttons. Mona made a little standing easel for this -- easy to tuck away each year. Her finishing kit is offered separately in case you need one. | ||||
Christmas Quilts from Rosewood Manor Time to get started on this one if you want it for next Christmas! Rosewood Manor's newest piece, this measures 298 x 159 in stitch count and will finish approx 19 x 10 on 32ct. Worked in Weeks Dye Works hand-dyed flosses, it uses Rainbow Gallery's Petite Treasure Braid for it's metallic gold accents. Karen has lots of smaller designs in here that will make pretty ornaments -- just in case you don't have enough stitching hours in the day to get this entire thing finished! Deep and rich colors, it is very eye-catching! | ||||
Gingerbread Flower Shop -- #10 in the Gingerbread Christmas Village Seriesfrom The Victoria Sampler Victoria Sampler has another charming stitched gingerbread house pattern... this one is a little simpler in construction than some of the others... but just as cute. Offered this time as a COMPLETE TEACHING KIT of chart, all the threads (silks, perles, ribbons, cottons), embellishments (tons of beads and buttons), both fabrics -- the hand-dyed Gingerbread 28ct and Dark Teal Green Cashel linen and layouts for stitching and cutting. Along with all this, Thea has a YouTube channel you will be invited to join where you can participate in the 'class' and stitch-along! Joins the Tree, Stitching House, Church, Candy Cane Cottage, Bakery, Haunted House, Needlework Shop, Quilt Shop, and Retreat Cottage. She describes her new Flower Shop as 'positively European with its striped awnings and colorful floral display in front of the shop.' Along with the potted Christmas Tree and the shopkeeper bringing out a flat of forget-me-nots, there are more staffers planting out back. Lots of specialty stitches (the silk ribbons do well in the flowers!), each side of the shop is different. The entire building finishes approx 5 x 7 in size. The price is 'a little infortunate' this time around... I guess it's the addition of the fabrics and the whole stitch-along thing... but this IS cute, and worth a look! | ||||
Hannah Gilpin 1800from Stitchy Box An Ackworth School Sampler, this was originally stitched in 1800! Gorgeous meandering floral vines are surrounded by organized Quaker motifs. The alphabet is taking lessons from the flowers, so it's all over the place -- even upside down! Presented as a chart, it is coded for multiple skeins of only 5 DMC colors -- 7709, 3864, 841, 3861 and 3860. Change those if you like to some pretty hand-dyeds, and distress the fabric to give this a little age. The stitch count is 282 x 286 -- so it finishes approx 18 inches square on 32ct. | ||||
Ackworth School Motif Pattern Bookfrom Stitchy Box I love this kind of books. This one highlights 100 different sampler motifs -- organized by their most prominent feature like birds, stars, etc. We've lost the names for many of them, and typically most are shown only in half or quarter version on samplers... but here you get the 'whole enchilada!' No color key to complicate, and just one motif per page... it's simply fun to page through, and imagine that I will stitch them all someday! 100 Pages, spiral bound, 7 x 8-1/2 inches in overall size. | ||||
 Garden Vegetables from Kathy Barrick What a fun piece to stitch for a farmhouse kitchen! Measuring 300 x 251, this will finish approx 19 x 16 on 32ct. Coded for silk or DMC, it has so many fun design elements. The two side panels, all the repetitive charting in the center, not to mention the useful gardening information! (I just don't know what growing zone it references... so if you care... check into that!) Presented as a chart, this is charming! | ||||
 The Annual Set of Fall Button & Bead Kits from Mill Hill Here is this year's set of these charming 5 x 5 beaded and stitched designs! This year, we have some different designs... the Wanda'a Wands shop features glow-in-the-dark thread! All presented as complete kits of chart, DMC flosses, needles, Mill Hill glass beads and a button for garnish, along with a cut of 14ct perforated paper. We love to stitch these on either 28ct linen or 14ct aida and then stuff them into little hanging pillow, but they are also REALLY nice simply stitched on the paper and framed. (Mill Hill frames specified on the back of the kits can be special ordered... but we've seen some custom framed and they are drop-dead gorgeous!) | ||||
 The Smaller Autumn Harvest 2018 Set from Mill Hill This season's newest ornament-sized designs are here! Complete kits of paper, chart, needles, beads and floss, all of these finish approx 3 inches each. Year after Year we always love these! This time we have a little slice of pepperoni pizza! We don't know WHY you'd stitch a slice of pizza, but I bet this'll be one of the favorites!!! | ||||
Fresh From The Gardenfrom Little House Needleworks Here's a 'blast-from-the-past!' One of Little House's Limited Edition kits from 2011 has re-surfaced for a short while! (I think the distributor did some cleaning somewhere and came up with this little treasure. We've had a shop model for years that I couldn't part with, because I thought it was so cute!) Fresh From The Garden is the sampler chart, but ALONG WITH IT COMES THE PRESEWN SEWING CASE AND TOMATO CUSHION! Stitch the framed piece on 32ct Weeks Straw Linen, it finishes approx 4 x 9-1/2. OR... stitch the cute needlebook pocket design, that stitching finishes approx 5-1/2 inches square. Then, simply turn under the edges and attach it to the sewing case (THAT IS ALREADY MADE!), and you're finished! The open case in our pic measures 6 x 12, the tomato is about 4 x 1. TOO DARN CUTE! Anyway, the chart comes with the set of Classic Colorworks flosses called for, AND that fabric case sewn by Impie Hattie & Bea. Don't wait too long on grabbing one of these... I have no idea how many they found... but probably not too many! | ||||
 Unique New Things from Shannon Christine Designs Snow Globes for Christmas Here's a fun trio of charts with a Farmhouse feel for Christmas. Little snowglobes inside of mason canning jars! By Shannon Christine, each is charted for DMC floss and uses a bit of metallic for accents. Choose a light gray or natural color of fabric (your choice) so that the white snow shows up. Truck measures 70 x 68 (5 x 5 on 14/28ct.), Deer is 70 x 88, and sleigh is the largest at 94 x 56. These would make cute stand-up cubes. Midnight Sail This is an interesting design... is it worked on a white background, you filling in all that gray and black? The cover picture looks like it, but the inside chart shows a gray background with white filled in. I think YOU can choose! The rolling waves are the color in here... a super-fun paisley/flowery look to them. Finishes 93 x 93 in stitch count -- so about 6 x 6 on 14/28ct. | ||||
Three Little Kittens and Red's Tree Housefrom Ink Circles A pair of smaller designs -- new by Ink Circles -- I think they'd both be neat in a cabin retreat somewhere! Each is offered in chart format.
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 Animal Crackers and Crumbs from Stacy Nash Primitives This is an ever-growing set of charming stitched stand-up animals and smaller animal face fobs -- all presented as separate charts. Each is stitched on hand-dyed linen -- various colors -- choose any count you want. On 32 the CRACKER stand-ups finish approx 3 x 7-ish... Harrison is 10-1/2 inches though because of his ears. Cute and very vintage, decorate each with old ribbons and buttons... The smaller ANIMAL CRACKER CRUMBS are the little faces and they're all around 3 inches in size. How fun to tuck a couple of them into your ever-growing basket of stitched pin cushions???? Then add a couple of the standing ones in there too! Stacy has plain fabrics on the backs with a pouch to hold scissors, and you can see that Theodore is wearing a little thimble pouch as well! Such a neat set we have now!!!! | ||||
Rudolph Flight School and Backyard Visitorsfrom Foxwood Crossings Some cute new mini-sled and sleigh designs by Foxwood Crossings... we may be entering Spring... but if you get these now, you MIGHT have them stitched by next Winter!!! SUPER-CUTE and really popular, this is a line of miniature 3, 4 and 7-inch wooden sled ornaments. These are new charts to decorate them! All the wooden pieces are available separately, and we do offer a Baker's Dozen Special on them!!!
