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

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.

Welcome to Our Parlor Scavenger Hunt: Results

Congratulations to Bonnie C.! She is the winner of Arachne Silken Web's  Needle Retail Show "Welcome to Our Parlor Scavenger Hunt". Bonnie's name was randomly drawn from the pool of entrants who answered all five scavenger hunt questions correctly. As the winner, she has received a $25 gift certificate toward the total purchase price of any new Arachne design released in 2010.

Here are the answers to the scavenger hunt questions. How many did you answer correctly?

1. Arachne’s Silken Web’s designers live in what city?  New York City

2. How many of the designs displayed on our website feature bees in the design? Acceptable answers: 9 or 10

• Banded Bee Skep
  
• Bee Noel
• Bee on Time Mantel Clock
• Decking the Hive
• Christmas Bee Candles
  
• Come All Ye Christmas Bees
• O Christmas Bee
• Sleigh Bells Buzz
• Queen Bee
• 2008 Free Chart (since the bee in this design could also be a stylized butterfly, we accepted 9 as a correct answer to this question)
  

3. What inspired our 2006 freebie design? The brickwork design on the smokestack of the Willamantic Thread Company in Willamantic, Connecticut.

4. Who challenged Arachne to a stitching competition? Actually, Arachne challenged the goddess Minerva. (We included in the drawing anyone who answered Minerva since the question was a little misleading.)

5. What six words make up the subtitle to our blog Inside Arachne’s Silken Web? Bright lights, big city, sharp needles.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the contest. We hope you had fun and enjoyed the show.

Cynthia

P.S. Tell us what you thought about the Needle Retail Show -- what you liked, what you didn't like and any ideas you have for improving it. Also, tell us how you heard about the show so we know the best way to get the word out next time. Your feedback will help the show organizers and exhibitors make future shows the best possible needlework shopping experience for you, our valued customers. Looking forward to hearing from you.

 

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

The Needle Show Retail

From Nov. 5-8, needlework designers, shops and other vendors will be exhibiting their wares and offering them directly to stitchers like you during the first-ever Online Needlework Show Retail. Shop some of your favorite designers and stores, discover new ones, and take advantage of show specials and fun activites.

Arachne's Silken Web will be exhibiting -- and selling -- at the show. We're planning some special offers and a new scavenger hunt door prize drawing you won't want to miss!

This is a bit of a departure for us since we usually offer our designs wholesale through distributors or at trade shows. But we've received such a wonderful response from so many stitchers during the online wholesale shows that we wanted to take this opportunity to connect directly with all of you. After the show, you can find Arachne designs at your local needlework shop. If you don't see them, please ask the shop to carry our designs. If you don't have a local shop, visit one of the shops linked under "Where to Buy ASW Designs" on this page.

Because this is a trial run for the show, there hasn't been any advertising. So help spread the word -- post to your stitching groups, newsgroups, blogs, facebook, twitter, and email your stitching friends -- to make the show a success!

We're looking forward to it and hope you visit our page.