Where Samplers Rule

Just 15 minutes from the Airport at the NE CORNER OF CENTER & MCKELLIPS 106 E. McKellips Rd, Suite 111 THE ATTIC Issue No. Nine www.atticneedlework.com Mesa, AZ 85201 Mid May 2010 TELEPHONE (480)898-1838 2010 SILENT FACSIMILE Here again, our May Sampler of the Month, (480)898-0332 AUCTION FOR “The Eliza Hills 1856 Sampler” from Mary BREAST Riggs/HandWork Samplers, a favorite of mine for nearly two decades. I was going to rephotograph CANCER our shop model, left, that I stitched in 1995-2000 on RECIPE BOOK 32c Willow Green Belfast with Au Ver A’Soie silks because it’s not nearly so yellow green, but I forgot! PROJECT Next time. The verse is over one, but the remainder of DETAILS ON the sampler is over two. PAGE 2.

Below, the chart model ~ Right, my Belle Soie on 40c CamoFudge from Stitches & Spice in Australia (the fabric’s name perfectly describes the color, which is more truly reflected in this week’s photograph. You have many choices for this charming sampler: the CamoFudge(above, photographed in sunlight ~ the linen color more nearly resembles what your eye sees) from Australia’s Stitches & Spice, or a more typical “sampler” color ~ with your favorite silk, Belle Soie (left), Au Ver A’Soie (upper right), or NPI (below right).

Save 15% during May on your favorite pairing: • chart ($13)+linen ($11)+Belle Soie ($91)Discounted price $97.75 • chart ($13)+linen ($11)+AVAS ($58.50)Discounted price $70.12 • chart ($13)+linen ($11)+NPI ($60)Discounted price $71.40 Eliza’s many colorful motifs include flowers, baskets, Linen prices on other than 40c and with larger margins birds, trees, and the two handsome roosters standing are higher. guard. She replaced the traditional alphabet with a meaningful verse of thanks ~ “so many gifts” ~ that really speaks to me after our gifts these past few months.

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November and our annual Silent Auction for Please email your favorite recipe to Paula: Breast Cancer Research is fast approaching, and at [email protected] and in the subject area last Saturday’s -In/Potluck, where we state “Recipe for A Cure.” Type your recipe into customarily enjoy incredible treats on the buffet the email (no attachments, please) table, an idea emerged to add a delicious treat to and proofread/double-check your recipe for this year’s fund-raising efforts accuracy. At the bottom of the recipe, please Do you have a favorite recipe that you enjoy include your first name and either the state you are from (if you are in the USA) or the country serving and would like to contribute? The Attic is you are from. The deadline for submissions is going to publish a recipe book this fall, and the net July 15, 2010. proceeds from the sale of the recipe book will be We look forward to your contributions to share donated to the Breast Cancer Research in this book for such a great cause! Foundation.

SAMPLER MONTHS Beginning last December, Crescent Colours began releasing a brand new threadpack series with Little House Needleworks. In each pack you get TWO designs and six full skeins of hand-dyed Crescent Colours cotton floss. These threadpacks are released every other month and feature the months as they appear on a calendar. Every design is the same size so you can plan on how you wish to present one. . . . or all twelve!

Each threadpack with charts and for 2 months is $19. The models shown here are stitched on 30c Weeks Dye Works Mocha hand-dyed linen (30c linen for each is $9) and framed in Family Tree frames (~$42 plus or minus).

The Attic, Mesa, AZ Toll-Free: 1.888.94-ATTIC (1.888.942.8842) www.atticneedlework.com THE ATTIC! PAGE3 Attic Models from one of our favorites May at The Attic If you are a member of our Attic Addicts club, you may save 15% on your purchase of the following during May: • All Handwork Samplers Charts • All Essamplaire Kits • All Other Sampler Charts & Books Sunday, May 16, 1:00-4:00, Sampler Sunday As this is the third Sunday of the month, it is time for this almost-monthly get-together. Bring your sampler(s) in progress to show and share and to work on, and we’ll share our sampler passion. Please call to register. Fee $10. Saturday, May 29, Hawk Run Hollow Stitch Designs from/Homespun Group, 10:30 - 12:30 If you’re stitching any in this Elegance, clockwise from above, series, please join us and get reinspired to complete this “Delivering large sampler. Please call to register. Fee $5. Needlewares” ($7.50) with two Monday, May 31, Memorial close-ups of the Day ~ The Attic will be closed, as ~ don’t you we are on all Mondays (except just love the thimblelike bell? by appointment) to celebrate Hand-grained frame and America and honor those who embellishments also available. have served in our military and “Virtue Samplers” (chart $13 most especially those who have + Priscilla’s Pocket frame, died to keep us free. $42 for 40c, $44 for 36c, $46 for 32c. NEW IN THE SHOP “Ann Sims Reproduction Sampler” dated 1800 ($18) with a sweet verse: “Ann Sims is my name and with my needle I worked the same. by this my friends may plainly see how kind my parents were to me.”