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Little Cloverly Bunny has Arrived!!!Just in time for Spring, Just Nan's newest Mouse in a House is here. (She is NOT included in any of our Just Nan Auto-ships) Presented as a chart with fun embellishments, Cloverly Bunny fits inside her stitched bungalow -- only a petite 2-1/2 x 2-1/2 x 5! We have all the details on our Just Nan pages... pics, fabrics, (there are three different ones called for) and Cloverly's story!!! She is ready to ship! Little Cloverly Bunny is stitched on Country Vintage Mocha Belfast. Finishing just like our Charming House of Lindy Mouse exclusive, this will measure approx 3 inches square and stand almost 5 inches high. It will come as the chart with extensive stitch and assembly guide, and Nan's special embellishments of beads, trinkets, ribbons -- everything special you will need. Fabric is available separately. Let us know if you want to be on the List for Cloverly!!! More info from Nan: Cloverly Bunny lives in a quaint little bungalow visited by lots of brothers, sisters and cousins. (It is a very busy abode!) Bunnies hide behind large flower pots, jump in watering cans, chase each other through the garden (sounds like out-of-control company to me!) and peek out the windows. When it gets too much, Cloverly hops up to her quiet attic retreat where she sits on her pretty flower rug to watch the sunlight dance through the stained glass windows! You'll find those 9 mischieveious bunnies on all sides of the bungalow, as well as flower garlands, bees, carrot pots (what else would Cloverly be growing?), and interested butterflies. Pretty wrought iron fencing around the garden... even the door handle is a little CARROT! Cloverly's dress has a clover border and long-stemmed rose in the back. She has a fluffy tail and holds a pink rosebud from her garden. Along with the charts and stitch guide, the embellishments include ribbon, pink felt. carboard house pieces, beads, pompom tail, Nan's signature mouse button base, and rosebud. Coded for DMC. Cloverly is not available without her darling bungalow. | ||||
 It's Beginning to Look a Lot like Xmas! from Thistles Well... thank goodness it's really NOT right now... but some places ARE still getting snow! Thistles has a super-cool new design that stitches up into a triangle shape that she has finished into a stuffed Christmas tree! Stitched on Dames of the Needle's Lush Meadow Dark Green hand-dyed linen... right now, we have 13 x 18 inch cuts of 35ct INCLUDED with our charts. That dark green fabric just makes this darling design present so well. Worked with Gentle Art Sampler threads, this is over-the-top-charming!!!!! It'll finish an impressive 13 inches or so, and will make a delightful decoration! | ||||
 Colorful Novelty Scissors by Dinky Dyes Dinky Dyes has a trio of new decorated 3-1/2 to 4 inch embroidery scissors. Perfect for a stitched fob or to dress up the inside of a sewing case, they cut OK... but are NOT meant to be excellent heirloom quality. Their addition to the world of scissors counts as *cute and colorful!* The color coating on the handles is a baked-in finish and will not fade or discolor. Choose from Pumpkins and Acorns, Ladybugs or super-delicate Christmas Holly! | ||||
 Spring ABC's from Little House Needleworks Little House Needleworks has send her next lonnnnggg and skiiiinnnnyyy alphabet -- all of these are just TOO DARN CUTE! Measuring a very unique 2-3/8 x 19-3/8 inches, it's perfect to hang on a narrow wall somewhere. All the motifs scattered along the letters celebrate Springtime! Coded for Classic Colorworks hand-dyed flosses or DMC's. | ||||
 This awesome scene is rolling right along, with charted panel #5 arriving this past week. (It's the lighthouse area just to the left of the center.) Each individual part of this whole scene measures just 3-1/2 x 5-1/2 on 16/32ct -- not really too big. You can join two or three of them together and just do an abbreviated version of the whole harbor... or you can still join our auto-ship, catching up on the first five parts and do the whole thing! When you are finished, it'll be 5 x 42 on 32ct... or smaller/bigger depending on the fabric YOU choose! It is so colorful. There are lots of solid areas in it as well, so while there is tons of design appeal and detail, the stitching is really pretty easy on you! | ||||
The Beach House Sewing Case and Scissor Fob from Fern Ridge Collections Fern Ridge has another whimsical set of stitched needle/sewing case with matching Peyote Stitched beaded scissor fob. Presented in kits with ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHNG you need to make them just like they are shown. I always marvel at all the little pieces and parts, all the fabrics, buttons and charms they collect in here, everything is labeled and sorted out for you. Pat and Peggy include color pictures of the finished pieces in their kits -- so nice to have when you're constructing. Short Term Beach Rentals folds closed to about 3 x 4 in size. The matching fob has breathtakingly beautiful beads, crystals and shells in it... it features a little sandcastle in the bead work. | ||||
 Sampler Note Cards from Hands Across the Sea This is a set of 10 super-heavy-card-stock note cards that measure 6 x 8 inches each in size. Envelopes included for each, they feature images of antique samplers on their fronts, with a charted design from the sampler on the back of the card. PERFECT note cards for stitchers!!!! Blank inside, you get two each of 5 different samplers and their take-outs. LOVELY! | ||||
Presenting Pin-Mini Sets from Just Another Button Company JABCO has made 21 sets of decorated pins to poke into anything that needs something cute!!! So many pin cushions and sewing cases out there... here are cute pins for them ALL! We have them all pictured on our JABCO pages... I chose little fruits, some seashore ones, and a darling chicken-and-the-egg set to show here, but make sure to see the rest! | ||||
Summer Liberty from Chessie & MeChessie & Me's Linda Lautenschlager has several new designs -- Summer Liberty is her new annual *house* kit! Absolutely charming this year, the denim blue house is stitched on Weeks Dye Works 36ct Confederate Gray Linen with Gloriana hand-dyed silks. Fabric AND silks are included in the kit. Finishing approx 3-1/2 x 4-1/2... you get the waving flag, the charming house, the little Chessie Kitty over one thread, and that GLORIOUS green yard. Just alternating blocks of Satins between crossed lines, it really has a lot of texture and just plays with whatever light it has! This year's edition one of my favorite kits of hers! | ||||
 New Smalls from The Purple Thread Four cute new things... each of these 'things' is presented in a small kit format -- with all the cool materials needed to make them.
