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THE ATTIC
4 November 2010
Issue No. Twenty-Six
www.atticneedlework.com
OUR CO-SAMPLERS OF THE MONTH
CONTINUE INTO NOVEMBER
We’re continuing our four special Samplers of the Month through
November. Clockwise from the left: “Jane Tindall 1864” from Vickie/
NeedleWorkPress ~ Mary’s almost-finished “Birth Sampler” designed
by her sister Linda/Chessie & Me ~ my in-progress model of“Margaret
Brown” from Gloria/Milady’s Needle ~ “On Christmas Day” from
Linda/Samplers Remembered. See pages 3 and 4 for more on each
of these samplers.
For my “Margaret Brown” I chose to stitch the obverse side of this
sampler. Reproductions of the reverse side are shown on page 3.
Usually fond of bright colors, especially when they’re red, I fell in love
with the faded palette of the original on the front. But the wonderful
thing about this reproduction is you can choose which one you like best!
This is a petite sampler, relatively speaking, and I hope to finish it this
weekend. The fabric in the photo above, taken in this morning’s early
sunlight, is not really as dark as it appears.
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November at The Attic
If you are a member of our Attic Addicts club, save 15%
on your purchase of the following during November:
• All designs by Chessie & Me, Milady’s Needle,
NeedleWorkPress, and Samplers Remembered
• Dinky Dyes Silk
• In-stock Lakeside Linens - Custom Cuts
Saturday, November 6, 9:30-12:00 Etui
Finishing Class with Linda Danielson This
elegant needlework accessory takes no time to stitch
and, with Linda’s expert guidance, we will finish this
tomorrow morning. The class fee, which includes all
finishing materials as well as the buttons, is $20.
Saturday, November 6, 10:30
- 12:30 Beginning Linen with
Linda’s wonderful new Tulip
needlebook design as the class
project. The $30 fee includes
Linda’s expert instruction as
well as the chart + materials for
this most useful learning project.
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2011
January 14-16, 2011, (Martin Luther King weekend), A Primitive
Gathering with Stacy Nash of Stacy Nash Primitives, Linda
Lautenschlager of Chessie & Me, Vickie Jennett of NeedleWorkPress
and more! Thanks for your continued patience ~ I’ve been holding up
the newsletter waiting for final details from a participant, but it will have
to be in a future issue. Can’t hold this up any longer.
Saturday, February 26, Nashville Market Day
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.
2011 Stitch-Along Project
Saturday, November 6, Beading a Miniature
Book with Alice, 1-4 PM Your $35 class fee
includes your imported kit + Alice’s expertise in
creating this most charming diminutive book.
Friday through Sunday, November 12-14, Merry Cox Weekend.
Details on our Web site. A few places remain in each workshop.
Saturday, November 20, Our Annual Benefit for Breast Cancer
Research, 6-8 PM, with all proceeds benefitting the Breast Cancer
Research Foundation, at the Woodbridge Lake Clubhouse. A map will be
published in the next issue. We hope you plan to join us for this fun event.
Enjoy delicious eats and treats and refreshments while participating in the
fun but very competitive bidding, which closes at 8 PM. Items are then
distributed to the winning bidders and any items without a minimum bid
can be yours through the live auction process.
Newsletters with photos of all donations received thus far will be sent
next week. Help us meet our goal of $20,000+ ~ and don’t forget that the
cookbooks ($14.95 donation or more if you wish) make great Christmas
gifts! Delicious recipes and wonderful needlework projects as well!
This lovely sampler, “I Sigh Not for Beauty” from C Street
Samplerworks, has been chosen as one of next year’s 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 ). First published in 2001, the sampler
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 here’s
our Belle Soie conversion on hand-dyed Lakeside. We would be
Saturday, December 18, 1-4 PM, Our Annual Kris Kringle Party.
happy to do an NPI or Au Ver A’Soie conversion for you as well.
