Evenweave and linen fabric pieces for sale…quantities limited so check out our fabric deal page for the best selection. Go to:
http://www.stitchesandstuff.ca and click on the Fabric Deal link on the left side.

Vivienne

Stitches and Stuff inventory is on sale! Charts 25% off, DMC, Gentle Art and Weeks Dye Works all reduced. Visit our web site for details: http://www.stitchesandstuff.ca

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Cross Stitch Patterns from

Canadian Designer Lynne Nicoletti

Beautifully detailed designs of well-known Canadian landmarks: Peggy’s Cove Lighthouse, Chateau Frontenac, CN Tower and Hopewell Rocks. All in stock and on sale at 25% off!

All the cross stitch patterns on the Stitches and Stuff website are on sale at 25% off the price currently on the site. Orders are filled on a first come, first served basis.

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Stitches and Stuff

By the mid-1980s I had been doing cross stitch and other forms of embroidery since I learned them at school (yes, they did used to teach these skills in school) several decades ago earlier, but I had never tried counted cross stitch. I was visiting family when my sister-in-law took me into a craft shop and I came out with a pattern, fabric and floss to create my first design, the one that appears at the top of this blog. Since then counted cross stitch has become one of my favorite types of embroidery.

As I worked through my first design, enjoying every stitch, I thought about how relaxing it was, and how the stitching process teaches patience. You want to be sure you produce your best work so you take the time to make sure you are stitching in the right place. You count and count again, over and over, yet somehow it is not a tedious process although it sounds tedious!

Over the years I’ve spoken with stitchers who, although not noted for their patience found that doing counted cross stitch taught them to be patient, and if you make a mistake, well, it’s often possible to “adjust” neighbouring stitches to avoid unpicking your work. And they confirmed what I suspected, that doing counted cross stitch, and presumably other kinds of stitching, did, indeed, teach them patience.

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Tell us which annoys you most:

a. Tangled threads
b. Needing a new piece of thread with only one stitch to go
c. Finding a mistake after the piece is finished
d. Incorrect instructions
e. Dropping a needle
f. Other…please specify
Anyone who answers will be entered in the draw and the prize is OOE’s Bears on a Raft…a truly delightful design for anyone who loves bears.

Send an email to xstitch@stitchesandstuff.ca with SS Contest in the subject
heading and your pet hate in the body of the message to enter the contest.

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Go to the third designer under the letter ‘L’ on the Designers page of the Stitches and Stuff website. What is the name of the first design listed on that page? Send your answer to xstitch@stitchesandstuff.ca under the heading SS Contest.

All correct entries will be entered in a draw for a copy of Enchantment from Kustom Krafts Needleworks.

Vivienne

The Lighthouses from Cross My Heart Inc. Five popular lighthouses in the U.S.:

Coquille River, Marblehead, Bass Harbor, Newcastle and Portland Head. If you like lighthouses, you’ll want this book!

In 2000, Jeanette Crews Designs published a treasury of classic cross stitch designs from Cross My Heart. There are 42 designs, many of which can be personalized.

Only a few copies of each of these publications are available.

Vivienne

The designs on the Stitches and Stuff site from Cross Stitch Wonders have all been discontinued so be sure to see what’s available and get them while you can. Autumn Eagle and Dolphin Dance are just two of the charts available.

Vivienne