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The Land of Cockayne Here's another full and busy piece by Juls. She has fascinating stories on the backs of her pieces... this one is about the 16th century fictional utopia - Cockayne. Joining all the others we have like this one, you'll need to get lots of your favorite color of thread, and have plenty of patience. It measures 257 x 292 - just 14 x 16 on 36ct! Chart runs $23.50 - click through to go see the rest like it!
The Lady Garden and Leave a Kiss Two more involved monochromatic pieces by Long Dog! If you like these... add two more to your stitching schedule! The Lady Garden measures 205 x 242 - it's full of flowers and a few tiny garden creatures like rabbits, squirrels, and birds. Change the blue color if yu want - any single varigated hand-dyed color - or a pair of two close shades - would be fun on this. Leave a Kiss measures 227 x 190. The verse on this became a popular song in ale houses and bawdy taverns throughout Merri England - particularly around closing time when beer and ale had been flowing freely since lunchtime! That center area is about 130 x 40 - plenty of room in there to change out and personalize with anything else your heart desires! Most of the Long Dogs are worked on a white-ish background, with colors of thread. This one is reversed - darker fabric, with white or creamy thread. Makes it look more like lace. Check your stash for possibilities, or we can send you something fun!
New Arrivals from Long Dog Samplers Here are three more intricate designs by Long Dog - just for stitching FUN! Always done with one color of thread... always these intricate patterns with hidden motifs. Never fast to do, but that's not the point! Variant of Interest measures 194 x 424 - so 11 x 24 on 18/36ct. The Queen of Hearts is smaller at 157 x 197 - so about 9 x 11. Fish 'n Ships is 187 x 212 - 10 x 12. Grab your favorite thread colors and get busy!
Just a Few New Intense-stitches Actually kind of fun to work on - because you're usually using just one color of solid or hand-dyed, the trick to these is not losing your place on the chart OR your fabric! Easy Breezy, right? Gone to Pieces is 170 x 256 and does use color - it's coded for Gentle Art hand-dyeds or DMC. It's full of tiny animals everywhere! Tap Dancers - Measures 211 x 265 - more animals tucked everywhere - this one has dancers everywhere too! She gives you thread usage charts to help you purchase enough of a dye-lot of thread for a project - this one would use 18 skeins of DMC if you stitched it on 14ct! Before I Sleep - Measures 251 x 327 - I think I would probably HAVE trouble sleeping if this were my current project! It's beautiful, full of birds and dogs and trees... and the software tells us that there are 30, 630 stitches in this - and you would need only 21 skeins of the same color to do it!
You Belong To Me, Lo & Behold, The Pointed Fifth and When The Stars Reply Ok, all you stitchers that LOVE these intricate monochromatic pieces with a MILLION stitches in them! Presenting 4 new designs by Long Dog Samplers to ENSURE you will never catch up on doing everything you want to stitch! Each of these is presented in chart format, and coded for just one color. Choose you favorite fabric and thread and see what you can do! The charts do tell you estimated thread usage based on fabric counts... just make sure to get all your threads at the same time so your dye lots match. To see better detail, click through and look at the larger images. You Belong to Me measures 253 x 313. It's fun finding all the animals in here. Lo & Behold measures 312 x 370. A huge story behind this piece is featured on the back cover of the chart... about two brothers who live in the house, and turn their estate into a safari park! Quinto Acuto - The Pointed Fifth is 353 x 352. Referring to a specificly-measured Gothic-style arch, there are over a hundred little 'varmints of all shapes and sizes' crammed within these pointed archways. When The Stars Reply measures 204 x 229. It features a style of decorative needlework panels stitched a lot in Dutch Samplers.
