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Posts Tagged ‘Thread’
Saturday, August 18th, 2012
Thought I’d tell you a bit about Celebration of Needlework and what we’ll be doing in St Charles, Missouri the weekend of September 19th-22nd. At this hotel show designed to bring stitchers a weekend of stitching and shopping fun, Tracey Shultz of Threaded Needle Designs and I share a room filled with all the goodies we can carry up there. Goodies for you to bead or stitch, along with Mr D’s boxes and fun toys every stitcher loves!
We also will both be teaching at this show. Tracey is offering three beaded classes I think you’ll love! I will be teaching my Explorations Class with four colorways to choose from. In addition we are both doing a Make-It, Take-It project. Take a look at the photos and then go the the Celebration website to sign up. There you’ll find other participants like Linda Stoltz, Susan Greening-Davis, Barbara Jackson and Pam Reed and several others.
Vendors include some of the biggest names in the needlework world, Judy Whitman of JBW Designs, Cecilia’s Samplers, Inspired Needle, Erica Michaels, Rosewood Manor, Olde Colonial Designs, and many more! Plus you’ll be able to visit with each of these people in a relaxed environment where relationships can be formed and friendships established. You won’t want to miss this weekend.
Tracey’s Classes:
 Crystal Elegance Necklace  Kumihimo Braided Necklace  Hearty Bead Bracelet Pat’s Classes:
 Winter Colorway  Summer Colorway
 Holiday Colorway
 Spring Colorway
Tags: Beading, Beads, Caron Collection, Celebration of Needlework, Classes, Counted Canvas, Cross Stitch, Delica Beads, Rainbow Gallery, Stitching, Thread, Threaded Needle Designs, Watercolours
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Win a copy of this chart if you can identify the piece! You need to submit the url for the page you found it on our website so go take a look. Remember the winner is the first person to submit the url. Just copy and paste from your browser to the comments window once you find the piece. Good Luck!
 Here's a hint, Angie changed the fabric and the thread!
Tags: Contest, Cross Stitch, Customer's Work, Rainbow Gallery, Thread
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Cross stitch enthusiasts often find themselves in the midst of a big project but not often one this big! I thought you would enjoy reading about this awesome project and hope you will tell me about the big project you’ve undertaken in your cross stitch career. Enjoy!
Go here to see the entire project.
Tags: Cross Stitch, Customer's Work, Stitching, Thread
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Saturday, August 13th, 2011
Lots and lots of things to talk about this month. First, we have the Customer Gallery winners!
 First Place Winner  Second Place Winner  Third Place Winner You know, I think we were all winners getting to see the wonderful pieces. If you have a piece here you might want to come pick it up and pick up your winnings and your discount coupons for entering. Thanks to all who entered and to all who voted! Get your pieces in the works for next year’s Customer Gallery.
Don’t forget the Lizzie*Kate Trunk Show is still here through the 20th of August. You can see all the goodies that came with the show by clicking here and you can see all the Lizzie*Kate products in stock by clicking here. Nothing beats seeing the models in person so if you’re close enough, come take a look! The next automatic is scheduled to ship on Monday so we may well have those new designs here before the end of the show. This shipment will include the long awaited 6 Fat Men series and the 2011 Tiny Tidings! You can keep up with all the Lizzie*Kate doings by following their blog.
 Here's a sneak peek! Lots of fun things going on in the next few months. Tracey and I are participating in Celebration of Needlework in St. Charles, Missouri in September. You can see the information about this fun consumer show at Celebration of Needlework. Still plenty of time to register. Do you remember the Spirit of Cross Stitch events? This is the same type of event! Tracey is teaching a class on Peyote Stitch so if you’ve wanted to get started with that technique this is the perfect time to begin. She’s also bringing her Threaded Needle Designs Trunk Show so come participate in this great stitcher’s event.
Of course Needlework Hideaway is just a few months away, we’re counting the days now! The classes are up on the website so visit Needlework Hideaway to see them. We have two new teachers this time and are excited to add them to your choices. Ruby Bailey will teach a beautiful beaded bracelet and Libby Roleson will teach a Kumihimo Bracelet and a Basic Earring class. We’ve set our 2012 schedule and will have contracts with the Red Apple Inn soon.
We are changing the days and hours at the shop beginning the week of August 22nd. I’m off to ANG National Seminar in San Antonio, TX and Mr. D is keeping the shop open for you on Thurs., Friday, and Saturday from 10am to 5pm. These hours will be in effect until further notice but remember that we’ll open up for you when you need to come with just a phone call or email to make arrangements for that. Mail order will be handled just as always so your orders will go out as usual.
