TSV Twelve Days of Christmas

Arachne's Silken Web provided the prize for the 4th Day of The Stitcher's Village Twelve Days of Christmas Competition. You'll find the competition described on page 7 of the December 2009 newsletter.

Congratulations to Robin T. of New Jersey! Robin won our Reticella Accessories Limited Edition Chartpack.

Robin says this is one of the first contests of this type she's ever entered. It seems her husband always made her paranoid that entering these contests would let someone infiltrate her computer! As she succinctly said: "I got over it!"

We are honored to be one of the first prizes Robin has ever won. Have a great time, Robin, making these unique stitching accessories!

Theresa and Cynthia

New York As Winter Wonderland

New York rarely gets big snow storms. When a major storm dumps nearly 11 inches on New York in the middle of a weekend, well it's pure magic!


I happen to live across the street from Central Park. These snowy steps are actually one of the park entrances right outside my apartment building. When I woke up to a stunning snowy day on Sunday morning, like any winter loving New Yorker, I ditched the list of chores, bundled up, grabbed my camera and headed into the park to frolic. Oh, and I took an easier route into the park than those steps!

Gorgeous snow vistas met my eye. But they were far from empty.

New Yorkers -- 2 and 4 footed -- were out enjoying the park, all dressed in their winter best. Family groups were everywhere, with dogs bounding in the snow and kids building snow creatures, throwing snowballs and building snow forts and castles -- or maybe those were really New York highrises?

Even the ducks were out enjoying the snowy day!

The rustic park benches looked like snow sculptures alongside the paths.

And every hill of any size was instantly made for sledding!

I spent quite some time wandering around Central Park - people watching, thinking about how to memorialize the enchantment in a design. For now, these photos will just have to do.

Theresa

Welcome To Our Parlor Scavenger Hunt!

Visit our page at the Online Needle Show Retail and participate in our first ever scavenger hunt! Just follow the instructions and your entry will be included in the prize drawing on November 10th, 2009.

You will be playing for a chance to win a $25.00 gift certificate good for puchasing any Arachne's Silken Web design released in 2010. (Winner can redeem their gift certificate directly with us.) We already have several designs in the works, including a new Christmas Bees, the next in the German Sampler Series and a colorful adaptation of an American schoolgirl sampler from 1803.

While you're at the show, indulge in a little S.E.X. Think I'll do just that right now!

Theresa

Come into My Web

Welcome to our new blog home. We decided to switch to a platform that offers more features, particularly a more convenient comment section for you. So come on in and tell us what you think. We love to hear from you.

When we started fixing up this new space, we came across this fun background. How could we resist it with a name like Arachne? Spiders are mostly identified with Halloween, but the spider plays a prominent role in the myth of Arachne. She was an expert needlewoman who challenged the Roman goddess of wisdom, weaving, crafts and warriors Minerva (also known as Athena in Greek mythology) to a weaving contest. Arachne hanged herself after Minerva shamed her for portraying the weaknesses of the gods in her tapestries. Having pity on the girl, Minerva brought Arachne back to life as a spider. From then on, Arachne and her descendents were known as great weavers.

It turns out we have another tie-in with the myth. Athena (Minerva) is usually depicted with an owl.I never even thought of that connection when I was designing Owl and the Pussycat Accessories and Owls' Night Out, but what could be more fitting. We haven't found a link to bees or Christmas yet, but that won't stop us from continuing to design around those themes.

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