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13 September 2010
Issue No. Twenty-One
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St. Charles Market Preview
We are pleased to give you a preview of some of the exciting new things we will be bringing
home from the St. Charles, MO Market in two weeks. If we know the price, it will be listed ~ if
there’s no price given, it means we don’t yet have that information.
Having this opportunity to preview with you a few of the new things will help me a great
deal. Your orders and interest will give me invaluable guidelines in making difficult choices in the
great shopping frenzy ... five floors of exhibitors at the Embassy Suites, with their suites brimming
with wonderful needlework treasures. How do I choose? With your help. So here we go!
Above, top, from Kelmscott
Designs: the latest needle
minder, “Saltbox Hill” $9.50,
with a black base and ecru
design ~ and, above, Cat Snips
scissors $11.50, in the black
primitive matte finish, 3.75”
long, with the right finger hole
replicating the cat’s tail.
Right, from Samplers
Remembered (Linda
Danielson): “Silver Sewing Etui”
The $34 chartpack includes the
chart and the lovely silver case.
This is an exquisite and elegant
accessory for your needlework
basket stitched on Lakeside’s 40c
V. Maritime White with Belle
Soie’s Red Fox, embellished with
Gloriana’s 7mm Vanilla Silk
Ribbon rouched around the inside
edges .
We are making kits that
include the supplies needed to stitch
this beautiful ensemble:
the
Lakeside linen, the Belle Soie,
and 2 packages of Gloriana 7mm
ribbon.You may pre-order and
reserve one of these as well for $26.
Other Kelmscott accessories
available and shown in the top
image:
Lace scissors $11.50
Mother of Pearl Ruler $10.50
Strawberry Hat Pins $10
We will have a finishing class
with Linda for this piece on Nov. 6.
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Designs from Mother and Daughter! ... Mother,
Paulette Stewart of Plum Street Samplers ... and
her daughter Breanna of Hodgepodge Cottage
Left, “Halloween Flags” $8
from Hodgepodge Cottage
Right, “Boris” $9 from Plum
Street Samplers ~
companion piece to the very
popular “Olga.”
Two more from Plum Street
Samplers:
Left, “Sea Hag” $10, with its
original verse (which I can’t quite
completely make out): “Red sky
at night ... Tis the sea hag’s
delight.
For she sings hoary
sailors from bed In their _____
sleeping trance. They are lost in
her dance Yet her crowns are the
skulls of the dead.”
Right, “Dust of Snow” $10 with a
wonderful Robert Frost quote:
“The way a crow shook down on
me The dust of snow from a
hemlock tree Has given my heart
a change of mood And saved
some part of a day I had rued.” I
love the redbird-topped trees ...
and the snowflakes ... and the
umbrella’d young lady ... and, of
course, the verse!
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R i g h t , f ro m L a d y D o t
Creations, “Sampler
Smooshie Cushion with Hat
Pins” $18, with very limited
quantities available. This 3”
x 7” sampler pincushion in
everyone’s favorite
Blackbird/Moda, sampler
fabric on the top and
coordinating fabric
underneath, comes with two
lovely pins. Pre-order yours
now so you won’t be
disappointed because these
will be gone in a heartbeat!
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Clockwise from left:
Three from
Carolina House Designs: “Colonial
Coverlet 1” $10, a reintroduction of
the first of a lovely four-part series by
C a r o l y n S t a n d i n g We b b ~
“Gillyflower Bag with Smalls” $14,
stitched on 30c Legacy linen with
Belle Soie silks ~ above right, “Happy
Christmas” $12, stitched on 40c with
NPI silks ~ a gorgeous reproduction by
Linda Danielson/Samplers
Remembered, “On Christmas Day”
$15, stitched on 40c, charted for Soie
d’Alger and DMC. We’ve been
privileged to display Linda’s model for
several years, and in a future
eNewsletter I’ll show you Gary’s
beautiful rendition of this sampler (he’s
working on the verse now).
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From Embellishing Bits: Below
left, two scissors fobs, Pumpkin
Harvest and Bee in Flowers, each
$10 ~ and above left, three sets of
Hat Pins, Meow Hat Pins, Witchy
Woo Hat Pins, and Strawberry
Hat Pins, each $10.
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From Kelmscott Designs:
left, Trois
Buttons $5/pkg of 10 ~ above, two samplers,
“She Doth Work” $9 , with an original
verse: “She doth work with her hands, in
the comfort of her stitch” and “A Magnolia
Doth Blossom” $8, with its original verse, a
bit of a take on love: “A magnolia, it doth
blossom for, oh, such a short time But thy
love will be forever as the beauty of the
bloom.” Right, Purse Frames $11/pkg of 2,
which can also be used as the top+bottom of
a bellpull ~ Below right, Hare Threadwinders
2.75” x .75” $8/pkg of 2. Belo w,
“Tombstone Angel” wooden folk art kit $10
with wooden tombstone, sampler chart,
trim, and finishing instructions.
