Spring

There are so many wonderful designs available that celebrate every season and occasion under the sun... so we thought it'd be fun to collect a few of them, and organize them for you on a set of Holiday/Seasonal Pages. I'm a "seasons" nut... so we'll be adding to these all the time! We have so many other projects and ideas in the shop, and elsewhere on the site, but this is a fun way to show you just a few ..... ENJOY! Autumn Cross Stitch Designs Spring and Easter Designs Christmas and Winter Patriotic and Summer
Pretty Peas - The Sewing Case and Beaded Scissor Fob from Fern Ridge Collections Oh... I took a class at Market and MADE this little beaded fob!!!!!!!!!! Those Fern Ridge Gals are way too happy and have so much fun with their designs and kits... we had such a fun afternoon! Pretty Peas -- The Fob -- is a Peyote Stitch piece -- actually very basic and small in size. You see that pea vine on there -- that's tacked on after the basic beading is finished. Then, that lavish trim... just cool beads all strung together zip-zap! Their complete kit contains ALL the cool beads and charms, the threads, the findings, everything! The matching stitched Pretty Peas Sewing Case is DARLING! Stitched on Week's 30ct Parchment linen, the complete kit is a treasure-package of hand-dyed silk ribbons and threads, and the embellishments include a little bit of wood, pea beads, Delica beads, CHARMING mother-of-pearl flower buttons, bone thread winders, and even a pea pod charm that matches the one on the fob. I love the bright colors, and I'm so proud of my little fob!
A Little Easter from Lizzie*Kate Here's a sweet design -- 32ct Antique White Linen, a small smattering of pink seed beads, and lots of 'Chick Charm' -- Stitch this 3 x 4 piece for a quick seasonal decoration. The carrots are cute, colors are fresh and fun, lots of Lizzie Kate personality! Offered as the chart with fabric, beads and button embellishment.
Spring 2012 Buttons & Beads from Mill Hill Mill Hill presents their Spring 2012 Button & Bead Kits! If you've ever seen our shop display, or visited one of our booths at a show, you know how much we love these projects!!! Always offered as complete kits loaded with floss and beads -- we always take out the perf paper and stitch our models on aida or linen! They just glisten, and catch the eye. Live Simply is a colorful, summery scene, I picture it in a kitchen, or maybe hanging in the hallway near the back door and all the jackets and keys -- kind of a reminder of what to do when you leave the house! Love 2 shop -- don't know a soul that this fits!!! Millinery shoppe -- this is another in the Main Street Shops and Churches Series of designs. Along with all the (think there are 18!) Christmas Village houses, we have a Flower Shop, a Needlework Shoppe, a bakery... these look cool finished into little standing blocks -- to make your stitched village! Stitch in Time is BY FAR my personal favorite this time around! I know THOUSANDS of people that this fits!!!!!!!! Luck of the Irish is strikingly gold and green -- very vibrant in color, and Home Run is a sports-fanatic's dream! It companions the Football design from last season -- very classy in design and color. All of these finish approx 5 x 5 on a 14/28ct. You can use 14 aida or 28ct linen, or the 14ct perforated paper that comes in the kits. A nice selection this year -- check out the smaller 3 x 3 ornament-sized kits -- they all coordinate with these!
Spring Bouquet 2012 from Mill Hill Mill Hill's 3 x 3 ornament-sized kits, these work well for fridge magnets, little pins to wear, and of course, ornaments! Lion Heart should appeal to all the International Lions Club members world wide! Rubber Ducky would make a darling bathroom decoration or cute package tie for a baby gift. Baseball Mitt matches that cool Home Run larger kit. Tomato Pincushion is my favorite -- again -- tie it around the strap of your stitching tote!!! Monarch Butterfly is just plain gorgeous -- put a suction cup on the back and stick it to your kitchen window. Firecracker is a cute summer decoration -- might be fun as a plant poke! All are offered as complete kits of 14ct paper, flosses, beads, chart and needles. A GREAT BARGAIN because there is a lot of thread and bead product in them... we've been carrying these for over 15 years... just love 'em!
