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Where Samplers Rule

The Attic, Mesa, AZ Toll-Free: 1.888.94-ATTIC (1.888.942.8842) www.atticneedlework.com

December’s Sampler of the Month from The Scarlett House“Hannah Tingey 1823”

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Tanya stitched her model on 45c Lakeside Vintage Buttercream with NPI, and it is absolutely stunning! As expected, we’ve done a conversion to overdyed silks, below.

“Hannah Tingey 1823” ~ During December, save 15% by purchasing 2 of the 3 parts:

• chart $22• Lakeside Linen (40c cut w/2” margins is $23)• Silk: NPI $56 or Overdyed Silk Combo $95.75

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As a member of our Attic Addicts Club, during December you may enjoy (or your family member) a one-time

December gift (15% discounted shopping spree) from The Attic to thank you for your support as an Attic Addict. The discount can be used on any day during December and is applicable to all items except those that are marked “No Discount.”

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 $14.95 (or more) with fabulous time-tested recipes as well as complimentary designs from 11 designers.

Saturday, January 7, 10:30-12:30, Beginning Linen Why not start the

New Year off right, with a wonderful class featuring Linda’s Tulip needlebook design as the class project. The $30 fee includes Linda’s expert instruction as well as the chart + materials for this very useful

December

I’m pleased to announce the dates for our Merry Cox Workshop weekend.

Thursday - Sunday, November 8 - 11, we look forward to welcoming you to a special 4-day weekend of workshops with Merry Cox, when she will teach Le Nouveau Palais Royal twice, Sweet Little Blossoms, Souvenir Book, and So Dear to Thy Heart (the 2011 Williamsburg piece). Thanks for your interest. It promises to be a very special needlework memory. Watch for information in the New Year about prices/dates & times/pre-stitching kit availability.

November 2012

Sampler Symposium Celebrating Arizona’s Centennial January 13-15, Friday evening through Sunday noon $440 with optional add-on class with Catherine Theron. I am thrilled to present our faculty: *Vickie Jennett of NeedleWorkPress*Paulette Stewart of Plum Street Samplers*Tracy Riffle of Hands to Work*Darlene Anderson*Catherine Theron of Theron Traditions

January 2012

Sunday, January ??, 1 - 4 PM, Sampler Sunday Because of the Sampler Symposium and also the TNNA Tradeshow being held in Phoenix this year, January’s SS will probably be January 29, but that’s still not certain. Watch for information in a future eNewsletter.

Additional Class, Sunday, January 15, 2 - 5 p.m. and

Monday, January 16, 9 - 4 p.m. (lunch is included) $260 ~ You do not have to attend the Symposium to register for

this class. Catherine Theron’s beautiful sampler that has several smaller samplers within it, “My Peaceable Kingdom” Worked on 30-count Vanilla linen, this lovely, “peaceable” counted thread sampler will provide hours of pleasurable stitching for the intermediate stitcher. The top section features a lady in her garden complete with dogs, lilacs (I love lilacs), & beeskeps. The center has a colonial home reminiscent of the houses in Williamsburg, VA, “alphabet trees,”a family, pets, & plenty of birds. The bottom area has a village scene surrounded by the wild woods & various woodland creatures, tamed by a pair of Bible verses. Finally, the piece is outlined by a flowing strawberry border. Stitches used include Long Arm Cross, Smyrna Cross, Stem, Diagonal Satin, Padded Satin, Petit Point, Colonial Knot, Spiral Trellis, & more. A myriad of colorful silks & cotton threads are used to create this vibrant, textural scene. All threads are included in your kit. Finished size is 17-1/2” x 19-1/2” ~ No pre-work.

We still have some BCRF cookbooks left.



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Workshop Projects ~ Our 2012 Sampler

Symposium Celebrating Arizona’s Centennial

Friday night at 5 Vickie Jennett of NeedleWorkPress will present a exclusive project that she’s designed for this event derived from this sampler, which is steeped in Arizona history. Attendees will also receive an autographed copy of the sampler, to be released in late February in Nashville.

