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Free Sampler located on the JAT message board:
Part two of the Array of Style Sampler is complete. This is the final part and members of the message board can get it free, along with part one of this sampler via the message board. Just sign onto the message board and scroll down to JAT Specials – Array of Style – free sampler.
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Free Sampler located on the JAT message board:
The first section of the Array of Style sampler is the outside border. It is free and it is on the message board just waiting for you to download. It is turning out just beautiful. I have added cross stitch, French knots and Satin stitches on the border. Cross stitching with overdyed fibers and adding tiny French knots over the cross stitching makes the little flowers absolutely beautiful. I am very happy with them and I think you will like them also. I am working on the next section. I am not sure how it will turn out but for now it is looking beautiful with some pulled thread work and decorative stitches.
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Please note: I am receiving a lot of interest in this design and I wanted to let you all know that I will be adding some definate information for everyone in a couple days. I am sorry for the delay but Moosie is doing some major updating of my blog right now and I just cannot add anything until it is complete. Please be patient with me and check back in a couple days. Thank you all so much.
A Tribute to Mary Wigham and all the girls of Ackworth school. Can you imagine how surprised Mary would be to find out that she has a wardrobe. Well, kind of. 
I love the wardrobe. I think Mary would too.
I will post all the information regarding this wardrobe on my Designs page as soon as possible. For now I will give you just a minimal of information.
This will be released as a private class in PDF sections on my JAT Message board. The class will be limited in size but don’t worry if you don’t get in on this one as I will probably have another class approximately a year after this first class is completed. The cost of the class includes the stitch design and finishing class which will be released in monthly sections. I will have a very limited kit available which will include the stitching linen, decorative fabric and silk satin ribbon. Ok, enough talk about it….lets see Mary Wigham’s Wardrobe closet.
The cost of the class will be $55.00 with $5.00 going directly to Ackworth School towards the preservation of the Ackworth School samplers. I shall post more about the class kit and the cost once I post the design page. Thanks everyone.
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Hmmmmm….is Nashville a holiday. I have thought and heard so much about it lately that I am thinking it must be a holiday. So…HAPPY NASHVILLE everyone.
This year I sent two new designs to Nashville. I have been patiently waiting to release them here on my site. I have not added them to my design page as yet. I have been busy getting the Mary Wigham design completed and had no time to take care of these Nashville babies. But I will be posting the MWW design a little later today and I shall try to get all three new designs and information about them on my design page as soon as possible.
So now…here are my Nashville releases. They are available from me as a PDF or paper. Your favorite needle work shop can get them in paper format only.
This is “Savannah” Just A Box; #2 in the collectible series.
As usual you are encouraged to pick your own color linen and fibers but my choices are listed for you, just in case. My next design is honoring my Dad. I stitched this knowing I wanted to frame it… so I give you the design as it will look in my shadow box. “In My Father’s Name”.
I hope you like my new releases and even if you don’t I shall be back shortly with the Mary Wigham release. Hugs
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A lot of you will be very familiar with Mary Wigham of Ackworth School fame. For those stitchers that love the sampler world and Mary Wigham’s sampler you can read all about Mary and download a PDF of this fabulous sampler for free (a donation is requested but not required). There is also a free world wide stitch along that you can join if you so choose. This brings me to one of the most exciting blogs I have ever been to. Not only can you read about Mary and her sampler, download the PDF, find and join in the country of your choice stitch along group, but the blog has many other fabulous posts that I know you will enjoy reading about. Take the time to visit Jacqueline Holdsworth’s blog at www.needleprint.blogspot.com and find out more about this amazing sampler and read about Mary,her history and connection with Ackworth School. For the three Mary Wigham links scroll down and watch the right side menu for the following captions; 1. Mary Wigham SAL – Country Head Girls, 2. Mary Wigham forever sal (PDF download), 3. Read the Mary Wigham Story by Donna Dzierleng. 
Now this all leads me to something that I am very excited about. I have been talking with Jacqueline Holdsworth regarding a new design that I am working on in honor of Mary Wigham. The design should be released some time in February and will be announced here and also on Jacqueline’s site. So now that I have teased you all a little be sure to watch for the Mary Wigham 3D special.
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Hello everyone. This is my Christmas gift to all my board members this year. The chart and finishing instruction for this little ornament (it is only about 2 inches.) is in PDF format as usual and is located on the message board.
If you are not a member of the JAT message board you can register by clicking on the “message board” link in the top menu bar and then click on “Register”. Be sure to send me an email with your user name so I can activate your membership once you have registered. This is just another safeguard for my board members against spammers. Big hugs and Merry Christmas
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Hey everyone I hope you like my newest design. “Five Penny Millionaire” treasure box. I was going to offer this class as a private class only but I have changed my mind. Instead I have decided to release this design as a design exclusive, available through “Just A Thought” only. I will set up a Forum on the JAT message board for those stitchers that like to share their progress with other stitchers that may be stitching the same design.
The idea for this design came to me as I was huming a song from a movie my mom took me to many years ago. It was 1959 and the movie was “Five Pennies”. Danny Kaye stared in the movie and I memorized the song those many years ago and never forgot it.
Now here it is for you today. “Five Pennies”. Well actually it is a treasure box that holds the five little penny cards and pennies.
May you and those you love always be a “Five Penny Millionaire”.
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This is my newest design. I called it “Days Gone By” because as I was stitching it I kept seeing a western dad handing a beautiful little box (that he got while he was in town) to his little daughter. She had dark hair, long braids and dirty little finger nails but she took it with awe because it was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. She kept only her most wonderful and private treasures in it from that day forward.
Days Gone By is the first in a series of collectable boxes that I plan to design. They will all be different in the stitch design, shape and size. Each will have a character of its own and I may even call upon my JAT board members to share the story they see when they look at each box. They will be rewarded of course. I do love the rewards.
We have also started our tin Christmas exchange for 2009. We have a group of over 40 stitchers. Can you believe that. You still have time to join the exchange so check into the message board and sign up. You can read more about it once you are there.
I am going to stitch a little fob for a thread grabber that my dear friend Lynne B. sent to me. She designed the little fob and once it is stitched and finished I shall post both pieces with news about where you can purchase the thread grabber and get the fob design for free. By-the-way, Lynne is the owner of Blessings Counted, Inc. and the designer of the “original” French Alphabet Sampler (FAS) that we have all fallen in love with. It is personalized with family initials and names and each one is individually charted for each stitcher. You can go to Elegant Stitch to read more about the FAS Sampler. You will love it.
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Wednesday: July 22, 2009 Well now, my dear friend Kathy, madstitcher on the board, has asked me for a favor. She says she does not like deer so she wants me to design the front doors, back wall and lid top with a more sampler like style or geometric style or whatever. Well heck…I just could not say no so I figure that if I am going to design something new she can just share it with everyone.
She was very happy to share of course. Those of you that know Kathy love Kathy.
Anyway, I shall be designing something new and as soon as it is done I shall show it to you here on my blog. The colors will not change, nor will the size or the linen used. I will also have members of the private class start stitching on other parts so you will have no problem adapting to the new design if you like it better.
And those that did not like the deer, girl and other animals may like the new design better. The class will, of cource, still be held on the message board as previously noted.
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