Special Holiday sweet treats and the Attic’s famous fruit punch + ornament
There are only 8 colors. I sigh because this is a beauty!
exchange for those wishing to participate.
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“Margaret W. Brown 1838” from Milady’s Needle
Save 15%, as one of our Co-Samplers of the Month, on your purchase of at least 2 of the following:
chart $19 ~ fabric (40c w/2-inch margins) $13 ~ overdyed silk combo package $67.50 OR the AVAS
charted combinations, which depends on the count of your fabric, $36 - $38. On larger-count fabrics with
larger margins the fabric price will be more.
To read more about this reproduction, please visit Gloria/Milady’s Needle’s blog:
http://
miladysneedle.blogspot.com/ and you’ll read that Gloria also owns Margaret’s sister’s sampler and, I think,
has decided to reproduce that also. What a special opportunity, for us to be able to stitch sisters’ samplers!
“Jane Tindall 1864,” reproduced on 40c Weeks Confederate Gray, right,
very closely resembles the original in Vickie’s collection. You may prefer
the warmer, more golden linen pictured on page 1. Either will be
exquisite. We are fortunate to have Tanya’s gorgeous model currently on
display in the shop. On 40c linen the finished size is 15 3/4 x 14, and it is
charted for Au Ver A’Soie and Gloriana Florimell silks.
Save 15% on your purchase of 2 of the following parts:
chart $20 + linen ~ 40c w/2” margins = $22 to $25, depending on
type ~ silks as charted, Au Ver A’Soie’s Soie d’Alger and Gloriana’s
Florimell $83.40
Two AVAS colors, a brown and a green, are currently not
available. The green is currently “at the dyer in France” but it could be up
to six weeks or longer before it is available in the USA. We’ve found a great
substitute, shown above on the left. If you’re waiting for your order and
NOT okay with the substitution and would rather wait, please let us know.
The brown isn’t on the dyeing schedule and may be
eliminated permanently from the line because there are
several other colors that are so close that, as John has
taught me, riding by on horseback at midnight, you
couldn’t discern the difference. We are substituting for
everyone that color number.
Thanks for your
understanding.
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“On Christmas Day” from Samplers Remembered
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Below, the chart model of “Birth
Sampler” from Chessie & Me
It’s the verse that made this a most favorite birth sampler ever.
Most can’t read it without choking up:
“When you are born, you cry and the World Rejoices.
“May you live in such a manner that when you leave this
earth, the World cries and You Rejoice.”
Pictured below, the silks we converted to from the hand-dyed
cottons ~ and a close-up of Grandma Mary’s adorable little
lamb on her sampler, pictured on page 1. Almost as cuddly as
that precious child who the sampler honors.
Although “introduced” at the St. Charles Market, we’ve been
fortunate to have this exquisite sampler in our shop for several
years, along with Linda Danielson’s other charted reproductions,
and so Gary began his six months ago or so, with snippets shown
above. It is even more beautiful in person.
We’ve done silk conversions to both NPI OR the AVAS with
touches of overdyed silks using Gloriana’s Florimell + Belle
Soie, shown above.
As one of our Co-Samplers of the Month, save 15% on
purchasing at least two of the following:
chart $15 ~ linen $31 (40c Lakeside linen with 2-inch
margins) ~ AVAS/Florimell silk combo $115 OR NPI $93.
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New in the Shop
Above from the left: These three 40c-silk-gauze Erica Michaels’ designs really present a personal
dilemma: which one to start first? I saw these in St. Charles and couldn’t wait till they arrived. “Home
in the Winter” and “Home at Christmas” are both $15, and “Proverbs Child” $18 includes an alphabet
for personalization as well as an alternate charting and colorway for the boy’s version.
Above and right, all photos of Stacy Nash Primitives’ “Hallowe’en
Jack Sewing Roll” $10 showing a variety of views of this SPOOKY
needlework accessory. Here’s the verse: “Jack O Lantern such a
Fright Glowing on this Hallowe’en Night Grinning wide for all to
see SPOOKY but you don’t scare me.”
