Closing Notice Now Posted

The Online Needlework Show is now closed for another year.   Warm thanks to all of you who viewed, ordered from your LNS and participated in our Fall Scavenger Hunt.   The winners are being drawn as this is written...so it's safe to tell you the answers to the questions:  Jacques Torres and Zeena!

Happy Stitching!

Theresa and Cynthia

Playing for a Prize

There are still a couple of days left for general viewing of the Fall Online Needlework Show.  That also means there are still a couple of days left for you to enter the various drawings and competitions hosted by the vendors.  

We've set up a Scavenger Hunt:  answer the two questions correctly and your name is entered for a drawing of one of our older designs.  What's the scavenger hunt part?   To answer the questions you have to look through our website and our blog.  Simple -- with a great reward if you win!

So take a minute from your shopping and try for something free.   Then immediately return to shopping!

Theresa

Shopping in Comfort

The Fall Online Needlework Show is now open and we are there!

Here's an opportunity to shop without ever leaving your home.  While this is a wholesale, 'for the trade only' show, stitchers can shop and place orders through their local needlework shops.   The show runs from October 21st through October 26th for the shops.  However, the general viewing page links will close at midnight Sunday October 24th to give shops an opportunity to place their orders. 

Our latest design in the German Sampler Series, The Queen's Garden, is only available at this time through this show.

So put on your jammies, pour a glass of wine, settle into your favorite comfy spot, fire up your laptop and start shopping!

Theresa

Another Month, Another Show

I spent my evening setting up our pages for the upcoming Online Needlework Show.   Opening October 21 and closing October 26th, this tradeshow is unique in that stitchers can view the show at the same time as the shops and then have their LNS order whatever designs catch their eye.

Once again, we will have a Scavenger Hunt for the general public that gives entrants a chance to win one of our designs.  Hope you check out the show!

Theresa

New designs and fun at the Online Needlework Show

The Online Needlework Show opens today at 2pm (EDT). Be sure to check our show page and enter our Scavenger Hunt for a chance to win an Arachne chart of your choosing (with a retail value of up to $8.00). The answer to one of the questions definitely won't be hard to find if you've been reading this blog lately! All who entered will receive a free chart designed exclusively for the show.

General viewing pages are open through Sunday, the 18th, but registered shop owners can place orders through the 20th. Don't have an LNS? Go to Where to Buy Our Designs. Most of these shops are registered for the show.

April In Paris

That's me, Theresa, posing yesterday in front of the magnolias at the Eiffel Tower in Paris! I'm on vacation in the City of Light, having left Cynthia in charge of our booth at the Online Needlework Show and the publication of our latest design. I'm hoping that if I buy her a really special present from Paris, she'll forgive me for leaving her with all of the work while I sample the food, wine and pleasures of a city we both love.

There are a couple of places in particular I will be visiting in the hopes of finding the perfect super duper present for Cynthia. Unlike our native New York, Paris has a superfluity of needlework shops and stitching resources. I guarantee that I will be visiting two of my favorite Parisian needlework shops in the next couple of days: Des Fils et Une Aiguille located near the Palais Royal/Louvre and Le Bonheur des Dames which can be found in the Viaduct Des Arts, underneath the Promenade des Plantes that inspired NYC's newly opened Hi-Line Park.

In the meantime, here's a photo of a shop I just discovered on Rue Dauphine on the Left Bank.

It specializes in infant and childrens clothing, all either hand-knit or embroidered, and it sells kits to make your own. You can see the words 'point de croix' (French for cross stitch) on the window if you look closely. I thought this was an inspired concept for a unique clothing/needlework shop, and the products on display in the window were exquisite! There was also a shop on the same street selling the sweetest smocked dresses for little girls -- and matching ones for their dolls! Handwork is clearly still prized in France as evidenced by these shops that specialize in such wonderful traditional needlearts surviving in the expensive St. Germain area .

Paris is always a source of great inspiration for me. Perhaps I'll even share some of those inspirations with you over the next few days.

A toute a l'heure!

Theresa