Drawn Thread Designs Counted Cross Stitch Needlework Patterns, Leaflets, Materials and supplies from The Silver Needle, Tulsa

Below you'll find some of the most creative designs on the market! The Drawn Thread specializes in charming samplers with gardening, floral and restful themes. We have so many favorites, we're showing you some of them! Most have a fun stitch or two incorporated into the design. All call for linen... and frequently give you at least two appropriate choices. Some include a bundle of the silk threads needed to stitch the design, and all include any necessary charms. I just love all her tiny details... everytime I look at these, I see something new I missed the last time! Enjoy!

Drawn Thread has sent some new patterns for a stitching project portfolio with matching pin pillow and scissor fob! Stitched on 28ct Stoney Point Cashel Linen in various silks, the main piece is a booklet that finishes approx 9 x 11. (If you're not a 'blue person'... choose another linen color!)

The cover is decorated with an awesome medley of specialty stitches -- and the inside features pockets and rings to hold projects and threads. I LOVE, LOVE all the stitches Cynthia has chosen because most are really different, and we don't always see them used in things. Jessicas over 4 and 6 threads, Pekinese, Alternating Crossed Gobelin, Boucle Stitch, Waffles, and of course lots of Eyelets and Queens, too! Anyway, open the book to find some tiny floral buds scattered inside, and your precious tools stored neatly away. The instructions are wonderful in here... lots of fabric layouts, and great finishing procedures.

The matching Pin Pillow and Fob are teeny companions that you'll want to have, as well. The Portfolio Pattern is offered as the chart, with the 3 bone rings, and a bone medallion (shown on her model), satin ribbon and some baby pink button embellishments, and requires a fat 1/2 yard of linen. The Pin Pillow and Fob is offered as the chart with two elegant Mother-of-Pearl buttons and more satin ribbon to match, and requires a 12 x 16 linen cut.

This is a pretty piece designed to showcase your heirloom buttons! Each tiny medallion measures 29 x 29 stitches, each one a different vine design with different specialty stitches... these are delicate and actually very quick to stitch! Wouldn't they make pretty Biscornu cushions?

Offered as the chart of 6 medallions, they are worked on 28ct Cream Cashel. We have some really pretty Mother-of-Pearl buttons from Italy... so if you need just the right thing... check them out!

Drawn Thread has three new designs... Friendship Garden is the largest if the three, that are all offered in chart format. Measuring 69 x 169 stitches, this was originally designed as a Friendship Round Robin stitching piece.

There are six tiny empty spaces in the inside area of the design, each with a corresponding garden, and alphabet template. Each stitcher in the RR can initial her garden area... and the owner of the sampler can stitch her own border!

All the border greens are different, and each of the tiny interior gardens are stuffed full of specialty stitches.

This is an interestingly-shaped sewing pocket! A scattered Spot-Motif sampler decorates the front and back of this 5 x 7 heart-shape that is held closed with a stitched and covered button.

Offered as the chart, there are lots of finishing and assembly instructions included, along with some stitch diagrams of some pretty awesome stitches! A small sampling of love, this is a sweet set of sewing pieces.

This is a charming set of 4 tiny seasonal samplers... each is a mere 52 x 52 stitches in size. The season is spelled out around the borders, and then, four TINY motifs fill the centers -- they're only 10 x 10 stitches -- so start thinking OVER ONE THREAD here... and these would be AWESOME!

Each sampler features specialty stitches in it's petite area, it's hard to see the colors from the chart's cover photograph... but I'm sure your stash has *tons* of lovely threads for these!!!

Offered as the chart of 4 seasons.

Cynthia Z has a charming little Santa Claus pattern... I believe he is a limited to 150 edition chart... and we think he's great! Santa is climbing down the chimney (his sack is still full, so we think he's on his way down...) With a stitch count of only 47 x 47, he finishes perfectly as an ornament.