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Santa Wine Cover from AB Designs Hey, this little guy companions Amy's Witch Wine Bottle Cover that came out last Fall! New -- you'll be ready for Christmas in plenty of time this year -- or maybe even Christmas in July! *Dear Santa... Please bring wine!* Stitch the little panel, then use Amy's felt packet to construct the darling bottle cover! Two other stitched patterns are included in the chart. Chart comes with set of buttons and pattern for bottle cover. The felt packet contains JUST the felt needed for the cover construction. These really are cute! | ||||
In Loving Memory from AB Designs Wow... this is a really touching design idea. Use an old shirt or pair of jeans from someone you love... and stitch a memory. *This is a shirt I used to wear, when you see it, know I'm there.* My Dad used to wear those wool plaid shirts like the one in the pic... I don't need to say any more! Presented as a single card chart, each design is small. Match threads to your garment fabric... just such a neat idea!!! | ||||
 Hoity Toity from Long Dog Samplers This is another of Long Dog's involved tapestry-like samplers! Stitched on anything light colored -- you can stitch all the black. (Or be NUTS and stitch the whole thing on black and fill in the white!) Full of gorgeous motifs, the entire stitch count is 197 x 282 -- so it finishes approx 11 x 15-1/2 on 36ct. It's charted for DMC or Gentle Art Sampler Threads. The cover image is digital, so you do not see the hand-dyed effects on here... but I imagine they would be stunning! | ||||
VERY detailed... PuntiniPuntini offers matching sets of pins and buttons. Directly from Italy, these super-intricate polymer clay buttons and pins are incredible! Actual piece counts vary on each set, but ALL ARE SPECTACULAR. Pin tops average 1/4 to less than 1/2 an inch in size, buttons are slightly larger --- but not much, most are about 1/2 an inch. We have Christmas, Vegetables, Sewing, Deserts, Farm Animals -- 17 different sets in all so far! I don't know how you can choose a favorite... I couldn't... so I bought them ALL! I've chosen three sets to highlight here; MAKE SURE to see the rest! (We can't believe the prices in these either... even if I COULD make these... mine would be twice the price!) | ||||
 Patriotic Shaker Box Set & School Days from The Scarlett House The Scarlett House has 7 new releases... I thought these two were charming to show on Just Arrived... all the rest are tucked on Tanya's inside page. Presented as charts, both of these patterns feature multiple small pieces to finish and tuck into a box of some sort.
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 New from Puffin & Co We have 5 new Needle Nannies, 3 new Mini Needle Nannies, 3 new Needle Threaders and 3 new MINI (beading) Needle Threaders! All are pictured on our Puffin page... We've highlighted the new ones for ease in browsing! The 5 new regular Nannies are shown here. This entire collection is made from copper, nickel and brass, each features a super-strong rare-earth magnet to keep it where you put it. (They drive us NUTS because we have them all hanging on our button wall, and the magnets are so powerful that they all SHOOT TOGETHER in an instant and cling to each other for dear life! Then when you try to separate them... they just jump to the neighbor on their other side! So, really, they don't stay were you out them!!! HA!) The little ABC Sampler House is the Market Exclusive this year... a limited edition. | ||||
The Lap Stitch Doodler FramesThese are the same idea as Doodlin' Around's other Lap Frames... but see how the side bars curve opposite those on the other frames? Some people like them one way, some like them the other!!!
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Here Lies My Needle from Shakespeare's PeddlerRemember that flier we send you every year around the end of January about the Japanese holiday that celebrates the hard work of NEEDLES? Teresa did this sampler to kind of commemorate that holiday! The Festival of Broken Needles! Theresa's sampler is charming! Stitched on hand-dyed linen, it provides a place for you to park broken, rusted or old needles... you can even leave threads in them from special projects. (What about finding Mom's needles still threaded... you could preserve some of them here.) *Here lies my needles, some bent, some broken some rusty.* Finishing approx 11 x 8, stitched with hand-dyed flosses, garnish this with antique buttons. The bottom area is a cut of Weeks Dye Works Red Pear Houndstooth wool.. isn't it pretty on there? Really a special piece for a stitcher. Presented as a chart. | ||||
 Jenny Bean's The Parlour from Shakespeare's Peddler Oh my gosh... you might remember this one... Teresa started with two parts of her eight, part three is now here! Each part is presented as a separate chart... this entire sampler is going to finish something like 4 FEET long on 32ct -- 170 x 810! Stitched on Picture This Plus's 36ct Wren... you'll need a half-yard cut. Shown here are parts 1, 2 and 3. Part One: Alphabet -- well, an alphabet! Part Two: Adam & Eve -- pretty classic as far as samplers go! Part Three: Noah's Ark. I don't think any of the rest of the parts will be biblical... we asked! Anyway, we HAD an auto for this... long ago cancelled that. SO... if you want to re-collect this lovely piece via Auto -- let us know! | ||||
 Letters from Mom from Jeannette Douglas But these can be Letters from ANYONE! Jeannette Douglas is beginning a lovely collection of small samplers -- all about 3 x 5-1/2 in size. They are sentiments inspired by thoughts she wanted to pass along to her daughter right after she left for school. The small samplers will surround this main center panel you see on the cover of the first design. Letters from Mom could read 'letters from Nana' or any other special someone you want to remember. For the next 12 months, Jeannette will release small sampler charts 3 at a time -- something appropriate for its season -- with a bit of Cottage Garden hand-dyed thread included. You'll need the rest of the flosses from your stash. She's described each month's design thoughts in this main packet, and they are just heartwarming. You can finish this project by making this first design into a fabric envelope and storing all the mini-samplers inside the envelope, or join them all together in the lovely main sampler. Stitched on 36 Platinum Linen, the entire piece will measure 17 x 17. VERY pretty! I think the smaller monthly charts begin shipping this May. | ||||
Journey Box & Mermaid Boxfrom Jeannette Douglas Here are a pair of charming designs straight from Jeannette's imagination!!! Both are offered as charts with thread and embellishment packs and wool felt finishing packets. Basically complete kits minus the linen. Each consists of the main sampler -- approx 4 x 6 on 32ct, along with three smalls that are under 2 inches each. You can stitch it all and simply frame the sampler and tuck the smalls nearby, or get that awesome little wooden tray shown on the cover to store everything. Each pattern comes as several pages of charts full of fun, specialty stitches, and lots of assembly instructions. The thread packs are full of exotic hand-dyeds of silks, metallics and cottons, along with cute little trinkety charms, beads, and buttons. Jeannette chooses the neatest things to tuck into those packs! Journey deals with traveling and features warm burgundy, teal. purple and green colors, stitched on 32ct Flax linen. Mermaid is worked on 32ct Star Sapphire and features aqua, coral, lavender and sea greens. Its wool packet comes with that little fish pin and the thread packet includes shells, a seahorse and even a few fresh water pearls. DELIGHTFUL SETS!!!!! Click to visit our inside pages, we have a TRAY TOWER to display these cute projects! | ||||
 Memories of Camping from Open Road Abode Needleworks We have found a delightful set of 24 cute and easy designs all centered around camping, trailers and little *Canned Hams!* Tucked at the Cabin, Camping under the fireworks on the 4th, or Doing the National Parks, Open Road Abode Style. We have several chart options in this series of "Post Card Patterns." Fun remembrances of summer and family vacations... with a 'retro flair!' All can be worked on any fabrics and although they all call for one color, you can choose another or use several. They are cute as can be! Here we go... click the pics to see them all! Some are presented as individual charts, others are grouped together -- 4 designs in one set. (NOTE: Not all of the charts are named(!) or numbered(!) so I had to kind of make up names to tell hem apart. Chart #1801 has a truck in it, but campers as well, so we chose the word TRUCK to identify it from the others.) | ||||
