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Where Samplers Rule

The Attic, Mesa, AZ Toll-Free: 1.888.94-ATTIC (1.888.942.8842) www.atticneedlework.com

THE ATTIC Issue No. 11-13

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2011 April 22

As our April Sampler of the Month, you may save 15% on your purchase of 2 of the following:• chart $13• 32c hand-dyed linen ~ minimum needed for just the sewing box, $19

OR enough to also stitch the needlebook and scissors fob designs included as “Be Creative!” extras $31. Both linen cuts include 2 Kelmscott Bluebell threadrings for the closure.

• NPI silk $64 OR Belle Soie $75 OR the hand-dyed silk combo shown below (Belle Soie, Dinky Dyes, Gloriana & Gumnut) $101.25.

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Below, my progress as of 10 p.m. last night. Below, the combination of silks (Belle Soie, Dinky Dyes, Gloriana & Gumnut) that we’ve selected. Right, the chart’s cover photo of this exquisite design.

Rosewood Manor’s English Tapestry Sewing Box April’s Sampler of the Month

We’ve shipped many “kits” for this beautiful project as we filled orders in date order received, but now we are waiting for more linen and one more hand-dyed silk to complete more kits for many more of you. Thank you for your patience. As we all know, hand-dyed materials take time but are so worth the wait!

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Left, the vintage linen and silks selected for the reproduction of this charming Adam & Eve

sampler, Ann Wheatley’s 1829 sampler

from the private collection of NeedleWorkPress!

F o r those of you joining us on this reproduction stitch-along, you may choose

one of these charming notebooks created exclusively for you by NeedleWorkPress ~ and purchase others if you wish. The first of 4 parts will be available on June 1. Each section will be $6. Part 1 will include the chart folder with a color image of the entire sampler.

A Sneak Peek ... at our choice for our May Sampler of the Month, a very beautiful reproduction sampler. Watch for full details in next week’s edition.

An Attic Exclusive, Ann Wheatley’s 1829 Sampler from the Private Collection of NeedleWorkPress!



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Support a great cause (all net proceeds go to breast cancer research) by buying a copy(s) of the Recipes for a Cure cookbook for a donation of $14.95 (or more) with fabulous time-tested recipes as well as complimentary designs from 11 designers.

Saturday, May 7, 1:30-3:30, A Redwork Guest Towel Or??? Just in time for Mother’s Day gift-giving, join us for this class using a very quick and easy technique. Fee $10 ~ As always, class project supplies at 10% discount.

Sampler Sunday, June 20. Although this is Father’s Day, you will want to carve out a 3-hour time in the afternoon to join us for a very special Sampler Sunday with Barbara Hutson/Queenstown Sampler Designs with a very special presentation. Barbara is a renowned sampler expert, and we are honored to have her at The Attic. Fee $10; please register.

As a member of our Attic Addicts Club, during April you may save 15% on your purchase of any of the following:

Rosewood Manor charts (in stock) Colorscapes/Picture This Plus linens (custom cuts) All Hand-Dyed Silk Threads

We still have some BCRF cookbooks left.

November 19, 6 - 8 PM, Our 14th Annual BCRF Benefit, with all proceeds to benefit breast cancer research.

April

Sunday, May 16, 1:00-4:00, Sampler Sunday It is the third Sunday of the month and time for this fun and inspiring get-together with a special focus on samplers. Bring yours to stitch and share. Refreshments served; please register. $10

Saturday, June 19, Meet the Designer, 1:30 - 4. We know not all of you are able to attend a Sunday afternoon gathering, but we don’t want you to miss the opportunity to meet Barbara Hutson of Queenstown Sampler Designs and see her incredible samplers. She is bringing models and original samplers with her! Please register to help us plan. There is no fee for this reception.

Saturday, May 7, 10:30-12:30, Beginning Linen with Linda’s Tulip needlebook design as the class project. The $30 fee includes Linda’s expert instruction as well as the chart + materials for this very useful learning project.

