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Events &
Reminders
Jeannette
Douglas Join us Halloween weekend for spectacular class with Jeannette Douglas. Visit our class page for details on the class. You can sign-up there or by calling the shop.  Inventory Reduction Sales You can always visit our Sales page to check out our latest inventory reductions and shopping deals! Hours
& Parking
Mon-Sat 11am - 5pm Sun 1 - 4pm
On Saturdays you can park at the Hawthorne Suites hotel located at the corner of Pacific and Webster, 1 block from the shop across from Otaez Mexican Restaurant. The Saturday Farmer's Market runs from 9-1 and has lots of tasty treats! |
 I'm in charge of donated
materials for the needlepoint, cross-stitch & embroidery aspects of
Maker
Faire in San Mateo next month. We have some supplies left
over from last year and I've gotten a donation of some printed canvases
from
Alice Peterson Co. We need to make up needlepoint kits with the
canvases and threads we've got, so if you're a local customer and want
to help out in this way,
let me know. I need some volunteers to come to the shop to sort thread
and then pair it up with a small canvas, needle, instructions and bag
it. Any time the
shop is open we're happy to have you come help with this. If you
have any old small kits you'd like to donate to the cause, just bring
them with you. We try to keep it on the small side so it's not
overwhelming for a new
stitcher to contemplate working on :-).If you are interested in being a volunteer to teach people to needlepoint, cross-stitch and embroidery at the event, there is now a Volunteer sign-up page our event coordinator has created. You don't need any previous teaching experience, just a desire to show people how to stitch. If you're part of a guild and the guild would like to participate in some way you can have your guild members sign-up using the same page. If you're more of a knit or crochet buff, they're looking for volunteers as well so feel free to pass along the Volunteer sign-up page link. The show is open 10-8 on Saturday and 10-6 on Sunday and the volunteer time blocks are listed in the Volunteer sign-up page. The show is May 22 & 23rd (a week before Memorial Day so it's not over the 3-day weekend). You can check out Maker Faire on their website. For 2010 they are also adding events in Detroit, MI and NY, NY - so if you have stitching friends there they too can participate in what is an amazingly fun event!
 Mary
Frances has a beautiful knitted lace bag featured on the cover of the
newest issue
of Piecework, which we received on Monday. It's also featured on the
back cover in an ad for Finca threads since she knitted it with one of
their threads (we
carry many of them). If you'd like to see the bag on the cover, or one
she
knitted with a larger thread, come by the shop. It's in the oak cabinet
by the check-out area.If you're a lace knitter or know someone who is, many of the local SF Bay Area lace knitters meet at the shop the 3rd Sunday of the month from 1-3pm. You're welcome to come visit with them, even if you don't do lace knitting yourself! You can order the May/June 2010 issue of Piecework through our online magazine catalog. |
 If you are Facebook member, I
have finally finished putting together a Facebook page for the shop.
More and more designers
and shops in the needlework world are participating on social media
forums like this and I figured it was about time we did as well. Check
out the Needle
In A Haystack Facebook
page and become a fan (OK, so I know the new terminology is that
you "like" a page but it starts to sound more like a Sally Field
speech). We'll be posting information to Facebook as well as our
regular blog so you can keep up in whatever way
suites you. |
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I did order some new items from the
Online Needlework a couple of weeks ago. I'm waiting for delivery of
the some pendants from
Carousel Charts as well as
kits from Scholehouse for the Needle. Charts from Nouveau
Encore
Designs (beautiful alphabet samplers), Blackberry Lane
and Scarlet Quince have
arrived. I love the Young Hare and Lady with Unicorn -
Sense of Smell designs. Stop by the shop this weekend and take
a look at them. It will be next week before I have time to do anything
about putting them online.
 Also just
arrived is are 4 new titles
from The Cricket Collection. You can visit her website
to see all the details about them. They are
Picture Perfect, Peas
& Qs, Celebrate America and Summer. If you're a fan
of Vicky's work, as we are, you'll enjoy these new designs.With my last Alice Peterson Co. order I got some of the eBook Stitch 'n Zips that are blank canvas. So if you want to create your own design for your Kindle, Nook or Sony Reader, these are a great way to do it. They are $31/ea and the fabric on the back is either Black, Green and Blue. Just give us a call or stop by the shop if you're interested in them. |
 I've
made good
progress on stitching the back of my Zecca bird bag.
It looks a bit like a Hawaiian quilt so I'm working a square at a time
- OK,
not exactly one at a time but close. I've finished the lower right
square and have all but a couple of the Rhodes stitches to do in the
right middle square.
The upper right square is about half done but I got intrigued by the
tree in the lower middle section so had to work on it. You can
visit my blog to
see more photos of the
bag.As an happy iPhone owner I have purchased a couple of apps for my iPhone that help me with my stitching. Suzy's Portable Stitches and Ruth Schmuff's iStitches Vol 1 (from her Stitches CD set). Both are great references to have on-the-go. And while I own both in their printed form, sometimes it's just faster and easier for me to look them up on my iPhone, especially when traveling or in a class. Happy Stitching, Cathe The Floss Queen's Blog ...and Debi, Leila, Jennifer, Ali, Mary, Mary Frances, Caroline, Susan and Margaret |
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