Where Samplers Rule Just 15 minutes from the Airport at the NE CORNER OF CENTER & MCKELLIPS 106 E. McKellips Rd, Suite 111 Mesa, AZ 85201 THE ATTIC Late May 2010 Issue No. Ten www.atticneedlework.com TELEPHONE (480)898-1838 The difficulty capturing the true color of the CamoFudge linen from Stitches & Spice is demonstrated below by the photographs taken in sunlight and shade. FACSIMILE (480)898-0332 Several more days remain for this charming sampler: as our Sampler of the Month, HandWork Sampler s Eliza Hills ~ Save 15% on your favorite pairing: chart ($14)+linen ($11)+Belle Soie ($91)Discounted price $97.75 chart ($14)+linen ($11)+AVAS ($58.50)Discounted price $70.12 chart ($14)+linen ($11)+NPI ($60)Discounted price $71.40 Linen prices on other than 40c and with larger margins are higher. SPECIAL SUMMER HOURS beginning June 1: 10 AM-4 PM Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday (After 4 PM by appointment) Thursdays ~ 10 AM - 9 PM Mondays By Appointment NEW FROM PRISCILLA S POCKET 2010 SILENT AUCTION FOR BREAST CANCER RECIPE BOOK PROJECT DETAILS ON PAGE 2. From Every Mountainside ($10). Don t you just love her, proudly waving her flag from the hilltop?! Both models are on Lakeside s Vintage Sea Storm, for the hornbook ($24) stitched on 40c and on 32c in the star-studded hand-grained frame ($44). Both models are stitched in Belle Soie with the girl and her flag stitched over 1 and the hilltop and lettering stitched over 2.
THE ATTIC! PAGE 2 Share your favorite recipe for a delicious fund-raising project! Memorial Day is here, and that means summer s almost over and our annual November Silent Auction for Breast Cancer Research is fast approaching. This year there s another way for you to participate. We know many of you have tried-and-true recipes, some family favorites for decades, that you enjoy serving and would like to contribute? The Attic is going to publish a recipe book this fall, and the net proceeds from the sale of the recipe book will be donated to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Please email your favorite recipe to Paula: kelmscott@islandnet.com and in the subject area state Recipe for A Cure. Type your recipe into the email (no attachments, please) and 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 deadline for submissions is July 15, 2010. We look forward to your contributions to share in this book for such a great cause! Anniversaries of the Heart #4 is here, and below is the 40c/36c fabric we ve chosen and the Belle Soie colors. LAKESIDE LINENS LIMITED RUN We have a very limited supply of 40c ($54) and 36c + 32c ($50) stitchers halves in a color I tried desperately to capture, first in fluorescent light inside the shop and then outside in natural light. Neither one is very good, unfortunately. The color is darker than shown and not yellow at all. If I had to say which color it comes closest to, I would say Vintage Meadow Rue, but it s not that either. Anyway, phone-call orders only, please, because these are so limited. (1.888.942.8842)
THE ATTIC! PAGE 3 May at The Attic If you are a member of our Attic Addicts club, you may save 15% on your purchase of the following for the few more days remaining in May, until the June specials are announced: All Handwork Samplers Charts All Essamplaire Kits All Other Sampler Charts & Books Saturday, May 29, 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 beautiful sampler. Please call to register. Fee $5. Monday, May 31, Memorial Day ~ The Attic will be closed, as we are on all Mondays (except by appointment) to celebrate America and honor those who have served in our military. On Its Way from Homespun Elegance Live in Harmony ($10.50) says it perfectly for today s world. The leaflet includes the design for the prefinished Pin Poke (which is available in several color choices), shown stitched over 1 using the continental stitch. I LOVE this! Blessings Heart ($7) is the fourth and final heart in this series. The ornament was stitched over 2 threads, and the emery/scissors fob over 1 using the continental stitch. This is a versatile design, a gift for a friend or good neighbor at any time of the year. COMING IN MAY ~ TRUNK SHOW JBW DESIGNS NEW IN THE SHOP From Olde Colonial Designs, Waste Knot Want Knot ($20) The chartpack includes the chart, template boards for the basket lid, floral lining material to match the basket, charm, ribbon, needle page scissor pocket and finishing instructions. (Basket $70) Not new b u t s o appropriate in today s busy life, Tis a Gift To Be Simple ($8) features a compelling verse so fitting for our lives in 2010 surrounded by a lovely border with charming scenes above and below the verse.