Offered as a chart, it calls for threads we don't carry, (I am sorry to deliver that news)... BUT, BUT, BUT, my gosh, you have tons of great options in your stash for this! Find your reds, greens, golds and a little White Wisper and you're set! Fun, specialty stitches tucked in here, too!

The Drawn Thread has 3 new releases... and I thought this one was too cute to pass up a spot on Just Arrived!!! The Pumpkin Pocket is actually a round piece that is folded into a scissor or thread pocket!

VERY SIMPLE stitching... the pumpkin is worked with lots of Long Stitches, and the vine is Wrapped Backstitch. Threads called for are hand-dyed... so get out your stash... and choose favorite colors! Pick a fav fabric, and finished size changes as well! Offered as a chart.

This is an AMAZING study of 44 different Pattern Darning Designs!!! EVERY SINGLE stitch in this is either horizontal or vertical... each lays above, below or intertwines with it's companions to create woven design. Darning was used to repair fabric when there were holes or weak areas... and this showcases 44 different patterns one would have used!!!

Offered as the chart, this is stitched on 32ct Antique Ivory Belfast Linen and measures 11 x 11. It calls for only 5 colors of DMC or Silks... 520, 522, 612, 902 and 3726... check out your hand-dyed silk stash for an accent color!!! Perfect for a teaching/learning/practice piece!

'A song in the Heart is Prophecy in part...' (which means to me... that you need to hold on to your dreams, hopes and goals... they're coming along just fine!!!)

A TEENY wisp of a design, the stitch count on this is only 29 x 63... so if you did it on 36ct, it'd be only 1-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches!!! Pick anything... this is a sweet, quick-stitch thing!

Drawn Thread has two new pieces -- along with Cottage Garden (a scissor case), Carnelian Rose is a biscornu cushion and miniature matching biscornu scissor fob. Stitched on 32ct Stoney Point Linen in Dinky Dyes and Thread Gatherer hand-dyed silks, both pieces are embellished with 3, 4 and 10 mm carved Carnelian Gemstones of a light tomatoe-y red/coral color.

The fabric and silks are a luscious blue-green, and the featured special stitches are easily executed for lots of texture. Main design is only 60 x 60 stitches, the little fob is a mere 36 stitches square. Offered as the chart or complete kit of linen, silks and embellishments.

A charming piece, originally stitched in 2001... this is a tiny floral band sampler that is finished into a 2 x 4-ish inch scissor pocket. VERY quick stitching, there are lots of specialty stitches in here, and a lovely selection of cheerful Springtime floss colors, too.

Even if you don't make the case, this small design would be lovely worked over one, and exquisitely framed! Offered as the chart.

The Drawn Thread has released two new designs -- this is just one -- click the pic to see The Language of Love! Anyway, this sewing chest design is intricate and lovely!!! Designed to fit one of Olde Colonial's Chests (we have 'em IN STOCK), each of the sides features a very busy border of vines with tiny panels of specialty stitches -- all done in Whitework. The top features more of the same... with a Grand Presentation!!!

Offered as a chart, this is coded for either silks or DMC flosses, and worked on 30ct linen. In paging through the instructions... I get goose bumps!!! There are so many 16-thread areas PACKED with 1-inch stitch samplings... I LOVE this kind of stuff!!! ... Cynthia's charting is so clear, you get the stitch progression numbers, along with a composite stitch diagram of the entire 1-inch block ... all the borders, all the bands, the trees that are featured in the top compartment of the chest are stitched over one.

The 13 x 9 x 7 1/2 inch chest is really *pricey.* (Hand-made of beautiful mouldings... IT isn't expensive... price is just relative to your stash budget!!!) So... if the $400-ish for the chest simply isn't meant for you... just do the pieces and assemble them into needle cases, cubes, and framed pieces. 'No chest' is 'no reason' not to stitch this!!!

A pretty design, that spells LOVE in 5 different languages, the heart trellis border surrounding the center section is a study in different hearts that are stitched with specialty stitches! I counted 18 different little hearts of cool stitches... but I bet there are more. The entire piece is stitched in various silks -- this is not charted for DMC -- so you *may* get to choose your own colors!

