Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Brenda Stofft Trunk Show & Sale


Needle Nook of La Jolla has four pages of Brenda Stofft designs to admire in a trunk show (which means a 20% discount off the listed price). I'm a big fan of her work and the trunk show has things I've never seen on her website. Here's the trunk show.


Here's Brenda's website.

http://www.brendastofftdesigns.com/

By the way, the photo above is the Santa on a Panda canvas photo from page three of the NN of LJ trunk show. He's very Asian, isn't he? I put another photo up on my main blog (link below). The photo there is of the finished Summer Hare from Brenda's four canvas seasonal hare set. You can see it on her website under the Rabbit section. The seasonal rabbits aren't sold separately, so this is a particularly good time to buy if you are interested in the series.
I love a good sale!


No Calorie Needlepoint



I got the latest little brochure from Pocket Full of Stitches in the mail last week. It announced their summer classes, retreats and of course the newest canvas of the month clubs planned for the summer into next winter. This information isn't up on their website yet but you can see some of the canvases for the newest monthly club on Raymond Crawford's website. Click on Finishing, then prepare to be amazed.

http://www.raymondcrawford.com/


Remember his NP cakes from a few years back? They were tiered like wedding cakes and full of fun. (If you haven't seen them, click on Designs and choose Cakes.) Now PFOS is going to be selling kits for Raymond's themed cupcakes, which have a round rop and curved sides, and which you can customize to your heart's content without worrying about your diet, healthy eating, or anything else except indulging your needlepoint sweet tooth.

Of course the Little Shoppe Canvas Company has carried NP pastries, cookies (including gingerbread men) and fruits for a while now. If you don't like cupcakes, you might find something equally fun and equally food at their website.

http://www.littleshoppecanvascompany.com/indexhome.html


A Collection of Designs has had decorated "sugar cookie" canvases for years. These are classics, with a very large selection of designs to choose from. The second link has cupcakes in a different style.


http://www.acollectionofdesigns.com/cookies%20page%201.htm

http://www.acollectionofdesigns.com/merry_christmas_6.htm

If small isn't what you like to stitch, how about stitching the cookie maker from Melissa Shirley?

http://melissashirleydesigns.com/gallery/?index=1247&cat=69



By the way, the photo illustrating this blog entry is Denise's Bitten Cookie, taken from the Elaine Magnin website, which is a durn good place to search on "cookie" or "baker" to browse for some non-fat delights.

http://elainemagninneedlepoint.stores.yahoo.net/bitcookor.html

Happy eating, uh, stitching.

Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow