12 Days of After Christmas Giveaway - Day 6

Today this is an assortment of little boxes with sayings in them and booklets by Susan Branch.  One of the boxes has a little sewing mending kit!  The sayings are perfect for samplers or little smalls you are working

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu

(2) Put Susan Branch in the subject line

(3)  Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Jan 1st

Good Luck and tune in tomorrow for another of the 12 days of giveaways!!

Tricia

12 Days of After Christmas Giveaway - Day 5

Today there is a book to show you how to make a great assortment of bags to carry things!

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu

(2) Put Bag Boutique in the subject line

(3)  Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Dec 31st

Good Luck and tune in tomorrow for another of the 12 days of giveaways!!

Tricia

12 Days of After Christmas Giveaway - Day 4

Today is an issue of Just Cross Stitch wtih a set of sampler smalls in it and a cloth that you put on your lap to make it easier to see the holes in your linen.

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu

(2) Put JCS Smalls in the subject line

(3)  Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Dec 30th

Good Luck and tune in tomorrow for another 12 days of giveaways!!

Tricia

12 Days of After Christmas Giveaway - Day 3

Today's giveaway is a selection of little kits for ornaments/name tags

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu

(2) Put Kits in the subject line

(3)  Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Dec 29th

Good Luck and tune in tomorrow for another 12 days of giveaways!!

Tricia

12 Days of After Christmas Giveaway - Day 2

Today's giveaway is a copy of the newest February 2014 Just Cross Stitch magazine.

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu

(2) Put JCS Feb 2014 in the subject line

(3)  Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Dec 28th

Good Luck and tune in tomorrow for another 12 days of giveaways!!

Tricia

12 Days After Christmas Giveaway - Day 1

Yes, there is an After Christmas Giveaway!!

Todays giveaway is a chart with a few extra embellishments needed to complete a trio of pumpkins from Twisted Threads.

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu

(2) Put Twisted Threads in the subject line

(3)  Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Dec 27th

Good Luck and tune in tomorrow for another 12 days of giveaways!!

Tricia

Christmas Day Giveaway!

A Very Merry Christmas to Everyone!

Today's giveaway is a gift from Janet Brandt, who is a wonderfully creative artist working on an embroidered casket of her own.  She has given me a set of her latest books to share with the lucky winner.

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu

(2) Put Janet Brandt in the subject line

(3)  Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Dec 26th

Good Luck and tune in tomorrow for another 12 days of giveaways!!

Tricia

12 Days of Christmas Giveaway - Day 11

Today the winner gets a copy of the SANQ Summer 2013 issue and a pad of lovely graph paper for charting.

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu.

(2) Put SANQ Summer 2013 in the subject line

(3) Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Dec 25th

Good luck and let's see what I have to give away tomorrow!

Tricia

12 Days of Christmas Giveaway - Day 10

Today's giveaway is a group of three books by Offray on making ribbon flowers!

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu.

(2) Put Flowers in the subject line

(3) Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Dec 24th

Good luck and let's see what I have to give away tomorrow!

Tricia

12 Days of Christmas Giveaway - Day 9

Yum - a full kit for a little cross stitched Christmas cottage ornament!

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu.

(2) Put Cottage in the subject line

(3) Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Dec 23rd

Good luck and let's see what I have to give away tomorrow!

Tricia

12 Days of Christmas Giveaway - Day 8

Today is a copy of the Spring 2013 issue of SANQ.

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu.

(2) Put SANQ Spring 2013 in the subject line

(3) Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Dec 22nd

Good luck and let's see what I have to give away tomorrow!

Tricia

12 Days of Christmas Giveaway - Day 7

Today we have a selection of three smalls - little kits given out during seminars.  One is based off Pennsylvania show towels and another is that lovely mermaid!

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu.

(2) Put Mermaid in the subject line

(3) Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Dec 21th

Good luck and let's see what I have to give away tomorrow!

Tricia

12 Days of Christmas Giveaway - Day 6

Today's items are a group for cross stitch.  This year's Christmas preview issue of Just Cross Stitch plus two even-weave bags for stitching on for little gifts

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu.

(2) Put JCS Christmas in the subject line

(3) Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Dec 20th

Good luck and let's see what I have to give away tomorrow!

Tricia

12 Days of Christmas Giveaway - Day 5

Today's items go to three winners.  There is a great little pad of graph paper for those thoughts on the run or charting your name for samplers.  And each comes with an announcement of a Witney Antiques exhibition.  The picture of the stumpwork on it is so beautiful that I could never throw these away.  I knew someone would want the picture

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu.

