Goodbye Prairie Schooler UPDATED

Prairie Schooler has retired which means their needlepoint line is about to vanish forever. To commemorate their wonderful simple designs, Nimble Needle has put together a retrospective sale.
http://nimbleneedlenj.com/prairie-schooler-collections/

I love their Santas personally.  Time to start keeping an eye out for eBay charts I guess....

UPDATE:  My spies (see comments below) say that Hoffman Publishing has picked up the rights to the Prairie Schooler cross stitch charts.  Good news for us needlepointers as many of those can be stitched on needlepoint canvas.  Thanks for the update, folks!

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Christmas All Over Again

I know Christmas 2011 is a distant memory by now, overcome by political rhetoric and drowned in sales, debt and bad weather.  But we can revisit the warmth of Christmas any time of the year by visiting these links to see some wonderful finished Christmas-themed projects.  Are you a fan of Prairie Schooler?  Laura Perin is stitching a series of their small Santa charts as one long piece.
http://two-handedstitcher.blogspot.com/2011/12/some-holiday-stitchin.html

The Needle Bug has a series of photos of a snowman cowboy stocking one of their customers is stitching for her husband.  The little touches are amazing.  Click on a photo in the album, wait for it to load, then click again for a closeup.
http://theneedlebug.com/2011/12/tis-the-season/

Stephanie is showing off exchange ornaments her SWAN group has done for each other over the years.
http://stephsstitching.blogspot.com/2011/12/kims-swan-ornaments-through-years.html

Michele has finished another Kelly Clark Heritage ornament.  These are turning out beautifully, aren't they?
http://bristlythistle.blogspot.com/2012/01/may-heritage-ornament-by-kelly-clark.html

Robin took photos of her Christmas ornaments before she packed them away for another year.  Looking at them all got her interested in kitting up a series of Christmas caT (not car-thanks for the correction!) ornaments to do this year so at Christmas 2012 she can have a new tree full of a new theme.
http://needlepointstudyhall.blogspot.com/2012/01/christmas-needlepoint-ornaments.html

Feel a little better now?  I do!


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Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com

Newsletters and Update

To update you on where I am with projects, Autumn Leaves' basketweave is nearly done. I went shopping for trim on Monday and for beads on Tuesday, so I have most of what I need to finish the rock slab jewelry piece and the camels mini stocking. Hurrah! I will make another trip to the really big bead shop today to pick up some seed beads (hopefully) as I have an errand to run in that part of the suburbs.

I'm also getting fun information from various newsletters. Homestead Needlearts has a nice series of photos about finishing up. Isn't that ruby slippers pillow FAB?! Scroll down further and you'll see some of the new Prairie Schooler canvases. This is a XS company that is making their classic Santas available on canvas.

http://www.homesteadneedlearts.com/thelatest.html

Janet Perry's newsletter linked to the Stitch-Its website. This is the place distributing these Santas and they say you can talk to them about doing your favorite Prairie Schooler design on NP canvas. See the following for the current available canvases and a link to the PS website to drool over more.

http://www.stitch-its.com/prairie.htm

If you like the Kelly Clark Santas or the Melissa Shirley small ethnic ones, you'll want to check out the links.

Happy summer stitching, everyone!

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