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ThreadworX, famous for their overdyed threads, is starting to produce a bi-monthly newsletter. It's just out this week, and is something you really really REALLY want to sign up for.  The first newsletter is full of thread news, including photographs of their new colors, where to find stitching books for your Kindle or iPhone, an interesting idea of how to organize your threads, a review of a cheap stitch charting program, and three small projects, one of which is the first of their Birds of the Month.  An especially nice touch is that the Cardinal Bird of the Month project is both charted and a line drawing to transfer, so you can work from your preferred method.  You can sign up for the newsletter at their website by clicking on the link in the upper right hand corner.
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The newsletter is really good, beautifully laid out and colorful, with lots of stitching news.  But it isn't all you get for signing up.  ThreadworX is sending subscribers a bonus stitch guide.  The first guide is for a Raymond Crawford painted canvas of Snow, which is a design incorporating the letters S N O W and snowmen heads.  The stitch guide tells you how to stitch this project with ThreadworX fibers, diagrams stitches for you and is a great resource for snow and snowflake stitching ideas.  You'll want to collect all these "stitch guides" and use them for brainstorming.

Disclaimer:  After I signed up and then accidentally told ThreadworX I didn't want to receive the newsletter, Beth from their offices contacted me to make sure.  We got to talking and I ended up going over the newsletter and stitch guide for her to make sure everything made sense from a stitcher's viewpoint.  She's sending me two skeins of their overdyed Kreinik metallic for one of my upcoming projects as a thank you.  I would have mentioned their newsletter regardless, as it is a fabulous resource, but you guys get full disclosure here as Blog becomes more well known and I occasionally am given products to use as I stitch for it.

Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
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Hints (Painted Canvas Project)

This is a hint about what canvas I plan to stitch next.

Actually, I have four small projects I plan to work over the next few months, alternating them with a counted thread piece.  This is just the first of the four.

Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
Archived Yahoo 360 postings at http://profiles.yahoo.com/chillyhollow