 Updated Thursday, May 10, 2012
JUST UPDATED... 
 May's Angel: Each angel chart is $6.00, but if you want, you can get them kitted with just the threads you need, a special cut of fabric, and the button pack/pins for $30.00 (yes, all kits this year will be $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.  Gentle Stitches/A Stitcher's Heart: by ME and by my friend Diane from Little House Needleworks. We designed this set of patterns for Hoffman Distributing, and you can get both patterns, the finishing instructions AND the flosses and ric-rac for $30.00 (you'll need 32 count Porcelain and Sand Dune linen...or just use some fabric from your stash.) We were very proud of this offering -- so sweet! Check out my Shakespeare's Peddler Facebook page. If you're on Facebook, simply type Shakespeare's Peddler in your search window, and I should pop up. You can join the page to keep up on what's going on around here, see my reproductions, antique samplers and original designs, and hear about what the cat dragged in. Not on Facebook? Catch me on my Blog at www.shakespearespeddler.blogspot.com.
The Free Chart of the Month for the first six months of 2012 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:
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. Did you miss a month? No worries! For a $2.00 donation to our local animal shelter (I will add it to your bill), I will send you the month that you missed with any order. |
The Kit of the Month is "Mother's Garden" by Blackbird Designs. The kit comes with hand-dyed 30 count Irish Cream linen by R&R Reproductions, threads by Crescent Colours and The Gentle Art, and the graph. $40.00.
The Fabric of the Month is "Sand" by Silkweaver. Sign up 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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