The 20th book in the highly successful A-Z Series, this book offers over 700 step-by-step photographs and detailed instructions for different stitches and techniques that imitate fine French hand . Topics include material and equipment, garment care and storage, working with lace and entredeux, handworked edges and finishes, and construction techniques particularly suited to fine fabrics. Its 144 pages are filled with detailed instructions and useful hints. ($34.95)

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Clockwise from op left, “ Pokes I” ($11) begins a new series of pre-finished necessaires for your stitching pleasure. So easy to make for yourself or a friend, all you have to do is stitch, stuff, and slip-stitch the back closed. The “Pin Pokes” are on their way to us now and will retail for $12 ~ “Friendship & Blossoms” ($6.50), what a beautiful sentiment! ~ “Stitching Lady Journal” ($12) provides a place for you to record your special thoughts about your needlework ~ 5” x 7” with ruled brown craft paper pages. ~ “Until First Light” ($7), a sweet prayer, perfect for a child’s room. The first two in a new seasonal series that either can be framed or finished as a cupboard hanger, “I Love Spring” and “I Love Summer” (each $8 w/charm) ~ “Special Ladies” ($8) has something to stitch for all of those special ladies in our lives, and includes an alphabet for anyone not included here. Finish as a fob or ornament, mounted on a box, or framed. ~“Have Ye Any Wool” ($12 w/embellishments) can be framed or stitched on the pre-finished pillow ($29) ~ “Simply Red, Plus” ($11.50 w/), a reproduction, over one or two threads, your choice, and an adorable , my favorite!

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Top row,each $9.50 w/embellishments, from left: “Pink Flowers on Gingham”~ “Spider Web Rose Alphabet”~ “Colonial Roses Fob,” a perfect pairing with the “Colonial Roses Biscornu Kit” ($21), right, and the kit is all-inclusive with everything you’ll need to stitch this design. Bottom row, right to left, “S is For Stitching & Sewing” ($21) in the EVER popular French- inspired alphabet series ~ “The Earth Laughs in Flowers” ($21) combines soft purple and yellow reminiscent of daffodils and crocus in this all- inclusive kit ~ “Enchanted Roses” ($30) is a spectacularly sparkly Special Edition kit in mauve, burgundy, and olive tones on 28c Platinum Cashel linen, chock full of fun, fancy stitches. Left, “Blackberry Welcome” ($21) is a complete kit stitched on gingham linen.

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Left, “Cottage Flower Pot Tea Towels” ($8) includes seven designs with instructions to finish your purchased tea towels with appliqued corners and stitch edges; Right, “Halloween Sachet Pillows” ($8) includes 8 Autumn and Halloween images for these 9” square pillows that can be filled with cloves and cinnamon sticks to make your sachet smell wonderful; Bottom, “Brunhilda’s Midnight Ride” ($8), a ’d, beaded and fringed pillow, is a real show-stopper. Brunhilda wants to make sure that everyone has a happy and fun Halloween!

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Top row from left, Blue & Red Onyx Scissors with handles made from imitation onyx ($100 each pair), and each includes the linen case ~ Wooden with Pink Ribbon ($20) is a replica of a small vintage-style wooden tape measure with a pink ribbon in centimeters ~ Replica of a small cotton spool holder with six metal rods to hold spools of varying sizes with a perfect spot at the top of the handle to place your favorite . ($70, sold empty) ~ Right, Another replica of a small two-flap basket that’s marked for your needles (“Aiguilles”) and (“Epingles”) ($48) ~ Left, This small chest of drawers was inspired by a vintage model found in the haberdasheries of yesteryear. The drawers are decorated with round Sajou thread labels ($90).

