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Seasonal Cross Stitch Treats from The Silver Needle
 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

Easter Bits from Erica Michaels - click for more St Patrick's Bits from Erica Michaels - click for more 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!!!
Easter Surprise Photobooth from Bent Creek - click for more

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 - click for moreA 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!

Chicks Rule from Lizzie Kate - click to see more Lizzie Kate's Spring 2010 Limited Edition Kits are HERE!
Chicks Rule!
A bright, and seemingly noisy trio of ladies... I think these 3 are IN CHARGE! Cute little design, our Mona did the finishing for it, so we think that's kind of cool!

Stitched on 30ct Cream Linen with bits of DMC and overdyed floss from your stash, this finishes approx 2-1/4 x 4. Kit comes with the chart, linen, and three orange 'beak' buttons! Chicks Rule is limited to a 1000 kit release.

Spring Fab Fob from Lizzie Kate - click to see more Spring Fab Fob
Stitch a bright spot of Spring all in a bitty 1-3/4 x 3-1/2 inch space, and dress it up into a little scissor fob! Lizzie Kate's happy design is stitched on a 28ct Golden Lugana fabric, using just bits of hot pink 602 DMC floss, and some overdyed flosses (Huckleberry is the bright blue) from your stash.

It's garnished with a few orange and green seed beads, but what graces the cheerful design are the special Kelmscott Little Gems Scissors that are included. One handle is colored to match the Huckleberry, the other to match that 602!!!! What a fun little thing! Spring fob comes with the chart, fabric, beads and those fun, exclusive scissors! Limited to 1000 kits produced.

Jour de Marche from Madame la Fee - click to see more 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.

Needle Tweets from Just Nan - click to see moreNeedle Tweets from Just Nan
Just Nan has several new releases, her Needle Tweet 'Sisters' are a colorful trio of Needle Keepers to grace your Springtime stitching basket! Delightful little 1-1/2 x 1-3/4 linen birds, Daisy is stitched on Weeks 30ct Honeysuckle Yellow linen, Pinkie is worked on Sophie's Pink, and Lila is stitched on Lilac linen. Each Tweet is lined with a soft green hand-dyed wool from Weeks, garnished with a few glass seed beads, sports a polka-dot ribbon tail, and features lovely crystal glass flower beads (from Nan's incredible embellishment menagerie!) for their eyes.

Using snap closures, Pinkie, Daisy and Lila open to store a few precious needles. You'll notice their fancy tail feather couture... each has a Just Nan Charm Garden Tail Feather Pin, which is offered separately!!! Honestly, these are as cute as they can be! Offered as a small chart package with lining and beak wools, beads for eyes and wings, snap, and polka dot tail, complete finishing instructions are included and diagrammed! You'll need the 8 x 9 cuts of the Weeks linen.

Tulip Bunny from Just Nan - click to see moreTulip Bunny from Just Nan
Just Nan's Winter 2010 Market Special... we came home from Market with a few of this charming little bunny nestled in his own silver Whimzi frame. Stitched with DMC flosses on 32ct hand-dyed Spring Garden Belfast Linen, he/she is just plain cross stitch... and finishes 2 x 2.

The embossed frame that is included features a stack of three embellishments to make a lavish medallion at the base of the pink ribbon hanger. Package includes the chart, linen, and frame, you supply the bits of DMC. Just precious, and very limited in edition!


Autumn Biscornu Stacker by Jeannette Douglas -- click to see more Spring Biscornu Stacker by Jeannette Douglas -- click to see more 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 Douglas
This 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 Bush - click to see moreLucky Sheep
from Shepherd's Bush
Ohhh... 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 Bush - click to see moreWinter Snows and Spring Blooms
from Shepherd's Bush
Two 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 -- click to see more
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 Kit from Pine Mountain -- click to see more 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.

Clay Pins by Butterfly Couture - click for more New Treats from Butterfly Couture!
Look at all these darling new pins we have!! We've pictured three of our 9 new things... click the pic to see all the rest! Handmade in France by *one* very busy artist... each little polymer clay-topped pin is handmade, and each is slightly different than the rest.

