Here's a sneak peek at the new Ink Circles Design that will be releasing on Friday. Tracey shared the info on her facebook page and gave us the thumbs up to share it with our LTS members!~

LOVE LOVE LOVE being the first to see a new design! This is a new one based on a quilt block that has been Quaker-ified. The first box out should be available to your LNS or ONS via Hoffman for their Friday newsletter this week.

Have you heard about the Counted Wishes Cross Stitch Festival? It opened today. Counted Wishes is an exciting new online Cross Stitch Festival for the stitching public held twice a year. Show participants are Cross Stitch Designers who share your love for all things stitching! Their mission is to fill the show with must-have Cross Stitch Charts that you can't live without!

Participating Designers Include:

Blueladie Designs

Col’s Creations

Debbie Draper Designs

Joyful Expressions

Labor of Love Designs

Linen Flowers Designs

Ozark Sampler

Pine Glen Designs

Sapphire Stitching

Sweetbriar Needle Design

Tam’s Creations

The Sampler Girl

Vee and Co. Designs

Show is open from February 1-February 5th, 2010 ~ Check it out!

Sewing Cake ~ Truly Custom Cakery

Ok so my girlfriend Stacey, the owner of Truly Custom Cakery
sent me this pic and said she thought of me the minute she saw it.

It made me smile. Why you may ask ....here's my list in no particular order
1 ~ I love cake. I mean really.....who doesn't love cake?
2 ~ It's nice to know your friends are thinking about you
3 ~ Needlework is my PASSION....If there were letters larger than all caps, I would use them!
4 ~ My friends associate me with needlework, cross stitch, knitting, etc.
5 ~ Did I mention I like cake?

So I ask you....who knows that you are a stitcher? Do your friends think of you when they see threads, fabrics or fun cakes? Stacey isn't a stitcher (not yet anyway...) but she tells me all the time that she is more in tune now than ever before! She notices local shops on her travels, she checks out Hoffman's Friday updates (later this afternoon stay tuned). I have been able to introduce her to stitching and how much fun it can be and sometimes all you need is to meet someone where they are ~ for Stacey that's cakes! Ha ha ha ~ maybe I'll start calling her Stacey Cakes, she's gonna kill me, hahahahaha

Stacey is an incredible Baker with a thriving Custom Cake business (I should know, I've ordered 4 cakes last year). Here's a few pics of her work. Now I have to figure out how to drop the hint to the big guy (my hubby) that I NEED a custom stitching cake for my B-day this year. No worries, I have 4 months to work out a plan (:




Stacey has a great tutorial on how to make these amazing melted snowman cookies (see picture below). You can view the tutorial (left hand column her blog ) here

We just love the newest release from Brenda Kocher Designs entitled Fancywork.

This Crazy Quilt pattern incorporates not only canvas work stitches but also silk ribbon surface embroidery to create a colorful splash of spring colors. A CD is included with the book that has color photo directions for the silk ribbon embroidery. These same directions are shown in the book with black and white photos. Approximate finished size of the design stitched on 18 count mono canvas is 11” x 12”.

We also LOVE Brenda's Project Bags. Not only can they carry a ton! She donates 100% of the profits to charity! now that's a designer we can get behind!

These beautiful project bags are brand new from Tea Rose Cottage Designs and represent a small sample of the many designs available. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of these bags go to children’s causes in Third World Countries.

Each design is available in limited quantities and come in small (approx. 12” x 15”) medium (approx. 17”x 18”) and large (approx. 21”x 22”…large enough for a 20” bobbin lace pillow!)

Each bag has a coordinated fabric lining with lots of pockets for storing your needlework supplies and patterns. Unique and/or antique buttons are used for the closures.

Have you heard about this fun new company?

Erin Dekker Raatjes is the creative force behind this new and exciting needlework company. Erin started Myrtle Grace Motifs with a punch needle line and soon was inundated with requests to turn her designs into cross stitch as well. Now you can choose the design medium that fits your needlework fancy!

We love Erin’s new design ~ Sweet, Sweet Life! This design is available as both a punch needle and counted thread pattern. It looks almost good enough to eat, and what an amazingly clever way to finish this appetizing design!

Want to try it this fun way to finish and not sure how to get started? Check out Erin’s blog for a fun tutorial and a few fun recipes to get you going this Monday morning!

Stitches 'N Things

'we don't want to work that hard' sale

All orders over $50 before tax andshipping will receive FREE shipping (not including frames, scrolls, andlights). Good now through 1/13/10.

Be sure to let them know you heard about it from LTS!

I'm off to get some fabric and threads for a Country Cottage Needleworks project I am working on. I am redoing the girls rooms and the Country Cottage Kids collection is perfect. I am making pillows from the Princess Parade and She Sells Sea Shells and the girls LOVE the Little Ballerinas so they can hang them above their beds. I can't wait to get started!

Here's a few pics of the shop. I think it looks like a stitcher paradise. I could stay there all day!

The New Release Display

Thread Heaven

You can connect with Stitches 'N Things on

Till next time ~ Stitch On!

Blog Roll Call! As you know, Loose Thread Stitcher's mission is to build the needlework community one LoOSe ThREAd at a time. Keeping our mission in mind we are compiling a list of Stitching Blogs that we will post on our blog, website, Facebook page and Twitter. We want to hear from you! Please complete the information below (that applies to you) and send it to Colleen(at)LooseThreadStitchers(dot)com.

Name (First & Last):
City/State:
EGA member: (yes or no) if no skip down 3
EGA Chapter:
EGA Region:
Blog Address:
Blog content:
Needlework Professional: (yes or no)
Business Type: (designer, teacher, shop, fabric,fiber, bead or button manufacturer, etc.)
Do you provide an EGA Discount: (yes or no)
Amount: (%age or $)
Discount Applies to: (Local Chapter or National EGA)

We would like to have the first list completed and added by the middle of this month. All who respond will have the initial list sent via e-mail with a link to the online list.

Any questions, thoughts, suggestions, let us know!