Next, you will be inspired to plan your 2012 Christmas ornament stitching by Darlene Anderson’s slideshow of her incredible sampler ornament collection.

Sunday, January 15, 9 - 12 Noon, Catherine Theron’s “A Stitcher’s Envelope” This 5” x 4” envelope is stitched on 32-count linen with silk floss in black & shades of pink, blue, gold, & green. A Florentine Stitch pattern & the stitcher’s initials grace the envelope flap. The back & front feature a strawberry ribbon pattern, a Quaker-style alphabet, & the stitcher’s name. A diminutive needlecase adorned with a Florentine Stitch pattern, a scissors sheath repeating the strawberry ribbon design, & a scissors fob all nestle inside the envelope. Stitches used include Florentine, Petit Point, Smyrna Cross, Backstitch, Cross-Stitch Over One, Stem Stitch, Chain Stitch, & Nun’s Stitch. The kit includes all directions, charts, finishing instructions, linen, practice fabric, needles, silk flosses, lining & wool fabrics, & a color copy.

And then Paulette Stewart of Plum Street Samplers will present her special workshop project, “A Lady’s Trimkeep,” the perfect project for needleworkers of today, a place to store the wonderful trims available to us. Kit includes the linen, thread, and Crescent Colours trims. Attendees will also receive an autographed copy of Paulette’s “Brother’s Keeper,” to be released in Nashville and while you work on your trimkeep she will give you the “back story” behind the design.

Saturday morning Darlene Anderson will begin our day with a PowerPoint presentation of her remarkable Adam & Eve sampler collection ~ this presentation on the breadth and beauty of her sampler collection will have you in awe.

After a morning break, we will get grungy with Tracy Riffle of Hands to Work leading the way while we learn to emulate her primitive “finishes” of a box and pincushion and small sampler to go with.

Saturday night, 5 ~ ??, Open House at the shop with refreshments and food!

Classes will be held at Hyatt Place, Mesa, 888.492.8847 OR 480.969.8200 ~ ask for the Attic Needlework group rate (King $109; no Queens available at this time but rooms have pull-out sofa). Room block is only available until mid-December. Continental breakfast included. Symposium Fee includes lunch each day as well as refreshments at breaks and the Saturday night soiree at the shop. Hotel provides free shuttle service to the shop (anywhere within a 5-mile radius) so a rental car is optional.



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Clockwise from above left: The chart photograph of “Ann Dale 1827 Big & Beautiful” ($30) from Shakespeare’s Peddler ~ our conversion to all overdyes ($221.75) ~ the silks as called out in the chart (NPI + Belle Soie + Gloriana, ($168.50) ~ the fabric suggested is Lakeside’s Vintage Pear, and for both 40c ($54) and 36c ($50), it will require a full Stitcher’s Half. Join our SAL and purchase the entire project and receive a 15% discount.Left, “A Part of Ann Dale” $22. Paula has again volunteered to lead a Stitch-Along in 2012, and she has divided this exquisite sampler into monthly “assignments” to ensure that by following her stitching schedule throughout the months, by this time next year you will have this beautiful piece ready for its frame. Look for her first segment about mid-January in this newsletter.

Ann Dale 1827 - Big & Beautiful

Please Note Corrected Prices for the Silks (I missed another skein of Vanilla ~ and to think that I had 4 years of math ~ of course, that was 5 decades ago!)