Stitched on a 30ct, this finishes approx 13 x 3. Obviously, changing fabric count will alter size... this would be lovely on a pale pink, you could choose a taupe... do it in the colors of your wedding, and personalize it... it does include an alphabet. It's very pretty, the charts are huge in the leaflet, so it looks like it's going to be really fun to stitch! Offered as the leaflet.

A lovely piece, this organized little garden is full of special stitches that texture almost every tiny leaf and vine. Beetles, spiders, dragonflies and butterflies scatter here and there... but what your eye sees first, is the contrast of the evening white against the deepening blue sky 'background.'

Stitched on 32ct Stoney Point Linen in shades of Needlepoint Silks, this measures approx 9 x 18... I just love the flowing border!

These pretty flowers are climbing the garden trellis, ready to carpet the entire garden in a sea of brilliant blue! Loaded with Morning Glory flowers, this piece highlights them using the Jessica Stitch -- 20 long stitches all chasing each other around a tiny circle to form a very 3-dimensional flower.

Satin Stitch leaves throughout, and an Eyelet Herb Garden at its base, this piece measures a petite 2 x 9 on 32ct. Offered as the leaflet.

Cynthia Zittel has, once again, delivered us an exquisite needlework design... a 'Toccata'... a trophy... a showcase piece for your stitching talents!!! Just like the three before it, Toccata #4 is full of small areas of specialty stitches. You sample one, then go on to another.

This piece is presented in 3 different parts... three vertical band samplers that can be stitched side-by-side, or lengthwise. The chart for Part One is the left-hand band. Part Two is the center band, and Part Three is the right-hand band. Each part is jammed FULL of cool row motifs, pretty patterns, lots of textured stitches, personality and life! Each miniature band isn't just a specialty stitch... it is a medley of stitches presented in multiple colors to create it's own little masterpiece! (Couldn't you just see miniature Christmas ornaments or scissor fobs... choose a band, and stitch it till it's a tiny square!)

The possibilities with something like this are ENDLESS! Offered as charts, the entire piece finishes approx 13 x 18 on 32ct Vintage Country Mocha Belfast Linen -- each section just 4-ish x 18! We are offering a 'fat third of a yard' Cut for this... it gives you 4-1/2 inches of linen around each side, and is actually a more economical cut than the specified 20 x 24 cut... and it allows you lots of extra linen to make those ornaments and fobs!!!

A set of 9 miniature flower boxes grace this teeny little creation... all organized in there... all lined up neatly in the garden's rows! Drawn Thread has introduced this charming design that can provide you with 9 miniature scissor fobs -- only an INCH each on 32ct! Place 4 together and make a Biscornu! Line them up side-by-side to make a lovely loooonnnng and thin piece... you get the idea!

Offered as a chart, this finishes approx 8 x 8 on 32ct Vintage Country Mocha Belfast Linen. It's loaded with easy-to-execute specialty stitches -- that add so much texture and catches the eye! Choose some of your favorite Belle Soie Silks from Crescent Colours and get busy! This one won't take too much time, a perfect travel piece!

Here's a fun chart... little 20 x 20 stitches square blocks of a letter and a stitch beginning with that letter. 26 Individual Scissor Fobs waiting to be stitched!!! 26 Individual Ornaments waiting to be stitched!!!

Offered as a chart, the complete piece measures a mere 4-1/2 x 11 on 32ct linen -- a DINKY thing... if you did each letter on 40ct... you're talking only INCH each!!! How cool is that!? I really can't tell the colors from the leaflet cover... so I'm thinking overdyeds in your favorite colors would work! Offered as the chart.

