So much news...new month, new specials. I'm also extending the Summer (Cyber) Sidewalk Sale through July 10th (next Friday). For many of the listed items, I'm down to my last lonely one, and would like to give everyone a chance to snap them up (in case you spent June gardening or hiding from the heat, rain, locusts, or other unpleasantness.) I also just updated Theresa's Basket.

Here is the newest Loose Feathers graph from Blackbird Designs..."It's Berry Time." The kit is just $35.00 (includes chart, threads, hand-dyed 30 count linen.) You also get a cute little chart to make a strawberry emery as shown. Supplies for the emery are just $8.50.

And... a new chart from me! -- Count Your Blessings. This calls for the Autumn Pack of Sampler Threads by The Gentle Art (just six bucks for six skeins!) and 40 count French Vanilla by R&R Reproductions (a custom-cut piece is $7). If you want the whole kit -- it's $19! Frames are on order from Crescent Colours -- and you can reserve one. The stitch count is just 72 by 75, so it stitches up quick and easy. Would make a cute pincushion, fob, ornament, or box cover, too.

THREE NEW AUTOS

Samsarah's Alphabet Baubles: This series is so cute, but my customers have been hesitant to start something that might require 26 frames or lots of finishing. I thought about it, and this last week stitched the series up to H (I will be out soon.) By doing these on the same fabric as called for, and choosing four squares from each plus the alphabet box for each letter, it's a sampler that will be perfect in ONE frame or finished inexpensively as a bellpull. Charts are $5/letter. Letter buttons are $1.40 each. You'll need a 10 by 34 inch piece of the fabric to finish it ($20.40). And each one uses various and sundry Weeks Dye Works and Sampler Threads colors. I've done a little subbing here and there (if I didn't have a color at home, I just used something I did!) Very cute. Really fun to stitch, and quick. A great sit-and-watch-TV-while-stitching project, and this would be SUPER cute in a kids' room, daycare, or in your cheeriest corner. Yes, you can join this as an auto, and I can send you what you need as they come out. (Mine looks a little wrinkled, because it's just a loose piece yet...but isn't it ADORABLE?)

Updated July 3, 2009

Winter Wonderland is new from Country Cottage Needleworks and Crescent Colours. Each of the five chart packs comes with the chart and plenty of silk to stitch on 28 count linen (but feel free to stitch it smaller!) You'll need a quarter yard of Light Exemplar Linen from Lakeside Linens (choose your count). Sign up for the auto and get these as they come out. The frame is available for $56.00 (for 28 count. Prices different for smaller frames.) Pattern packs are $14 each.

And boy, it must be late in the year, because here's another piece to stitch for winter (I need the cool feelings right now, because it'll be 100 here today!) Lizze Kate has Christmas Double Flips. This one is stitched in Weeks Dye Works on 32 count Natural Belfast. There will be FOUR graphs total (each one will have a quarter of the full pattern for $8 -- meaning either four letters, or three letters and a scene), and will come with buttons. Again, I can set you up for an auto for this. If you get the auto, I'll send you a free Lizzie Kate Flip-It at the end (my choice.)

Just sharing a new sampler I got in the mail this week -- it's from 1770 and was stitched by 9-year-old Sarah Woodham from England. I'm including the verse here under the picture, so you can enjoy it. This may be next on my list of reproductions to do...what do you think?

I
"Whene'er I take my walks abroad
How many Poor I see
What shall I render to my God
For all his Gifts to me
II
Not more than others I deserve
But God has giv'n me more
For I have Food While others Starve
And Beg from Door to Door
III
While others early learn to Swear
And curse and lye and steal
Lord I am taught thy Name to fear
And do thy holy Will
IV
Are these thy Favours Day by Day
To me above the rest
Then let me love thee more than they
And try to serve thee best

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Please check out my Autos 2009 Page -- you can see everything you can get as part of an auto program, but if there are other things you'd like to get regularly, just let me know.

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Friday's Orphan: A cool home-made book with lots of great designs by Goode Huswife -- previously discontinued, and released here for you in book form. You get all 10 patterns shown for just $79.00. For sampler and cat lovers alike! I only have a few left!

The July Kit of the Month is Miss Mary Mac's Pins & Needles Pincushion by M Designs (whew!) -- too cute! With the kit, you get the graph, (8) skeins of Crescent Colours, and 36 or 40 count Legacy Linen by Picture This Plus (enough to do the front and the back in the same color. If you want 28 or 32 ct. I will send you the same-sized piece, but you will either have to find your own backing fabric, or order another piece to cover the back. Price for the kit is just $32.00.

The Fabric of the Month is 30 ct. "Linen" hand-dyed linen from Weeks Dye Works -- yes, the fabric is made of linen. And the color name is also linen. So it's "LINEN LINEN" this month. Soft, and pretty -- looks like something grandma had in her buffet. $17.75 per quarter yard this month!

The free chart of the month (with any order) is August Cup of Tea by SamSarah Designs/Just Another Button Company. Sign up now to get the tea cups on a monthly basis, and your 12th month is free! If you'd like to stitch the design, you will need the following supplies:
  • 30 ct. Sophie's Pink Linen cut 11 by 11 $8.47
  • Weeks Dye Works Aqua, Berry Splash, Bright Leaf, Honeysuckle $2.00 each
  • Sampler Threads Cotton Candy, Grape Leaf, Morning Glory $1.90 each
  • Button Pack $12.50
  • Price for kit is $34.67

Get the whole kit of supplies for $34.67. You can still get 2008's tea pots as long as you buy something for that project (I recommend getting the button packs). Look for them on my 2009 Auto Page. (You can also still sign up to be on an auto for the teapots, and I can just wrap you around into next year.)

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