August 2008 Chilly Hollow Newsletter Article

If you belong to the Shining Needle Society and sit in on the open email classroom Gay Ann Rogers holds through SNS, you might have seen the new small Challenge Ornament or the Twilight Angel design that she is selling. Act now if you are interested because this is a limited time offer.

http://www.gayannrogers.com/ site_2/Small_Designs_.html

I personally think five Challenge Ornaments would make a spectacular box like Jocelyn has done (for for the diameter of the box and one for the lid). She has posted several box photos on her blog and also written complete and detailed instructions for making your own box here.

http://pinsneedles.wordpress. com/needlepoint-box/

Note that Jocelyn used Smyrna stitches to seperate various areas. I've read someone else used tent stitches to separate areas in a canvas and that tent is just too small in scale to divide areas well. Interesting point!

Talking about new designs that are available, here is a fascinating free one based on Celtic Medieval designs. It's really cross stitch but because the pattern uses full XSs only, it could easily be stitched on NP canvas.

http://www.inkcircles.com/html/Book_of_IC.html

Finally, I have a new eBay store for you to explore. This is Squiggee Designs. You can buy directly from the artist at a fixed price and there is a large variety of items to admire.

http://stores.ebay.com/ Squiggeeland-Needlepoint

Hope everyone is enjoying stitching these last few days of August!

Jane, waving from Chilly Hollow

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