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Mesa, AZ 85201 2011 April 29 Issue No. 11-14 www.atticneedlework.com TELEPHONE (480)898-1838

FACSIMILE (480)898-0332 Rosewood Manor’s English Box April’s Sampler of the Month

As our April Sampler of the Month, you may save 15% on your purchase of 2 of the following: • chart $13 • 32c hand-dyed ~ minimum needed for just the sewing box, $19 OR enough to also the needlebook and fob designs included as “Be Creative!” extras $31. Both linen cuts include 2 Kelmscott Bluebell threadrings for the closure. • NPI $64 OR Belle Soie $75 OR the hand- dyed silk combo shown below (Belle Soie, Dinky Dyes, Gloriana & Gumnut) $101.25.

May’s Sampler of the Month

Our presentation to you of May's Sampler of the Month must wait a bit longer because our conversion to overdyed is still a work in progress. The photograph on the left shows some of the best fun of all: playing in beautiful silk threads and linen to select the palette. I know I said that the next edition of the newsletter would announce this sampler, but it’s not quite ready ... and it’s not quite May either ... AND there are still a few remaining days in April to save 15% on the gorgeous English Tapestry Sewing Box from Karen/Rosewood Manor.

The Attic, Mesa, AZ Toll-Free: 1.888.94-ATTIC (1.888.942.8842) www.atticneedlework.com THE ATTIC! PAGE2 As a member of our Attic Addicts Club, during June April you may save 15% on your purchase of any April Saturday, June 4. 2 - 4 PM Meet the Designer Reception. of the following: Karin Kersten of Beardie Designs from The Netherlands will Rosewood Manor charts (in stock) be in The Attic on this first Saturday in June and we’d love for you Colorscapes/Picture This Plus (custom cuts) to meet her. Please call to register to help us plan. All Hand-Dyed Silk Threads

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 Saturday, June 19, Meet the Designer, 1:30 - 4. We know not a “royal flair” and our stitching projects are all of you are able to attend a Sunday afternoon gathering, but we always, while perhaps not royal, certainly don’t want you to miss the opportunity to meet Barbara Hutson of magnificent. Please register. Fee $10. Queenstown Sampler Designs and see her incredible samplers. She is bringing models and original samplers with her! Please May 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 Sampler Sunday, June 20. Although this is Father’s Day, you needlebook design as the class project. will want to carve out a 3-hour time in the afternoon to join us for The $30 fee includes Linda’s expert a very special Sampler Sunday with Barbara Hutson/ instruction as well as the chart + materials Queenstown Sampler Designs with a very special for this very useful learning project. presentation. Barbara is a renowned sampler expert, and we are honored to have her at The Attic. Fee $10; please register. Saturday, May 7, 1:30-3:30, A Redwork Guest Towel Or??? Just in time for Mother’s Day gift-giving, November join us for this class using a very quick and easy Full information regarding our Jackie du Plessis November technique. Fee $10 ~ As always, class project supplies at workshops with more photos and prices will be available in 10% discount. about 45 days.

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

We still have some BCRF cookbooks left.

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 November 19, 6 - 8 PM, Our 14th Annual $14.95 (or more) with fabulous time-tested recipes BCRF Benefit, with all proceeds to benefit as well as complimentary designs from 11 breast cancer research. designers.

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I forgot to show you this last week: The latest issue of Sampler & Antique Quarterly, #63, is another have-to-have edition. It is full of wonderful articles and sampler charts. In addition to the chart for the cover sampler, the image of which first appeared in an article in the Summer 2010 issue, AND the original of which is currently on display in The Attic, thanks to our dear friend, Vickie LoPiccolo Jennett, there is also an article by Joanne Harvey, with fabulous photos, on the Mary Atwood sampler, the second-oldest documented sampler in this country to date. Additionally, there is a Quaker sampler from the Praiseworthy Stitches duo, an interesting article on “hussifs” with accompanying photos of collectibles, a sampler design from French designer Isabelle Mazabraud-Kerlan of Reflets de Soie, and, last but certainly not least, an article with accompanying photographs, “Middle Tennessee Samplers.” Our first shipment of this issue is gone, but more are on the way. And we hope you can visit The Attic and see the original “1864 EF Sampler” while we are fortunate to have it here.

Available for Pre-Order Now: New from Liberty Hill, “A Keepe Box” $39, a hand-crafted and hand-painted box to hold your beautiful threads, or other needlework treasures, being made for you now and shipping to us sometime in May. The box measures 12” x 4” x 4” and features a pastoral scene on the lid complete with houses, a thread shop, trees, sheep, deer, AND even a kitty! The box comes with a painted project board and ring. As always, because every box is hand-painted, the supply is very limited. Don’t be disappointed ~ reserve yours today.

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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. That means it will be at least mid-May before we have Part 1 available to ship to you. •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.

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

For those of you joining us on this reproduction stitch-along, with your purchase of the chart, fabric, and silks, you may choose one of these charming notebooks created exclusively for you by NeedleWorkPress as our gift ~ Above left, the vintage linen and silks selected for the and purchase others if you wish. reproduction of this charming Adam & Eve The first of 4 parts will be available on June 1. sampler, Ann Wheatley’s 1829 sampler Each section will be $6. Part 1 will include the chart from the private collection of NeedleWorkPress, folder with a color image of the entire sampler. and, above, the chart image.