Mother Hens from FiligramWhat an awesomely contemporary and endearing scene! A trio of concerned Mama Hens are tending to their little chicks who are playing in the garden. A pretty, relaxed, loose design style, this looks young and fresh. Charted for DMC or Gentle Art Sampler Threads, it has a stitch count of 151 x 105, so will finish approx 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 on 32ct. Very classy! Don't miss the other two new designs, shown below.
Spring & Summer Vegetables from FiligramI love these matching seasonal garden scenes! The picket fence that surrounds everything, all the neat and tended rows, the yummy fruits and vegetables, the shovels, spades, rakes and watering cans, and those darling scarecrows -- they rule the gardens! Very well done with lots of cute motifs that are very recognizable, the charts are printed in color. Coded for Gentle Art Sampler Threads or DMC flosses, these finish approx 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 on 32ct.
Eggs Ala Round from Glendon Place Wow... you won't want to hide these eggs before Easter! Glendon Place has outdone herself with this colorful medley of beautifully decorated eggs! Eggs Ala Round features 16 different eggs -- all coded for 45 different DMC or Anchor flosses, 9 metallic #4 braids, and 12 colors of Mill Hill beads and even Gentle Art's Spring Grass hand-dyed floss for the greenery. Finishing approx 13 inches round on 28ct linen, I think what makes this piece so incredible is that almost all the eggs are designed on a diagonal, which is really hard to do! So many different stripes and spots, each little egg is charming just by itself! Wouldn't they be pretty stitched (even on several different colors of linens) and finished into egg shapes, and all tucked into a basket of Easter Grass? The larger eggs all measure approx 2-1/2 x 3-1/2 while the smaller ones run a bit over 1 x 1-1/2 inches. Just pretty, pretty, pretty! Offered as a leaflet.
Love is from Shepherd's Bush Love is Where you Plant it! Teri's newest design this is a spring garden full of happy, cheerful wildflowers. Stitched on 28ct Antique White linen, (28ct Lugana or 14ct Aida would be great with this, too) it is coded for overdyed flosses or DMC's -- your choice. Finishing approx 8 x 12, it features a smattering of Just Another Button Company buttons, little bees, bugs and flowers. You'll notice that this companions with her newest Tiny Garden Scissor Fob and her little Free-Bee bumble bee charm along with it's freebie pin cushion design! A super-colorful, quick stitch!
Harried Hare from SamSarah Design Studio Oh my gosh.. this is so cute! Bunnies dashing with their carts of carrots seem to be the Springtime theme this year, and this one looks to be quite a confident driver! Harried Hare finishes approx 10 x 4 on Weeks 30ct Baby's Breath Linen. The cart of eggs is totally colorful, but what makes the whole leaflet are those STITCHED and STUFFED carrots! They are stitched on hand-dyed Weeks 28ct Scuppernong Gingham Linen. You can see the wavy green tops... that is the left-over un-stitched fabric that you have cut in a curvy shape and button-hole stitched around the edges to make it wave. It is such a cool finishing idea -- Patti has great finishing instructions and actual stitch and fabric photos on the back page of the leaflet, so you'll totally understand what to do! (Flipping the center carrot upside down on the linen will save fabric -- but you can always purchase more than I estimate here.) So different, so artsy-fartsy, (spell checker doesn't like that word!), all is stitched in a medley of pretty hand-dyed cottons, you could always add embellishments if you like!
Have Carrots... Will travel! from The WorkbasketWe fell in love with this design at Market... SUCH a fun piece! Check out that dashing rabbit.. he's going at least 50 miles per hour! And... check out the carrots on the Carrot Express Wagon... I'd be rushing to stash these babies as fast as I could, too, because they're so plump and deliciously knarley! The greens are all Rhodes Stitches of green -- so they're all little bumps on here -- an awesome texture treatment! (pattern doesn't tell you to do that, but I remember the model and you can kind of see some different detail in the cover pic.) Design is stitched in one strand of Belle Soie Silk on hand-dyed 28ct Week's Blue Jeans Gingham Linen, so neat, this finishes an impressive 8 x 14. (Easy for us to convert to Crescent Colours cottons, if you'd rather, and gentle on the budget at approx $18... but I'd get an extra ecru and orange... so maybe $22.50!)
St Patrick's & Easter Bits from Erica Michaels Erica Michaels has outdone herself again... with 4 new 40ct silk gauze designs... here are just 2! Teeny-Weeny Easter and St Pats finish approx 1-1/2 x 2... and are stitched with only a HALF a Cross Stitch, with ONE strand of floss. Just like stitching 'over one' on linen... the gauze is actually thinner than linen, so the holes are twice the size. Doesn't seem to make sense, but trust me! Darling little designs, each is offered as the chart with bitty gauze cut. They mount into Olde Colonial's miniature frames -- we have every single one -- so your tiny masterpieces WILL turn out like these! (3 Days before Market, we had Linda's Easter model in the shop. I LOST it... and it was re-stitched in 11 hours... in time to show at Market! Lesson learned... these are exquisitely tiny... but very stitchable!!!
PEEP! from Lizzie*Kate Lizzie Kate's annual Springtime limited edition kit is here.. Peep is just the cutest!!! Perched high atop it's Easter Basket, Springtime flowers, and a nice fat carrot... YOU might be saying Peep (or EEK!) yourself if you were in this position! Offered as a small kit of 28ct Miracle Mint Lugana, the stitching on this little thing finishes only 1 x 7!!! Charted for either DMC or Gentle Art and Crescent overdyeds, the chart comes with the fabric cut and a purple egg button embellishment that has yellow spots! Our Magic by Mona made a finishing kit for this -- you get all the 3 x 9 precut boards, Mona-hand-tied ribbon bows, and Celia's hand-twisted cording, along with cute finishing fabric to make your Peep into a stand-up wedge -- just like Lizzie Kate's.
Easter Surprise Photobooth from Bent Creek Bent Creek has lots of new releases... this Photobooth design is only one of half a dozen! (Click these links to see the rest; we have charts and two kits to show.) First photo pic... the magician is going to pull a rabbit out of his hat. Second pic... ta-da... the bunny! Third pic... what's this? A pair of white ears? Pic #4... out comes a little chick dressed up like a bunny! Very cute, this is offered as the chart and includes a cut of 32ct Belfast. You'll need bits of thread from your stash for this quick holiday decoration!
A Moment to Cherish from Heaven and Earth By Jane Wooster Scott... a Springtime American Folk Art landscape scene... look closely, this is actually a wedding scene! Check out the hot air balloon, and the wedding party below! Charted by Heaven and Earth, this measures a whopping 450 x 561 in stitch count -- not for the weak-of-stitcher - or a busy mother-of-the-bride!!!! A classic piece of American Folk Art!
Jour de Marche from Madame La Fee Market Day! A medley of all the good things you find at the morning market! Lovely, generic kitchen piece, the red gingham ribbon running across the chart is included, along with a brass pear charm! 190 x 189 stitch count.
Jeannette Douglas has LOTS of new releases... we're featuring a few of them on Just Arrived... but MAKE SURE to visit her page to see all the rest! Spring and Autumn Biscornu Stackers from Jeannette DouglasThis is a NEAT set of Biscornu Trios... stitch each one, and then tie them together with a flourish... to present a charming tower of tuffets! Offered in 5 x 9 mini-leaflet format, each includes a bit of hand-dyed Gloriana silk and some teeny button embellishments, the ribbon tying all together is not included. Autumn Stackers features great specialty stitches, some teeny acorn and squirrel motifs, tiny teal, butterscotch or rose mini-button embellishments, and along with DMC flosses from your stash, you'll love the 'Fallen Leaves' Gloriana hand-dyed silk! Find some fancy ribbon or wild yard to tie all together, remember, that is not included. (but what fun to shop for!!!) Spring Stackers features birds and rabbits, more cool stitch options, it's buttons are dusty denims, rose and moss, and the Gloriana Silk included is a soft green medley named 'Winter Brook.' Stitched on 32ct Lambswool Linen, each cushion is stitched on both sides, and finishes approx 2 x 2. Petite & Precious, I just love 'em! (6 Cuts of 9 x 9 linen for each booklet offers 3-inches around each piece... that's a fat quarter of fabric. So ONE fat quarter per leaflet. If you are clever and careful... you can arrange your pieces differently to economize fabric... only an inch or two between each piece, and can get BOTH leaflets out of one fat quarter.