I've chosen the tiny mushrooms and carrots to show you, because they are 3-dimensional. The Frogs and lily pads are slices -- just like our other pin sets. Absolutely precious, they're too cute simply stuck into pretty cushions or embellishment toppers on ornaments and such.

My First Sewing Box and Scissor Fob from The Stitching Parlor - click to see moreMy First Sewing Box and Scissor Fob
from The Stitching Parlor
A favorite from last year... I thought I'd re-introduce this darling pattern, because the tin it uses is so very limited in availability! This time of year, The Russell Stover Chocolate Company makes pastel-colored tins full of chocolate with their traditional cross-stitched motifs on the top of the tin.

Stitching Parlor has taken the seasonal pink, yellow and green tins and charted linings for the empty tin -- once the chocolate has been devoured! This charming cross stitch design matches the decoration on the tins, and with all the different colors of hand-dyed linens available... you can match the interior the your tin's exterior color! Simple cross-stitches, I just thought this was so charming when I saw it! The chase has been to find the tins -- but Valentine candy goes away next Sunday, February 15th... and Easter Candy instantly appears!!!

Anyway... FIND your tin... and then agonize over interior linen color! Turns out the Weeks Hand-dyed Sophie's Pink, Banana Popsicle and Scuppernong linen look great with all the Crescent Colours in all the tins!!! Decisions, decisions -- at least you'll have chocolate to eat while thinking that hard!
Spring Seasonal Garland from Valerie Pfeiffer - click to see moreSeasonal 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 - click for more 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 -- click to see moreLittle 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.

March is Breezy Flange Pillow Kit from Pine Mountain Designs - click to see more Friends Listen Kit from Pine Mountain Designs - click to see more Be Hoppy Kit from Pine Mountain Designs - click to see more Spring Fling Kit from Pine Mountain Designs - click to see more
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 from Country Cottage Needleworks and Crescent Colours - click to see moreBayside 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
Floral Fifteen from Just Nan - click to see moreLeave 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 - click to see moreDewdrop 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.

Mini-Kits from Mill Hill - click to see more
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!

The  Button & Bead Collection from Mill Hill - click to see more
The Button & Bead Collection from Mill Hill
What an awesome collection of high-impact designs this Spring!!! Flowers and Vegetables... choose your theme and stitch all three (or six!) I personally love, love, love the vegetables, they are stitched on a very light green paper (or 28ct linen), and accented with all that shaded and stippled background. The flowers are all stitched on black paper -- very dramatic. (If black isn't kind to your eyes, think about a background color of fabric, and STITCH that thin black border around each design instead. Lots of ways around the 'black issue!')

Lovely, crisp, fresh and contemporary designs this year... the colors are delicious... *Very Eyecatching!!!* Offered as the complete kit of chart, paper, flosses beads and button... each finishes approx 5 x 5. Our shop models are always on linen... so we can find some bright, fun colors if you'd like! So classy!

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.

Bunnies & Blooms from Blue Ribbon Designs Letters, Leprechauns & Luck from Blue Ribbon Designs Letters, Leprechauns & Luck... & ... Bunnies & Blooms
from Blue Ribbon Designs
Blue Ribbons latest new checkerboard designs... enjoy the total flavor of the Holiday with either of these cute designs! Multiple 1-inch cubed designs -- 81 in each -- you'll love these! Blue Ribbon has quite the collection in this style... all are offered as charts... all are stuffed full of their own holiday's charm!

Finishes approx 10 x 10 on 28ct... we have a few shop models on 40ct... EXQUISITE!

Spring Violets from Country Cottage Needleworks -- click to see lots moreSpring 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 from Country Cottage Needleworks -- click to see moreLittle 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.
Little Ballerinas from Country Cottage Needleworks -- click to see moreStitched 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?

Mr. McGregor's Garden from Liz Turner Diehl - click to see more Mr. McGregor's Garden from Liz Turner Diehl
Bunnies, Carrots, Blue Birds, Flowers and Greens... all tucked into Mr McGregor's organized and intriguing garden-in-the-round! Running rabbits... all chasing round and round... all the carrots to savor... all the colorful flowers and vegetables... everything is tucked into this 9-inch circular garden! Stitched on 28ct natural linen in colorful shades of Madeira flosses and metallics, it features lots of back and quarter stitches, simply because so much of the piece is 'on the angle.'