THE ATTIC! PAGE 4 PAGES OF CHARMING DESIGNS FOR YOUR STITCHING BASKET Top row from the left, Lynne Nicoletti s very clever Read-Me-A-Rhyme Teddy Bear ($17 w/charms) includes 12 classic rhymes displayed across the front and back sides of Teddy s body ~ primitivebetty s Blessed ($10) ~ Ink Circles Quaker Quilts: Monkey Wrench ($10) Right, A Mon Ami Pierre s Renouveau ($28) features fabulous alphabets. Across the bottom from left to right, Old Brick House, Old South Church and Old Sea Captain s House (each $11), all from By the Bay Needleart. This series of three designs can be stitched individually or as a triptych Left, No. 1 in a Series of Kits from Nora Corbett that she calls The Stitching Fairies, this one called The Floss Fairy ($70) includes everything you need to stitch this charming fairy, who is here to help you sort your beautiful threads and unknot any tangles (32c linen, full skeins of Crescent Colours hand-dyed floss, Mill Hill beads, Kreinik #4 braid + needle.)
THE ATTIC! PAGE 5 Clockwise from upper left: Two from Beehive Needleworks, Tabithy Eaton Pin Pillow ($9) and Zabeth Cottingill Sampler ($10) ~ two from Stickideen von der Wiehenburg, both $24, Christmas Quaker Bellpull and Dragons ~ Little Mermaid Sampler ($12) from Willowhill Samplings ~ and from The Victoria Sampler, this beautiful 15-sided biscornu and biscornu scissors fob ($40 for the kit that includes 25c Lugana, needle, threads an beads, and extra buttons... scissors and pearl cotton for cording not included.)
THE ATTIC! PAGE 6 Clockwise from upper right: 4 from The Prairie Schooler, each $9, June ~ Signs of Spring ~ Tortoise & The Hare ~ February ~ and 3 from The Sampler Girl: A Sweet View ($9), The Prudence B. Sampler Hanging ($10), and On Any Shore With You ($9).
THE ATTIC! PAGE 7 Clockwise from above, 2 from Heartstring Samplery, each $10, The Parting Hour and I ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm ~ more adorable sheep from Cedar Hill, Sophia s Sampler ($8) ~ from Country Stitches/With thy Needle & Thread, a very charming pinkeep, Love & Be Loved ($9) ~Ink Circles Monkey Wrench ($10)~ and 3 from All Through the Night: Blackbirds ($8), A Sheltering Tree ($8) and Merry Christmas ($4), which Sandy stitched over 1 on 36c linen to mount in the base available from Family Tree, division of Crescent Colours.
THE ATTIC! PAGE 8 FROM LIZZIE KATE Pretend the scissors is red-and-blue patriotic and the design is also patriotic with a mother-ofpearl embellishment! Reserve yours today!!! Buy all 6 and receive a 20% discount on the set for $21.60, regularly $27. Clockwise from above, Green is the word for this new 6-part Flip-It Series and each part ($4.50) includes a butter yellow flower button; the border is a downloadable PDF file ~ the two latest boxer kits in the Giggle Boxer Series, each $16, include 27c creamy linen, the pattern and a tiny button ~ ABC s of Aging Artfully ($32) comes as a threadpack that includes a vibrant palette of overdyed threads and DMC to stitch this very humorous perspective on aging that can be stitched on your choice of linen ~ Dog Lessons for People ($8), a companion design to the previous Cat Lessons for People (our model is shown on the left) ~ Prayer Connection ($4) AND you will want to reserve yours now: the Summer Fab Fob Limited Edition Kit ($20) that will include the tiny two-tone red-andblue patriotic scissors as well as light blue fabric, mother-of-pearl star embellishment, and pattern. The 1000 Spring Fab Fobs sold out quickly, so don t be disappointed. Reserve one now; our order will ship to us on June 15.
THE ATTIC! PAGE 9 CORRECTION: THIS NEW DESIGN FROM REFLETS DE SOIE IS NOT A REPRODUCTION Left, the beautiful Sous le Soleil de la Lune ($16) is a new design from Reflets de Soie. This was shown in the last edition ~ this is simply to correct the r e c o r d, a g o o d excuse to show it to you one more time. FROM MTV DESIGNS Left, Deer Hornbook and Scissor Case ($22), designed by Elizabeth Talledo/Dames of the Needle for MTV Designs, includes two small earth magnets to close the needlebook. Top row from the middle, both $9, Amour and Autumn in Love Left, also $9, Winter in Love ~ Right, Noel, a wonderful chartpack with charts for four mittens and four stockings, $22.
