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Here's a description straight from Kreinik: New 3/8" Trim from Kreinik is a flat ribbon, braided in 12 gorgeous colors. Use it to add the crowning touch to needlework, custom-made handbags, jewelry and more. What a beautiful way to trim stitched ornaments, stockings and stand-ups...to replicate real metal thread embroidery on ecclesiastical banners...to knit or crochet evening bags (or chain mail for costumes!). Plus, all colors come in a wired or unwired version. Use the wired 3/8" Trim to make stand-out embellishments on stitchery, stand-up wired ribbon tops, or outstanding necklaces, brooches, bracelets and more. Open the weave in the 3/8" Trim and you can stitch in it, add beads, crochet through it, and more.

Packaged in 1-meter lengths and on cones. We will special order the wired variety and cone lengths for you!

Background Stitches CD Ruth Schmuff
481 Repeat Patterns for Needlepoint. Perfect for backgrounds or any area that needs a little something. All stitches are saved as pdfs and sorted by size, ready for you to print and use. Mac and PC compatible. Thanks to Ruth Schmuff for being on the cutting edge of technology! Be sure to see Volume 1 and Volume 2 Stitches CDs with 300 stitches on each!

Stitches CD Volume 1 by Ruth Schmuff

300 Stitches on one cd!!! Use as a handy stitch finder just like a traditional book but now it's even easier. Print the page wth the stitch you need specifically for your project - no more looking through all your books! All 300 images are also saved as high resolution art ready for use in your own stitch guides. Thanks to Ruth Schmuff for being on the cutting edge of technology! Be sure to see Volume 2 and Backgrounds also!

Stitches CD Volume 2 by Ruth Schmuff

Another 300 stitches on one cd!!! Use as a handy stitch encyclopedia just like a traditional book but now it's even easier. Print the page with the stitch you need specifically for this project! All 300 images are also saved as high resolution art ready for use in your own stitch guides. Thanks to Ruth Schmuff for being on the cutting edge of technology! Be sure to see Volume 1 and Backgrounds also!

A Perfect World in Ribbon Embroidery & Stumpwork
This ribbon and stumpwork book has a sampler in it and you can do each panel or just take a little bit of each one and work on it! There are 17 panels in the sampler and 60 different elements in the design with flowers and creatures made of ribbon and stumpwork. Packed with ideas and techniques you'll learn to combine ribbon embroidery and stumpwork to create your own special needlework.

Blue Roses in Checkered Bowl
How often do you see blue roses? These fun, fresh roses are sitting in a checkered bowl on a brick wall or shelf. There's a yellow striped wallpaper in the background. Painted on 18 ct. the painted area measures 6" square.

Colorful Stitchery

This book has 65 hot embroidery projects to personalize your home. First the book describes what tools you'll need. Then there are fun pillow projects, kitchen stitchin', hand stitched havens, and boxes to stitch. Basically you're going to learn a LOT of embroidery stitches and how to use perle cotton, ribbon, yarn and more to stitch on felted items, fabric, pre-made items, paper, linen and more. It's fun, it's something YOU can do and it's a great gift for the beginning stitcher.

Crazy Red Vase with Yellow Posy Roses
Now this one is just too fun. An art deco type vase with yellow and black circles holds yellow round roses or posy type flowers. There's a blue and white striped wallpaper in the background and the flooring/countertop is black and white squares. Just a mix of great fun colors for you. 18 ct. and the painted area is 6" square.

Embroiderer's Year

A beautiful book by Helen Stevens, this book celebrates the seasons month by month. January is a chickadee with minimal flowers, February is a mouse with violets, bee and hellebore, March is primrose, narcissus, butterfly, and pussywillow. April shows us a goldfinch with dandelions and other flowers, May is a water vole with reeds, June is a butterfly with delicate pink flowers, July is a meadow sparrow with brilliant red flowers, August is mice and a snail with wheat, September is butterflies and bees with berries, October has a blue jay with ethereal floral pieces, November is a squireel withh oak leaves and more, and December is a fairy with red and white berries and vining. Not only that but all the pages in between have MORE, MORE and MORE! They're all stitched in random long and short stitches, also known as stitch painting. I can not possibly describe it all the projects here. But I can send you the book! 137 pages, softcover.

