Spooky Stuff & Not-So-Spooky Stuff

Homespun Elegance
The Spooky Stuff Button Sampler has designs for both a sampler and a needle case, while Holiday Samplings II has charts to stitch a sampler plus a pincushion.

Spooky Stuff Button Sampler
Fibers: GA, WDW
Fabric: 28 ct. 18th Century Brown Linen by R&R (sampler),
28 ct. Natural Straw Gingham Linen by WDW (needle case)
Stitch Count: 75W x 115H (sampler),
81W x 62H (needle case)

Holiday Samplings II
Fibers: WDW, CC, GA, DMC
Fabric: 28 ct. Palomino Linen (sampler),
30 ct. Mink Linen (pincushion)
Embellishments: Buttons, charms
Stitch Count: 112W x 80H (sampler),
55W x 67H (pincushion)

Halloween Motifs is finished as a pumpkin pincushion and a cylinder.

Halloween Motifs
Fibers: GA, WDW
Fabric: 30 ct. Carrot Linen
Embellishments: Buttons
Stitch Count: 140W x 82H (cylinder),
134W x 28H (pincushion)

La D Da

Give Her
Fibers: Needlepoint Silk
Fabric: 35 ct. Straw Linen
Stitch Count: 114W x 130H

Toil & Trouble
Fibers: Needlepoint Silk
Fabric: 35 ct. Havanna Linen
Stitch Count: 167W x 66H

Rosewood Manor Designs
Ring In Christmas contains charts for stitching a Quaker stocking as well as two ornaments, although any of the stocking motifs could be used to create ornaments for your tree. The chart also comes with an alphabet for personalization.

Ring In Christmas
Fibers: DMC
Fabric: 28 ct. White Lugana
Stitch Count: 170W X 250H

Vintage Lace is an 18 page chart containing a large sampler, two medium-sized samplers, and 12 smaller designs.

Vintage Lace
Fibers: WDW
Fabric: 32 ct. Lupine Belfast
by Picture This Plus
Stitch Count: 300W x 190H

Quaker Diamonds is a 10 page booklet that has plenty of ideas for using the individual sampler motifs in other projects.

Quaker Diamonds
Fibers: Valdani
Fabric: 28 ct. Mello Cashel
by Picture This Plus
Stitch Count: 170W x 270H

Plum Street Samplers
Hares' Halloween is the latest design in the Hares series and is due to be released tomorrow (Oct. 6th) at the Online Needlework Show.

Hares' Halloween
Stitch Count: 93W x 75H

Be sure to visit the Online Needlework Show starting on Wednesday. Enjoy your shopping!

Market Preview

As promised, here's a quick and dirty preview of some of the designs to be released at market this weekend, although you may have already seen some (or pre-ordered some!) by now.

Plum Street Samplers

Halloween Hornbook Sampler
Fibers: Belle Soie
Fabric: 36 ct. Vintage Quicksilver
by Lakeside Linens
Stitch Count: 121W x 140H

Paradise Lost
Fibers: Needlepoint Inc., Gloriana Silks
Fabric: 36 ct. Vintage Light Examplar
by Lakeside Linens
Stitch Count: 417W x 190H

Garden of Eerie
Fibers: Needlepoint Inc.
Fabric: 36 ct. Vintage Sand Dune
by Lakeside Linens
Stitch Count: 176W x 161H

Heaven Gave Rain
Fibers: Belle Soie, Needlepoint Inc.
Fabric: 36 ct. Vintage Buttercream
by Lakeside Linens
Stitch Count: 112W x 131H

Blackbird Designs
Joyeux Noel is a 40 page full color book of French-inspired designs. Inside are 16 projects to create beautiful sewing boxes, pincushions, samplers and ornaments.

Joyeux Noel

Sue Hillis Designs

The Homecoming
Fabric: 28 ct. Lavender Lugana
Embellishments: Star charms

Happy Holidays

Women who behave
Embellishment: Handcuffs charm

Carriage House Samplings

Christmas at Hawk Run Hollow
Fibers: Needlepoint Silks, Thread Gatherer
Fabric: 40 ct. Examplar from Lakeside Linens
Stitch Count: 278W x 371H

A Mind Independent & Free

The Curse of the Raven

Happy stitching!

All Things Halloween (mostly)

Heartstring Primitives
I love it when designers come up with interesting and original ideas. That is the case with Bountful Harvest Pinkeep. This pinkeep is cleverly finished as a pumpkin!

Bountful Harvest Pinkeep

Country Garden Stitchery
I love the wonderfully vibrant colors in Lady Scarecrow. Designs such as this make me anxious for fall to arrive!

Lady Scarecrow
Fibers: GAST
Fabric: 28 ct. Coffee Bean Linen
Stitch Count: 84W x 84H

Blue Ribbon Designs
In true BRD style, Afraid Of The Dark is a Halloween design that includes charts for a set of needlework smalls - a pinkeep, scissor fob, floss ring tag and needlebook.

Afraid Of The Dark
Fibers: GAST
Fabric: 40 ct. Claypot
by Lakeside Linens
Stitch Count: 165W x 136H

Also new is Black Cats and Flying Bats. The package comes with finishing instructions for making each square of the design into an ornament, scissor fob or hook hanger.