Pandemic! Well, I'd say so! Long Dog has a new piece entitled Pandemic! Something to 'calm your stitching nerves' during the pandemic? Whip up this intricate beauty while you're staying home to stitch! Stitch count is 365 x 429 - so it'll finish approx 20 x 24 on 36ct. Jools talks about the nature and symptoms of a Cross Stitch Pandemic - the pathways to transmission and symptoms to watch out for. She gives the stitcher instruction on how to deal with the Stitching Disease - the entire back page of the chart is just a delight to read! Meanwhile, grab your favorite fabric and choose some threads... and try to ride it out working on this design! Presented as a chart.
ANZAK and Pavae for These Times We have received two new single-color chart designs by Long Dog Samplers this week! Stitch them on whatever you like, and use the color YOU want... or a bunch of different ones! ANZAK stands for Australians and New Zealanders Adore Krosstitch! So... if you study this a little, you'll find all sorts of charming animals and motifs - all of them make up this cool design! Measuring 233 x 243, it'll finish 13 inches on 18/36ct. Pavane for These Times A Dance for These Times offers advice in its verse: Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you. Measures 199 x 235.
The Pilgrim Dare to dream, the completion of my labors leaves me with a joyful heart. Measuring 305 x 367 - 19 x 23 on 32ct - this is coded for only one color of thread. It is FULL of animals. Lots of positive and negative with the two colors, lots of detail... I'm not sure what it all means, but it LOOKS neat! The border of acorns running through this - in several directions - looks like little hanging bugs - can you see them?!
Game of Swannes Long Dog Samplers has a new design, this one measures 187 x 251 - so approx 10 x 14 on 18/36ct. Stitched with Gentle Art Sampler Threads or DMC, the colors are really pretty - Antique Rose, Caramel Corn, Endive, Briar Rose, Nutmeg, Gold Leaf... there are 12 in all. Jools has some bits of Swan History and Trivia on the chart... I didn't know that swans are the property of the Monarch and can not be privately owned without permission. There are annual 'swan-uppings'... and the collective name for a gathering of swans is a 'game.' (Like a flock of birds, gaggle of geese, pack of wolves... (Who knew!) Anyway, busy and full of charm like some of her other design we carry... can you see that the rabbits are wearing crowns in here?
QUILTZ This is a super-fun sampler by Long Dog that features multiple village scenes, quilt motifs, and cute repeating motif borders. It measures 130 x 298 -- 9 x 21 on 28ct -- and is coded for DMC or Gentle Art Sampler Thread hand-dyed floss. You can do a lot with this. Break it all apart, make small cushions, whatever! Quiltz was designed 'with a gentle nod of recognition and admiration for Pennsylvania Dutch Samplers.' A cute note inside the chart from the designer, she says you might be really sick of this by the time you put in the last stitch... but that might be better than sitting with the whole family in the 'stove room' every evening in the olden days! Presented as a chart.
Hoity Toity 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!
Death By Cross Stitch and Life After Death Here's a pair of pieces by Long Dog Samplers... we've had the 'Death By' one for a while... but 'Life After' is the new companion. Choose a single color you like -- solid or hand-dyed, cotton or silk -- the patterns give you yardage requirements to help you get enough matching thread. Actually, the charts are quite clear and easy to read, and if you choose an over-dyed thread with a little color variation in it, these will be stunning! Also choose any fabric YOU want to use... that will determine the finished sizes of these. Lovely motifs all over the place in these, you can go crazy just studying them!!! Huge in finished size, Life After has a stitch count of 372 x 325 -- so 21 x 18 on 36. Death By measures 363 x 447.
Cardinal Points by Long Dog Samplers for The Gentle Art Long Dog Samplers created this piece using Gentle Art Sampler Threads -- kind of as a promo piece for Nancy at The Gentle Art. The verse reads: *The Gentle Art of a Needlewoman lies embodied in her work.* Super colorful and very pretty, I like all the small repeating motifs everywhere -- and all the balance in the border. Coded for 24 different colors of Sampler Threads over-dyed floss, this finishes approx 12-1/2 inches square and the pic on the front of the chart was worked on good old 18ct AIDA! So choose any fabric you like and stitch away!!!