We’ve added a new Thread of the Month Club that came to us as a suggestion from a customer. Each month I’ll chose an overdyed thread and add a variety of threads to complement it to create a collection that can go directly into a project! We’ll choose from across the lines of threads we carry so you may get a collection based on Waterlilies or on ThreadworX or on Overture that may include Kreinik, Rainbow Gallery, Caron Collection, DMC, Bella Lusso, Accentuate, Trebizond, Weeks Dye Works, The Gentle Art… you get the idea, if the threads work together you’ll get them! We’re looking forward to this Collection so sign up today! Here’s where you can see them.
I can hardly wait until we actually get to Seminar as I’ve been stitching the ANG Stitch of the Month a little ahead at the request of the Board and am all finished but can’t show you until they are shown at Seminar. All the Area Representatives are working on these so the excitement is building to see them finished. Mr. D is framing mine next week and I’m going to take a photo so that I can post it here as soon as we get the go ahead!!
Keep cool and keep stitching,
Pat
Tags: Accentuate, ANG, Beading, Beads, Bella Lusso, Caron Collection, Celebration of Needlework, Classes, Collector's Club, Customer's Work, Gentle Art Sampler Threads, Kreinik, Lizzie Kate, Needlework Hideaway, Rainbow Gallery, Red Apple Inn, Thread, Threaded Needle Designs, ThreadworX, Trebizond, Watercolours, Waterlilies, Weeks Dye Works, Wildflowers
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Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Do you have a stitching group you meet with? Here’s a great article about a stitching group in Charlotte, North Caroline I thought you would enjoy!
We have a reasonably new group called “Outside the Box” meeting here at the shop the Third Saturday of each month. Any and all are welcome so if these projects catch your interest, plan to join us. The group is an off shoot of the Quilt Guild I belong to but it’s open to anyone who’s interested in exploring design and creativity.
 Can you find my name in this piece? Our first meeting we wrote our name on a piece of paper, folded it just below the name and copied it on the folded over space. Our challenge was then to create something from the resulting outline. After I filled in the blanks, I copied the outline over on a piece of muslin and painted it. This will be my cartoon for further development. At this point I’d like to create both a quilted piece and a canvas piece from this. Exploring ways to make that work will be a ton of fun!
 Let me introduce you to Ms PataName! Our second meeting we explored flower pounding, a perfect way to get out any built up frustrations. Everyone there created awesome pieces dyed with the stain of the flower or leaf they pounded. We’ll use the resulting pieces in future projects. Here are a couple of mine…
 Here's what I was able to create using the Wisteria I showed you a few weeks back. I think I’ll do some Stumpwork on this piece. Perhaps a few leaves and blossoms and a bumble bee!
 Hibiscus pounded with a small head hammer. Hibiscus is a really moist blossom so they transfer color beautifully. I really liked the effect of the small hammer marks on this one but I’m also going to do one with the large mallet to see the difference.
At our next meeting we’re going to play with stamping on fabric. Come join us! We meet here at the shop at noon for a sack lunch and then play until about 3pm.
After we collect a number of items we’ve created we’ll decide what project to use them on. Perhaps an embellished collage type piece, all original, all fun! On the machine or by hand we’ll add wonderful threads, beads, buttons, and attachments to enhance our designs. Gosh, I can’t wait!
Do you have a stitching group you meet with? Tell us about your group’s activities, who knows you might just inspire another group to get started stitching together.
Keep stitching,
Pat
Tags: Beads, Creativity, Design, Embellishment, Embroidery, Needlepoint, Quilt, Quilt Guild, Stitching Group, Thread
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Friday, June 3rd, 2011
Ok, the heat is on! We’ve been above 100° for the last couple of days! Glad to be inside with my stitching…
I found this site with lovely stitched covers of Vogue Magazine and thought you might enjoy a look.
Vogue Covers
New colors of Gentle Art threads are in. Take a look here. Did you realize that any thread we carry is eligible for the Thread of the Month Club. Have a thread you’d like to collect? Just send me an email or give us a call at the shop and we’ll put together a TOMC for that thread. See the TOMC here.
We had a month long Yard Sale here in May but there are still a number of items left. If you go to the home page and search Yard Sale you’ll see what’s here. I’ll be continuing to add to the list over the next few months as we have some threads we’re closing out and some other great products we just don’t have room for. Come back often to see what’s been added to the Yard Sale list.