May

Saturday, April 23, 10:30-12:30, Design Your Own French Alphabet Sampler We hope you can join us tomorrow morning for this very elegant and personalized project. I hope that one day soon I will finish my “L” version begun years ago, when Tedra and Tamami (above left and right) began theirs :~( Fee$15 ~ And you are invited to “audit” the class if you’ve taken it with us in a prior year (or decade.)

Saturday, April 30, 10:30-?, Royal Wedding Celebration Well, kind of ! The menu won’t really be royal (pizza, soft drinks and perhaps wedding cake), but the wedding favors a/k/a door prizes will have a “royal flair” and our stitching projects are always, while perhaps not royal, certainly magnificent.

Full information regarding our Jackie du Plessis November workshops with more photos and prices will be available in about 45 days.

November

Saturday, June 4. 2 - 4 PM Meet the Designer Reception. Karin Kersten of Beardie Designs from The Netherlands will be in The Attic on this first Saturday in June and we’d love for you to meet her. Please call to register to help us plan.

June



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A Mystery Sampler Club from Brenda Gervais ofCountry Stitches/With Thy Needle & Thread . . .

•This Special Summer Project is a 3-part original sampler described as a 21st century design with a 19th century flair.•Club members will receive the design in 3 installments ~ the first will detail the border, and the second and third patterns will detail the center of the sampler. Release dates are May 10, June 10, and July 10, the dates our distributor will ship.•Design size, 173w x 190h.•From its title, “Birds of a Feather,” I’m sure that it will have bird(s). A faint image of the sampler is shown in the photograph to the left.

How do you join this Club? Sign up now (each sampler section is $7 each) and give us your choices for your project (prices vary depending on your choices):* Weeks Dye Works Linen in 30c, 35c, or 40c OR Lakeside Linen in your favorite count ~ on

40c the design size will be 8.7 x 9.5. * 19 skeins of Weeks cotton flosses OR a conversion to overdyed silk. Unfortunately, until

we get the thread list after May 10, we can’t provide any details on the silk palette.

More from Brenda Gervais/CountryStitches/With Thy Needle & Thread: * Below right, “Ann Sandles - 1846” $19, a gorgeous reproduction sampler, the charts for

which I hope are in our mailbox today. Charted for cotton overdyes, we will be providing a conversion to silk overdyes and will show you them next week. I LOVE the reds!

* Below, “Soar,” Brenda’s charming sampler inspired by the adorable eaglets that have captured America and the world as we watch them in their nest. Go to Brenda’s blog at www.withthyneedleandthread.blogspot.com to purchase the chart, with proceeds now exceeding $1,000 going to the Raptor Resource Project. Follow the eaglets with the eagle web cam ~ and if you’d like to stitch your sampler in Belle Soie on the very beautiful and perfect-for-this-project Lakeside Linen’s Vintage Sienna Night, please let us know. We have a bit of it in stock in both 40c and 36c.



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New Treasures in Our Attic

Clockwise from above: Two from Erica Michaels in her Petites Collection on silk gauze, “Home in the Summer” and “Forgive,” each $15 with the 40c gauze included ~ Lizzie Kate’s now & then Snippet, “Land That I Love” $5 for both designs ~ the last 3 Double-Flips in her “Halloween Rules” each $8 w/buttons ~ “Summer Alphabet” $10.50 ~ and in her Flora McSample Series, “Strawberry Sampler” $4.50 ~ that strawberry looks good enough to eat!



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Clockwise from above, “Emma & Eliza in the Garden” $19 w/embellishments, the first of 3 projects in this 2011 series, a very limited series starring 2 sisters who live “somewhere in time,” and here’s what Nan tells us about these ladies: They do everything together, BUT with decidedly different agendas. You can follow their story in a series of stitching projects. This first project finds the sisters in their cottage gardens. “Painted Turtle Pocket” $12.50 w/embellishments ~ “Painted Turtle” Thread Winder $12 ~ “Turtle Charm Garden Pin” $10.

