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Welcome to the home of The Workbasket, specializing in designs inspired from traditional needlework and nature itself. We offer cross stitch designs as well as needlepoint canvasses, punch needle kits and special limited offer kits. Please continue opening our pages to find out more about our company, ourselves and our designs. Let us inspire you with something from our Workbasket for your workbasket. March 15, 2012 The Workbasket has added pictures of our new releases for Nashville (descriptions below) on our NEW/NEWS page. We have also added the chart for our freebie, Blue Flower. You can find it on our FREE page. I have also just added 14 new needlepoint canvasses which have been converted from our cross stitch designs with the same name. You can find these on our Needlepoint page. The Stitch Boutique in Boston has all of our new and old canvasses during their trunk show. Please visit their website at www.stitchboutiqueboston.net
We have
four new designs for the 2012 Nashville Market.
Some of you might remember Mary’s Grandma’s Band Sampler that we had
at the market last year. It is a large
piece based on an antique bag from her maternal grandmother that was stitched
using a black thread on an off white linen.
Mary has tried to replicate each of the 14 bands as exactly as
possible. Both the old and the new are
heirloom pieces for Mary and we hope it will be for you too.
A
second design is inspired by Frakturs and German Pennsylvania art—Tulips
and Hearts. It has all the
colors of that genre of art—red, blue, green and yellow and obviously tulips
and hearts. Mary has stitched two
smaller versions that combine some of the motives and an alphabet to make quick
pieces to stitch. We have finished it as
a soft piece with ribbons and florets.
The
Quakers are back! It has been a few
years since publishing new designs in our Quaker series and we just couldn’t
seem to let them go. We have two
fine-feathered friends for you. One is
an American Quaker Eagle who looks proud and powerful—our symbol of America. The Quaker Cardinal is also a symbol for
my home state of Ohio. It is the state
bird for a few other mid-western states as well. They are both “must haves” for your Quaker
Collection.
Continuing
the theme of fine-feathered friends, our final piece is titled Crow
Hill. It is a large design that
takes its inspiration from an actual Crow Hill on route 285 outside of
Denver. As I traveled up and down this
hill on our travels to and from Kenosha Pass, I always imagined crows with legs
that adjusted proportionately to the altitude.
Those at the top of the hill have shorter legs while those at the bottom
have longer ones. We have included a
quote to stitch—“It takes more than fine feathers to make a fine bird.” Each
crow and pine tree can be stitched individually to make fun smaller
pieces.
We
will post pictures after the market so please stay tuned.
Our
freebie this year is the first in a series of 5 --Birds and Blooms. Mary has stitched each over one thread and I
have stitched it over two threads. They
can be combined to make one larger piece.
We hope
to see many of you at the market. Please
stop in and see us and see our new designs.
Market is one of the highlights for Mary and I as we get to see so many
of you only this one time each year. Looking forward to visiting.
Cheers,
Candy Our website was stitched on Lakeside Linen's 40 count Woodsmoke using one strand of Silk 'N Colors in Texas Bluebonnet from The Thread Gatherer.
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