It’s time to start planning for Christmas in July, we’ll have some kind of fun going on each week in July. Also, each year we host the Customer Gallery in July and that will continue this year. The rule is you can show any project you’ve stitched that hasn’t already been shown in one of our prior Customer Gallery events. We need the pieces here by June 28th to give us time to check them in and get them hung by July 1. Each piece will be photographed and displayed on the website as well as in the shop so that online customers and in the shop customers get a chance to vote on the piece they like best. Gift Certificates will be given for First, Second, and Third place winners. Get your pieces in so you can have a chance to win!
Check out the Home Page for June’s monthly special and watch the Blog in the next couple of weeks. We have a customer who’s doing some really interesting work with specialty threads you’ll enjoy seeing and the Outside the Box group that meets here the 3rd Saturday of the month is doing some really fun things and I’ll take photos and share real soon.
New Classes are in the works, watch for an announcement when they are on the site!
See you soon,
Pat
Tags: Classes, Collector's Club, Gentle Art Sampler Threads, Thread
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
Most of what I stitched on this last couple of weeks I cannot tell you about because it’s the class for Needlework Hideaway called Explorations and it’s a Mystery Project. All anyone can know about is the four colorways offered and the fact that the class teaches many stitches with many different threads! Take a look at Needlework Hideaway!
 A Tatted Doily designed by Kim Beamish for A Needle Pulling Thread magazine Another piece I’ve been working on for the last several weeks is a piece I found in A Needle Pulling Thread magazine. This tatted piece is the first needle tatting I’ve done that isn’t lace or small medallions and was a bunch of fun. I made a mistake that I’m not going to take out and I stopped one round before the end of the pattern but this is the size I need for appliquéing to a pillow for our guest room that is done in all blue and white. This year I plan to complete the decorating in that room. I have rows for a quilt for the bed that were completed in a Row by Row challenge in our Quilt Guild a couple of years ago and that need to be put together, the room needs new drapes and I’m working on a cross stitch sampler all in blue on white for above the bed. I’ll post pictures as I get along with this project and you can keep me on task!
 Scrumptious new colors! A box of thread was in the mail today and I couldn’t wait to share the new colors from ThreadworX! Aren’t they lovely? And the color names are just as scrumptious as the colors! These are Camel Hair, Creme de Menthe, Cayenne Pepper and Indian Turquoise. Don’t they make you just itch to stitch? We have several new ThreadworX TOMC collectors and with these kinds of threads who can blame them? See for yourself here.
Let me know what you’re working on, I love hearing about all the wonderful projects out there!
Until next time, keep stitchin’
Pat
Tags: Classes, Collector's Club, Needle Pulling Thread Magazine, Needle Tatting, Needlework Hideaway, quilting, Stitching, Tatting, Thread, ThreadworX
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
Busy, busy month! For the first time in quite a while we have a needlepoint Trunk Show in the shop. CanvasWorks/Traditions has sent in some adorable Christmas Stockings and some lovely floral canvases. I’ll be taking photos and posting them to the site a few each day. The show goes home on Friday, February 25 so be sure to check it out while it’s here. We’re offering 15% off the canvases while they’re here. The shopping cart will not show the discount but we will apply it. Of course, best is to just come see!
By the way, the shop will be closed Friday, February 11 and Saturday, February 12 as I need to be in Texas for a SCR meeting.
Just in are the Lizzie Kate and Sweetheart Tree automatics. Click on Cross Stitch and then on each designer to see them. Lizzie Kate has a new Double Flip series called Halloween Rules that is really cute and of course, we’ve set up an automatic for that so you know you’ll not miss a thing. Take a look.
Sweetheart Tree has begun a new series called Quadrielle and I think these are awesome! She has kitted the designs so you get everything you need to complete it except the stuffing and any decorative trims you might want to use to dress yours up. The series will include special occasions and holidays so start your collection now!
 M'Lady's Quadrielle New colors of ThreadworX and Gentle Art are on the way and new colors of Rainbow Gallery, Caron Collection and Weeks Dye Works will be in soon. Watch for the updates. While you’re on the Thread page check out the Thread of the Month Club. We’ve had a surge of new subscribers to these clubs and all are enjoying the excitement of receiving a packet of new threads the first of each month.
Blogs are the thing this year. Here are a couple of new blogs you might want to follow. Most have a Facebook page and are on Twitter as well. Get connected!
Just Another Button Company Blog
Lizzie Kate
Here’s a link to an interesting antique needlework book. I understand this can just be downloaded but check it out first. I haven’t looked any further than just this page so I don’t want to lead you astray!
Ladies Worktable Book with stitch diagrams, etc.., enjoy!
Until next time, keep stitching and keep warm.