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Price Correction

A classic example of why I try to remember not to quote prices until I have the invoice in hand. Last week I incorrectly priced this last in their Anniversaries of the Heart Series from Barb & Alma/Blackbird Designs, with its beautiful Bonus , at $10. BUT the correct price is $9 and next week we’ll show you our silk conversion to Belle Soie. No time this week. Where does it go? It simply seems to evaporate.

Treasures in Our Attic

Clockwise from above: Sampler Workbook Motifs & Patterns $26 ~ “The Inn at Fox River Mill” $8 and “Gingerbread Village” $6 from Little House Needleworks and from Country Cottage Needleworks, “Red, White and Bloom” $8

The Attic, Mesa, AZ Toll-Free: 1.888.94-ATTIC (1.888.942.8842) www.atticneedlework.com THE ATTIC! PAGE6 Now that you have your beautiful Hardwicke Manor hoop . . .

... you will want to wrap the hoop with twill or . The hoop you purchased is sold by Access Commodities and is labeled with this suggestion: “To protect your fabric from marking, please wrap the hoop with twill or bias tape.” In addition to the 3/8” tape, it is also available in 1/2” and 3/4”. Access Commodities recommends “wrapping the inner ring of the hoop, no matter the type of ground fabric. When wrapping, make the overlapping wraps at a 45-degree angle and do it firmly. with a few to the inside of the hoop. Wrap the outer ring if you are embroidering on fine silk fabric or anything that will mark.” The diagram to the left is borrowed from their blog with their permission. Please go to http://www.accesscommodities.com/posts/blog2/42 to read the entire and most interesting article entitled “Wooden Embroidery Hoops: Round Hoops, Oval Hoops, Square Hoops, Fanny Frames and Hoops with a Table Clamp.” You will find with hoops that, as with scissors, it is necessary to have more than one! Speaking of scissors, and other fine products that Access Commodities provides all of us, below are some of your favorites, all from Bohin of France: their very popular tapestry needles, $2.25/package ~ their extra small 2 1/4” embroidery scissors $15.50 ~ and two reproduction scissors that beautifully, each 3 1/2”, each $16, the “Heart Design” scissors and the “Middle Age scissors.

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From Sajou! Left, just arrived yesterday, our order for these scissors featuring beautiful wooden handles. I love everything wood but never thought about scissors! We have in stock the two on the left with the blades left, made of rosewood and kingwood. The fine, delicate blades are engraved Sajou and each is adorned with a passementerie pompom in coordinating tones to the wood color. These scissors are made in France. $100 Below, rectangular wooden boxes are in the style of those found in days gone by. The lids are silkscreened with four differing prints, including "Epingles de qualité" (quality ), "Dés de qualité" (quality ) and "Rubans" (ribbons) $40

Left, Eiffel Tower Scissors, a reproduction of a 19th century model, comes with a sky blue Eiffel Tower charm as well as an orange and blue pompom. $80

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From the ladies in Italy who brought us the lovely pendant shown in previous editions, some of their designs. When ordering, please give us page number and description.

Clockwise from above,a photo from their Nashville display ~ what I call “tumbling hearts” $12 ~ a Christmas collection of cushions in the shape of a tree, $12 ~ a cat superimposed on a lovely alphabet, $12 ~ “The house of ,” $12 ~ a heart-shaped winter scene with deer, $13 ~and a “Welcome” heart with stags/deer over the “Welcome,” $12

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More from Rovaris: Clockwise from above, a wonderful set of needlework accessories, $13 ~a heart embellished with a beautiful “M” but the entire alphabet is included from which to choose, $12 ~“Meet under the tree for a nice picnic,” $12 ~ “A Home is not complete without a CAT,” $12 ~ An alphabet embellished with needlework images, $12

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A Peek Inside Sandy’s Studio: Two pieces in Sandy’s framing studio now, one mounted awaiting its frame and the other just unpacked from its trip from New Jersey, beautiful versions of arguably last year’s most popular chart, “Rose Quaker” $24 from Stickideen von der Wiehenberg. Below left, Amy’s colorful piece where she chose silks from her stitching box that she loved and, below right, Karen’s piece that uses our silk conversion.

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At Last Night’s Stitch-In . . .

. . . we were privileged to have Elly, Nancy, and Deanna join us from Missoula, Montana. Some of you may recognize Deanna from photos in many of your earlier needlework magazines for which Deanna served as editor, including The Needleworker, Cross Stitch & Country Crafts, Cross Stitch & Needlework, as well as working with the Treasures magazine group. The projects they were working on last night are, clockwise from above:, Elly’s iPad cover, Deanna’s now out-of-print Blackbird “Loose Feathers” design ~ and Nancy’s “Three Gables” from The Cricket Collection. It was great fun to welcome them to The Attic yesterday, where Deanna said she’d been wanting to visit for 20 years. We look forward to the next time! Also being stitched last night were Vera’s “Red 9” from Dessins DHC in shades of purple on lavender! And Jean’s ornament from last year’s Little House Needleworks series.

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