A New Color of Congress Cloth

Gay Ann Rogers' annual sale of her charts is over, and now her focus is on shipping out purchases. However, she has teamed up with Kate who sells the threads and canvases needed to stitch Gay Ann's pieces. This kitting of designs is very helpful for those who don't have a local shop or who are housebound. Kate does your shopping for you.

I explain all this because one of the things Kate is selling is a sample of the newest congress cloth color, "Soft Ivory." This is an ivory color, the same one you see on old linens. It's not white, it's not ecru. It is in-between.   If you go to Gay Ann's home page and look at the middle of the page under Kate's photo, you'll see a Buy It Now sale for three pieces of the ivory congress cloth.  See the whitework heart to the right of the sale for congress cloth samples?  That was stitched on the new soft ivory color.
http://www.gayannrogers.com

Remember, it is too late to buy charts for any of Gay Ann's pieces.  But you can still pick up supplies from Kate.  Want more information about everything Kate has on offer?  Click on the Sale Annex section to browse.  But remember, Kate's sale will end on November 6 so act quickly if you are in the market for pieces of the new congress cloth to play with.

Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
@ Copyright 2013 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Finishing Friday

How did it get to be Friday already?!!  Time flies when Christmas is only fifty-five days away! To distract us from all we have to do before Dec. 25, here is a lovely little stand up Santa with gorgeous gingerbread button trim.  Kudos to the finisher!
http://ridgewoodneedlepoint.blogspot.com/2013/10/blog-post_18.html

Ridgewood has a sweet snowman ornament, beautifully done.
http://ridgewoodneedlepoint.blogspot.com/2013/10/blog-post_23.html

Stephanie reminds us why we love Petei designs (and why we are glad Painted Pony picked up the line).
http://stephsstitching.blogspot.com/2013/10/petei-is-back.html

Pocket Full of Stitches has all sorts of wonderful finishing for us to enjoy.  I don't know what's my favorite, the Halloween items, the Christmas stockings or that wonderful dog pillow!
http://pocketfullofstitches.blogspot.com/2013/10/finishing.html

Needle Nicely reminds us that a older piece of stitching can be redone to give it new life.
http://needlenicely.blogspot.com/2013/10/several-finished-pillows.html

Here's one last Halloween Hurrah--straight from the magic fingers of The Needlepointer's finishers.
http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=2b1a4dafdf1ba6e29e773aa79&id=9700551c3c&e=73961ee0ea

I've been showing off a lot of holiday finishing lately but I didn't want you to miss this traditional pillow, beautifully stitched and finished simply as befits such a jewel.
http://ridgewoodneedlepoint.blogspot.com/2013/10/blog-post_22.html

Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
@ Copyright 2013 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Kaffe Fasset Interview

Got an hour to listen to Kaffe Fasset talk about his autobiography which was published this time last year?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN-eQCXINt0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esiOxaNfsSs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKrCxyBt8K0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUjh0bTPCA4

Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
@ Copyright 2013 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.