Featured Needlepoint Artist
In the garden of the painter, Monet, outside
Paris, Susan's granddaughter sketches and Susan
stitches
flowers to remember a special meeting in
a special
place in France.
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Travel with us!
Travel is a
Designing Women specialty. Susan has led 42 needleart
& craft tours to destinations all over the world.
Some of the tours are amazing "soft" adventure
travel- like Brazil for lacemaking (and meeting monkeys)
or Thailand for silk embroidery (and riding elephants)
-all connect with native needleart or crafts persons.
A very different tour from the two above will be to England
for the 2009 Jane Austen Festival where the group will
see lovely Regency clothing and be guests at a Regency
themed wedding.
To receive information on future tours,
email Susan at s-cb@sbcglobal.net or
phone 800-947-6112.
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Don't just sit there - STITCH!
Curl up in your favorite chair and Stitch one of our chairs:
The 12 handpainted needleartist's chairs are detailed
and each features needlework or sewing baskets. Available
in 2 sizes on 13 count canvas, 16" square or 8"x
9" . The insert close up of the flowers gives you
an idea of the effect of the suggested stitches and fibers.
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Other chairs available:
Fruit Chair
Chair in Bloom
Porch Rocker
Adirondack
Garden Chair
Twig Chair
Wing Back---all with easy,
dramatic
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Amazing Stitches Bloom in any of the Seasons
Designing Women's Stitch Guides contain surprisingly simple
stitches that create amazing dimensions. Many feature
Ribbon Floss, ShimmerBlend, and Spark Organdy. Designing
Women distributes all of these threads, serving as advisors
for many new items in the line.
The latest group in the Ribbon Floss familyis called
SEASONS with traditional colors of:
Christmas |
Halloween |
Easter Egg |
Valentine's Day |
July 4th |
St. Patrick's Day
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Mardi Gras |
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Keeping the Faith
Keeping the Faith - without Losing Your Religion has seventy
small and medium size charted designs for needlepoint
or cross stitch. Magnificent church projects and meaningful
personal projects are detailed with practical step-by-step
instructions.
The handpainted crosses also include:
Small Christian Symbols
Historic Crosses with Jewels
Persian Crosses
French Crosses
European Enamel Crosses
Stained Glass Floral Crosses
Mission Style Crosses
Crosses for the Seasons |
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With 65 designs, there are lots to choose from, and the tree is on most of them:
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Easy to Stitch Stockings
"Santa on the Goose" is
a 21" long, stitch-painted stocking, on 13 mesh canvas,
the latest of 65 different stockings in the line. Tradition
with a little twist- and so easy to stitch and/or to enhance
with wild threads and stitches. Imagine the packages and
bows (not to mention Santa's robe) in ShimmerBlend, Super
Shimmer, Metallic Ribbon Floss or the NEW Season's Ribbon
Floss threads.
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Creatures' Christmas
w/Santa
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Woodland Santa |
Victorian Tree |
Folk Angel |
Santa and the Dog |
12 Days of Christmas |
Santa and the Packages |
Poinsettia Angel |
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Collectibles & Gifts Stitchers Love
This lovely sewing box imported by
Designing Women is an English antique reproduction. There
are also silver needlecases, Personality Pins and little
magnetic pin cushions fashioned like old-fashioned animals
in faux mahogany or ivory; Designing Women has a great collection
of Stitcher's Clutter for sale from all over the world.
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