Lucky Sheep from Shepherd's BushOhhh... another of Tina and Terri's tiny sheep... all dressed up... and waiting to go somewhere special! Lucky Sheep is adorned with your personal luck in mind. (we have casinos in Oklahoma... wonder if I should take the model along with me to one of them!?) Just a small 4 x 4 thing... always cute, he is a companion to something like 12 other little sheep who are busy wishing you Happy Birthday and things like that! Lucky's other companions are all on our SB pages! All are complete kits of linen, flosses and really cute hand-made clay embellishments... made for each one of them!
Winter Snows and Spring Blooms from Shepherd's BushTwo more 3 x 3 window-pane designs that are stitched on 28ct Newport Linen in shades of Crescent, Weeks, and Gentle Art overdyed flosses. Both are the same size as quite a few of SB's windowpane designs... and these two have new hand-made button embellishments as well. Always a face... did you notice that? We have a Santa, Snowman, Frankenstein... and now a Snowgirl (but a sheep -- and he's not a face!!! -- my observation is wrong -- so just ignore me!) Get the charts... and stitch away! Spring is on Antique White with soft blue stripes, and Winter is on Antique Tan with cream stripes. Both are offered as single charts with buttons available separately.
Jardin d'ete from The Tralala Collection Garden of Summer! Wouldn't you love to have strawberries growing like that in your garden? Stitch count of 85 x 148, it is a companion to the Spring Garden piece.
March Expressions! from Pine Mountain Designs Pine Mountain has a few new designs... her March Expressions is a medley of bright lemon-y yellows and lime-y greens... breezy, luck, kites flying... they're all in her 5 x 5 cross-stitched design area. The pillow fabrics are awesome, so cheerful and bright! It comes as the ready-made sham with the pretty organza ribbons that you simply tie around the stuffer form (available separately) when you're finished.
Seasonal Garlands from Valerie Pfeiffer Everyone loves these charming little birds of Valerie Pfeiffer's, their tiny backstitch details make their feathers come alive!!! You'll recognize single birds taken from her other designs that are surrounded by a wreath of seasonal florals. Offered in chart format, each design finishes approx 8 x 8 on 28ct. The charting on these is a bit different than our US designers use... these patterns feature some half and quarter stitches. Instead of a tiny 1/4 stitch... you work the whole X, but over one thread. Consequently, you'll need to choose an 'over two' fabric... not Aida for these. So cute!
Dog's Day Out from Crossed Wing Collection Crossed Wing has a fun new piece available... it's a day-trip to the Dog Park! The luscious trees -- complete with a squirrel and a few birds for entertainment -- provide shade for all the darling dogs below. Actually quite large, this is stitched on Crossed Wing's exclusive hand-painted 28ct linen that is specially colored for THIS piece! It starts with gentle greens at the bottom, and changes to blue skies at the top! Your piece WILL look like the pic, with the green behind the dogs and the blue sky! Finishing approx 11 x 22-1/2, this is stitched in DMC flosses, along with some Week's Dye Works, as well. You could always go thru your Crossed Wing stash of designs and add more birds or a dog or two to this, too! Perfect for a Vet's Office!!! Offered as the chart, with linen separately.
Little Bit O' Spring from Erica Michaels A colorful garden of Springtime flowers lined up in the Spring sunshine... 11 colors of Crescent's hand-dyed flosses are needed to stitch this tiny 1 x 2 inch wonder! Worked in half crosses (only the first stitch of an X) these really do stitch quickly! Offered as the chart with 40ct silk gauze, you CAN stitch these on any other fabric as well -- because, remember, you do have the chart! Summer is due out in a few weeks, which will complete the 4-Seasons set.