From Just*Nan

Left, We’ve shown you these lovely 100% linen towels in an earlier edition ~ if you want to see Mary Corbett embroidering on them, go here: http://www.needlenthread.com/ Right, If you missed this last Sunday morning on CBS, here’s a link to a most interesting video on England’s Royal School of Needlework: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7363014n Thank you, Barbara, for always keeping me in touch! I truly appreciate you.



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Attic, Mesa, AZ Toll-Free: 1.888.94-ATTIC (1.888.942.8842) www.atticneedlework.com

Shipping to us now, “Elizabeth Jane” $10, last in this very popular Anniversaries of the Heart Series from Barb & Alma/Blackbird Designs. and included is the bonus pattern shown in the photo above from Almaʼs blog. http://blackbird-designs.blogspot.com/ Your only dilemma: Which one of these wonderful designs to stitch first?

Below and right, from Homespun Elegance, “May You Be Blessed” $8 w/charm, in Sandra’s Tokens of Affection Collection, shown in an antique frame in her collection ~ and two more in her A Halloween Year, the April and May ornaments, “Sitting Pretty” and “Oh To Be A Witch” each $8 w/charm



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Attic, Mesa, AZ Toll-Free: 1.888.94-ATTIC (1.888.942.8842) www.atticneedlework.com

On Sale at 50% Discount! All are very complete kits from Fern Ridge Collections.

Take 50% off the listed prices while supplies last. Clockwise from the right in their Welcome to our World Series: Needlebook kit includes 28c linen, silk threads and ribbons and more, $30 ~ Basket Lining Kit includes silk fabric, silk thread and more, $16 ~ Beaded Fob Kit includes all beads and supplies, $37

Back in stock, this very charming (pun intended) Rovaris pendant $33, a complete kit that includes everything needed to make this lovely accessory item. Right, several of the ladies at last week’s Sampler Sunday were w e a r i n g t h e i r s : Angelica’s, Barbara’s, and Tamami’s.

From Italy



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Clockwise from upper left: 4 from Rhonda: The church on her “Country Life Sampler” from The Scarlet Letter being stitched on 45c ~ an A Mon Ami Pierre design on which Rhonda replaced the alphabet with “Vigilance” ~ “Random Threads” silk gauze design from Erica Michaels ~ “Quaker Virtues” from Bygone Stitches ~ Carol’s beautiful interpretation of this Alessandra Adelaide Needleworks’ design ~ and Carol’s progress on “I Sigh Not For Beauty” from C Street Samplerworks

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Clockwise from above: Linda’s completed “Thirteen Colonies” from Little House Needleworks (Linda’s “Connecticut,” where she was born, she stitched in a slightly darker shade) ~ 2 that Sheri has in progress, both over 1: “Autumn at Hawk Run Hallow” and “Jessy Lambert,” a reproduction from England’s Norfolk Museum ~ Tamami’s “Susan Rambo Sampler” from SANQ ~ and Loretta’s “Elizabeth Powell” from Queenstown Sampler Designs

More from Our Customers



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Clockwise from above 2 from Carriage House Samplings and from Angelica’s needle: “Kingsford Sampler” and “Shores of Hawk Run Hollow” ~ Angelica’s favorite square thus far ~ Linda’s beautiful whitework sampler from The Needle’s Prayse ~ Janet’s “Country Life Sampler” from The Scarlet Letter ~ June’s “I Sigh Not for Beauty” by C Street Samplerworks

And More From Our Customers



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And Even More ...

Clockwise from above left: Carolyn’s completed “Garden Glade” using our thread conversion to overdyed silks (Carolyn wrote that she enjoyed every stitch! I wish mine was done!) ~ Carriage House Samplings’ chart photo ~ Barbara’s “Take Joy” from Shepherd’s Bush ~ Brenda’s “Sail Away” from Shepherd’s Bush ~ Brenda’s “Faith” from My Big Toe Designs ~ Doris’s and Molly’s versions, both over 1 on 40c, of this exquisite A Mon Ami Pierre design



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