THE ATTIC! PAGE 10 FROM PASSION DES CROIX Clockwise from above, Bonjour ($13) ~ Perle Marquoir ($16) ~ ABC Bobines ($13) ~ Brodeuse rethaise ($16) ~ ABC topiaire ($13) ~ Sampler Noel ($13), for which our in-stock supply is already very limited, so more will come with our next order ~ Atelier Passion ($16), which loosely translates to My workshop shows that my passion for embroidery is without reason, something many of us can relate to ~ Cache cache ($13) ~ Framboise et chocolat ($13), which translated is Raspberry and Chocolate, a great combination in needlework as well!
THE ATTIC! PAGE 11 Below, I misidentified the needleworkers for these last time. On the left, Jennifer s and on the right, Loretta s Bird in Hand ($7) from the talented duo of Alma & Barb/aka Blackbird. TWO PAGES OF OUR CUSTOMERS BEAUTIFUL NEEDLEWORK Above, Tamami s It s Berry Time, Blackbird s LF#37, in red, of course ~ right above, Linda D s 1854 Isabella Johnstone from SANQ #59 on 40c vintage Lakeside and, below it, Tanya s on 45c vintage Lakeside, both stitched with the charted Belle Soie colors Left, Jennifer s beautiful and inspiring finish of her fabriccovered box using Bird in Hand. Below left, Molly s finish of S t i c k i d e e n v o n d e r Wiehenburg s exquisite Rose Quaker ($24), arguably the most popular sampler chart in our shop for 2010, stitched on?? 40c V. Misty Rain over 1 ~ and, below, Amy s very beautiful Rose Quaker stitched with her choice of Belle Soie. Below right, Loretta s progress on her Tis the Season from Blackbird s very popular Joyeux Noel ($24).
THE ATTIC! PAGE 12 Top row left to right, Linda s framed Peaceful Garden from Moira Blackburn and insets of two favorite motifs ~ Andrea s start on 45c of the new Spirit of Marken ($27) from Long Dog Samplers ~ Middle row left, Janet s Houses of Hawk Run Hollow and Sheri s progress on With My Needle s Multiplication Table ($11) in its perfect Valley House Primitives frame ($80) ~ Bottom row left, Betsy s Quaker Samplings III ($12) also from With My Needle ~ Victoria s ABC Pinkeep ($9) from Country Stitches ~ the oil can for this adorable piece is $16 ~ Tamami s Salome Kriebel from The Essamplaire (kit $49 w/silk).
THE ATTIC! PAGE 13 FROM MANY OF YOUR FAVORITES: DAMES OF THE NEEDLE, LITTLE HOUSE NEEDLEWORKS, COUNTRY COTTAGE NEEDLEWORKS, AND LA-D-DA Clockwise from upper left: Dames of the Needle s M a r y l a n d Hornbook ($14 - hornbook $14)~ Little House Needleworks Merry Skater ($6), Simple Joys ($8), The Mercantile ($8) ~ Country Cottage Needleworks Jack & Jill ($6) and A Bee C Sampler ($8) ~ from La-D-Da, Bubble Gum ($8) and The Totin Hare ($9)
THE ATTIC! PAGE 14 MORE FROM VARIOUS DESIGNERS Clockwise from the right: Milady s Needle s A Schoolroom Primer ($32 for a fabulously complete kit that includes everything ~ 40c Lakeside linen, silk, hornbook & 4 printed choices for your ABC s lesson) ~ My Little Bees Ruler Pocket ($16 w/brass ruler) ~ and to complete the set, My Little Bees Accoutrements ($11) ~ Milady s Quaker Pendants II ($23 kit that again includes everything, linen, silk, and 1 pendant) ~ Shakespeare s Peddler s Magic Garden Sampler ($10) ~ Donna Kooler s Stocking Collection ($22.95) Tyler turned 13 this week! And Hannah couldn t wait for him to open her present, a bag of his favorite kettle corn and a six pack of Mountain Dew. I love that! Our son and daughter-in-law Ralph and Amy have done a grand job with our grandchildren. If you live in the Phoenix area and need a competent, professional, trustworthy electrician, I am pleased to recommend Ralph s company and his services. Make an a p p o i n t m e n t a t 6 2 3. 7 4 8. 8 1 5 0. www.azcentralelectric.com