Box of Stitches -- Scissor and Needle Case from The Drawn Thread -- click to see more

Ooohh, a second edition to Drawn Thread's Box of Stitches Sampler and Scissor Keeper has arrived! It threw us for a loop when the chart arrived, because the name is kind of the same... and we had to stop and think! The first Box of Stitches features a house surrounded by tiny bits of alphabet and blocks of special stitches. It includes a neat little scissor keeper -- but I'm not sure if scissors fit inside or if it's a fob. (I read the finishing instructions, but lose interest by the third line..!)

Now, along comes a scissor and needle case... and I get it! This one has the cute little house and lots of special stitches that show up on the outside of the case... simply the scissors and needles encased in wool on the inside, and decorated on the back with the alphabet and a tiny band sampler. In the pic... you see the Needles and Scissors panels... it folds together like shutters covering windows. The center panel (has the ABC's on the back) is larger, the two side panels come together to close it. (The two needle panels fold up to close in the scissors.) Offered as the chart.

This is a charming sampler that tells us the story of a man, 'who some did count as mad... the more he gave away, the more he had.' Stitched on 32ct this finishes approx 7-1/2 x 18-1/2. I know someone like this, I imagine you do too... kind of humbling.

Lots of special stitches and pretty motifs... I imagine there are meanings for lots of them but that isn't included in the charts. Just pretty color, and such an inspiring verse...

The newest Sewing Case design by The Drawn Thread has arrived. Offered in chart format, this finishes approx 3 x 5 when folded closed. Stitched in only one color -- this is a perfect piece to choose a favorite hand-dyed or overdyed silk from your stash! Just a couple of special stitches and easy finishing instructions, this would be a fun stitcher-gift for your friends!

By The Drawn Thread, Three Friends is a Needlework Case decorated with 'the three friends of the cold season' -- bamboo, pine and plum blossoms. Inspired by Chinese culture, it's colors are mainly rose, taupe and olive greens. Offered as a leaflet with complete charts, stitch diagrams and finishing instructions, Three Friends finishes approx 14-/2 x 7 on 32ct, and folds into a case that's approx 5 x 7. The pattern includes a page of insight into Chinese culture and beliefs -- kind of the story behind the piece... makes it really neat!

Souvenir Sampler

This is so, so, so cool... it is a spot motif sampler -- full of special stitches -- that has almost 40 different areas for you to CHOOSE AND PERSONALIZE the Souvenirs of your life!!! Available as a 14-page booklet with pull-out charts, stitched on 32xt Flax Belfast Linen, and measuring approx 8 x 12 when completed... this is just amazing!!! Silk or DMC floss colors of greens, blues, mauve, white, gold and dark brown, the possibilities are endless with this pattern! The main chart features the alphabet and selected sampler motifs.
Then, there are over 40 boxes spaced in the chart that list 'optional areas.' Upon reading the directions... each optional area represents special things, times, people, and places and suggests charms and button embellishments as well as TONS of charted motif options!!!. (No specific embellishments are called for... just suggestions to use special buttons, a fabric swatch from a baby outfit, a special charm, etc.) Lots of color and composition notes and advice are tossed in here and there, and suggestions for placement and content are great. (Example, optional area 15 features a chart for 10 different trees. Optional area 16 -- which are houses -- offers 12 different building charts -- including the Eiffel Tower and a windmill!!!)
If you are a stitcher that has trouble making decisions... really, really, DO NOT purchase this design, it'll drive you NUTS!!! This is a work of family-heirloom art... it is such a neat idea! So much thought has gone into the design... and you'll spend hours personalizing it to your family and personal 'souvenirs!' (It made my 'personal cut' and came home with me to join my 'personal stash!!!)

A reproduction by The Drawn Thread, this was originally stitched by a 12 yr old girl in 1844. (We feel so sorry for these stitchers of old... they were always worried about death, living a worthy life, and reminding their readers to remember someone!!! I know that this is part of sampler history, so it's not something to make light about... it just never seems too cheerful!) Catherine's sampler was beautifully executed in silk and wools and is now worked on 28ct Natural Linen Silk fabric in Medici Wools and Needlepoint, Inc silks. Colors concentrate on tans, creams, olive greens, black-brown, golds and rusts. I do like that border of white magnolias... it's bold and balanced. Available as a leaflet.