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We just received a shipment (2 boxes full) of hard- and soft-cover French books, and we love them all. Please call with questions if I’ve not answered them here in these very brief descriptions. Clockwise from above: A new 439-page book from Veronique Maillard that she describes on her Web site as “a compilation of my first three books (ancient alphabets, flowers and flower alphabets, alphabets bicolor) and at a wonderful price, $57 (ND), Ouvrages de Dames (literally translated, “Works of Mothers” and then the Google translator says “Needlework”) The “E” sampler that we used as our inspiration for our perennial “Design Your Own French Alphabet Sampler” class is included, as well as a number of other wonderful projects using these exquisite letters to inspire us to create our own. Another Maillard book, not to be confused with the now-out-of-print hardcover of the same title shown in the inset, this book, Alphabets Anciens, quoting Veronique again from her Web site, “presents a large number of alphabets in cross stitch embroidery of Mr. Louis Viarme, industrial designer of the nineteenth century, more known as the alphabets LV. At the end of the book you will find the miniature grills and a table showing the height of alphabets by points. Pictures of objects accomplishments illustrate this book.” $57 ND ~ Cartonnage Brode $34 ND ~ Repertoire des Alphabets $45 ND ~ Repertoire des Frises $45 ND ~ Repertoire des Motifs $45 ND ~ and Point de Crois: Maison Sajou $57 ND

Wonderful Books, New & Old



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Attic, Mesa, AZ Toll-Free: 1.888.94-ATTIC (1.888.942.8842) www.atticneedlework.com

Above from the left: 2 from C Street Samplerworks, “Ann Bagley Sampler” $10, a reproduction, first in a series with Solomon’s temple motifs, & “Rosine’s Sampler” $11, featuring motifs that the designer thinks Rosine might have used on her sampler ~ “Love’s Power” $10.50 from Tree of Life Samplings

New Samplers in Our Attic

Below from the left: ~ 2 sampler reproductions from a a new designer to us, Black Branch Needlework, “Margaret Morley” and “Susanah Rayment - Learning 1818,” both $15



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Clockwise from above: “Christmas Is Coming!” $9.50 from Paulette/Plum Street Samplings ~ and the latest from Erica Michaels in her Petites Collection, “Love True” and “Love Generously,” both $15 including the gauze ~ and coming soon to Our Attic, Erica Michaels Trunk Show featuring all of her silk gauze designs. This promises to be a must-see! Below, at a customer’s request, we did a conversion to silk for Country Cottage Needleworks’ “January Cottage” and we are offering monthly kits in this series with 36c Lakeside linen and a length of each overdyed silk for $18. “February Cottage” arrived today and is pictured on page 8.

Miscellaneous New Designs



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Clockwise from above: 2 from Diane/Little House Needleworks: “Good Tidings” $6, the last in the 2011 Ornament Series, and “Elizabeth Hancock Reproduction Sampler” $19, charted for Belle Soie ~ and 2 from Nikki/Country Cottage Needleworks: “In the Meadow” $8 and “February Cottage” $6

Arrived Today in Our Attic



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Images from our Annual Kris Kringle Party

Snacks, Cookies, Punch, Ornaments “hidden” in Gift Bags, and a bit of last-minute stitching for this Season of Joy




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Thank you, Tedra, for doing the photography for the afternoon! I think you will enjoy seeing not only the ornaments but the smiling faces of the recipients ~ they were all beautifully stitched and finished, and for some you can see by their size in comparison to hands or faces that several were tiny tiny, done over one on 40c, even one on 40c silk gauze! If you want information about any ornament, I’ll try to get it for you.

The Ornaments and Their Recipients



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More Ornaments

A very fun coincidence: Karen received the same ornament that she stitched, that went to Brenda!



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Below, the Christmas card photo (this one with everyone smiling) of our beloved family, who make our Christmases much more special, and an image of our Christmas tree, from our hours to yours, with best wishes from John and I for a most special Celebration of Joy.

Below, 2 special finishes: Gayle’s beautiful “Three Kings” by Jim Shore ($16 + Mill Hill’s embellishment pack $53) that she finished in time to gift to her brother for Christmas ~ and a beautiful ornament Deb made for me using JBW Designs’ “French Country Ornaments 2” (6 tiny reindeer) and Marie Suarez’s “Les boules de Noël,” a chart we had last Saturday but will need to be restocked.



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