Field of Flowers
A purple and gold checkered heart is the focal point of this wonderful canvas with fleaves, berries, vines and a flowers in the corner. The colors are wonderful and we even have a square glass ring that you can attach for an accent on the heart for an additional $15 if you want it and it matches really well. Painted on 18 ct., the overall size is 7-3/4" x 11-1/2".

Field of Flowers

This field of flowers is waving in the wind. A variety of shapes and colors including yellow, blue, purple and a couple of shades of red on skinny stems float effortlessly in the breezes. There's a big purple box so you can put your favorite button or even your childs' picture in there. We've got several ideas for you if you don't have anything including a butterfly or four rounds with matching colored flowers. 18 ct. the painted area is 8". (You can see the butterfly in the picture).

Funky Teapot with Dots and Flowers
This funky teapot is a MUST for my teapot collectors. A green lid with a little black button lid, followed by purple dots on yellow, black and white squares, yellow daisies on green, more black and white squares, and yellow dots on purple. A teal handle and spout finish this delightful teapot with a VERY DELIGHTFUL PRICE! 18 ct. and 5-1/2" x 5" at it's widest painted points.

House on a Hill
This sweet red house sits on a peach hilltop with an cherry or apple trees on either side. A blue and white checkered sky is in the background and beads are included for your trees. 3 x 3" and 18 ct.

Kitty Cat with Birdhouse and Checkered Background
This orange kitty cat is waiting to hear the bird sing! This also comes with a Just Another Button Company bluebird and four black beads. Two purple posies are growing around the birdhouse. The floor is black and white checkers and the wall is pink checkers. Fun! 3 x 3" and 18 ct.

Sublime Stitching

There are hundreds of iron on patterns in this book - so many to describe. Words like SWEET, LOVE, teabags, teacups, cakes, ice creams, pie, fruits, martinis, daiquiris, bongos, Chinese lanterns, leaves and vines, cars, trucks, rockets, aliens, planets, moons, baby items, baby faces, kitty cats, scotty dogs, other dogs, owl, birds, butterflies, roses, and more! You can do a LOT of surface embroidery with this. Jenny gives you basic stitching instruction and the book has envelopes to keep the cut patterns in too. A great gift for you and/or your teenager/20 year old stitcher.

Sublime Stitching Craft Pad
There are more than 75 fun embroidery patterns by Jenny Hart in this stitch pad. If you like to embroider, you can use these iron on patterns and embellish any kind of clothing, pillows, baby bibs and more! This is not your granny's embroidery! There are unicorns, drum sets, devils, fairies, flamingos and many more fun things. Check out her book, Sublime Stitching for even more iron on patterns

Teal Bird on Daisy with Checker Background
This sweet little canvas has a teal colored bird with a daisy on it. He's sitting on the purple center and the checkered black and white background sets it all off. Included are beads for the center of the flower and a color photo of the stitched piece. 3" square piece.

Wizard of Oz Hinged Box

This is making a huge hit at the shop. This is a new box and boy is it cute! Based on the Wizard of Oz it has a hot air balloon, lollipops, the yellow brick road, two glitzy red shoes, a star on a wand, a pink bubble in the sky, the Emerald City, a field of poppies, a tree throwing his own apples, the Witches sand timer and her crystal ball, and Toto with the words RUN TOTO RUN!. The lid is green and has 3 flying monkeys on it. This will make up into a round box which is about 2-1/2" in diameter and more than 5" tall.

Elf Stocking with Roses
This is a great mini sock with a curly toe. It's painted on 13 ct. and has several roses near the cuff with holly leaves and another one on the tip of the toe. The sock is 5" high and 6" wide at its widest points. Green dots are scattered on the body of it and silver stars are on the cuff.

Green Geometric Quilt
This beautiful canvas is painstakingly stitch painted to make it easier for you to stitch it. I'd like to describe the wonderful colors to you but I think that the picture says more than I can. Painted on 18 ct, the quilt lover in you will want to stitch this one. 6-1/4" square.