(2) Put Witney in the subject line

(3) Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Dec 19th

Good luck and let's see what I have to give away tomorrow!

Tricia

12 Days of Christmas Giveaway - Day 4

Ohhh... today's item is a recent copy of Inspirations Magazine.  That is Yummy.

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu.

(2) Put Inspirations in the subject line

(3) Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Dec 18th

Good luck and let's see what I have to give away tomorrow!

Tricia

12 Days of Christmas Giveaway - Day 3

Today's giveaway is a lovely mini-stocking chart by Mary Beale.  I love the richness of her work!  

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu.

(2) Put Stocking in the subject line

(3) Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Dec 17th

Good luck and let's see what I have to give away tomorrow!

Tricia

12 Days of Christmas Giveaway - Day 2

Today's wonderful items is a cross-stitch christmas tree that you make into a 3-D tree.  It is a full kit with all the materials.  

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu.

(2) Put Christmas Tree in the subject line

(3) Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Dec 16th

Good luck and let's see what I have to give away tomorrow!

Tricia

12-Days of Christmas Giveaway - Day1

Some of you remember last year when I had my 'Meltdown to Moving Madness' giveaways as I started to pack.  Well at some point, I just started to panic and had to move.  So as I unpacked my studio, I put items in a box for this giveaway season!

So it is time for some lovely items to find new homes!  The first set of items are copies of the Fall 2013 issue of SANQ.   Four lucky winners will get an issue.

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu.

(2) Put SANQ FALL 2013 in the subject line

(3) Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Dec 15th

Good luck and let's see what I have to give away tomorrow!

Tricia

Janet is Already Stitching

I just told you about Janet's design process, well she shared another picture with me of the embroidery in progress.  Her stitching is lovely and implementation of her unique 3-D style is evident (Search her blog and you will find a layering of embroidered items to get a shadowbox effect).  I can just imagine peeking in the window when it is done!  Above is another door idea she was playing with too.

Something about her style reminds me of gingerbread houses; which I love.  We made one this week and the kids are clamoring for more.  Before we got obsessed with robots during the Christmas season, we were obsessed with gingerbread creations.  In the past I have made a moving fire truck; a 3-D sleigh and reindeer, and a scene of houses surrounded by an actual working gingerbread train built on a Lego train base.  You can imagine that the kids bring that one up every year!

If it snows a lot this weekend, I will have to see what kind of trouble we get in with gingerbread.  My oldest knows the signs - three jars of molasses showed up in the kitchen and he is itching to go.  I already came up with an idea.... we will see if I have time.

And for those of you who read the blog infrequently - starting tomorrow you will WANT to read it daily or you will sorely miss out!!

Tricia

Janet's Red House

I have some tremendously creative folks in the Cabinet of Curiosities class.  I had envisioned this class as an 'enabler' course.  Not a course that would force everyone to stitch my style and vision but something that would allow them to follow their own voice.  And Janet Brandt is just one of those special artists with her own distinct voice.  She is a well known and accomplished folk artist and has published many volumes including the latest:  Making Things:  A book of days for the creative spirit.

She has been keeping us abreast of her design ideas and developments since September on her blog.  I will share here with you one of her early sketches of an idea.  There are many other ideas on her site in a chronicle of the design process.  It is a great document of how the mind wanders from one inspiration to another in the search for the design that speaks to you so much that you want to perfect it and start stitching.  I have loved her esthetic for a long time (I am a HUGE folk art fan and chase down anything with bright red in it) and so I can't wait to see her actually stitching her final design which is based around a red doll house that she is well known for.  

I have already seen designs or stitched caskets now for over a dozen pieces and the vast variety is just stunning.  Design concepts, stitching techniques, color schemes, etc. It is such a blank canvas for everyone's passions!

Tricia

Winners of SANQ magazines

The winners of the SANQ magazine giveaway are - T. Burke of VT, P. Kennedy of NJ, D. Isaacs of NJ, and J. Pennington of ME.  I will be shipping these out this week!  Congrats.

I have more magazines to give away and will be posting them soon.  I am recovering today from a very full day of robot competition yesterday where my Brainstormers took the Champion's award (the all-around) at the regional and my 8-yr old team (a year less than recommended for this!) took an award and a spot at the State competition.  Only 20% of teams advance in MA.  So they all are quite excited and at noon will be here to strategize their work over the next two weeks to get ready for the big game.  Thank god they go to school so I can get things done during the day - they all live here any extra hours they have.  The house is covered in chip bags, lego parts, and poster boards!

Christmas?  Well, if you can decorate a tree in cast off robot parts we might have one.

Tricia