Happy Thanksgiving!

As we get ready to celebrate a day of Thanksgiving here in the US I wanted to take a moment to thank each of you for being part of the shop's wider stitching family. Whether we see you in the store or in the virtual world, we appreciate your patronage!

Another thing to be thankful for - Jean's 12th Annual Silent Auction for Breast Cancer Research reached a preliminary number of $15,300! This is from a note Jean sent out on Monday: Still to be added to the total are the opportunity-ticket proceeds as well as monetary donations that came in, and are still coming! So if you wanted to contribute but thought it was too late, it's not. All proceeds go directly to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, to whom your check should be made payable. Additionally, for Item 254, Abigail Colby's Work Basket and accessories, the minimum number of opportunity tickets were not sold, so it is now open for bidding. The current bid is at $500. Bidding will close on Tuesday, December 1, at 5 PM MST. Please submit your bids either by e-mail or by phone (toll-free at 1.888.942-8842 ~ 1.888.94-ATTIC) to Attic Needlework. You can visit their website to see the workbasket.

 
Sherri Jones of Patrick's Woods - March 2010

We have finalized the project that Sherri Jones of Patrick's Woods will be teaching for us Sunday, March 21. Her Mermaid's Two Tales is a great project not only to stitch but to learn how to finish. We'll be doing this as a pre-stitched piece so that we can spend the day of the class actually putting the clam shell purse together. When you sign-up the entire fee is due and we'll send you the stitching portion of the kit. The finishing portion will be handed out at the class in March. You can sign-up online or by calling the shop. Your credit card will not be charged until we ship the pre-stitching portion of the kit to you - sometime in early December. Come join us for what should be a very fun day.

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

I keep forgetting to mention that for those of you who are interested in solid colors of Soie Surfine we've been able to get more. There are not a lot of solid colors available but we have gotten a number of lovely colors in stock. You can see them on our AVAS Soie Surfine page in the online catalog. The stitched sample is with Soie Surfine #013 and is the letter J from The Heart's Content Splendor XV. It is stitched over one on 40 count Graziano linen.

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.

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We will be closed tomorrow so all of the NIAH staff can celebrate Thanksgiving. But we'll be open again on Black Friday - so if you need respite from the holiday crowds come visit us, have a cup of tea and perhaps do a little stitching or some quite shopping. Have a great holiday!

Happy Stitching,

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

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