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More New in the Shop
Clockwise from above left:
the very charming 2010 Limited Edition
Christmas Kit from JBW Designs combines an adorable tree design with
brass toy charms and an enamelware tumbler with a Christmas design,
perfect for Santa’s milk and cookies tray, for candy canes, or for a tiny
tree or Christmas arrangement ~ two Milady’s Needle chartpacks ($8
each) with lovely Christmas designs, “Christmas Tree Farm” and “A Spot
of Christmas” ~ “Snowball Garland” $8 from The Needle’s Notion.
Below, we showed these two beautiful samplers from C Street
Samplerworks in our last issue, but I failed to say that both of these
designs were initially published in past issues of Sampler & Antique
Needlework Quarterly.
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From Morning Glory Needleworks
Clockwise from upper left: a rare reproduction of a sampler stitched by a boy, “John Viott
1826” $12 includes both cross and queen stitches ~ “Life How Short” $12, a
mourning sampler full of motifs symbolizing death and mourning (i.e., Forget-me-nots
for remembrance, weeping willow for mourning and sorrow, etc.) with the center verse,
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die,” a quote from Scottish poet Thomas
Campbell, and “Life how short ~ Eternity how long,” found on an 1814 sampler ~
“Always Kiss Me Good Night” $8, and the chart includes both colorways ~ and
“Today I will Choose to be Happy” $12, inspired by a quote from Anne Frank’s diary.
As designer Dawn Fisher explains, “This optimistic quote, written under such hopeless
circumstances, should inspire all of us to start each day with the decision to be happy.”
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New from Mother and Daughter
Above from the left: Three wonderful Seasonal designs, each $8: “Christmas Carols” and “Joy*Peace*Love” from Nikki/Country
Cottage Needleworks ~ and “Winter Band Sampler” from Diane/Little House Needleworks
New from Blackbird Designs
Left, Barb & Alma’s “Moonlight Visitor” $9,
No. 9 in their Anniversaries of the Heart series,
focuses on the colorful nocturnal visitor in its
whimsically large-as-the-house size,
photographed with our Belle Soie conversion
and a 40c linen that will make it a sweet 3.75” x
4.25” ~or if Rhonda stitches it, it could be a
tiny 1.9 x 2.2!
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Uniquely Yours, Beautiful Needlework Jewelry
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Some “Pink” Products
Above, These “Oh*Snap!” pouches are a divinely simple way to keep
your stuff in its right place, but the best news about these pink mesh sets (set
of 3, small 6.5 x 4, medium 9 x 7, large, 10 x 8 OR set of 2 XL 14 x 10 and
XXL 15.5 x 13 ~ both $17) is that 10% of the sales will be donated to our
favorite “pink” charity, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. BCRF is
dedicated to preventing breast cancer and finding a cure in our lifetime by
funding clinical and translational research worldwide. For more information
about BCRF visit www.bcrfcure.org.
Above, Sandy now has these over-one-on-28c-opalescent/white-linenwith-Belle-Soie JBW Designs, “The Sister Purse” and “French Country
Love,” (both $5) in their perfect and beautiful jewelry findings from
Uniquely Yours. Each finding is high-quality and silver-plated ($36) just
in time for gift-giving and very quick to stitch!
Right, “Charlotte’s Sampler,” $18 was designed by Louise Henderson
of Cherished Stitches to honor her Godson’s wife, who is battling
breast cancer, and a portion of the proceeds will go to breast cancer
research. Besides the fact that this is a fabulous design, it also supports a
very important cause. The lighter version is stitched with Gloriana’s
Raspberry Parfait and the darker model is on 35c Weeks Onyx with
Weeks Emma’s Pink.