 Camp We'll-Be-Gone from Open Road Abode Needleworks Oh gosh... don't you want to be here NOW? What a fun little piece to hang at your cabin in the woods! Finishing approx 8-1/2 x 6-1/2 on 14ct, this one is charted for DMC floss but has some hand-dyed Weeks Dye works suggestions for the signs and areas that are supposed to be wood.You can personalize this with your cabin's name... just the neatest memories come to mind with this picture! | ||||
 Loads of New Offerings from Teresa Kogut!!! Teresa Kogut always has tons of pattern offerings... both Cross Stitch and Punch Needle Embroidery! We have 18 new offerings, so needless to say, I couldn't show them all here! Click our links to enjoy them all!!!!! Teresa does real cute punch needle designs... Bloomin Hens, Funky Chicken and Prim Santa are featured here. All presented as her line-art drawings ready to trace onto the provided Weaver's Cloth to punch. All of the designs are coded for DMC floss, and indicate how many skeins of each color to gather ahead of time so your dye lots match. NOTE! We have put all of the new designs at the top of Teresa's page. We reorganized that page last year, though, so all the rest of her luscious punchneedle designs are at the bottom of that page. We don't want you to miss them! | ||||
Holiday Quakerfrom Lila's Studio Well, just like her companioning Halloween Quakers chart... we aren't even sure The Quakers CELEBRATED Christmas... but we think they should have! Lila's studio has another awesome sampler full of fun motifs. There are snowmen inside one motif, mittens in another. Santa's boots are down there too. Stitched on a mangy Dapple Gray PTP fabric (or anything you want!), this is coded for Gentle Art Sampler threads or DMC, and it finishes approx 13 x 9. | ||||
Stoneware Snowmanfrom Priscilla's Pocket Priscilla's Pocket did another little blue design -- A Snowman -- for this year. The other three -- bunny, kitten and cat are just as bitty and just as cute. Little bonuses to complement her lovely stoneware patterns, this comes as a small kit of 32ct Tin Roof Weeks Linen with Gentle Art's Black Raspberry Jam hand-dyed floss and enough of Dames of the Needle's blue ball trim to edge your little cushion. Just cute... last year, they showed the little bunny stitched in several different pastel shades of floss... pink, yellow, mint green, lavender. Just find the ball trim first, then floss to match! So cute! | ||||
Crushed Walnut ShellsThis is what everyone loves to stuff pin cushions with these days... crushed walnut shells... also known as LIZZARD LITTER! 100% Unscented and sanitized crushed walnut shells, they actually do sell this stuff in big bags in pet stores as liner for small animal cages. We have 12 oz bags of it, (approx 2-1/3 C) which will generally fill two or maybe three 4 x 4-ish pin cushions. (depends on how full you want them.) It makes your fobs and pillows 'heavy to the touch' so they feel really good. It gives them a little relaxed weight. It is ground large enough so that it doesn't 'leak' out of seams. So... visit the pet store for a lifetime supply, or just get a bag or two of this... *enough is as a feast* | ||||
 Limited Edition Finishing Packs! from Lady Dot Creates Lois has compiled 4 limited edition packets of her glorious finishing velvet and trims -- coordinating the colors so you can finish multiple cushions or small pillow and have them go together!!! Her assortments include 3 different cuts (approx 12 x 12 each) of her hand-dyed velvet, along with lengths (about 24 to 36" each) of FIVE various coordinating trims. Her chenilles, rik raks, balls and ribbons are all in these... she made these special color packets just for our recent market. (SO... we will not have them for very long, as they are limited!)
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Hand-dyed Cotton and Wool Flannel for Needle Pages and Finishingfrom Lady Dot Creates Lady Dot is now offering cuts of hand-dyed 56ct cotton that is wonderful to use for needle pages inside your needle and sewing cases! The pieces measure about 17-1/2 x 18 and come in a vanilla (cream) color or snow (white.) You want these because the material is heavy and substantial -- not see-through and sheer -- and your needles will be very happy and safe poked into it. Not to mention how perfectly straight it is, and how nice it will look inside your things! Doctor's Flannel is also new. It is 100% wool, a yellower *natural* color. These cuts are 9 x 15... something else dreamy to line your stitched pieces!!!!! | ||||
The Pin Pulley and Scissor Hivefrom Lady Dot Creates Here is a pair of what-nots just for fun by Lady Dot. The Pulley features a felted wool pin cushion ball (assorted colors) decorated with old fashioned safety pins and a couple of old buttons. It has hand-dyed tape measure twill tape wrapped around its squatty wooden base. Overall, it measures about 2 x 2. It does nothing except look cute and hold a few more pins and needles! No assembly necessary. The Scissor Hive is a little wooden piece 2-3/4 inches in height. It is holding a small 2-3/4 inch pair of black scissors, and Lois has it trimmed with a bit of black checkered ribbon. | ||||
 Presenting our Spring 2018 FLAX! We've been wearing our new FLAX around here for several weeks already -- awesome pieces and colors this year! Three collections are highlighted:
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The Spring 2018 Issue of Punch Needle and Primitive Stitcher MagazineAnother lovely issue of thus BOOK has released... I hardly can call it a magazine because that brings to mind trashy make-up and weight loss ads, and recipes using hot dogs in 5 minutes! THIS is truly a beautiful publication full of creative original designs for cross stitch and punch needle embroidery. The pages are glossy and heavyweight. The pictures are dreamy, the projects are all laid out in 2 to 4-page spreads. There are like 2 pages of ads -- even those are pretty -- AND if there was a recipe in here... I'D MAKE IT because I am sure it would be wonderful! I cannot say enough nice things about this publication. We carry all the back issues... so get one or two from us if you aren't sure you want to subscribe. (But subscribing will be such a treat!) This season: 7 Cross Stitch projects, 7 Punch Needle. Enjoy! | ||||
 More Gorgeous Berries from Erica Michaels Linda Stolz has a stunning collection of stitched strawberry-shaped pin cushions you could actually poke pins into (Yikes!) or maybe hang on your Christmas tree! Berries for all the seasons, some samplers, some bees, some sea-shory with mermaids... she has a two different berries for each theme. Multiple stitch options for them... choose 40ct silk gauze or linen, or larger 28 or 32 linens. (Just because one is CALLED the *Silk* option -- it doesn't mean you HAVE to stitch that one on silk! And vise/versa.. the *Linen* charts CAN be done on 40ct linen or gauze!) The smaller versions (approx 1 x 2) in the pics are the silk (40ct) options, the larger (approx 3 x 4) are the linen pieces. Designs for each ARE DIFFERENT... study the pics a little, you can see that. *Silk* berry charts come with cut of 40ct silk gauze; *Linen* berries do not include linen. Hold on for SIX MORE yummy berries... all are here... ENJOY these low-calorie options!
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 Sisters Together from Erica Michaels *They laughed a little louder, they cried a little softer, they loved a little stronger, because they stood together.* Sisters/Friends. This is a lovely mono-chromatic piece that can be worked on silk gauze (not included in the chart) or linen of your choice. There is room on here to add sisters initials. Finishes approx 10 x 6 on 32ct linen over two... so pretty! | ||||
Spring Smallsfrom Lizzie*Kate Our final Lizzie Kate chart! The cute 4-season set of Linda's pin cushions is complete... and wow... what a cute collection of 16 little cushions! Various linens and trims... all are coded for DMC or Weeks Dye Works flosses. NOTE: We are busily filling your Lizzie Kate orders and backorders... UPS just brought us 22 more pounds of goodies today! You are all being so patient, and we thank you SO VERY MUCH! Please know that we are working diligently to get you everything your Lizzie Kate Stash desires!
