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

THE ATTIC Third Week in June 2010 Issue No. Twelve www.atticneedlework.com

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SARAH ABRAHAM’S SAMPLER FROM THREADS OF GOLD ~ OUR JUNESAMPLER OF THE MONTH

During the remaining days of June you may save 15% on the supplies for this beautiful sampler. Purchase at least 2 “parts” from the following: Chart ($13) Stitches and Spice’s Fern Gully Linen cut ($24) ~ available in 40c, 36c, and 32c. Please specify count and margins (2” or 3”) when ordering. (For 32c maximum 2.5”) Silks ~ a combination of Au Ver A’Soie + Gloriana’s Florimell ($80.20) OR as charted in AVAS +NPI ($58.90).

Above and below, snippets from my in-progress version of Sarah’s very lovely sampler. You can see the specialty stitches: the small grouping of Queen stitches above as well as the verse in continental over 1 on the 40c, and the cute little bunny in an over-one patch, also in continental, on the hillside. I see that I fell asleep once again with needle in hand and didn’t finish either the basket or the hillside to the right of the bunny, but you get the idea. It has been sheer pleasure to stitch Sarah’s sampler with these beautiful products, the linen and the silks, and watch as the leafy border and its lovely rosebuds “blossom” on the Fern Gully linen.

RECIPES FOR A CURE

DETAILS ON PAGE 3.

June 30th at 4 PM deadline to order Carriage House Samplings AND at a 15% discount. “Garden Glade” highlighted on page 2.

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June at The AtticIf you are an Attic Addicts club member, you may save 15% on your purchase of the following for the few more days remaining in June:• Weeks Dye Works Linens, SQ cuts and larger• JBW Designs Pillows & Aprons

• All Silk ThreadsSaturday, June 26, Hawk Run Hollow Stitch Group, 10:30 - 12:30 If you’re stitching any in this series, please join us and get reinspired to complete this large sampler. Please call to register.

CORRECTION ~ STOP YOUR NEEDLES!

This exquisite sampler kit from The Essamplaire, “Victorine Delacroix,” was erroneously kitted with 35c linen, and it should be 40c. The correct linen is on its way to us now. If you have purchased this kit from us, please contact us and we will send you the correct linen. If you haven’t begun stitching on yours and it’s possible for you to do so, the designer would appreciate it if we would return the 35c pieces. If you would ship them to us, we will get them to her.

If you haven’t added this beautiful sampler to your to-do basket and would like to, it is $189 with the silks.

OCTOBER 3: CLASS ON BUTTON/CROCHETED TRIM

Here’s the back of Linda’s pincushion. We knew those of you away would be interested in her very clever use of linen and “marking” her piece.

September’s Sampler of the Month: Carriage House Samplings’ “Garden Glade.” Order it now (by June 30) if you want the chart at 15% discount. More details about this lady in her garden in a future issue, for which the obvious design inspiration came f rom Sarah Car t e r ’s gorgeous canvaswork piece in the collection of the Folk Art Museum in New York.

To see this inspiring canvaswork piece click h e r e : h t t p : / /www.folkartmuseum.org / ?

Thank you, Linda, for providing such fabulous inspiration to so many of us! Who knew?! Class registration may require us finding a spot outside of the shop to hold this class. Debra had a great suggestion, and we’ll have to check temperature averages to see how the weather might be on October 3: Set up tables in our “breezeway” just to the east of the shop. A nice thing about the Southwest desert climate is you almost never have to worry about rain spoiling your outdoor plans . . . only the intense sun! A few other points of interest about Linda’s fabulous finish ~ and her clever use of ALL of the linen to give it a primitive look. She stitched her pincushion on 36c linen, some scrap she had ~ and when she was running out of fabric for the back, she pieced it! I would have bought another piece of linen and not been happy because it didn’t match. For the trim, please understand that there is a purchased lace trim (which will be provided as part of “class kit”) around which you do a row of single crochet with the buttons! Teaching fee + supplies/kit prices in a future newsletter.



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Time is running out for you to share your favorite recipe for a delicious fund-raising project! We need your recipes!

November and our annual Silent Auction for Breast Cancer Research is fast approaching, and this year an idea emerged to add a delicious “treat” to this year’s fund-raising efforts Get out your favorite recipe that you enjoy serving, type it into an e-mail (no attachments, please), and email it to Paula: [email protected] ~ in the subject area state “Recipe for A Cure.”Please proofread/double-check your recipe for accuracy. At the bottom of the recipe, please include your first name and either the state you are from (if you are in the USA) or the

country you are from. The Attic will publish the recipe book, and the

net proceeds from the recipe book sales will be donated to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The deadline for submissions is July 15, 2010

SUPPLIES FOR TWO NEW QUAKER DESIGNS!