Springtime Pillows from Pine Mountain Designs Sandy has released 4 new pillow kits -- one in each of her current styles -- and they're ALL cute! March's Flange features AWESOME lime green, aqua and soft brown prints. Friends Listen is the latest Tie One On -- bows at each end. Be Hoppy is an Easter-themed Top Tie pillow -- bows are at the top on that one. Spring Fling has darling chicks dancing on eggs -- that one features the stitching across the top of the pillow, bow in the center. Basically, all of these come as complete kits of the ready-hand-made fabric sham. You stuff a re-useable pillow form inside, and it's FINISHED! Allways fresh, current fabrics, pretty colors, flosses included and 10ct!!! Click the individual images above to go directly to their section on the Pine Mountain page.
Bayside Bungalows Kit from Country Cottage Needleworks and Crescent Colours Crescent Colours has released an exclusive design stitched with their threads, by Country Cottage's Nikki Lehman. Absolutely charming in color and design element, the chart comes with 10 complete skeins of crescent's hand-dyed cotton floss, and a packet of Just Another Button Co clay shells and birds. Stitched on 28ct Natural linen (fabric options are many -- you supply that part), this finishes approx 8-1/2 x 11-1/2. All the little beach houses are just perched right there on the beach, waiting for weekend inhabitants!!! Wonderful, dusty colors, it looks weatherworn and relaxing! Too Cute!
Floral Fifteen from Just Nan Leave it to Nan to take the 'ordinary' biscornu to the next level... by adding 13 more sides!!!!! I know she wasn't a geometry major in school, but she's figured out the proportions to create an exquisite 15-sided pin cushion! Decorated with tiny motifs that are balanced, and placed to 'present well to your eye' from each of their respective angles, your 15-piece creation is just stunning!!! A vision of flowers, 13 different motifs, creating 15 different florals and medallions are stitched on 28ct Antique White and Mint Green Cashel linens in a garden rainbow of silks, each tiny section is stitched. Once you see Nan's actual construction photographs inside the pattern, you're going to be amazed!!! Finishes approx 4 x 4 x 1-1/2... offered as the leaflet with emb pack. The charming pins you are seeing poking out of the top are something else special -- a new line of Nan's Charm Garden Pins! Shipment for Floral Fifteen is due Late February 2009, we're taking reservations. Check out the little pins... we have those NOW!
Dewdrop from Just Nan Isn't this the sweetest Springtime Easter Bunny? Quietly sitting amongst the daffodils in a garden of decorated eggs, Dewdrop is stitched on Weeks Dye Works 30ct Morris Blue hand-dyed linen in DMC flosses. Embellished with a few tiny glass beads, there is a frosted aqua-blue flower bead that graces the bunny's neck. Dewdrop finishes approx 2-1/2 x 2-1/2 and fits into her very own pewter/crystal/glass frame (limited in production) which features an easel back, and overall measurement of 4 x 4.
Spring Mini-Kits from Mill Hill This year... we have a set of 6 new magnet designs... most of them aimed at tempting you to break your diet!!! Stitch a miniature root beer float, a bucket of popcorn, a tall and frosty glass of lemonade... or go right for the banana split!!! There is a darling little flip-flop design... but we know the run-away best seller will be the festive Happy Birthday greeting!!! Always offered in complete kits, these are such a good value. You get the chart, beads, flosses and any other called-for embellishments, along with a magnetic backing for the frig! Finishing approx 2-1/2 inches in size... I'm in love with that little banana creation!!! (Scrap book with these -- embellish your pages! The flip-flops need to grace the cover of the vacation picture album -- they'd be kind of fun stuck (forget the magnet!) onto the front of a digital picture frame! And, of course, the Happy Birthday needs to be a package tie! Always cute and quick! Take a look at what our local Guild did for us using these kits!
Spring Snapperland! from Bent Creek 'There are always flowers for those who want to see them!' Spring Snapperland has arrived -- a 4-part set of small charts -- it features an optional freebie border chart that fits the 4 designs together surrounding them with that wonderful quote I just mentioned! Stitched on 32ct Twilight Blue Belfast Linen in lots of overdyed goldens, oatmeals, mosses, and browns... the Spring Snapperland set has 4 small card designs. Each includes a pack of metal snaps -- the required embellishments. Stitch each individually... or join them together within the charming border design... it features its own embellishment set that includes some clay ladybug and bee buttons, and lots more snaps.