Black Cats and Flying Bats
Fibers: WDW
Fabric: 40 ct. Tarnished Silver
by Lakeside Linens
Stitch Count: 358W x 63H

Lastly, we have A Sampling in the Square, complete with charting for a scissor fob, floss ring tag, pinkeep and needlebook. Unlike the other two Halloween designs, this one is suitable for displaying year round.

A Sampling in the Square
Fibers: WDW
Fabric: 40 ct. Buttercream
by Lakeside Linens
Stitch Count: 163W x 153H

Plum Street Samplers
Here's one to stitch for the black sheep in your family. Ha!

Sophie's Sheep
Fibers: GAST
Fabric: 36 ct. Vintage Light Examplar
by Lakeside Linens
Stitch Count: 96W x 74H

CM Designs
Instead of an adorable snowman design (although there are more of those to come shortly!), Carolyn has treated us to an adorable little ghost design entitled Walking Jack.

Walking Jack
Fibers: DMC, Kreinik
Fabric: 28 ct. Antique Copper Jobelan
Stitch Count: 104W x 90H

Happy stitching!

Annie Beez Folk Art, Cross Eyed Kat, Plum Street Samplers, Willow Hill

Annie Beez Folk Art

Our Love
Fibers: AVAS silks
Fabric: 32 ct. Antique White
Belfast Linen
Stitch Count: 93W x 124H

Be Ye Kind and True
Fibers: DMC
Fabric: 32 ct. Country
French Cafe Mocha Linen
Stitch Count: 85W x 78H

Cross Eyed Kat

Page 3 of the Briar Rose story is now out. Notice that she has pricked her finger on a needle and not on a spindle?!?

Briar Rose - Page 3

There are also three new Advent Ornaments to add to your collection - Nutcracker, Jingle Bells and St. Nicholas Day.

Nutcracker

Jingle Bells

St. Nicholas Day

In conjunction with this year's Stitching for Literacy campaign, Cross Eyed Kat has released a set of bookmarks.

Bookmarks
Fabric: Clay Jobelan (sword),
linen banding (Celtic knots)

Plum Street Samplers

Hares' Spring
Fibers: Gentle Art Sampler Threads
Fabric: 36 ct. Buttercream linen
by Lakeside Linens

Hares' Summer
Fibers: Gentle Art Sampler Threads
Fabric: 36 ct. Buttercream linen
by Lakeside Linens

Rubie Owl's Sampler
Fibers: Belle Soie, Needlepoint Silk
Fabric: 36 ct. Vintage Autumn Gold
Stitch Count: 180W x 172H

Bird in the Bower
Fibers: Needlepoint Silk
Stitch Count: 175W x 136H

Willow Hill Samplings

Snow White Sampler
Fibers: Gentle Art, Crescent Colours
Fabric: 36 ct. Legacy Edinburgh linen
by Picture This Plus
Finished Size: 14 1/8" x 14 1/8"

New from the Nashville Needlework Market!

There are a whole slew of new releases coming out of the Nashville Needlework Market. Some are available now and some are coming soon. I am going to blog daily until I have covered all of the new designs that I know about. Be sure to check back often during the week!

Just Nan
Several small designs and one large sampler were released by Just Nan at Nashville Market. Strawberry Heart can be stitched as a Valentine project or displayed all year long. It is embellished with red and white striped beads and a painted strawberry. Winter Violets incorporates spring violets into a lacy snowflake. Looking ahead to Easter (or perhaps even spring), Dewdrop is an adorable little bunny that is adorned with dewdrop beads and an aqua flower. Floral Fifteen is a 15-sided biscornu embellished with striped beads, pearls and opal coin beads. Harmony is a gorgeous limited edition seasonal silk sampler. And finally, Harmony Monogram Tin is a coordinating accessory tin to the Harmony sampler.

Strawberry Heart

Winter Violets

Dewdrop

Floral Fifteen

Harmony

Harmony Monogram Tin

Cross Eyed Kat
Cross Eyed Kat has announced The Tale of Briar Rose, a new series that tells the story of Sleeping Beauty. Pages 1 and 2 have just been released. There will be a total of 16 to 18 charts in this series.

Briar Rose - Page 1

Briar Rose - Page 2

Advent Ornaments is a new series of ornaments that can be used as an Advent calendar. These ornaments are finished as pocket bags so that a treat can be hidden inside. The first three charts are Poinsettia, Advent Candle and Gingerbread House.

Poinsettia

Advent Candle

Gingerbread House

Lastly, three more designs have been added to the Dragon Snowfight series. Snowfight: Orange, Snowfight: Indigo and Snowfight: Green complete the series, although I did hear a rumor of possibly two more dragons being added.

Snowfight: Orange

Snowfight: Indigo

Snowfight: Green

Glory Bee Stitch
The latest Glory Bee designs are Seaside Sampler and Stitching with Friends. These designs are scheduled to be released the week of February 23. I hope you can wait that long!

Seaside Sampler

Stitching with Friends

Plum Street Samplers
Plum Street Samplers has come out with a new Valentine's chart and a new sampler. Love Notes is a wonderful trio of love-inspired designs. Free Bird is a patriotic sampler for all of my American friends.

Love Notes

Free Bird

Well, I'm out of here for today folks. Until next time, happy stitching!