These Needleprint Ackworth reproductions are available for download at http://needleprint.blogspot.com/

Conversions to either Dinky Dyes (warmer) or NPI on two slightly different linens for “Hannah Gilpin,” above, on distressed linen, left, or less

distressed linen, below left.

Above, “Sarah Harris” and, r ight , conversions to two different silks, Au Ver A’Soie and NPI, on several different shades of linen.

New Threads

From Crescent Colours, 3 new cottons: Embers, Frog Legs, and Cauldron ~ and 3 new Belle Soie, Princess, Granny Smith, and Amanda’s Apple.




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NEW from Priscilla’s Pocket“Liberty,” a new patriotic design, complimentary with the purchase of the very charming and complementary Priscilla’s Pocket frame ($65 for 40c, 36c size $70 and for 32c, $75) with its peeling paint effect. The model in the photo was stitched on Lakeside’s 40c V. Sand Dune with Belle Soie silks. The photo was lightened a bit to

show the frame’s special “aging” effects.

. . . for your pre-stitching have gone out (except for several for whom we’ve left messages) and you should have already received them. If not, please contact me. I’m pleased to announce that the “limited registration” has been lifted on the Friday evening and Saturday classes because Merry has been able to get more of the special “parts” for each of these incredible needlework sets. To read the full information about these three weekend workshops published in an earlier eNewsletter, please click here: http://www.atticneedlework.com/MerryCox/20100402MerryCox-web.pdf

Angelica’s Progress

The Merry Cox Workshop Kits . . .

“A Colonial Sewing Set” ~ Friday night, Nov 12 ~ $170

“Petite Treasures” ~ Saturday, November 13 ~ $250

Fr e n c h B o n b o n B ox ~ Sunday, November 14 ~ $230



http://www.atticneedlework.com/MerryCox/20100402MerryCox-web.pdf

http://www.atticneedlework.com/MerryCox/20100402MerryCox-web.pdf

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FROM A NEW DESIGNER TO US ~ LILA’S STUDIO

Some wonderful designs reminiscent of Fraktur folk art. So what is that? According to Wikipedia, “Fraktur is both a style of lettering and a highly artistic and elaborate illuminated folk art created by the Pennsylvania Dutch (also known as Pennsylvania Deitsch or Pennsylvanian German). Most Fraktur were created between 1740 and 1860.“Fraktur drawings were executed in ink and/or watercolors and are found in a wide variety of forms: writing samples, birth and baptismal certificates, marriage and house blessings, book plates, and floral and figurative scenes. The earlier Fraktur were executed entirely by hand, while printed text became increasingly common in later examples. Common artistic motifs in Fraktur include birds, hearts, and tulips, as well as blackletter and italic calligraphy.“Today, many major American museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art have Fraktur in their collection. Important Fraktur have been sold by major American auction houses and antique dealers for prices in excess of $100,000. The definitive text on Fraktur is widely considered to be The Fraktur-Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts of the Pennsylvania Germans, written by Dr. Donald A. Shelley and published by the Pennsylvania German Society in 1961. In late 2004, part of Dr. Shelley's Fraktur collection was sold at public auction in Pennsylvania for $897,833.”I first learned about Fraktur, I believe, from Vickie LoPiccolo Jennett, who hails from Pennsylvania and whose father has an extensive collection of this fabulous folk art.

Clockwise from upper left, “Tulips,” “Bird,” and “Give Joy,” each $8, or buy all 3 in a chart titled “Redware Pottery Inspired” ($12) ~ “Fraktur Bird” ($8) ~ “Fraktur Bird II” ($8) ~ “Destiny” ($10) ~ and “Bless This House” ($10)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur_(script)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur_(script)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch

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MORE FROM LILA’S STUDIO

Above from the left, “Sister Sampler” ($13) ~ “Halloween” ($8) and “Greek Vase” ($10)

NEW FROM THE SWEETHEART TREE

Clockwise from top: “Colonial Roses Pinkeep” ($9.50 w/embellishments)“T is for Teatime” ($21 kit) ~ “Berries & Shortcake Fob” ($9.50 w/embellishments) and its matching “Biscornu Pincushion” ($21 kit) ~ “Wine a Little” ($9.50 w/embellishments) ~ “Wedding & Anniversary Sampler” ($45 kit) ~ “Holly & Hearts Hanging Ornament” ($21 kit)



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AS PROMISED: CLOSE-UPS FROM THE JBW DESIGNS TRUNK SHOW

T h e last weekend

for this Trunk Show! Worth a trip to The

Attic to see all the m o d e l s .