Spring Violets from Country Cottage When the spring breezes blow, the violets all share, their sweet smelling scent with the birds in the air. A sweet Springtime piece... if you start it now... you'll be done in time for those blossoms! Offered as a chart, this finishes approx 6 x 13 on 28ct, and uses a mixture of Weeks and Crescent Colours Overdyeds and a few DMCs too. Very pretty, vibrant lavender and greens!
Little League and Little Ballerinas from Country Cottage Well, I have a grandson this would be perfect for... oh, if only I stitched! (No, your Weary Webmaster, writing this description in Lindy's absence, doesn't stitch... isn't that ironic?) The design has a historic flavor that reminds me of the time of the old NY Yankees... Babe Ruth and all that. Stitched with Crescent Colours threads, it measures about 8 1/2 x 5 1/4, and comes with an alphabet so you can personalize it. Little Ballerinas, a design for dancers and those who love them, is the same size, and also includes the alphabet. The overdyed threads used in some areas give you more dimension, don't you think?
Bellemeade from Just Nan Just Nan's third breathtaking seasonal manor house sampler has also arrived. I would be thrilled to live at Bellemeade, Winterhaven or Silkwood Manor... but I'm not so sure I could afford the mortgage!!! Straight from Nan's creative imagination comes this exquisite study in brilliant, rich summer color, gardens full of ripe strawberries and graceful wildflowers, morning glories and ladybugs, running rabbits and a swan swimming in the pond, and stitch after special stitch!!! A commanding piece, Bellemeade finishes approx 9-1/2 x 13 on 30ct Cameo Shell Legacy Linen. Stitched in an incredible assortment of silks and some pretty wools, the thread assortment includes enough to stitch the tiny 3 x 3 matching needle case piece, as well. (It features that pretty swan in the pond!) Lovely borders and motifs, the verse reads While summer days are long and sweet, with blossoms ever new, I'll show to others of my time, what clever hands can do. Offered as the chart with overdyed silk, beads and gold butterfly charm; silks and linen offered separately. I just love this!!!
Daffodil Run from Just Nan A precious bunny-run-around scene... these Spring Runners are racing through the blooming daffodils... chasing, chasing, chasing... (or being chased by my little dogs!!!) Stitched on 32ct Flax Belfast linen in regular DMC flosses, the tiny pic measures just 2-3/4 inches square. The intricate daffodil bouquet charm in the center is a lovely miniature 5/8-inch hand-painted creation that features three yellow flowers -- so detailed! I just love the colors, very "Springy!' Daffodil Run is pictured inside a very heavy, yet delicately filigreed pewter frame. Scattered with tiny enameled flowers on the front, the back of the frame has a small easel stand-up... and it all looks perfectly wonderful here, at home, on my desk!!!

Mill Hill's Spring Button & Bead Kits are here! Six new designs this year... they kind of belong in pairs! The Country Morning Rooster and Camping In The Woods go together. Next we have two Spring Potting designs... and finally, two delicious-looking, frosty-cool green drinks!!! Offered as complete kits, each is stitched on 14ct perforated paper (our shop models are always on 28ct linen), with loads of flosses, beads and a button or two. Finishing approx 5 x 5... I can't wait for the models to get stitched!!!

Spring Bouquet Kits from Mill Hill Here are the newest 3 x 3 ornament and pin-sized designs... I absolutely LOVE the little birds... the flower pots are colorful and go with the larger Bead and Button Kits... and I have to think about the Dream and Diva a little... but you know... this set simply offers something for everyone! Offered as complete kits of the 14ct perforated paper, flosses, beads and a glass Treasure, as well as a pin back finding, these are a great value, and look so cute dangling from a Spring Tree branch or even the kitchen cabinet knob!
