October begins at midnight and I have been stitching up a storm on three new designs!

I loved teaching my Autumn Thread Keep a few weeks ago. The pattern was inspired by one of my antiques. I have packed fun stitches into a very small space and the fun project is held together with ribbons. The design is in my store for your ordering pleasure now in hard copy and PDF formats.

I just loaded my self-lined 'Christmas Wishes Compendium' and 'Christmas Wishes Needle Book' in hard copy and PDF formats and hope that you will enjoy them. May you soon be humming Christmas songs like I did as I stitched them.

After I teach my self-lined Christmas Tree Ornament to Tudor Rose Sampler Guild on November 5, I'll put it on my website.

I'm working on several projects including reproductions of a 1779 Netherlands Queen Stitch motif sampler and a magnificant Scottish Sampler. I am ready to start stitching the model of the Scottish Castle Etui I'll be teaching in England next year and have several other designs in the planning stages for the 2025 Nashville Market. My friends Pat and Peggy of Fern Ridge Collection invited me to share their showroom and I will LOVE being with them!

I am so looking forward to going to Hobby House in a few weeks and being with friends from here and there and everywhere as well as presenting a lecture on (SURPRISE!) Scottish Samplers. 

I hope that you are well. I must admit that my heart has been heavy the last several days. I lost two friends this month and then 

Hurricane Helena turned into a monster and attacked the United States as a category 4 hurricane. My nieces and their families who live in Asheville and in Boone are safe from initial harm but the desruction in both areas is massive. Roads have been washed away and businesses, including some that my friends and I enjoyed visiting a few weeks ago on our way home from a gathering in Tennessee, have been flooded and destroyed.  Prayers up for all who have been in harms way and all who have gone to help.

Stay safe and take good care of each other.

​Cissy

(Contact me at Cissy2449@gmail.com if you would like to discuss interactive lecture options, available classes, and dates.)

 

 

 

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