New in the ShopClockwise from the right, Three from Karen/Rosewood

Manor: “Phebe Warner Quilt” ($15) with its remarkable border ~ “My Token of Love” ($9), designed by Karen to celebrate 40 years of marriage; hmm, can I get this finished by August 1? I love it! And Karen’s contribution to the Stitch Your Heart Out Campaign, “My Two Ducks, $4. And from Barb & Alma/Blackbird Designs, “Anniversaries of the Heart #5, Farm House” ($9) and “Hedgerow Birds,” ($9), Loose Feathers #40. We’ve done a conversion for both of these to Belle Soie, for other like-minded silk enthusiasts (or “silk snob,” as I’ve been called ~ and it’s okay, I’ve been called worse.) The LF#40 bag is shown stitched on 20c Weeks Straw ~ some of us are choosing 40c Straw, which makes a fabulous around-your-neck needlework accessories bag measuring about 5 1/2” x 5 1/2 “ ~ if you’re in our Loose Feathers Club, please let us know your preference.



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THREE RECENT FRAMINGS FROM SANDY’S STUDIO

Left to right, Betsy’s “Continental Sampler” ($12) from The Scarlet Letter stitched on 40c with ???Linda’s “Isabella Johnstone” from the Summer 2010 issue of Sampler & Antique Needlework Quarterly (my apologies about the slight reflection in the glass) ~ purchase the 40c/36c linen + silk package for $80 minus 15% = $68; magazine for $6.99 Carol’s “Noel 2009” from A Mon Ami Pierre ($13)~ Sandy’s frame choice and special “rub” treatment demonstrate her considerable expertise in showing off your needlework to its very best! Notice the design’s and the frame’s similar curlicues.

New from Lizzie Kate

Clockwise from the right, the very limited “Summer Fab Fob Kit, $20, with its sweet red+blue scissors, only available with this kit ~ the first two of four charts for the best-yet-FlipIt Series,“Christmas Rules,” each $8 w/buttons ~ “Eek Boo Hiss,” $8 chartpack w/buttons ~ Snippet “Cleaning the House,” $4 ~ “ABCs of Halloween,” $32 w/Crescent Colours’ hand-dyed floss ~ and in Linda’s very popular Giggle Boxer Series, “All You Need is Love,” $16 w/button + 27c cream linen.



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HERE’S WHAT SOME OF OUR CUSTOMERS HAVE BEEN UP TO!

Right, Jean’s very adorable “Daisy Sampler,” $6 from Country Cottage Needleworks beautifully finished by Carol as a thread/needlebook~ below right, Helen’s progress on the exquisite band sampler, “Waterfield,” $40 from The Sampler Workes and to its right, the entire beautiful chart model, with its whitework section, moving through the Holbein-stitched area and into the colored silks ~ and left below, Janet’s “Village of Hawk Run Hollow,” $32 from Carriage House Samplings.

Left and right, Rhonda’s needles have been busy! Dessins DHC’s “Alpine Village” she stitched on 45c to fit the gorgeous frame; Waxing Moon Design ’s “Starry Night,” and I’m trying to get more of this retired pattern.





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A take-your-breath-away gift from an incredibly talented needlewoman whom I am looking forward to meeting in 2011!

MORE INSPIRATION FROM OUR CUSTOMERS

How fortunate we are to be surrounded and inspired by such talented needlewomen!Above and left, Barbara’s beautiful “Arlyn’s Embroidery Envelope,” $8 from Crabapple Hill Studio ~ and above, Gail’s exquisite embroidery, silkwork on silk broadcloth for the pieced quilt pictured and her Jacobean wool-embroidered purse, all inspired by her frequent trips to Australia and classes with her friend, Monique. We are trying to schedule Monique to teach a class for us at The Attic when she visits in November for our Merry Cox weekend.

A M o n A m i P i e r r e ’ s “ L a T r o u s s e d e Jeanne,” $28.50, i n c l u d e s t h e directions for this b e a u t i f u l needlebook.



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