Updated Thursday, January 5, 2012
SUPER FANTASTIC FABRIC SALE while supplies last....hand-dyed fabrics on sale for you...let's move some stuff from my place to yours. I need the room.
GO SEE WHAT'S NEW...
February's Angel: the first in a 12-month series of monthly angels for 2012 designed by me for Raise the Roof Designs. The chart is $6.00, but if you want, you can get this kitted with just the threads you need, a special cut of fabric, and the button pack/pins for $30.00. These are available monthly as kits -- only from me! But your local shop can order the graphs through their distributors. Sign up to get all 12, and your 12th month is free, or just pick your favorites. The squares end up 6-by-6 inches each, and come with finishing instructions.
All three parts of this sampler are now in stock! Get the graphs for $24.00 -- the threads are Weeks Dye Works cottons and Weeks Dye Works linen. A very cute sampler!
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The Free Chart of the Month for the next six months is the Elizabeth Milner 1848 Sampler that I own! I am reproducing it in six parts and handing those pieces out from now until June with each order. You must order something once a month to collect all six parts. Then in a year's time, I will be releasing this graph to shops and my distributors. I am not showing a picture of the entire sampler now...you can see just part of it. I will tell you there are owls and squirrels and strawberries below, and a verse about how women should be modest...ha! Here are the supplies you'll need to complete the sampler, which is 175 by 350 stitches:
- 1/4 yard of 32, 36 or 40 count Navy Bean Linen - Lakeside Linens $26 ($28 for 40 count)
- OR 1/2 yard 28 count Navy Bean Linen - Lakeside Linens ($52.00)
- Gloriana Silks Olive Grove, Hazelnut, Honey Bronze, Fawn $7.50 each
- Silk 'n' Colours Bronze Age Green $7.50
One skein of each silk will be enough to stitch on the finer counts; the original sampler was stitched on a 42-ish count linen. The only specialty stitches are some eyelets for some of the alphabets (but you could stitch those in cross stitch.) I thought this would be a fun way to give you guys something from me to you...and you can have fun recreating an antique. You do not have to buy the supplies for the sampler to get the graphs for free, but you must purchase something each month to collect the parts.
CLEARANCE: Just Nan's Glow, Grow and Snow Over The Top limited edition kits...I have a few of these rattling around in back, and would love to find them good homes. Original price was $37.00 each -- while supplies last, $10.00. (They come with the custom tins, embellishments, and some finishing supplies. The kits did not originally come with fabric/DMC floss.)
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Take this sale...and stick it! Until Tuesday, January 17th, Just Another Button Co. pincushion kits (listed below) are on sale 30% off the listed prices (only while supplies last of each). My pincushion baskets here at the shop are over-flowing, and I need to make space. These kits are very complete...you get pin sets, hand-dyed wools, buttons, stuffing, extras, and VERY THOROUGH instructions. They are not difficult to make -- they make great Saturday afternoon projects. Get as many as you want, but once a design is gone, I can still order more...but not at the sale price.
- Strawberry Pincushion Kit $28.00
- Cupcake Pincushion Kit $37.00
- Short Tree Pincushion Kit $30.00
- Mid-Sized Tree Pincushion Kit $30.00
- Tall Tree Pincushion Kit $30.00
- Mockingbird Hill Pincushion Kit $48.00
- Stuck On You Pincushion Kit $38.00
- Pin Feathers Pincushion Kit $48.00
- Carrot Patch Pincushion Kit $42.00
- Ewe Look Fabulous (Spring) Pincushion Kit $58.00
- Ewe Look Fabulous (Summer) Pincushion Kit $58.00
- Ewe Look Fabulous (Halloween) Pincushion Kit $52.00
- Ewe Look Fabulous (Ghouling) Pincushion Kit $60.00
- Sweet Pea $48.00
- "B" is for Beehive $55.00
- Rustic Rooster $50.00
- Shell Seeker $40.00
- Berry Delicious $46.00
- Celebration Cupcake $53.00
- Boo Moon $49.00
- Pumpkin Spice $44.00
Ann Dale 1827: Big & Beautiful. Chart is $30.00, and the silks set is $159.80. If you want to stitch it on 40 or 36 count Pear Linen (Lakeside Linens) as recommended, you can fit the piece on a fat half (the stitch count is 402 by 531.) The Pear linen is in stock. It's huge...monstrous...immense...and so gorgeous. If you finish this one, you definitely have bragging rights!
1846 Margaret Jane Leadbitter Sampler: This sampler is in the newest issue of Sampler & Antique Needlework Quarterly and is so lovely, but it was charted for DMC. I've done a conversion to Needlepoint Silks, and you can buy the set (with the conversion) for $103.60.The magazine is $6.99, if you need a copy of that, too. I LOVE that little deer on the right hand side!
The Kit of the Month Christmas Garden by Blackbird Designs. This came in mid-December...too late to finish it for 2011, but in PUH-LENTY of time to finish for 2012. But, I thought it would be much prettier in hand-dyed silks on Lakeside Linen, so...I am offering it as a kit in 40 count for $65.00 or in 32 count for $80.00 -- both kits come with enough linen and silk to stitch the sampler (one strand of silk on the 40 count; two on the 32 count.) I am not giving out the conversion, unless you buy the supplies. If you already picked up the graph, you can buy the kit without that part for $14.00 less.
The Fabric of the Month is Peppermint Twist by Silkweaver. It's a LIMITED EDITION color, and once it's gone, it is gone-baby. Sign up now for the Fabric of the Month Club -- they'll all be by Silkweaver this year, and if you get them every month, your 12th month is FREE! Quarter yard cuts are $21.00 -- half yards are $42.00. You do not have to be in the club to get the colors you like...you just won't get a free piece at the end, darn it.
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