Pre-Thanksgiving Greetings!

I had a wonderful weekend in Phoenix at Jean's Sampler Symposium. There were wonderful projects, lots of great stitchers to meet and friends to catch up with. We even had the opportunity to hand-dye some fabric under the watchful eye of Pat from Lakeside Linens. Thanks to Jean for a truly great weekend of stitching!

A last reminder about Jean's 12th Annual Silent Auction for Breast Cancer Research coming up this Saturday (11/21). If you visit the Attic's website there is information on the event and how to bid on items, which can happen right up to the last minute. The goal this year is $15,000 and we're hoping the goal is met and exceeded!

The Heart's Content Sale

We have a number of older charts and kits from The Heart's Content and we need to make room for all the new stuff that will come from our two tradeshows in January and February 2010 (yes, the new year is not far away). There is a sale page for these items and they are 30% off while supplies last. Current releases are not on sale. Visit our Heart's Content Sale page for the sale items and details.

What's New & Updates

With the holidays approaching we've picked up a few "fun" things you might be interested in for gifts. We found some glass laying tools that are really shawl pins. We asked the glass maker to modify them so they have a more tapered end for our use. They are on-of-a-kind and given the time to make these we won't get another shipment before the holidays. The needles can be used for things like sewing up knitted garments, although you would want to use them with care!

You'll find photos of the laying tools and the new Kelmscott Designs items on our Blog, where you can also order them.

If you subscribe to The Gift of Stitching there is an adorable Angel Cracker ornament from The Victoria Sampler. We have a few of the Angel Cracker Tiny Pack (TVS-TAP29 - $13.50). If you're not familiar with The Gift of Stitching it is a web-based stitching magazine that's been around since 2006. It is published monthly in PDF form and has some wonderful designs and articles. You can subscribe either by visiting their website or we also sell subscriptions and full-year back issue CDs for them. Check them out - I think you'll like what you see.

• Crescent Colours - Spring Social; Birdhouse
• Cross-Eyed Cricket - All Through The House, Berry Nice Indeed
• Just Nan - Snow Deer. This is a limited release kit for those of us who attended the St. Charles tradeshow in September. Supplies are limited.
• Little House Needleworks - Once Upon A Time; Believe
• Raise The Roof - Christmasland; Christmas Break

• Kelmscott Designs - Angel Scissors, Elizabeth I Scissors, Crown Needleminder

• Embroidery & Cross Stitch - Volume 16, No. 10

You can find quite a few newly released charts through the Hoffman Merchant Mall and you can place orders for anything in the Hoffman on-line catalog. You're also welcome to check out our other 2 main distributors, Norden Crafts and Wichelt Imports to see what's new or what other fun things are available we've not mentioned.

Sherri Jones of Patrick's Woods - March 2010

Sherri Jones of Patrick's Woods is coming in March to teach for the Bay Area Sampler Guild and has kindly agreed to teach a class for us as well. She'll be teaching at the shop on Sunday, March 21st. I'm just finalizing the class details with her and should have those ready to post before Thanksgiving. We are planning to do a project as pre-stitching and spend her time here doing the finishing work. More details to follow...

Society of Soie Surfine
...when only the finest will do!

Four of the five Society Member shops were in Phoenix at Jean's last weekend and we got to see the final version of our newest color - Olivine as well as samples of the remaining three colors (gold, blue and brown) in Series 1. We expect to have the Olivine available by the middle of December as it's in the process of being dyed. We're still waiting on the fabric to arrive at the dyers and once that happens we'll have a better idea of a release date for it. Visit the Society News blog or you can Follow Us on Twitter.

You can sign-up for the Society through us by calling the shop or through the on-line catalog. Be sure to specify which count fabric you want as part of your Subscription. We will be taking sign-ups for Series 1 until 30 days after the end of Series 1. So if you decide later to subscribe you can do that and we'll send you everything that's been released up to that point for Series 1.

Society Member shops are: Needle In A Haystack, Acorns and Threads, Attic Needlework, Stitchville USA and Traditional Stitches and any one of us can handle your subscription to the Society of Soie Surfine.

Thanksgiving Hours

We will be open our regular hours next week with the exception of Thursday, November 26. We will be Closed for Thanksgiving Day.

I did spend some time stitching on my Zecca bird bag while I was in Phoenix. It's a great travel project even though it is kind of large. I keep it rolled up while I stitch so it doesn't get too hard to handle. I'll try to take a photo this weekend of my progress and put it on my personal blog for those of you who are interested in it. I do need to go through my lovely projects from Jean's weekend event and start a couple of them as well. One can never have too many projects to work on :-).

Happy Stitching,

Cathe
Cathe's Personal Blog
...and Debi, Leila, Jennifer, Mary, Ali, Mary Frances, Caroline, Sherry, Susan and Margaret

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