'Wisdom tells me I am nothing... Love tells me I am everything.' What a neat verse tucked into this incredible band sampler that features something like 40 specialty stitches! (I lost count paging through all of it!!!) Stitched on 32ct Lambswool (or 28ct Flax... or a Country French color... this has TONS of possibilities!), the silk colors are moss greens, teals, golds and brick. Finishing 5 x 19 on a 28ct, the detail in this is awesome! Each border motif is stitched in unique specialty stitches, which are diagrammed in the 7 different pages. The main chart is a pull-out piece that measures 11 x 22... and the whole thing is just YUMMY!!!!! Jacquard, Bosnia, Darning, Eastern Stitch, Laced Double Back, Mexican, Norwich Quodlibet, Pekinese, Rug, Shell, Tete de Boeuf, Vault, Web Stitches... get the idea??? This is packed full of fun challenges and neat textures!!!! Totally awesome!!!!! Available as the chart, we have the silks and linen available individually if you need them. Please specify what count of linen you'd like... all the Flax, Lambswool and Country French colors will do beautifully, so please let us know if you have a preference!

A Chatelaine -- a carrier of one's necessities -- this is a needlework masterpiece! Along with chatelaine history and historic preservation suggestions for linens, the chart for this neat piece is presented in a seven page booklet format, with an 11 x 17 pull-out master chart. Your chatelaine is stitched on 28ct Natural banding that features a pierced, hemstitched edge treatment. You'll be working lots of Queens, Backstitches, Double Runnings, Double Woven Herringbones, and Chains and Lazy Daisys, in colonial blues, soft green, and bits of mauve and golden brown. Antique gold miniature spools, bees, a heart locket and scissor charms are tucked throughout the design! Just wonderful, this uses a 2-yard length of banding, as well as a smidge of 35ct linen for the tiny scissor fob. We are offering the chart individually.

Simply stunning, this sampler will quickly become a family heirloom to be treasured! Based on a Shakespeare Sonnet, the verse speaks of love and the commitments of marriage over time. Perfect for a wedding or anniversary sampler, and finishing approx 8 x 26 on 32ct Natural Linen, the design is stuffed full of special stitches, and is worked in lots of green, raspberry, cranberry and burgundy, warm browns, soft golds and creme. Choose between flosses, silks, or a mixture of both threads! Along with all the beautifully presented stitch diagrams comes the entire chart... on one continues piece of paper that measures 11 x 34 inches! (No guessing where the pattern repeats from one page to the next! It's all here in one chart for you!) Beautifully presented, full of details and wonderful sentiment!

This is a breathtakingly beautiful design, absolutely stuffed FULL of special stitches (I lost count at 36!) and wonderful design elements! Stitched on 34ct Cafe Au Lait Legacy Linen, in creme, mauve, green, rose and aqua silk threads, the embellishments included are tiny pearls, and glass seed beads. In opening the pattern, you'll discover the chart, which is printed on an 11 x 34" sheet of paper, along with a 12-page booklet diagramming all the fun stitches.

The design finishes approx 6 x 22" on the Legacy Linen, which has an ever-so-slight blush tint to it. The silks, Needlepoint Brand, are available in full skeins -- it takes three skeins of creme and two of one of the mauves! (The set below contains 11 skeins.)

Just beautiful, this is one of those patterns that you can just look and look through, dreaming of the lucky day you'll start it! The chart and diagrams are really well done... I just might have to do this one!!! Included is the chart, pearls and beads.

The final two in Drawn Thread's series of four seasons, these two are full of color and delightful details! Available as charts with the overdyed Gloriana silks and delicious shades of Needlepoint Brand silks available separately, each features a bit of petite seed beads as well. All you need to buy is the linen. All four designs showcase trees in the bloom of their particular season... and each has lots of different special stitches. Finishing approx 4 x 7" -- surprisingly small to me -- they would be beautiful hanging together all year, or special displayed individually for the seasons! I just love the textures the stitches create that give the trees their interest! Summer is stitched on 32ct Light Mocha Linen, Autumn is on 32ct Summer Khaki! (Kind of funny when you think about that!)

