2011 january 07 enewsletter - attic needlework · • page 7: new from the uk’s cross stitch...

Where Samplers Rule

The Attic, Mesa, AZ Toll-Free: 1.888.94-ATTIC (1.888.942.8842) www.atticneedlework.com

WHAT’S INSIDE? • Page 2: New Classes and Other Special Events, February

Framing Frenzy• Page 3: Finishing Class of “Indian Ink”• Page 5: 2011 Stitch-Alongs• Page 6: “American Sampler” ~ Supplies for SANQ Cover Purse

• Page 7: New from the UK’s Cross Stitch Guild• Page 8: New from Shepherd’s Bush• Page 9 & 10: Other New Designs• 1: Photographs from Last Night’s Stitch-In

THE ATTIC 7 January 2011 Issue No. 11-1 www.atticneedlework.com

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NeedleWorkPress’s Maria Tilley 1835January’s Sampler of the Month

When this incredible sampler from Vickie’s personal collection first appeared as part of the “Cows” article in the Summer 2010 issue of Sampler & Antique Needlework Quarterly, the magazine received an unprecedented number of requests for reproductions of the samplers pictured in the article, including Maria’s. It has now been faithfully reproduced by Tanya Brockmeyer on Lakeside’s 45c Vintage linen using a combination of beautiful silks (NPI, Belle Soie, Gloriana, and Gumnut), the verse stitched over one.

As our January Sampler of the Month, you will save 15% on your purchase of 2 of the following:• chart $22• 40c linen with 2-inch margins $29• silk combo pack $92

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NIGHT’S STITCH-IN!

The brick house shows how perfectly overdyed silk works without rethreading. I HATE changing colors every 3 or 4 stitches to get the necessary shading. The bricks here look just as they would in a real-life building, and it’s all done with the same softly-shaded skein of silk! Magic!

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Saturday, January 22, Stitch-Along, 10:30-12:30. Whether you’re stitching on one of the “Hawk Run Hollow” samplers, “Time Well Spent,” or one of the Stitch-Along projects shown on page 5, come in and join the group in our classroom for a few hours. Please call to register.

Sampler Sunday, June 19. Although as the third Sunday in June this is Father’s Day, you will want to carve out a 3-hour time in the afternoon to join us for a very special Sampler Sunday with Barbara Hutson/Queenstown Sampler Designs with a very special presentation. Barbara is a renowned sampler expert, and we are honored to have her at The Attic.

Saturday, February 26, Nashville Market Day This is our biggest event of the year, and some of you travel from neighboring states to be with us as we “take off the wraps” on all of the best that’s new in our needlework world. Doors open at 9 AM for our Attic Addict members and 10 AM for the general public. You won’t want to miss it!

March 3-6, 11 AM Thursday - Sunday 11 AM, Our Annual Junipine Retreat in Sedona. We’ve been doing this retreat since 1999, at the beautiful Junipine Resort on the shores of Oak Creek, and for the past number of years it is always sold out. Those who come year after year are first on the list. So if you wish, we are happy to put you on the waiting list.

Saturday, January 8, 10:30-12:30, Beginning Linen with Linda’s new Tulip needlebook design as the class project. The $30 fee includes Linda’s expert instruction as well as the chart + materials for this very useful learning project.

As a member of our Attic Addicts Club, in January save 15% on your purchase of any of the following: All Silk Threads Lakeside Linen Custom Cuts Designs from Chessie & Me, NeedleWorkPress & Stacy Nash

We still have some great BCRF cookbooks left. Support a great cause (all net proceeds go to breast cancer research) by buying a copy(s) of the Recipes for a Cure cookbook for a donation of $14.95 (or more) with fabulous time-tested recipes as well as complimentary designs from the following giants in our industry: Blackberry Lane Designs, Blackbird Designs, Blue Ribbon Designs, Homespun Elegance, JBW Designs, Little House Needleworks, Lizzie Kate, Mary Garry’s Sewing Cabin, Plum Street Samplers, Priscilla’s Pocket, and The Sampler House (Eileen Bennett).

Monday, January 17, 10-1 Button/Crochet Trim with Linda Danielson We are repeating this class on the day following our weekend gathering at the reques t o f severa l out-of - town attendees. $35 fee includes everything. Bring your completed pincushion to class and the rest will be provided.