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Clockwise from the right: also from Cherished
Stitches, “Colors of Fall Ensemble” $18
includes the basket band, needlebook,
scissors case, and acorn fob for all of us who
love Autumn~ Imaginating’s “Noel” $7 ~
two, both $4, in the Stitch Your Heart Out
campaign: “Tweet” by Monsterbubbles
and “Home Is Where Your Leaves Are” by
Myrtle Grace Motifs ~ beautiful new
hardanger projects from Emie Bishop/
Cross ‘n Patch, “Trust in the Lord” $12
(love hardanger ~ just wish I weren’t so
tired at night that all I can muster are X’s) ~
and from Passione Ricamo, “Selene The
Moon Goddess” $20.
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Jackie du Plessis’s Indian Ink
Published in the Fall 2010 issue of Sampler
& Antique Needlework Quarterly, I had the
opportunity to see this beautiful project in
person and fell in love! The Attic has
received permission to teach this, and we
look forward to scheduling it in early
2011, so order your kit and and get
started! The Indian Ink kit ($105)
includes the following:
30c Linen
Au Ver A Soie silk fiber
4mm Black Silk ribbon
Thread Gatherer Savoir Faire ribbon
Skirtex
Applique pins
Tapestry Needle
Milliner's Needle
Ultra Suede
Scrimshaw ivory key created by
Marcy Pumphret
And a special surprise: the lovely
matching accessory piece, the Madras
ornament/pincushion. We are taking
orders now.
The handmade easel created for
the Indian Ink needlecase can be
special-ordered as well for $40.
Watch for the announcement of a Jackie du Plessis Workshop coming to The Attic.
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Another Lovely Sampler Adaptation from Julia in England
Above, Julia’s lovely adaptation of a most favorite Brenda Keyes/The
Sampler Company design, “Country House Sampler” $19, pictured below.
Here’s what Julia wrote about her adaptation: “I am doing this as a
memorial sampler for my Great Auntie Maggie. My Auntie
always had a needle of some kind in her hand. Wherever she
went, there was always either tapestry, embroidery, or knitting in
her bag. As a young girl, I used to stay weekends with her and we
would stitch away together. She taught me lots of needlework.
Auntie Maggie didn't get married and didn't have any children,
so I like to think she would be pleased if she knew I had made a
sampler for her.
“I have changed the sampler quite a bit in the top half, but
the bottom half I have done almost as shown in the original
chart. I have changed the colours of the people and have given
them hair. I decided to add a bit of humour and put two stray
sheep ( a ram and a lady sheep ) appearing from behind a pot,
naughty! I didn't like the rabbit on the lawn so put another
sheep instead.”
Above, Julia and her daughter, Emma. “My daughter doesn't
sew. She wouldn't even attempt to sew on a button. I think the
only thing she has ever done was a few rows of knitting when she
was about 6 and a pom pom.”
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More From our Customers
Clockwise from the left above: Dawn’s beautiful “Shores
of Hawk Run Hollow” $32 ~ Rhonda’s “We Will
Go A’Haunting” $40 kit from Shepherd’s Bush
(Rhonda’s is stitched over one on the 32c kit fabric)
~ Michelle’s sock-monkey ornament from this
year’s JCS Ornament Issue, a freebie from ???
(sorry, I didn’t retain that) and another from the
JCS Ornament Issue ~ Rhonda’s 2010 Prairie
Schooler Santa $4 stitched on 40c silk gauze ~
Carolyn’s Ink Circles’ design from the JCS’s
Halloween Issue and three of her completed
ornaments, one from Little House Needleworks’
ornament series and the other two from the 2010
JCS Ornament Issue.
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HALLOWEEN 2010
It was a very scary :~) Saturday Stitch-In and Potluck, and
Sheri “dressed” for the occasion. Her spider hat was the best!
But then there were the gloves!
Tyler and Hannah also got into the spirit, even though
they’re growing up. It was a fun event organized at their church,
Trunk & Treat! John and I had the best time! Adorable little
ones. but the little duck was the best! As was Hannah’s pumpkin!
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