Liz has designed all those running rabbits... stitched in every angle... but not one is distorted; all of this design is balanced and neatly in place! Pretty springtime colors, lots of small details, the areas of greenery are stitched with Leaf and Plait Stitches. Offered as a complete kit of Madeira flosses and metallics, linen, and beads -- for the bunny tails!

Bellemeade from Just Nan -- click to see a larger viewBellemeade 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 NanDaffodil Run
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!!!

Spring Button & Bead Kits from Mill Hill - click for more
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 - click for more
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 -- click to see a larger view
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!

Sweetheart Tree Sparkling ShamrocksSparkling 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

Rhodes Butterfly Biscornu Pincushion -- click to see a more Cherry Blossoms Biscornu Pincushion -- click to see a more
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!!! (A note: Visit the finishing page for contact information on Pamela's Final Touch -- the expert in finishing this type of thing!)

Sweet Harmony by Teresa Layman -- click to see lots more
Sunday Social from Threads That Bind -- click to see moreSunday Social
from Threads That Bind

Another exquisite 11 x 3 design, punch the flock of sheep in Harvest Basket, Shaker White, Flax, Parchment, then pick something for that darker little guy! Flowers are Gingersnap and Mulberry colors!

Soft Perch from Threads That Bind -- click to see moreSoft Perch
from Threads That Bind

I love this one! That peaceful sheep is standing in a field of lavender... with his bird friend softly perched on his back!

Pretty color, (the flowers are punched in Sugarplum and Blueberry) this finishes approx 5-1/2 x 4. Background is Tarnished Gold. Very Country French!

Secret Shamrock from The Trilogy - click to see more Secret Shamrock from The Trilogy - click to see moreSecret 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!

Mini Ladybugs 2 from Dimples Designs -- click to see moreMini Ladybugs 2 from Dimples Designs
More little, delicate bugs... these are the yellow kind that you see every-so-often! (I've never actually thought about how rarely I see the yellow ones... but I know they're special...) Just like our red ones, these are incredibly involved... stitched over one thread on 32ct Glenshee linen... and are miniature works of needleart!

Composed of gorgeous yellow, golds, mustards, and into browns (28 different DMCs... plus 12 tweeded blends...!), the complete kit offers the linen, all the threads pre-tied onto numbered palettes, metallics and lots of detailed charts to help with all the backstitch detail. Just do one for a tiny fob... or stitch the whole piece... it measures only 4 x 4-3/4 inches!!! Exquisite!

Mini Ladybugs from Dimples Designs -- click to see a larger viewMini Ladybugs from Dimples Designs
I have always liked these little guys... and since I bought Soda Pop Santa from Dimples Designs, I picked up these, as well! Terribly intricate, each is stitched over one thread on the provided 32ct Natural Glenshee Linen in brilliant shades of DMC flosses and Kreinik red/gold metallics.

Presented as the complete kit of charts, linen, flosses and metallics, the entire picture measures just 4 x 5, so imagine that each ladybug is only 1 x 1! (Smaller than most of the bugs in the state of Texas!!!) Not for the weak-of-stitcher, there are several charts for each bug to help with all the different backstitch colors. Absolutely breathtaking... these are tiny, realistic works of art! (Don't even think about squishing one!)

Springology by The Trilogy -- click to see a larger viewSpringology
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.



Good Eggs Kit by The Trilogy -- click to see a larger viewGood Eggs from The Trilogy
The newest Take Along kit by The Trilogy has arrived! An absolutely darling trio of overdyed Easter Eggs, these are full of dusty raspberry, purples, golds and soft greens. The featured clay button is a chubby yellow chick, that looks bright in the pic, but really matches the overdyed golds quite well. Finishing approx 3 x 7 over two on the 32ct natural linen that's included, this finishes a mere 1-1/2 x 3-1/2 if you stitch it over one !!! Available as the complete kit of chart, linen, threads, needle and chick, it's packaged in a clear plastic wallet-style folder. Cute! See the rest of the new Trilogy offerings as well as the other Take Alongs on the Trilogy Page!



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