A Dichotomy: summer and Christmas stitching!

Summer is officially here! (Sorry to those of you who live in the southern hemisphere of our world!) Time just keeps moving along at a faster and faster pace. I guess that means we need to take more time to stitch. And coincidentally, we have some suggestions about what to stitch on our recently updated What’s New page: http://www.houseofstitches.com/whatsnew.cfm. If you like to stitch projects that are in season, there are a number of summer/patriotic charts this time. (I guess the designers like to design in season, too!) And for all of you who are great at planning ahead, there are new Christmas designs. Much to our surprise we have a 2017 Prairie Schooler Santa! Even though Prairie Schooler officially retired, there must still be a little creative bug that needs expression. We are happy that it has taken the form of another of Santa! Mill Hill brings us the Might Oak Quartet; a series of four kits that depict an oak tree in each of the four seasons of the year. The designs fit their 6 x 6 inch frames so you could stitch all four and change them with the time of year.

Stacy Nash Primitives has a new design called Summer House Pinkeep. And, we are excited to tell you that Stacy has agreed to teach a class for us on October 7, 2017! We are working on all of the details and I will get them to you as soon as I have them. As I understand it, she will be designing a project just for our class! Like I said, details will be forthcoming!

Lizzie Kate brings us three new designs. One is the fifth part of her seven part series, Celebrate With Charm. Red White and Beach has three cute summer designs and Be Still is the latest in her series of inspiration kits. Erica Michaels concludes her cute series called the 12 Berries of Christmas. These little strawberries would be so cute in a basket or wooden bowl on your Christmas coffee table! People have been asking us for new Native American designs and Joan Elliott has two new ones. She also has two new stylish ladies, one on New York and one in Rome. Heart in Hand finishes the Glad and Sincere Hearts design with part three. Libby is her cute rendition of the Statue of Liberty. 

I’m going to stop describing the new things and let you see them for yourself! (The link is above or you can always just go to our website and click on the What’s New button.) Remember to mark your calendar for the Midwest Stash Exchange on August 19, 2017. Bring your dull scissors and knives for the professional sharpener to make like new. We want to raise a nice amount of money for the Riley Children’s Hospital Foundation.