Acorn & Berry Motif

2008 Santa

Peacock's Rule

New charts (either we've recently received or on their way to us):

• Bent Creek - Big Zipper Tire Swing, Baby Ewe
• Calico Crossroads - Great Purrformance
• Cross Eyed Cricket - Rich Praise, Witch's Moon, Bone Appetit
• Dames of the Needle/Finger Work - Autumn Abundance, Spring Tulip, Summer Flowers, Country Garden Box, Token Presentation Purse, The Sampler Purse
• Homespun Elegance - Delivering Needlewares, Home is Where your Hang Your Needlework, Joyful Autumn, Stitching Necessaire
• JBW - A Very Merry Autumn, A Very Merry Summer, Autumn Harvest, French Country Christmas Alphabet, Christmas Tree, Love & Joy Stockings
• La-D-Da - Poppy Clock
• Little House Needleworks - Little House Neighborhood, Yesteryear, Chocolate Box, Queen Bee, Strawberry House
• Milady's Needle - Peacocks Rule, Regal Sampler, Le Jardin, Quaker Pin Cushions
• Needleprint - Amager Panel 1799
• Nora Corbett - a new series of illustrated Fairie letters. We have A through F.
• Shepherd's Bush - My Mom's Garden
• The Needle's Prayse - Berry Motif, Acorn & Berry Motif
• The Prairie Schooler - 2008 Santa, When Witches Go Riding, November, December, Santas & Snowmen
• The Trilogy - Happy Home Home Day, Patriotic Lineup
• The Sweetheart Tree - Tiny Tykes Teddy, Teenie Christmas Basket
• The Workbasket - Maze, Quaker Peacock & House, Sunflower House, Swan Roundel

You can see most of these via the Hoffman Distributing Merchant Mall catalog. If you go the New Books section you can see what they added in any month and we pick up a number of those new designs. Or you can order one you might not have seen mentioned.

We also have new issues of Cross-Stitch & Needlework, Tea Time, Embroidery & Cross-Stitch and Sampler & Antique Needlework Quarterly.

At the show in January we ordered 3 hand-made frames that are paired with specific needlepoint canvases (from Maggie Co. & Ewe & Eye). They arrived last week and are too fun for words. These are definitely unique pieces (click on the thumbnail for a larger photo).

Sister Mary Merlot 18 mesh Canvas - $78 Frame - $190

10 Table Manners 18 mesh Canvas - $245 Frame - $225

Sarah Spurr 18 mesh Canvas - $115 Frame - $190

As I mentioned in the last newsletter, Tracy from Ink Circles has released a very unique multi-part project that's available for free from her website. It's called the Book of Ink Circles - more commonly called BoInk. If you like Celtic designs this is a fabulous piece you should check out.

The charts will be released only on her website and you pick the fabric and thread colors. I'm planning to set up a stitch group in the fall for the project so those interested can get together and work on it in a group setting. If you're interested in a BoInk Stitch Group, let me know. Be sure to check out the Ink Circles website and download your copy today. We have lots of fabric and threads to choose from for this unique piece. I have progressed as far as printing out the current charts and putting them in binder. Next up will be fabric and thread selection!

If you have not already purchsaed the Just Nan limited edition kits Barnabee's Bride or the Gilded Dragonfly we still have a few left. We keep reordering the silk threadpacks for the Gilded Dragonfly so if we will order more as needed. You can order the kit or the extra dragonfly charms through our on-line catalog.

We have sold out of last year's Lady Scarlet's Secret Garden as well as our allotment of the Over The Top tin series.

We are continuing to take pre-orders for the Just Cross-Stitch 2008 Ornament issue. We did receive the September/October 2008 issue last week, which features a new Halloween segment. You can pre-order the Ornament issue or order any of the current issues through our on-line catalog.

Blackbird Designs - booklets #29 - 31 are out now for the 2008 Loose Feathers Club and there will be 3 more this year. We are doing an auto for this and you can sign-up for the auto either through the on-line catalog or by giving us a call. We also do fabric and thread for the designs as well so you can purchase a silk or cotton thread pack. We'll hand match the silk colors to the cotton ones the design calls for. Signing up will start you with the first booklet (#29) and will continue for all six booklets.