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Clockwise from the upper left: four
from Aury TM Designs:
“Heritage Sampler” $15, a lovely
Spanish sampler dedicated to the
designer’s grandmother, stitched
over 1 on 28c (but can be changed
to any count over 2) ~ “A Wicked
Accident” $8 and “A Gobble
Couple” $10 ~ Medallion 1” $12,
stitched over 1 again on 28c ~
and four from Lady K
Needlearts:
“A Sampling of
Stitches” $16, containing 16
specialty stitches with detailed
images and stitch explanations, all
accomplished with only 2 colors
of overdyed silk ~“Tulip Garden
Tapestry” $14 ~ “Just Give Me
Diamonds” $12, a lovely
ensemble of needlework
accessories ~ “Daffodil Garden
Tapestry” $14, another stunning
tapestry.
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Clockwise from above: Two from Acorn House
Design, “That’s One Gorgeous Bag!” $15
using the new purse frame shown on page 4,
stitched on Lakeside’s 36c Sienna Night,
includes a tiny wallet design with scissors fob
attached ~ “Elf in a Box” $15, another
amazing three-dimensional design from
Susan. Look for her companion design in the
December issue of Just CrossStitch, “Santa in a
Box” ~ Two from Wendy KC Designs:
“Prrrr-fect Partners” $14, a great set of
smalls which include a “cat bed” for the Cat
Snip scissors, an emery pillow, a mouse
scissors fob, and a needlebook, and “Monthly
Musings 2” $12 ~ and two from Island
Cottage Needlearts: “Quilted Shaker
House” $7 and “Boo Boo Kitty Thread
Palette Prim Kit” $25, a witch’s boot that
minds your threads for you.
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From The Primitive Needle
No pricing information for these yet, nor supplies information;
just wonderful photos. Clockwise from upper left: “The Olde
Settlement” ~ “Flatheads Embrace” ~ “Halloween Garden,”
an exclusive St. Charles kit that comes with either 30c or 35c
Weeks hand-dyed Putty linen for $14 ~ “Annie Hyssop’s
Harvest Moon” Annie is a friend of Jenny Bean, introduced
at last year’s St. Charles Market ~ and she will have many,
many friends this year!
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More From The Primitive Needle
Clockwise from above: “Halloween” ~ “Old Game Board” ~ “Witch” and “1612”
From CherryWood Design Studios
Clockwise from right:
“Pumpkin
Tree,” 2 different versions ~
“Witch’s Checklist” ~ “Needle” ~
“Curly Q Witch” ~ “Halloween
Ribbon,” a Limited Edition
Chartpack that includes buttons &
ribbon ~ and “A Baby, A Manger”
~ I love this one!
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From Raise the Roof/Shakespeare’s Peddler
Left, “Halloween Towne,”
available as a chartpack
with the silks $28.
A
buttonpack will also be
avaiable.
The model is
stitched on Lakeside’s 32c
V. Pearled Barley and it is
framed in a Family Tree
frame.
Left and below, sneak peeks at “This is Christmas” ~ a Spanish
sampler reproduction that looks very intriguing ~ and “Jenny Bean’s
Friendship Sampler.”
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Left to right: “5 Little Pumpkins” $16 from Janie/The
Cat’s Whiskers ~ and two from Stickideen von der
Wiehenburg, with Dinky Dyes silk packs for both:
“Autumn Quaker Bellpull” $24 + silk pack $76 (we’ve
already shown you this a week or so ago but it fit in the
space today) and “Halloween Quaker Bellpull” $20 + silk
pack $50.
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Clockwise from upper left:
Two great new
contemporary blackwork collections from Seba
Designs, “The Ornament Collection” $16
features the 9 ornaments pictured above; a Dinky
Dyes silk pack for all is $26 ~ and “Biscornu Too
Collection” $16, its Dinky Dyes silk pack is $20 ~
“Diamonds for Christmas” from Janie/The Cat’s
Whiskers $18 chartpack that includes both
designs + the silks and ribbons for both ~ from
Tracy/Ink Circles, publishing this design for her
mother, Cindy, who also designs fabulous
Scandinavian-style sweaters, hats, and mittens
(visit her site http://www.norskneedlework.com/ ),
this one is called “Fjord Pansies” ~ I don’t have its
price yet ~ and from Diane Williams/Little
House Needleworks, “Belle Pepper - Be Merry”
was designed in the Jenny Bean’s Friends series. I
love this one.
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Coming from Blue Ribbon Designs
I love all of these. Which to stitch first? Help me decide.
Above, “Halloween with a ‘Y’” $14, stitched on Lakeside’s 40c
Tundra with Gentle Art Sampler Threads, also includes finishing
instructions for flat-finish ornament and treat bag.
Right and below, “Blessed Beyond Measure” $14, a very useful tool,
a Stitch Starter Ruler, + several design choices for the sleeve to hold
your Stitch Starter. Stitched on Lakeside’s 32c Strawflower with
WDW floss.
Left and below, “Frolic in the Foliage” $12, stitched on Weeks 40c
Beige with WDW floss. Finishing instructions included for the smalls.
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