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 Sarah Jane Grant 1845 Deconstructed from Summer House Stitche Workes This is one of my favorite finds from Market. Beth Ann Seal has taken a beautiful antique sampler and created three smaller pieces from it. A smaller framed sampler, a little two-sided needle mattress, and the best... a wooden darner pin cushion! All three designs are presented in her new leaflet, and for a LIMITED time, we will have the finishing materials kit available to make the wooden darner piece. The designs are all worked on creamy linens with silks or DMC. That little darner is a 30 x 30 design worked on 32ct. It becomes a pin cushion topper on the 4 x 1-1/2 inch wood handle piece. The darner finishing kit includes the wood, homespun trim fabric you see in the pic, the rik rak, beads, and tiny bee charms. It is the CUTEST because you can actually POKE this little guy down into your basket that has a bunch of other cushions already nestled in it! OR... it can lie beside a sampler in just a most relaxed way. Such a neat finishing treatment... I really like it! | ||||
 Springtime from Val's Stuff Val has three new Springtime designs and seven more for Halloween and Winter. Even though my favorite is the little cheesecloth and wool mummy in his wooden coffin taking a 'coffin break'... I'm showing the Spring ones here. You'll have to click on a pic to go her page to see the little Coffin Break Mummy with all the other designs! The kits come with the charts, embellishments, paper and felt backing. You supply the flosses from your stash. Funny Bunnies They are super-cute perched into the Easter Grass in your baskets. *Nobody fools the Bunny* and *Was the bunny that done it* are the facts here. Stitched on 14ct perforated paper, each finished approx 3 x 4 and features either clay eyes or felt cheeks. Tuxedo Cat and ButterFly both finish a smaller 3 x 3, she has included pin backs in these in case you want to wear them as pins or garnish a tote bag. They'd do nicely as magnets too. | ||||
Hope Blooms - USING ALL YOUR NEW 35 DMCs!from SamSarah Design Studio From SamSarah Studio this inspirational quote from Lady Bird Johnson has been transformed into a cute piece of cross stitch. Patti used the entire set of DMC's 35 new colors, and put every one of them into this design! It is shown on Stormy Night Belfast Linen... but we think any creme, white, yellow... (lots of colors, really) would look good with this because of the color variety throughout. Finishes approx 6 x 8 on the 32ct... GET OUT THAT NEW TIN OF FLOSS and start using it!!! Hope Blooms is presented as a leaflet. | ||||
 The Hocus Pocus Hats! from Blackberry Lane WOW... talk about a gorgeous and detailed set of pattens!!!! Marie Driskill has designed 4 *faces wearing hats.* Each is Halloween-themed, and TWO-SIDED. Her exquisite shading talents are showcased in all of them... they are STUNNING! Choose to stitch them individually and frame them flat or finish into 8 ornaments... OR make them into little miniature linen hats! She has the templates and instructions included for finishing options. 
Stitched on Weeks 32ct Confederate Gray, Pumpkin or Peoria Purple Linens, using about 15 different shades of DMC floss (which for Marie, is not a lot!), each face finishes approx 2-3/4 x 3-1/2. Just bitty things, but her charts are nice and large and clear! You can see the black display clamp in the pics holding up the hats... those are hand-made by Heart's Content's husband... so they are kind of special too! (They're on order, expected in two weeks) Six-inch black iron twisting table clamps! Get these patterns FIRST before you decide on fabrics and various JABCO embellishments, finishing wools, beads and perle cottons -- there are lots of choices here -- and you need to study them first. (You don't necessarily need all the add-ons) Here are the names for each -- remember, each chart features a front AND back design!
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 Presenting Seasonal Real Estate from Blackberry Lane! Relaxing at the Beach and Gingerbread Camper I don't know which one I'd like to live in more... I guess one could do BOTH! Marie Driskill has a pair of darling camper designs -- each finishing approx 2-1/2 x 5 on 16/32ct. She has a couple of small design variations in each of them... buttons or not, flags or directional signs on the beach one, words vs no words. Get the charts, then study your design preference. We do have a few JABCO buttons already for them. Lots of DMC shades (I have to laugh... true to an artists nature, the software dating at the top of the printed chart reads 12:57:40AM!), fun colors and such a NEAT design theme... you'll never find campers as cheerful as these little guys! | ||||
Jingle all The Way! from Praiseworthy StitchesPraiseworthy Stitches annual Christmas Village scene is here! Totally charming just like it's companions Churchyard Christmas, December Snow and Carolers on the Square, this finishes about the same size -- 13 x 18-1/2 on 32ct Picture This Plus Alchemy hand-dyed linen. The houses are really pretty, there are people and snow and ice and trees everywhere, and of course Santa on his sleigh to fill the evening sky. ALWAYS eye-catchiing and delightful to look at, you will love stitching these because there are so many small motifs you can keep finishing all along. Using 34 Different colors of hand-dyed or DMC flosses, there are 3 metallic filaments (5760, 003HL, 009HL) and three different beads (42011, 42043, 42102) called for as well. What a favorite memory to come to Grandma's house every year to gaze at this delightful stitched Christmas scene!!! | ||||
Beach Dreams from Praiseworthy StitchesThis is a fun loooooonnnnggg design that can be stitched and framed as a flat picture or finished into a round drum pin cushion! Another pattern with lots of design choices, this is worked on Weeks Dye Works Confederate Gray linen which comes in several different counts. It finishes approx 4-1/2 x 13-1/2 on 32ct. Stitched with hand-dyed Sampler Threads or DMC, there is a JABCO handmade clay button pack available that includes sand dollars, a star fish and lighthouse. FOR A LIMITED TIME we have a set of conch shell (real shells) topped counting pins for the cushion top, and a finishing kit of twine, Skirtex, puffy lining... all the stuff (except stuffing) you need to construct the drum. (So quoting pricing options here is a nighmare!) It's a real cute design, the colors and subject are just delighful! | ||||
The Short Stacks and Flap Jacks - Around the Holidays!from Hands On Design Sounds like a yummy breakfast meal is coming our way, but it's just a new set of pin cushion designs by Hands On Design! Cathy is doing a 6-chart set of super-cute drum and matching square projects. Oh Say Can You Sea is the first. You can see just part of the whole design -- that cute submarine floating by amidst the crabs and seaweed. She has the drum design printed on the chart's cover, so if you want to frame it instead, you can see how cute the entire stitched design is. The round cushion -- the drum -- the SHORT STACK -- measures about 4 inches in diameter and 2-1/2 inches high stitched on 32ct. It is trimmed with Lady Dot chenille and topped with the coordinating velvet. The rectangular cushion -- the FLAP JACK -- measures about 3 x 4. The delightful set of pins poking from them is an optional coordinating set (NEW from JABCO) that will be offered for each set of designs. 'Oh Say' is here now, the rest of the five in this set will arrive every two months from now on. Stitched with Sampler Threads, the charts come with enough velvet to finish one piece -- either the stack or jack. We're beginning an auto-ship for this cute set! You'll get the chart (with velvet), coordinating Lady Dot Chenille Trim and JABCO pin set each month! (We can't auto the fabric... too many choices) | ||||
Stitch Over Twofrom Hands On Design This is a fun little cushion design that uses two different colors of linen (32ct Straw and Linen) and a bit of Weeks Wool for the finish. The 4 x 4 cushion is joined together at the 'faux rik rak' seam, and features two fobs looped over the same cording that holds your scissors. Offered as the chart with bit of wool. | ||||
 Heartware from Heart in Hand Cecelia Turner has a LOVELY new hand-made stoneware pottery bowl that is a charming little ORT Bowl! Made by artist Christie Goodfellow, the bowls are just dreamy feeling. A soft creme matte glazed finish, each measures approx 3-1/2 inches across at the top and 2 inches high. It's a perfect size in your hand. Next, Cecelia is designing interchangeable toppers for the little bowls. *Land I Love* & *Bluebird's Nest* are the first two rounds. Presented as charts in her small card format, each design measures 45 x 45 in stitch count -- so on 32ct, they finish less than 3 x 3. (Remember that you probably have a MILLION smaller designs that size... so this beautiful little bowl will work for those as well!) Heart in Hand has finishing instructions on her website to make the disc lids for Heartware -- they don't wiggle around -- so you'll want to take a look at that. Anyway, CHARMING CHARMING little bowl, with the possibility of a million cute designs for the top!!! | ||||
 How Wonderful Life is... from Heart in Hand *Now that you are in the world!* What a CUTE birth announcement... or maybe just something fun for a daycare or classroom? ...or a bedroom... you get the idea! One of Heart in Hand's newest designs, this measures a nifty 27 x 3 inches on 28ct! (or 14.) Stitched with DMCs or various hand-dyed flosses, cute little flora and fauna are scattered along the verse. Cecelia has included the set of tiny wooden buttons -- 6 of them -- they are laser-cut flowers, a bird and a heart -- you can see them in the pic. Such a happy sentiment, it makes you smile! Cecelia has several other new things... I have them tucked on the HIH Main page and her Wee Ones page - click through to see them all! | ||||
 Coastal Cola, Dorothy's Discovery and My A B Seas New Offerings from Silver Creek Samplers Diane has 3 new charts full of her rambling words all interrupted with cute design elements!
