Traditionally the late summer and early fall bring not only changing seasons (at least in the U.S.) but sales at the needlepoint shops. I think the sales are starting. I just found a sale on Kelmscott Designs' needle minder magnet cameos and was able to pick up the rest of my initials at a good price. You may prefer other designs on the three pages of choices in the link below. The newest Adam and Eve cameo design is not on sale but everything else seems to be.
https://www.stitchingbitsandbobs.com/cgi-bin/Store/pageread.cgi?KelmscottDesignsNeedleMinder&0
I also just received a note from Lani that her canvases and stitch guides are on sale. Here are the canvases. The guides are $50 instead of $75 each and the painted canvases are 20% off.
http://www.lanisneedlepoint.com/lanidesigns.aspx
If your shop or favorite designer is doing a sale, let us know in the comments section please. By the way, the illustration for this blog entry is Shopping Cat by Ruth Schmuff. This canvas is on sale at the link below (although it is special order and won't be immediately shipped out).
http://www.stitchtherapyneedlepoint.com/feature.php?id=11566&title=Shopping%20Cat&itemtype=hand%20painted%20canvases
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3 comments:
I just spent way too much time looking at the Lani site too!! The Holiday Tree on the left was just worked by my LNS owner and she did it all in golds and white--Gorgeous!!
Any stitch guides out there for the "Shopping Cat"?
Not that I know of, Anon, but this is a Ruth Schmuff design. I'd ask Ruth if she would do one....
Here's the link to the canvas on her website.
http://www.bedeckedandbeadazzled.com/details.php?pid=803&nFirstCatId=17&cname=943&pname=Shopping+Cat
If you have fallen in love, see if you can find a shop that does a free stitch guide with each canvas and get them to order for you. Or try coming up with ideas yourself.
I do it all the time for my canvases so you know it isn't that hard!
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