January

January 23, Sampler Sunday,1-4 PM Usually the third Sunday of the month, because of our Primitive Gathering we have moved this. It’s been several months since our last SS, so I know that Show ‘n Share will be something you won’t want to miss. Refreshments served. Fee $10. Please call to register.

February

Saturday, February 5, 10:30-12:30, Beginning Linen (Details at left)

Saturday,February 12, Our Semi-Annual Framing Frenzy This is your opportunity to save 20% on your custom framing order, including frame, mat, and fillets, when you let Sandy useher expertise in selecting the perfect frame to enhance your needlework. Give her your budget and your likes and dislikes (“I don’t like gilded, but I love primitive”) and she will do the rest. This discount does not apply to the framing labor charge nor to readymade frames. All orders will be processed in the order received, and orders with deadlines are ineligible for the FF discount.

March

Saturday, February 5, 1:30-4, Blackberries Knotwork We have a few of these Limited Edition Kits, originally taught by designer Teresa Layman at Celebration of Needlework. The $75 fee includes the complete kit with overdyed threads, extensive handouts with photographic images of the stitches, and Christy’s expert instruction in the several stitches used to make this stunning design.

B e a u t i f u l O l d e Colonial box may be purchased at 10% discount by students.

June

January 14-16, Martin Luther King Weekend, A Primitive Gathering



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Friday night, 6-9 PM, Needlebook of Stitches with Chessie & Me’s Linda. This is a wool-covered little book of stitches, its pages filled with rows of all of Linda’s favorite decorative stitches. In class you will complete the book assembly and then start on stitched sections of the book. When finished, it will provide you with a lovely little reference guide as well as a resting place for needles & threads.

A Primitive Gathering January 14-16 (Martin Luther King weekend) . . .

. . . with Linda Lautenschlager of Chessie & Me, Stacy Nash of Stacy Nash Primitives, and Vickie Jennett of NeedleWorkPress The site for this weekend event will be the new Hyatt Place in Mesa. You may go here to read about the hotel, located in the Mesa Riverview Shopping Center, just 3 miles from the shop: http://phoenixmesa.place.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/place/index.jsp We have gotten a room rate for the weekend of $99/night in what is Phoenix’s “high season.” Ask for Attic Needlework’s room block when making your reservations. Your $395 fee includes all classes, kits and class materials, Friday night supper, Saturday and Sunday lunches, Saturday night reception at the shop, and a few very special surprises. Payment in full is due before pre-stitching kits for Stacy Nash’s classes are issued.

The handmade easel is also available for $40.

The kits for Jackie’s “Indian Ink Needlebook” and the lovely matching accessory, the Madras ornament/pincushion ($105) are here and shipping now. Once we have the stitching completed, we will be offering a finishing class in the shop. The kit, of course, includes the fabulous Scrimshaw piece created by Marcy.

Put the weekend of Nov 4-6, 2011 on your calendar and join us here in Mesa for a very special weekend of workshops with Jackie du Plessis. We are thrilled to announce that Jackie is designing new projects for us, and it will be Pinks and Pearls and Lily of the Valley for us in November. Full project details and photos will be available in the Spring. Some pre-stitching involved.

Jackie du Plessis

Saturday, February 12, 1:30-4:00 Indian Ink Finishing Class Jackie has graciously offered to let us display her finished pieces for a short time, so if it’s possible to have our stitching completed by mid-February, we will gather and finish this together. Please call to register. Fee $10 If you didn’t pre-order/reserve a kit and, after seeing Jackie’s beautiful set, you would like to have this, we have a few more kits coming to us, so give us a call to reserve one and you can join the February class as well.



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Sunday afternoon, 1 - 4 PM, Linen Schoolgirl Sewing Book with Stacy Nash. Again, with your pre-stitching completed, Stacy will teach us the finishing and aging of this very charming and primitive sewing book. Finished size 9" by 6 1/2" high when closed. Kit includes: 32c blue-gray linen, hand-dyed wool, homespun and cotton fabric for finishing, brown ribbon, quilt batting, cardboard, Complete pattern with color photos, supply list and finishing instructions.

Sunday morning, 9-Noon, Peacock Pinkeep Drum with Velvet Berry Emery with Stacy Nash. With your pre-stitching finished, you will spend the morning under Stacy’s expert guidance constructing your pinkeep and emery and then “aging” it to make it look like your grandmother’s. Finished size, 6" by 3”. Your kit will include 32c cream linen, homespun for top & bottom of pinkeep drum, tan velveteen & silk matka for berry emery, DMC Floss, complete pattern with color photos, supply list and finishing instructions, and sawdust for stuffing!

Saturday afternoon, 1-4 PM (with a box lunch in Vickie’s beautiful backyard)Visitors to the home of NeedleWorkPress at San Tan Vista Manor will feel like they’ve traveled thousands of miles to Williamsburg, Virginia, and awakened in a fabulous museum with dozens and dozens of wonderful samplers and antique needlework treasures. Vickie will also have for you a choice of two projects: A Study in Pomegranates ~ Eliza Tuck's copybook entries feature pomegranate patterns that she borrowed from several antique samplers ~ OR a charming project based on both a late 18th, early 19th century folk song/rhyme and a Rebus Sampler featuring the same verse.

Saturday morning, 9-Noon, Unfinished Sampler with Chessie & Me’s Linda. This sweet primitive sampler was stitched in 1785 by Nancy Renssela but never completed.

Using 36c or 40c (give us your preference) Lakeside linen and Belle Soie and Gloriana silk thread, matched closely to the colors in the original sampler, you will create your personal version of Nancy’s sampler. You will receive stitched pictures of the provided motifs to give you an idea of what they will look like if used in your piece. Make it your own and let your Creativity begin!” I can’t wait to do this, wanting to create my own sampler for years, and now Nancy has provided a wonderful start.



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2011 Stitch-Alongs

Above, “Spanish Mystery Sampler” by Shakespeare’s Peddler. Paula has volunteered to lead this stitch-along, and if you wish to join us, we have special 40c linen cuts and your choice of the charted silks OR our conversion to Belle Soie. We look forward to sharing your photographs of your progress during the year ~ and finished samplers in a year! If you choose to join us in this wonderful project, you will receive a 15% discount on your purchase of 2 of the following: chart $20; 40c linen w/2-inch margins $40; Belle Soie $67.50. It would also be very lovely on 30c over one (16.7 x 10.7) or over one on 40c (12.5 x 8) as well. Right, your January “assignment.”

Right, “Elizabeth J M Mears 1833” by Queenstown Sampler Designs. This accura t e re produc t ion sampler from Accomack, Virginia is a mixture of s a m p l e r s t y l e s , w i t h alphabets, decorative bands with multiple stitches, and scattered Quaker motifs, a gated fence, and frui t baskets. And, of course, the massive building that is named but unable to be d o c u m e n t e d d e s p i t e extensive research Beautiful reproduction on 32c (15 x 23.7) or a 40c version would be stunning (12 x 19). Charted for NPI silk.

First published in 2001 in Sampler & Antique Needlework Quarterly, the sampler on the right was charted for DMC on standard linen. As you’ve come to learn, I am of the opinion that samplers should be stitched in silk, so we’ve converted it to silks, Au Ver A’Soie, Belle Soie, and NPI. When Molly came in and said she wanted her house to be red brick, we thought that was a good idea and added that to our thread legend choices. However, as I was stitching on this over the weekend I realized that the acorns to the right and left above the house still needed to be an acorn color. Some of you have already received your Belle Soie with the red-brick-house change. Please contact us and we will put a length of Cinnamon Stick in the mail to you for your acorns.

Right, “I Sigh Not For Beauty” by C Street Samplerworks. This lovely sampler, and the “Elizabeth J M Mears Sampler,” have been chosen as 2011 projects in Ellen Chester’s newsletter. If you aren’t currently receiving her newsletter, you can view it at http://withmyneedle.com/newsletter9/newsletter9.htm



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Left, Courtney’s exquisite finish of this classic Sandy Orton design, “The American Sampler,” which first appeared in Treasures magazine in the Spring 1993 issue. It has now been republished in the March 2011 issue of Cross-Stitch & Needlework magazine. Our shipment is on its way to us. I have ordered lots of copies, but I also learned from the Deputy Editor that they did not have extra copies printed of this magazine. I expect the demand for this issue to be extremely high. This beautiful sampler will be our February Sampler of the Month and, as such, purchase of the fabric and silks will be at a 15% discount during February. Our silks and linen choices for this sampler will be published in several weeks, as we announce the details for this classic sampler design.

