July 2008

I hope you are enjoying a lovely summer. Relax with some stitching and some time with friends and family.

Shops: If you could sign up your stitchers for My Stitching Album by July 24/08 that would be great. This way we can send you your product in a timely fashion.

I have finished stitching and framing the 'Take Time to Cruise' piece and will pick it up in the next week or two, with much changing of colour I am happy to say I'm pleased. I will be releasing one more 'Take Time' piece in February '09 and possibly if I can finish, another one....

Please look for the Just Cross Stitch August Ornament Preview Issue. It has a second ornament in it that matches the one that will be in the JCS Ornament 2008 Issue. Look also for a seasonal pattern to come in the December issue.

We are busy making our kits for events in the fall and of course all our 'album' thread packs and details for the project. I look forward to starting the 'My Stitching Album' and have come from the printer today yet again with hopefully another proof soon.... I think the road is wearing thin between the printer and I!

My Stitching Treasures Accessories does have a thread pack available now. Please check with your local shop.

Enjoy your summer excursions and I look forward to the spending some time on my deck stitching and reading. Any questions... as ever, email me and we will do our best to help you.

April 2008

Well stitchers, a long time in coming and finally the release of My Stitching Treasures Accessories. As I mentioned in the previous update this was several years in the making, sometimes things don't go quite how you would like and voila ~ a few years go by.... but it is now available at your local needlework shop and I just have to say, I loved how the cover turned out. We got the 'feel' I wanted. I was grateful as you know how so often the covers don't reflect what you actually get when you are stitching it. Enjoy!

May 28/08 addendum to My Stitching Treasures Accessories - I have changed my mind and I will release a thread pack with this pattern. There has been so much call for it that it seems best to do it. So we are working on getting all the bits together and so I suspect in a month they should be available at your local shop.

Below are some notes on 'My Stitching Album'.

Shops:I know for the shops alot of you got to see the project and I hope that this will be something that your stitching group at the shop can do together and talk about it, think of even more new ways to stitch eg. a mosaic, and learn to 'play' with the stitch and share. For it is in sharing and working together that we grow and that we have memory making times. Get your Thursday night stitch group together or any other interested stitchers and we will ship you your new page every second month. This is a perfect opportunity to learn a new stitch as you get to do it for a full page and then you will 'really' know it!

Single Stitchers: I know that there are many of you that do not have access to a local shop. Many shops do mail order and I encourage you to use them if you can or your favourite on line shop but having said that contact me for assistance if you would like help in joining in this exciting project.

As you see on the home page there is a brochure with some information and I will post more as I work on updating the website. This is a ten page project (including front and back page) featuring some of the basic stitches used in samplers. A poem per page reflects on stitching and our passion along with displaying the stitch in various different ways.

One last exciting project we are working on is a Jeannette Douglas Stitch and Sail, January 2009. I will be posting more of this exciting cruise with Jeannette when the details are refined.

So as usual I have my hand in many things and so along with the events this year we look forward to some very exciting times!

See events page for more info.

As ever, keep stitching Jeannette

January 2008

Hope you all had a lovely holiday season and are ready for some great stitching this year! I always love the change in the year as I dream of new things to do. To that whole new thing... I have a few 'new' things to tell you.

Here are the new patterns for Nashville Needlework Market.

This promises to be a little journey through MA and a great look into the past --The Bay State Sampler - Massachusetts- the new addition to the American Journey Series.

A Needle and Thread Sampler - done for a great Canadian Magazine Publication - A Needle Pulling Thread - this charming sampler features some lovely pulled thread work using a soft colour palate.

Two additions to the 'Sititches' series in Pomegranate and Pear Stitches, and Silver Needle Stitches. These 2 pieces are exactly the same size as the others and will also fit into the box made for them by Olde Colonial Designs. On the cover photos I have shown them framed but they certainly can fit the box as the stitch count remains the same.

For release this June ( maybe earlier if I can get the instructions written sooner! )will be "My Stitching Treasures Accessories. They are finally coming. I have worked on this for several years, I did one alphabet and hated it so I sent it the 'recycle' bin, we had it all finished and I couldn't live with the font, so I changed everything and redid it all! (I know what you are thinking! <grin>)This has 5 pieces to it and I will have it with me in Nashville for you to see but the pattern writing is not complete.

For release this September is a whole new series called 'My Stitching Album'. As you see on the home page there is a brochure with some information and I will post more as I work on updating the website. This is a ten page project (including front and backpage) featuring some of the basic stitches used in samplers. A poem per page reflects on stitching and our passion along with displaying the stitch in various different ways.

One last exciting project we are working on is a Jeannette Douglas Stitch and Sail, January 2009. I will be posting more of this exciting cruise with Jeannette when the details are refined.

So as usual I have my hand in many things and so along with my teaching this year we look forward to some very exciting times!