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| Susan Portra's Infinity |
Rumor #1 is that the Elaine Magnin store has been purchased by its former employees and will be reborn soon under another name. Keep your fingers crossed!
Rumor #2 is that Susan Portra is getting ready to release both new and old designs from a new website. (Bringyourcanvastolife.com was the old site which has disappeared.) You can find her charted work various places if you look hard. The photo above is one of her newer pieces. It is called Infinity.
http://a-z-needlepoint.com/products/portra-infinity.shtml
If anyone has more concrete information on either item, please let us know.
By the way, remember to vote in the poll above for the Patt and Lee canvas I'll stitch here once I finish my current projects. The choices are pictured below again. See the 8/30 posting for details. If you can't make the poll work, post your vote in the Comments or email me at chillyhollow at hotmail dot com and I'll add it in. Thanks!
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| Pirate Cat |
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| Asian Inspiration Sampler |
Are they serious, $150 for just the book and line-drawn canvas? Yikes! I've been wanting to get some of Susan Portra's older designs for Scarlet Thread and was excited when I heard about this. I'm not so sure now.
ReplyDeleteThis British shop used to have a really good stock of her work.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.westendembroidery.co.uk/acatalog/Spirit_of_the_Southwest.html
http://www.westendembroidery.co.uk/acatalog/s_portra.html
I see her pieces on eBay often but they go for good prices, since they are scarce. Hopefully she'll get her website back together and be able to sell again.
Old websites are often saved in an internet archive named the Wayback Machine. The URL is:
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You enter the name of the website and links to any saved pages are displayed. It's an interesting site to check out for "lost" and current web sites.
Wow! Thanks Anon! I am going to take a few trips down memory lane at archive.org
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