I just learned about this promotion from Linda and so agree with its message that I wanted to share it: Think of three businesses you'd hate to see disappear, then pop in and say hello....Pick 3. Spend 50. Save your local economy. The 3/50 project has as a subtitle on its home page: “Saving the brick and mortars our nation is built on,” and more on Facebook: “Big things come from small boxes” and “Small businesses have big hearts.” Go to these links to read more. http://www.the350project.net http://www.facebook.com/The350Project

The American Sampler

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The bead kit for Linda Vinson/Needlemade Designs’ gorgeous Ellen O'Brien purse in the latest issue of Sampler & Antique Needlework Quarterly is available from Creative Destination for $45. The kit includes the Delica beads needed for the edging and fringe as well as the two sizes of Swarovski bicone crystals and the Fireline beading thread. The contact information for Creative Destination is: Creative Destination,1660 S Alma School Rd # 108, Mesa, AZ 85210 (480) 755-4367 [email protected] http://2-old-beadies.com/



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Below, “The Scarlet Letter Hussif ” and “ T h r e e A c c e s s o r i e s ” ( n e e d l e b o o k , b i s c o r n u , a n d scissors chatelaine) come in kits only, $37.50 each, kitted with 28c Cashel natural linen and everything needed to complete the p ro j e c t s ; t h e s e projects use motifs f rom Catherine Archer’s Bristol O r p h a n a g e Sampler, below left.

B e l o w r i g h t , “ F a u x Mahogany Magnetic Teddy Box” and “Cat Box” ($35 each) are made from resin and then treated to look like mahogany, wi th a powerfu l magnet embedded in the body. Bottom, “Perfect Needle Collection” gold plated with 2 microns of gold, $22.50 set Below le f t , “Catherine Archer’s Bristol Orphanage Sampler” $24

After several months of waiting, our order has finally arrived. Below left: “Mary Ann Gollins Sampler” $27 (358 x 144) ~ Right, “Charlie’s Secret Garden Band Sampler” $19.50 with a variety of stitches and techniques; the padded heart roughly in the middle hides a secret ~ Far right, “Stolen Moments Band Sampler Kit” $32 that combines cross stitch, hemstitch, a touch of hardanger in the heart, and other counted stitches.

New from The Cross Stitch Guild in the UK



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Clockwise from upper left: “Every Heart” $24 kit ~ “Merry Be Pin Cushion” $20 kit (see Amy’s start on this on page 11) ~ “Safe Keeping Scissor Fob” $16 kit ~ “Our Hearts Pin Cushion” $20 kit ~ “Take Joy” $16 kit ~ the box ($17) is on its way

Just In from Shepherd’s Bush



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From Various Designers

Clockwise from upper left: two from Heart in Hand, “I do” $9.50 w/charm & “Love Triplet” $15 w/buttons ~ Fallbrook House Needleplay’s “Not All” $8 ~ “Oh Tannenbaum” $9 from With thy Needle & Thread ~ two from Tempting Tangles Designs, “Panoply of Posies” and “Needleworker’s Abecedarius” $15 each



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From Various Designers

Coming from Lizzie Kate in a late January release, below left, new Double-Flip Series called “Halloween Rules” with 2 designs in each Double Flip; the FREE border with its gravestones spelling out “Rules” will be posted on their Web site ~ and “ABC’s of Parenting” kit will be released at Nashville in mid-February. Prices have not yet been announced.

On the right from the top: Three from Tree of Life Samplings, each $10, “Quaker Peace” ~ “Emma Rose Christmas” ~ “Emma Rose Friendship” Left, from The Prairie Sampler, available once again, the very popular “Willow Tree Sampler Hornbook” $33 w/25c linen + hornbook, is stitched over one and so sweet with the perfectly sized Storklette Scissors $11.50 from Kelmscott Designs



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Here’s what the ladies were stitching last night . . .

Clockwise from the left: Carol’s, on 36c???~ Linda’s over one o n 3 6 c ~ A m y ’ s n e w Shepherd’s Bush on 40c (those little sheep are adorable) ~ Angelica’s “The Governor’s Palace” ~ and Christy’s “Indian Ink”

Tyler and Hannah enjoying their Christmas break in the Payson area.



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