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Paulette Stewart of Plum Street Samplers has 7 new designs! See if there are any that charm their way into your stitching stash! 
 We think she's into COWS these days!
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Noah's Christmas Ark II from Plum Street SamplersThe second chart in Paulette's 6-chart set of animal ornaments -- these measure just 2-1/2 x 3-1/2 on 18/36ct -- so actually small enough to BE ornaments! Get a fat quarter of linen to do your whole set, or use different shades for each -- it doesn't matter. Just something sweet and simple, they might be really fun made into little blocks instead, to make a few little stacks! We have an auto-ship for this small set that releases every other month... in case you want them all. | ||||
Pennsylvania Fraktur & Babushka's Bees from Plum Street Samplers
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 A Hundred Ways and Soul Sisters from Plum Street Samplers Friendship and Love... A matching set of designs with a neat shape and simple, bold font. A Hundred Ways could be a wedding announcement. Soul Sisters could be a really neat gift for a friend. I think you could make that one into a two-sided pin cushion -- each half is 60 x 70 -- so it could be a 3 x 4 cushion... or you could even stitch the floral band 4 times and make a little mattress out of it! | ||||
Lori's Fraktur Scissor Block and Fob KitThis is REALLY a charming little scissor holder... it begins very humbly as a plain 2 x 2 x 2 wooden cube with the scissor hole already drilled in it. You paint it with acrylic paint and might want to sand and distress it alittle. NEXT, you select 5 gorgeous antique print pics from those Lori has included in the kit -- there are 20 in here to choose from. Cut e'm out, glue 'em on. Seal with Modge Podge and your finished! THEN... find 3 more little blocks ... cause you have enough images left to make THREE MORE cubes! Kit includes the wood, images, felt and ribbon for fob and instructions. Scissors not included. | ||||
New Designs from La D Da! Lori Markovic has some unique designs releasing this next week at Market! (We'll have them Tuesday, March 6th.) Can't wait to see the real things stitched - in person -- at the show!
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 Microfiber Glasses Cleaning Cloths We LOVE these! Every needlework tote bag needs one, and so does your purse. 5-1/2 x 6 Microfiber cleans magnifying and eyeglass lenses beautifully -- even your phone and e-screens! They come in a 2-1/2 x 4 clear plastic storage envelope -- perfect to keep it protected. Images of old needlework... the scissor and pin cushion design is a stitched image in deep red shades. The sampler ones features images of antiques stitched in 1824 and 1827. These are fun and functional -- keep them around to clean the lens of your magnifier. | ||||
 New Hand-dyed Flosses and Wools by Gentle Art, Weeks Dye Works and Classic Colorworks We have several new shades of threads that will begin to show up in future designs. You can choose them individually in our clicky-boxes on each of their pages, or just collect them all together at one time NOW! We can guarantee that you will eventually need one of these at 9:30pm on a Friday night of a holiday weekend... or you will be buried under snow... and not be able to get out for days! Just be a good Girl Scout and BE PREPARED!
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New Reprints! from The Prairie SchoolerWe asked enough and FINALLY got the 2015 Annual Santa reprinted! They told me it because of SILVER NEEDLE that they did it -- they were sick of me ordering it and it not being available! YEAH! So... two new leaflets...
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Keeper of the Pinsfrom Little House Needleworks Little House Needleworks has a new pin cushion design that was 'done' for our recent wholesale trade show. Presented as a chart with 6 complete skeins of Classic Colorworks hand-dyed floss and a trio of Just Another Button Company hand-made strawberry pins, you'll need just a bit of your favorite fabric for the stitching. Leave off the girl, and make this square -- poking your pins into the space she occupied... or choose a pretty Weeks Dye Works wool for that cushion finish... we have at least a dozen different colors that go with the CC threads provided. | ||||
 Laurel Burch's Sun and Moons in Cross Stitch! from Mill Hill WOW, talk about color and bold design! Laurel Burch's artwork is once again presented to us in Cross Stitch by Mill Hill! Presented as a set of 6 kits, each is stitched on 14ct brown perforated paper (which you can change out to 14 aida or 28ct linen -- colors of your choice.) Bright DMC floss colors throughout, with those glistening glass seed beads by Mill Hill, these can't help but be stunning eye-catchers. You can choose the plain wooden Mill Hill frames featured on the kit covers, but if you have a favorite custom framer, USE THEM for these -- they beg for an involved framing treatment! Each finishes approx 5 x 5. (We have kits of her dogs, cats and horses as well!) | ||||
Deck the Halls from Blackbird DesignsBarb and Alma have published a DELIGHTFUL little booklet (4 x 5) full of a set of 6 stitched strawberry-shaped pin cushions. Stitch them flat and frame them, mount them on boxes, make square cushions... or turn them into delightful little linen stitched berries. All stitched on various colors of 36ct linen, each design (approx 80 x 50) finishes about 4-1/2 x 3, so when twisted into a berry, those will be about 2 x 3. (32ct will turn out basically the same finished size.) Weeks Dye Works threads, Barb and Alma's charming design style, Alma'a gorgeous pictures throughout the little book, and your stitching... a match made in Stitching Heaven! I just love it! Templates, assembly instructions and box finishing tips are all included. | ||||
And Blossom as the Rose from Blackbird DesignsThis leaflet is a collection of adaptations from an antique Quaker sampler originally stitch mostly in greens, taupes and creams. You get another delightful paper sewing box set, a family register sampler, a fun little drum-shaped cushion, a square (framed or cushioned) and a smaller upside-down box cushion treatment! Pics and charts for everything... lots of assembly and decorating tips included... Barb shows how she's taken vintage linens and laces found at antique shops and flea markets, and incorporated them into HER boxes. Just a gorgeous book of 20 pages... you'll want to stitch everything in it! | ||||
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?from Blackbird Designs A pretty 'found' Adam and Eve antique sampler is the inspiration for the projects in this leaflet. A paper sewing box, pin keep, the main house re-stitched, the main floral urn featured in its own cushion. There are pages and pages of pretty pics, and great finishing and assembly techniques in here, everything is worked on 32ct with Weeks Dye Works hand-dyed flosses. Barb and Alma have been busy, you'll love the pretty presentations of everything in this book. More ideas for using Flea Market finds to add to your lovely things! (It's easy to cut up someone else's old lace instead of your own!) | ||||
New Arrivals from Shepherd's Bush... Pictures, pouches or cushions... you could decorate the inside of a sewing case with some of this, stitch the travel pieces to scrapbook along with trip pics... or just THINK about stitching them someday!
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 New Designs from Heartstring Samplery
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 The New from JBW Designs Judy has 4 new small carded designs... Seaside Series III and IV, along with *With Love* and *Ode to Britain.* She loves her country French look and continues those in the little sea creatures -- you can choose any color you want to work them -- and any fabrics. With Love needs to be done with a pretty red or rose-colored hand-dyed thread -- it measures about 84 stitches in size... over one, it'd be gorgeous! Ode to Britain is fun... little motifs scattered all over in here. I'm not sure if it's England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom (which the Post Office says doesn't exist!)... but I've visited there and loved every trip!!!! | ||||
 Eleven New Designs from With Thy Needle & Thread Brenda Gervais is introducing 11 new designs at Market next week! There are two new series of Seasonal charts, and some new 'people' Brenda will start to feature in some upcoming designs. All of these are presented as charts.
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The Royal Gamesfrom Mirabilia The Girls have shown up for a evening of elegance and cards! Miribilia has two new charts -- Royal Games I and II. Just lovely... choose your ladies in their spectacular dress. Presented as charts, each pair finishes approx 8 x 12 on 32ct white, is stitched with DMC floss, and garnished with bits of #4 metallic braid and some glass seed beads.*Off with their heads!... Let them eat cake... Bow Down!... Kiss the Ring!* | ||||
SPRINKLES! from Just Another Button CompanyThese are delightful little packages filled with at least 35 tiny hand-dyed buttons that coordinate with each other and your DMC and hand-dyed embroidery flosses. Tiny hearts, stars, flowers, circles, triangles and squares.... none of them are large in size, but HUGE in cuteness and decorative impact! The JABCO team has organized 35 different color-packs, and I must say, they are a treat to see all together! Some packs are more mono-chromatic than others... I think you'll be able to see what I mean in our pics. Divided into three color categories, Fresh Colors, Neutral Colors and Organic Colors... I have listed MY thoughts (in parenthesis) on DMC color matches to each pack. After you've determined the DMC colorway, it'll be easy to match again to your hand-dyeds. Use these little guys to *SPRINKLE* and garnish pin cushions or sewing cases, or ANYTHING cute that needs a little button!!!! $11.50 per pack WE HAVE A SPRINKLE AUTO-SHIP! CALL US NUTS! It'll be 3 packs each time for $30. March will be #1,2 and 3,,, April will be 4, 5, 6... and so on. If you want to collect to help stock your finishing drawers... we're going to try an auto-ship on these! 3 packages each month for $30 (instead of $34.50)... we begin in March with packs 1, 2 and 3. April will ship 4, 5 and 6. May will ship 7, 8 and 9, and so on. (We cannot sub color packs for this.). | ||||
Welcome to the Forest from Country Cottage NeedleworksCountry Cottage Needleworks is announcing her next series of designs -- *Welcome to the Forest.* 7 Designs, releasing once a month for the next 7 months, the first design -- Forest Banner -- is larger than the rest and has a stitch count of 121 x 67. Each of the following designs has a stitch count of 59 x 67. There will also be a freebie border pattern available on the CC website as soon as this is released. If the entire series is stitched together with the border, it has a stitch count of 135 x 295. Choose any fabric you like, Nikki used 32ct Lambswool Linen. All the designs follow the same color scheme -- both DMC (12 shades from your stash) and Classic Colorworks. Design #1 releases the end of March 2018... and we'll offer an auto-ship on this set. Options include charts only, charts and threads, and/or fabric of your choice. If you want to do all the parts singly, we'll be sending your big cut of fabric with your first shipment rather than trying to match dye lots each month, and not doing a good job of it! Thread Set of CC Hand-dyeds: Snowball - 3, Jolly Holly - 3, Hazelnut -2, Really Teally - 2 and Blushing Beauty 1. | ||||
Pineapple Sewing Box from Abby Rose DesignsAbby Rose has made some hand-painted and waxed paper mache boxes that she has stenciled with a pineapple design. Then, she has designed an initial panel to line the box lid, and two pin cushions for the inside. Measuring 5 x 8 -- oval -- by 3 inches high, each box is lovely! Choose from Antiqued Brick Red, Mustard or White. Presented as the box with calico backing fabric and trims for the cushions, the charts and alphabet for personalization are also included. Choose a smattering of DMC or Gentle Art Sampler Threads from your stash. 1/4 yard of 32ct Lambswool linen is recommended to make all your pieces. Very limited in production, Gayle finished the boxes herself... and has sold out her release! | ||||
White Christmas, a New Series from Hands On DesignThis is the beginning of a new nine-chart set of ornaments by Hands On! Pretty soft whitewash and pine greens against a warm brown linen... these first three are all about the tree! (Releasing in 3 sets of 3 charts each time) 1 design on each chart, they are worked on Weeks Dye Works Straw Linen and stitched with Classic Colorworks hand-dyed flosses. You'll be able to stitch all 9 ornaments from a fat quarter of linen -- regardless of the count (30, 32, 35, 36) you choose. Cathy will be offering finishing materials for a short while -- the felt balls and cording. Specify linen count of preference. | ||||
Chalk on the Farm -- Fresh Eggs Farm from Hands On DesignCathy Haberman and Priscilla Blain are teaming up with a new chalk-art 4-Season series this year! Chalk on the Farm... Fresh Eggs Farm is the first -- the Spring edition of this set. Presented as charts, each will have a main picture with a smaller seasonal sign -- this one says Fresh Eggs. Choose your favorite fabric that is chalkboard colored (we have several different counts available) and Gentle Art Sampler Threads from your stash. We'll do an auto-ship on these if you want to collect al 4 charts... its an option... but you can always pick them up as we go along this year! Measuring 10 x 7-1/2 on 32ct... the smaller design is 7 x 3. You'll probably want to purchase a 1/2 yard cut of your fabric all at one time for this... so dye lots match. We can help with selections! | ||||
The Halo Lamp from Daylight CompanyThis is an awesome little lamp! Fairly new to the Daylight Company's Line, we have them in stock and really like the features. It's a little table lamp -- weighing LESS THAN 1-1/2 pounds. It folds FLAT -- 1-1/2 inches thick by 13 inches long. It fits in your TOTE BAG! (or between your clothes in your suitcase) It unfolds into a really nice sized (!) table lamp -- the 12-inch arm tilts, the lens and bulb top tilts AND rotates, and there is a protective cover over the lens. It has three daylight-balanced LED light levels -- meaning it dims -- with the touch of your finger. 6-inch low-profile base, that lens is 3-1/2 inches in diameter with a 5 diopter magnification (most of the lamps on the market are only 3.) You do need electricity to use it... no rechargeable battery system inside. It's clean, it's white, it looks nice, it's SO portable, we are very impressed! Comes in a little box -- 6 x 15 x 2 -- we can Priority Mail this baby for the 2-pound rate!!! | ||||
