Hey, Stitchers! There are only 135 days until the end of the year. Do you know what that means? There are even less until Christmas!!! Have you started your Christmas stitching yet? If not, you better decide on smaller items - towels and bread covers are still very useful. Some of the bread cover and towel designs can be made into table runners and bands for baskets and candles and candle jars. These all make good gifts. Make a bread cover and give a fresh baked loaf of bread and a basket or a dozen Chistmas cookies as a small gift to friend or neighbor when visiting over the holidays. Create a band and buy a nice basket and fill with goodies or wrap around that candle jar. Think! Create! You can do it! Create a special ornament for that special friend. I have several customers that come in every year looking for an idea for an exchange with several friends. They create ornaments for those friends and exchange them at their Christmas party. What a great idea. Take a chart you have and pick it apart and create an ornament from just part of the chart. Make your own!!!

Cricket Collection has 4 new charts coming out: The Monster and the Macabre, Autumn, Winter and Fresh From the Oven. Here's some pics.