Oh, Oh... I love these! Two rinky-dinky delightfully detailed little samplers... the smaller one is only about 1-1/2 inches square!!! The picture on the chart cover places these next to a spool of Kreinik Metallic... and one is the same size! How little is that!!!

DT has finished these into mini-stand-up cube shapes, and they're a must!

Snowy trees in a winter wonderland, these are stitched on 32ct Twilight Blue linen, in deep green and white silks, with crystal petite beads as embellishments. Like Spring Arbor, lots of stitches, the same size: approx 4 x 7." These are always so full of stitching details, they're just beautiful!

This is the newest from Cynthia. It arrived a few weeks ago, and is such a neat design, we decided to feature it for you! Stitched on 32ct Summer Khaki linen, in beautiful deep shades of green, teal, rose and taupe silks, the entire design finishes approx 7 x 13". It's full of neat little motifs and borders, and TONS of fun stitches! Every time I look at it, I see something I missed before -- it's really neat!
Chart, silks, and charm & button embellishments are included.

Linen is available separately, if you need it.

A tiny spot motif sampler, this fits into the newest Petite Easel Back clock from Olde Colonial Designs! Stitched on 40ct linen, it finishes a mere 1 1/2 x 4"... and is worked in rich teal taupe, green, and mauve Needlepoint Inc. silks. There is a teeny brass heart charm included in the package... just a small something that will be beautiful in your home!
Chartpack includes the silk and charm.

An elegant birth sampler, this is stitched with one ply of Needlepoint Inc. brand silk, on either 35 or 40ct linen! (Because the fabric is not included in the pack... you really can use whichever is your personal favorite!) Worked almost entirely in creme, there are touches of the softest shades of lavender and moss green silks that set off the special stitches used. Just a really sweet birth sampler, there is plenty of room for birth information, and several small motifs to use to fill in any empty spaces you need to fill! Beautiful!

This is a pretty band sampler stitched on 32ct cream Belfast linen. The booklet features 8 pages of great stitch diagrams for cutting and removing threads, specialty stitches, and folding and turning edges of the linen for finishing. The design is stitched in gold, brown, white, and green shades of silk, and features a small gold acorn charm.
Stitched design approx: 2 x 14. Complete Kit.

This is an absolutely breathtaking herb garden design! Available as a chart, it finishes approx 11 x 14" on 32ct linen. It has a beautiful assortment of colors: Needlepoint Silk, or DMC floss, your choice. I lost count after 25 specialty stitch diagrams... and noticed the entire page of instructions devoted to the hemstitched sides, and mitered corners she's done as the finishing. The design is full of charming herb garden foliage and creatures... there is so much detail, even the chart (a whopping 17 x 22" sheet of paper!) is a treat to look at! You can't pass by this one!!!

This is a charming checkerboard design, that when stitched on a 25ct, finishes 16 x 16", and can be mounted into a primitive checkerboard frame-box from Taylor's Workshop. Each square alternates a sampler motif with a little house, and all of it is surrounded by an alphabet. Pretty, colonial colors of Blue-greens, taupe, forest greens, old roses and golds, and gray-browns, it'll be a lot of fun to stitch, because each square is a teeny finished project of its own!

Alpine Garden is stitched in yummy shades of creme, slate, moss, and rose silks. The motifs include all sorts of pine trees and 'mountain-y' wildflowers. Companion to Wildflower Garden and Cloister Garden... this one is so serene... it makes me want to take a trip to the mountains!

Sunflower Bellpull This one is stitched in pretty, sunny yellows, golds, mustards, browns... and soft greens. Alphabets, sunflowers, and fun little bands... just cool!

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