 35 NEW DMC Flosses... They're Here!!!.  The 35 new colors are being released in a metal tin. Once you take your threads out of it, it'll make a neat little traveling tin for scissors, threaders and needles! Inspired by contemporary color trends, supposedly these are going to match lots of our available linens... not much info on that as of now. These WILL be available OPEN STOCK... this means you can purchase any of these singly if need be.  (We will add them to the clicky boxes on the DMC page as soon as they have arrived.) The last batch of 'new flosses' came a few years ago in a boxed set and those are STILL not available singly. So... this is a lovely surprise!Color numbers will begin at 001 and go through 035. We have them all, and are starting to ship! | ||||
 Paisley Owl from Shannon Christine Designs Paisley Owl I fell in love with this little guy the minute I saw him! Presented in chart format, this finishes approx 7 x 8 on 32ct. It is coded for 16 shades of DMC floss with a bit of black, red and opalescent metallic #4 braid, and some coordinating seed bead accents. Beautifully charted -- a lot of the backstitching is charted in different colors. Fun, lively colors, pretty motifs... I think it's just charming!!! | ||||
 Out on a Limb by Debbie Mumm for Mill Hill We have a new set of 4 spring-y birds by Artist -- Debbie Mumm. Charted by Mill Hill and garnished with just a few glass beads, these are presented as complete kits. Finishing approx 5 x 5, they are worked on 16ct chocolate brown Aida with DMC floss and those glistening bead accents. Gorgeous, fresh, young and current colors, they are very different from anything else we have... and totally different from any of the other Mill Hill beaded things. Don't know which one will be your favorite... might want a pair! Kits include the chart, paper, flosses, beads an needle. The brown frames are available separately. | ||||
 Comme un Bijou Beaded Pin Cushions from Reflets de Soie We have had this dramatic set of 4 pin cushion designs for a couple of years already... but Isabelle has finally decided to offer each of the 4 designs in the kit separately! So now... you can get the kit which includes all 4, or just choose the few you like best. Presented as charts with pre-sorted and labeled petite seed beads, you are doing a half-stitch with one strand of white floss, and sewing on a bead instead of an X. No colors of floss... just the beads... fabric has to be 35 or 36ct linen to fit the beads properly. These are just exquisite... we have lots of them stitched in the shop -- frame them, cushion them, sewing case them... you decide! Each of these finishes about 2 x 5 in finished size. | ||||
 Biscornu de Victoria from Reflets de Soie This one is shown in Biscornu-shaped cushion... it measures 62 stitches square -- so about 4 x 4 when stitched. The background is all metallic gunmetal colored with lovely brilliant pink roses making a splash against that dark background. Presented as the chart with the luscious pre-sorted and labeled beads... this one won't take too long to do! | ||||
 Pat's Favorite Needles Designed by Pat Carson of Designs by Gloria & Pat... these are great little needles! Offered in envelopes of 25 needles, we have them in Tapestry 24, 26 and 28. What makes them special is the super-long eye they feature. Coated in gold -- so it's easy to see, something about these makes them dreamy to use! The #28's fit regular Mill Hill glass beads, and the eye is HUGE compared to beading needles. Just very nice to use! | ||||
 Announcing Just Nan's Frosty Winter Mouse in a House! Oh my gosh, this is so CUTE!!! Nan has just released details for her final Mouse-in-a-House series. (Spring, Summer and Christmas are sold out... we have only a few Autumn remaining!) Stitched on 32ct Stone Gray linen, each side of the little house is decorated with stitch details... and Little Frosty Mouse lives inside! Frosty is stitched on 32ct White Opalescent Linen... and he has a CARROT snowman nose! Presented as the chart, Winter House comes with embellishments. Those include the 12-page stitch guide, 24 inches of ribbon, white felt, chipboard for house base, silver crystal beads, white pearl beads, a silver bell, mini white pom pom, a lavender snowflake sequin, the wired string tail, brass button mouse base and orange toothpick nose. Just the cutest... read all Nan's stories about what's happening on each side of the little house!! ***If you were on our Just Nan Mouse House Auto-Ship you WILL get this WITH the linen cuts. | ||||
We have several new designs by Jardin Prive... a pair of long skinnies are showcased here... we have a third sheep medley design, cat lovers, a cute spool-of-thread piece, and a neighborhood of cute houses. Make sure to click through to our page that shows them all... cute stuff! Everything is presented in chart format and coded for regular DMC floss.  ABC de la Brodeuse from Jardin Prive' This is an over-the-top cute needleworker's alphabet by Nathalie Cichon of Jarden Prive. With a stitch count of 76 x 565, this will finish a whopping 5-1/2 x 40-1/2 on 14/28... all the way down to 2-1/2 x 20 over one on 28ct! You choose your fabric of choice to make this YOURS! It would be awesome to split it all up and make a ton of pin cushions... there are a bunch of little motifs and borders all through this. Charted for regular DMC floss, you could add hand-dyeds, buttons, beads, charms... anything you want. Just such a fun piece for a stitcher... hang it beside the door to your stitching lair! | ||||
The Needle Travel Guide for 2108For the 14th year, we have a new shopping directory (5-1/2 x 8-1/2 x 1 inch thick) of quilting, knitting, needlepoint, crocheting, weaving, spinning, cross stitch and embroidery brick and mortar shops in the United States. We are all little tiny destinations... full of the most AWESOME things! This directory is verified and updated every year... it is organized by state... and mapped out via state highways and the interstate system. You get listing for THOUSANDS of shops... addresses and phone numbers and dots on the maps for each. You just plan your trip and see how many wonderful little treasures you can find along the way! 595 pages of details and information, and there is even phone AP information for you to keep up with updates throughout the year!!! | ||||
Two New Samplersfrom Brenda Keyes of The Sampler Company A pair of samplers has arrived and each is charming. Stitched over one or two threads, they are coded for regular DMC floss. Each suggests just a basic cream fabric, you can always distress after stitching, or choose something hand-dyed.
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 Spring Chicks by Jim Shore and Mill Hill Here's a set of 6 different colored Spring Chick ornaments designed by Quilt Artist Jim Shore and adapted to Cross Stitch by Mill Hill. Presented in small kit format, these are stitched on 14ct perforated paper with DMC floss and garnished with Mill Hill glass beads. Each finishes approx 2-1/2 x 3-1/2, and what you are seeing in the picture is the front of each chick and an optional stitched backside. Little stitched eggs for your Spring Easter Basket! Complete kits contain the chart for both sides, paper, flosses, beads and needle. | ||||
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