Hey, Everybody! Time has flown.

BACK TO SCHOOL SALE - Receive 20% off your entire purchase on FRIDAY SEPT 18 AND SATURDAY SEPT 19 --- 10-4 EACH DAY. Stop by and stock up so you can get some good stitching time in now that school has started!

REMINDER: Just Cross Stitch will be CLOSED ON OCTOBER 1, 2, 3 and 4 - that's Thursday thru Sunday. We will be OPEN on SUNDAY OCT 11 from 11-2. I am going on a Cross Stitch Retreat and I can't wait. I will be in Virginia Beach, VA attending a retreat sponsored by Dyeing 2 Stitch, a local shop. The shop owners are also the ladies who dye R&R fabrics. Blackbird Designs and Jeanette Douglas, from Canada, will be my 'teachers' for the retreat. Shepherd's Bush and Charland, from Canada, will also be there offering classes. As I said, I can't wait. Not only will this be my first retreat but it will be my first vacation in YEARS. I've always counted my wholesale markets as vacations - that is working vacations. But this one is going to be all pleasure and stitching.

Now, for some VERY IMPORTANT NEWS: Just Cross Stitch is on the move to bigger digs. That's right, WE ARE MOVING! After 12+ years in Limerick, we will be relocating to Lederach - right on Route 113, about half way between Route 73 in Skippack and Route 63 in Harleysville. We will occupy 820 square feet known as Unit #3 in the Lederach Commons, across the street from the Lederach Tea Room. We are set off Route 113 in an older 'strip mall' that contains Curves, a hair salon, the Lederach Post Office and several other businesses. Current plans are to physically move Saturday October 24.

The actual 'shop' area will be close to 2 times my current space. I plan to have a table set up for stitchers to frequent during the day, whenever the mood strikes. I'll have a back room for shop 'business' and storage. And much more room to spread out and create more displays so it will be easier to see everything.
And, there are NO steps to come into the shop.

As I said, we will be moving on Saturday Oct 24. Non-essential items will be moved much earlier. We will start taking the shop apart and packing the week of Oct 20. We will be open for business at the new location on Tuesday Oct 27. We may not be all set up, but we will be there for you to come and check us out.
I probably will be finding places for inventory even I haven't seen in a while. Oh boy! It's going to be like opening a BIG present when I start to pack.

Stay tuned for more info and our plans for a Grand Opening in Lederach.

Talk to you soon! Carolyn

Hi! Just one more teaser - BACK TO SCHOOL SALE IS SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY SEPT 18 AND SATURDAY SEPT 19! Watch for more info.

Blackbird Designs "Sweet August" - August stockings - has just arrived. Each stocking is done on a different fabric - Creek Bed Brown, Dye Pot Blend and Ann-tique Hydrangea. Start checking your Crescent Colours inventory as these 3 stockings take 14 Crescent colours.

Blue Ribbon Designs is coming out with 3 new charts: "Afraid of the Dark", "Black Cats and Flying Bats" and "A Sampling in the Square". Should be available shortly. Have you seen the new Glendon Place Halloween chart? It's fabulous and will be in next week. I've never seen the Headless Horsemen look so good!

Carriage House Samplings has put out some teasers on the soon to be released "Christmas at Hawk Run Hollow". Here they are---

The model was stitched in NPS but she has given a DMC conversion.

Well, I've given you some food for thought. Have a good Labor Day Weekend. I will be here working. We will be open Saturday 10-4 and Sunday 11-2.

Be Safe and Keep Stitching. Carolyn

Hey, Stitchers! Started a stocking Tuesday night. Here's a picture - didn't get too far, but I love it!


It's the Haunted House and the toe has a black cat with his back and tail up.














Here's a Halloween 'band ' that I'm also working on- done on 18 ct natural linen over 2 with #5 perle cottons. This is from a Prairie Schooler chart. I haven't decided what to do with it yet. It will finish off at about 3 inches wide and will be used as a band around a basket or candle jar or maybe placed on a grapevine wreath. The possibilities are many.

















I just got this pillow back from my finisher and am so happy with the results. This is a free pattern and, once again, has many possibilities for finishing.

I just love my 8 sided pillow - in purple - with a crazy fringe. Oops! This picture got turned upside down in creating it but you can still get a real clear view of my BATS for Halloween.
What do you think of my pillow?

Today is the day! The Blackbird Tis Halloween has arrived. We have the charts, the fabric and the floss and I'm going to stitch - or at least start- a stocking tonight!!! I will be pricing and cutting and sorting flosses on Wednesday and calling all you special people who pre-ordered the chart.

I'm expecting an auto from Lizzie Kate tomorrow and an order from Hoffmman Distributors should arrive so I will be a busy beaver. Talk again, soon! Maybe I'll even have a 'stocking' to scan tomorrow and share with you.

Carolyn

Hi Stitchers! Blackbird Designs is 'teasing' us on the Tis Halloween book. Here's another picture. Supposedly, this is all 13 of them. It's really hard to tell. There will be 13 stocking patterns and a couple of other projects in the book. Hear tell, they are to be delivered, from the printer, to Blackbird on Monday and she will start packing and shipping them to distributors.

Wouldn't these stockings look great on a grapevine wreath decorated with bittersweet or colorful fall leaves? Or better yet, how about a garland to decorate your mantel?

The Picture is Finally Here! Reserve your copy now if you haven't done so.

It's going to be great. We will have fabric and flosses to complete any of the stockings you may want to stitch. All will be coming in, hopefully, about 2 weeks. I can't wait till it gets here.

It's Here!!!! Hot off the press! The 2009 Prairie Schooler!

More to come.