Seasons of the Trees from Rosewood Manor Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... see all the trees -- their many greens and browns -- throughout the seasons... Spring at the left... flowing into Winter at the right. Rosewood Manor's Karen Kluba has a real talent for her trees, her lacy motifs, her full, balanced, busy and intriguing designs! You can study her things over and over again, and each time, you're treated to some new little detail tucked somewhere in there! Seasons of the Trees is no different! Offered as a leaflet, this is stitched on 28ct and measures a generous 11 x 18. Worked with regular DMC flosses... you'll use 48 of them from your stash! Her charts are huge... and best of all... in paging through the leaflet, I find 14 BONUS charts... little (and some a bit larger) take-outs from the main design that are suitable for needle books, ornaments, fobs, and mini-samplers! There is so much in here... if you like this one, check out 'And a Forest Grew' and the two Christmas Stockings -- Cranberries and Pines! Really unique, definitely worth your stitching time!
Sparkling Shamrocks from The Sweetheart Tree Every Irish-Loving household needs this adorning its walls, tables, shelves or sills!!! So pretty... this heart-full-of-Irish-Love is stitched using lots of special stitches like Diamond Eyelets, Satins, and lots variations of both! Green and white petite seed beads, green and white flosses and perle cottons, crystal pailettes (pronounced Pie-Yets, with the emphasis on the Yets), white Cats-Eye Luminescent heart beads and SHT's lovely sterling Shamrock charm, this is stitched on 28ct Lambswool and finishes approx 6-1/2 inches square. Very, very lacy and pretty, it should be lots of fun to stitch!
Cherry Blossoms and Rhodes Butterfly Biscornu Pincushions from The Sweetheart Tree These are gorgeous pin cushions that match her Teenie Tweenie Scissor Fobs!!! Biscornu (pronounced bis-core-new, but I've heard it bis-corn-you, too!) refers to a shape. The shape of the these 3 x 3 cushions is almost an optical illusion. The pillow is actually constructed of two squares of material, joined together with the corners offset from each other! So, now that the finishing isn't scary anymore... you can stitch these in a jiffy and either use them as ornaments or pincushions! Offered as a set of the chart, 32ct Opalescent Raw Belfast Linen, and a small packet of beads, pearls and corner embellishments, you supply the DMC flosses needed. Each biscornu matches a tiny scissor fob Sweetheart Tree published last year... and we do know that Sandy is planning to make more of these to match SOME of the existing fobs. (but we don't know which ones, or timing yet!) Lovely! Lots more new from The Sweetheart Tree... click the pic!
Sweet Harmony from Teresa Layman Needlework accessories worked with Colonial and French Knots... this is a charming set that's done with the same technique her miniature knotted rugs are... but finished into a special set of stitching cases!!! A pastel garden of flowers surrounds this busy beehive... and I love that yellow and butterscotch checkered border that sets it all off!!! Three coordinating pieces, each of the stitched pieces is offered stamped onto the heavy ground muslin. Complete instructions are provided for 'knotting' and finishing everything... but I'm guessing this is for a bit of an advanced stitcher and seamstress -- (I can knot, but I can't sew, so I'll send mine out for finishing!!!) The stitched areas feature knots done in one stand of floss, to create a soft looks that reminds you of miniature punch needle! Your scissor case will finish approx 2-1/4 x 3-1/2, Needlebook will measure approx 2 x 2-1/2, and the fob is a 1-1/4 x 1/2 inch oval. Included in the package are the patterns stamped on the fabric, needles, acid-free boards for forms, ivory flannel for needlebook pages, lobster claw clasp for the fob, and instructions for everything! Absolutely exquisite... this will DEFINITELY become a treasured heirloom!!!
Secret Crush and Secret Shamrock from The Trilogy The Trilogy releases two new Secret Garden pieces... they coordinate with all 7 of the rest in this series!!! Really cute, each is offered as a kit of chart, 32ct Belfast Linen and button embellishments -- you add the floss. Fun little 4 x 4 collages of tiny motifs, Secret Crush definitely has a top and bottom... while Shamrock and the rest have things facing every-which direction scattered throughout! Charming, we keep finishing our shop models into stand-up cubes, because they present so well that way. Browse down the Trilogy page to see if you can spot the rest of these... Secret Snowdrift has been the favorite so far, with Flower coming in second! All are fun!
Springology The companion to Ornamentology -- a Christmas design -- this is a collection of small spring motifs that can be stitched alone or together, on big count or little! So many options, so little time!!! Available as a leaflet.

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