Pat
Tags: CanvasWorks/Traditions, Caron Collection, Collector's Club, EGA, Gentle Art Sampler Threads, Lizzie Kate, Needlepoint, Newsletter, Stitching, Thread, ThreadworX, Weeks Dye Works
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Lots to talk about this month! The kids are back in school and it’s time to stitch…
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To get you started take a look at the next Blog entry, called Ornament Contest. I know it’s scary to think about designing a piece but this is a small ornament where you can play. Grab a piece of 14ct and start doodling. Use Kreinik threads and keep the design round or something that will fit in a round and have fun! I didn’t do the math in the contest announcement but on 14ct the piece needs to fit in a 5-1/4″ circle. Not a big piece but large enough to allow for some detail. Think Christmas with this one. The best part of participating in this contest is that whether or not you win you can use your design as the entry fee for our 15th Anniversary Celebration. Well, maybe the best part is the $100 of Kreinik threads that’s the Grand Prize or the Gift Certificates to the shop?
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Don’t forget that October 15th is the big day, lots of fun activities both in the shop and online and lots of great deals to be had. In order to receive the discounts we’ll offer we need you to send an ornament for the Salvation Army/SAAC Christmas Tree we’ll decorate this year. Get the ornament to us by the 14th so we have time to register it and you’ll be eligible for the discounts! A stitcher who is planning to participate was admiring Rhonda’s finishing techniques on an ornament and wished she knew how to do that kind of work so we’ll plan a finishing class for all the stitched ornaments we receive some time in early November so you’ll have plenty of time to finish yours for this Holiday season. Get stitchin on that ornament!
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We found this site and thought it was interesting enough to share. I’m not a math expert and don’t totally understand what he’s talking about with the math part but I did like the stitched piece. This link offers more choices of pieces to create based on math principles. Enjoy!
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Reminder, get your Fair entry in by Friday to be sure we can get it framed in time. We’ve framed some beautiful pieces this summer so this year’s Fair exhibit should be awesome.
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Recently we’ve had several customers request different Thread of the Month Club offerings. Take a look at what we offer and let us know what lines you would like to collect and we’ll add them to the list. Over the past couple of years the thread companies have had to increase prices. We’ve tried to hold the line on the prices of the TOMC but in January, 2011 we will have to change the individual collections to reflect the new pricing. The customers who are collecting a line will be able to complete that line at the price they signed on for, only new orders will be at the new price. That means that if you sign up now the entire line is available to you at this year’s price, a real savings over the life of the line! Sign up today and you’ll receive a fun suprise package the first part of each month. Available lines are in the Rainbow Gallery, Caron Collection, Au ver a Soie, brown paper packages, Gentle Art, Weeks Dye Works, ThreadworX, Trebizond, Accentuate, Soy Luster, Barouque Silk, and Bijou line. Plus you can request any other line we carry to build your collection, see them here.
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Ok, have to get to the shop and get the next fun thing started but before I go I want to remind you about the Needlework Hideaway. This fall we’ll gather at the Red Apple Inn on November 4th thru the 7th for fun stitching, good company and great food! Still room for you so take a look and register today!
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See you soon,
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Pat
Tags: Accentuate, Au ver a Soie, Barouque Silk, Bijou, brown paper packages, Caron Collection, Cross Stitch, Gentle Art Sampler Threads, Kreinik, Needlepoint, Needlework Hideaway, Rainbow Gallery, Red Apple Inn, Retreat, Soy Luster, Stitching Retreat, Thread, ThreadworX, Trebizond, Watercolours, Weeks Dye Works, Wildflowers
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
The Customer Gallery is back at Stitcher’s Workshop. Nine beautiful pieces are competing for the $25, $15, $10 prizes this year, fewer in number, but not in quality than past years. We’re delighted with the items that are here.
 Here's what you'll see in the shop! Individual pieces are:
 Piece #1 Queen of Freedom by Mirabilia  Piece #2 Holly by Black Swan Designs  Piece #3 Anna's Prayer by Heartstring Primitives  Piece #4 Garden Cats by Dimensions  Piece #5 Christmas for all Great and Small by Jim Shore  Piece #6 Isola Maggiore Crochet Doily on Box  Piece #7 Rainforest Crunch by Needle Delights  Piece #8 Original Design by Stitcher.  Piece #9 Hydrangea ~ Designer Unknown To vote just leave a comment here or fill out the contact form on the website. We’ll be voting online through August 15th so vote each time you visit!
Tags: Counted Canvas, Cross Stitch, Needlework, Stitching, Thread
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