Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Halloween and Christmas are coming!


Great new projects are in store for you on our What’s New Page!  You can see the latest additions here:  http://houseofstitches.com/whatsnew.cfm.  We are excited to have three new charts from With My Needle!  They are going in my stash; I just wish I could start stitching them NOW! Halloween lovers will want to get their copy of the Just Cross Stitch Halloween 2016 Special Collectors Issue.  It is chock full of fun and spooky designs. Chalkboard designs continue to be popular and we have part one of the Christmas Collection from Hands on Design. (It looks like the series will have three parts.) We also have Chalk Squared-July if you are collecting all the months. 
Our latest trunk show should be arriving any day.  It is from Erica Michaels and we are looking forward to sharing her exquisite models with you. Many are on silk gauze and we will have a demonstration piece that you can try.  It is easier than you might think!  The charts arrived earlier in the week and they are tantalizing us!!  We will have the show for a month so make plans to visit if you can.
Part 2 of the Lizzie Kate mystery sampler Spooked! should be here early next week. It’s not too late to sign up for the series. We can catch you up by mailing parts 1 and 2 at the same time.
Keep your needles threaded and going through the fabric!  It seems like there is never enough time to stitch but even putting in a few stitches each day will get you closer to the finish line!

Monday, July 4, 2016

Happy Fourth of July


I hope this finds all of our US friends having a safe and happy Fourth of July celebration!  We had a quiet day at our house….except when our neighbor’s tree lost a large branch.  I thought they were setting off fireworks until I saw all the leaves in a place where they shouldn’t be!  We were not experiencing wind; it just surrendered to gravity!
Our What’s New Page was updated almost a week ago so I am very tardy in letting you know about it!  You can see the latest at http://houseofstitches.com/whatsnew.cfm.   It is an exciting update with the start of two new series:  Spooked, Part 1 from Lizzie Late and ABC Samplers, Part 1 from Little House Needleworks.  Blackbird Designs and Country Cottage Needleworks both have the next installments in their ongoing series.  If you are collecting the What’s in Your Jar? charts from Needle Bling, we now have the August, September and October charts.  We frequently have stitchers looking for charts to make miniature designs for dollhouses.  Xs and Ohs has answered with a chart for a miniature tabletopper and rug!
I am off to grill some burgers and then watch fireworks!  Then maybe a little stitching will happen.  I am SO close to having a butterfly pincushion finished.  It is from Blackbird Designs Butterfly Garden leaflet http://houseofstitches.com/detail.cfm?ID=35143 .   Hope you can stitch, too!