NEW FROM TWO NEW FAVORITES EACH $10 Left, “Rizz Inn” from Silver Creek Samplers ~ Right, “Great Grandma Johanne’s Birth Sampler” from Heartstring Samplery.

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FROM THE CROSS STITCH GUILD ~ ENGLAND

Clockwise from upper left, “Silverwood Band Chartpack” ($24) “Carved Oval Stitch Box” ($24) “Sleepy Hedgehog Magnetic Needle Holders” ($13) “Faux Mahogany Boot Pincushion” ($24) “Sulgrave Manor Band Chartpack” ($17) inspired by that lovely manor house near Banbury, ancestral home of George Washington and a regular venue for sampler exhibitions~ “Antique Map of the World” ($17) “Catherine Archer Sampler Chart” ($24), originally stitched by a Bristol orphanage child on a very fine 70c linen ~ “Antique Flowers Pocket Sampler Kit” ($30) with 28c hand-dyed linen, bee charms, shell button and hand-painted silk ~”The Embroideress Chartpack” ($17) with fully illustrated instructions for the variety of stitches included in this band sampler.

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Clockwise from upper left: From Romy in Austria,“Grandmother’s Favourite Letters” ($23) two from Sampler Cove: “Anniversary Sampler” ($14) and a multi-stitch band sampler, “Strawberry Sampler” ($22); three from Alessandra Adelaide (AAN): “Jardin d’Amour” ($18), “Cardinal Christmas Ball” ($18), and “Zucca” ($19)~ “Gratitude” ($14) from European Crosstitch Collection, second in the series (“Abundance” was the first) of positive words to live by, dedicated to the designer’s mother: “I am grateful every day for her presence in my life” ! and from Papillon Creations, “Celtic Beauty” ($11)

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TWO REPRODUCTIONS FROM REFLETS DE SOIE

Above, the beautiful “Sous le Soleil de la Lune” ($16), with a sweet verse that translated reads: “Under the Sun and the Moon Happiness answers with a smile Silence is Wealth” and several detailed close-ups. Purchase this as a project (chart, linen, silks) and save 15%. Left and below, “Heloise Cornu 1896” ($17) shown in the original colors as well as in red, in red and gray, and also in pastels. When ordering, please specify which color palette you are ordering. They’re all beautiful!

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TWO FROM LONG DOG SAMPLERS

Above left, “Spirit of Marken” and, right, “Paradigm Found” (both $27)

AND HERE’S WHAT WAS SHARED AT LAST SATURDAY’S STITCH-IN

Left, Linda’s “Scarlet Ribands” from Long Dog Samplers ~ Right, Rhonda’s “Antique Tiles” from Rosewood Manor ~ and below, Jennifer’s “Shores at Hawk Run Hollow”

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Above left, Karen’s beautiful finishes ~ above right, Rhonda’s “Mending Box,” an Olde Colonial kit ($79) that she personalized with her own color choices (Egglplant Belle Soie on Belfast) and with words from an alphabet provided.

Left, Sharon’s completed “Old Pewter Letters” ($10) from Primitivebettys ~ Right and below right, Loretta’s stockings from Blackbird Designs’ Stocking Series (each month $9) and, below left, Blackbird’s “Bird in Hand” ($7) by Karen and ?? ~ and below center, Sharon’s “ABCD” ($8) by La~D~Da.

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THREADPACK SERIES FROM CRESCENT COLOURS Below left, Country Cottage Needleworks’ “Summer Seascape Series” consisting of 4 parts ($14/threadpack) AND below right, Raise the Roof Designs’ “Libertyville” shown framed stitched on 32c and, above it, Rhonda’s model stitched on 45c!

Models New In The Shop This Week ~ Left, from All Through the Night, “Merry Christmas” ($4) that Sandy stitched on 36c over one and mounted on a Family Tree base that’s so new, no price yet! Sandy “holly’d” the base in several places. Right, From Acorn House Designs, this “Patriotic Drum” has to be seen to appreciate how adorable this is. The tiny Little Gems scissors and fob actually fit inside the drum. Chart is $10 and kit with everything to complete this adorable design is $29.50.

Brother Jer & wife Nancy visited ~ lots of fond memories ~ Tyler’s football game ~ Hannah making cupcakes for us with her mother ~ and playing for us.

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