Jack in Red Bowtie

Jack the pumpkin is wearing a fine bandana in this picture! He's painted on 18 ct, measures5" square and has a lot of detail. Yellow highlights on his face bring out the happy yellow in his eyes. He even has 3 gold teeth! Two leaves frame his head and his red bandana has gold accents. The black night sky has gold stars sparkling in it and the whole square is bordered by a gold line and a beautiful orange border. This fits beautifully into an HP box, one of which is shown here (but not included in this price.

Jack the Pumpkin Swinging
This reminds me of a Halloween card from the 1940's or so. Jack the Pumpkin is sitting in his swing waiting for you to give him a push! The swing hangs from a tree branch and his arms and legs are made of pumpkin vines. A bat is flying in the night sky lit up with gold stars. Just precious! Painted on 18 ct. this measures 5 x 5".

Joy Ornament
This delightful ornament will be a joy to stitch. Painted on 18 ct in shades of pinks and green, the word "joy" is spelled with J in stripes of pink and silver, O as a package and Y in green. Hearts and bows finish this and the background includes green and silver striping. 4-1/4" square.

Leopard Mini Sock
This is a great mini sock for those who like their Christmas a little on the wild side. This is painted on 13 ct and features brown leopard spots with a black cuff. 6" high and 4" wide at its longest points. Check out our other wild mini socks in zebra and pink leopard spots.

Lots of Bows Bracelet
This beautiful bracelet has green and pink bows. Think of how sweet it will look on your wrist! Painted on 13 ct. it measures 1-1/2 x 6-1/2 and will work up in no time.

Pink Leopard Mini Sock
This is a great mini sock for those who like their Christmas a little on the wild side. This is painted on 13 ct and features pink leopard spots with a green cuff and pink detailing. 6" high and 4" wide at its longest points. Check out our other ones in tiger and brown leopard spots.

Pink Leopard with Palm Tree Mini Sock

This is a great mini sock for those who like their Christmas a little on the wild side or in Florida! It's painted on 13 ct and features pink leopard spots with a pink and green palm tree. Each leaf has an ornament hanging off of it. the pink cuff also has ornaments on the curving trim. 6" high and 4" wide at its longest points. Check out our other wild mini socks in zebra stripes, pink and brown leopard spots.

Red Tulipwood Box
This beautiful box by HP Designs has a 6" square opening. It's made of red tulipwood. Blue tulipwood and other sizes can also be ordered. As you can see, this pumpkin canvas is perfectly suited for this. There are other canvases that have perfect colors matching this box too. Maybe you have one that would be nice?

Tree Frog Smiling
Have you ever seen a tree frog smile? This one is. Practically hidden in the matching foliage he's smiling out at you and waiting for your stitches in something shiny. Do his red eye in a metallic. Painted on 18 ct. this measures 5 x 5".

Turquoise Nine Patch Quilt
This beautiful canvas is painstakingly stitch painted to make it easier for you to stitch it. Nine different squares make this one a lot of fun and you'll never be bored. Painted on 18 ct, the quilt lover in you will want to stitch this one. 6-1/4" square.

Watermelon Slices
Watermelon slices abound on this piece painted on 14 ct with black stripes in the background. Looking good enough to eat, this piece is 5 x 5 and would fit in the totes made for these sizes. Painted on 14 ct., only 4 colors are needed to stitch this.

Zebra Mini Sock
This is a great mini sock for those who like their Christmas a little on the wild side. This is painted on 13 ct and features zebra stripes with a red cuff and grey metallic hearts with white trim detailing. 6" high and 4" wide at its longest points. Check out our other wild mini socks in pink and brown leopard spots.

Zebra Poppy Bracelet or Dog Collar
These pretty poppies have a zebra stripe background which makes it really exciting! This bracelet will fit anybody or you can have this made into a heck of beautiful dog collar. Painted on 18 ct, this measures 1-3/4 x 10". You could asl cut this in half and do two sandal straps.