Dear stitching friends,
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We're happy to announce a new feature that we have had in mind for some time -
cross stitching for a worthy cause! When you buy one of our new patterns,
African Elephant, we will donate 20% of the proceeds to The Elephant Sanctuary in
Tennessee. This is a wonderful organization that provides a home for elephants
including two of the necessities of quality elephant life, plenty of room
to roam and the society of other elephants. Many of their elephants come from
zoos or circuses where they were mishoused or mistreated and they really
deserve a break. Check out their web site and learn more about what they
do.
We have a big weakness for elephants so we are offering this pattern in two sizes, EST001 which has more detail,
and EST001-S which is a little less detailed but smaller and quicker to stitch
(click the picture for details).
We plan to add more patterns in the future which will benefit other non-profit
organizations which are doing good work.
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Updates to our site
Once again there are a lot of new pictures in the gallery this month! The
new pieces are Young Woman with Cat, Blue Horse, and The
Lacemaker.
There are also updates for The Accolade and Lady with Unicorn:
Sense of Hearing. There is some very nice work here!
As usual, we have moved the updated pieces to the top of the page, with the
pictures in chronological order, but so that you
can jump to your favorite piece, we have added quick links in the left side
bar (in order by artist's last name). Enjoy!
We are also working away at the Tips page. We have added
content to the sections How to cross (there will be a quiz later!), Anchoring floss, Stitching neatly, and
updated parts of Stitch order and Keeping your place. All changes are dated to make it easier to find them.
A
couple of the new sections have links to illustrations.
We plan to have a lot more illustrations for stitching techniques as
well as various equipment that we discuss. And we still are working on adding
all the tips that you, our members, sent in. It's a slow process! But we
encourage you to send any and all ideas that you find helpful and we will get
them in there eventually!
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| New patterns! Click any picture for a closer look. |
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Portrait of a Girl Dressed in Blue
Johannes Verspronck
| Roses, Marigolds, Hyacinths, and
Other Flowers on a Marble Ledge
Rachel Ruysch |
The Pink Dress
Frederic Bazille
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