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Above is the map of how far Queendom Website has traveled,
nice for MacSoph and me, but doubly nice because it shows that needlework is indeed alive and well right round the world.
October 15, 2024, 9 days to go
Small Santa Fe Square will be in My Sale on Oct 24
I have so many new people that I decided I should comb through my files for a small pattern to introduce my designs to newbies.
I chose this one, a little 5" design on 18 mesh canvas. It has a special history for me. The elements I used go way way back almost 40+ years when I made my first geometric. Years later, I made this smaller quicker edition and here it is, called SMALL SANTA FE SQUARE.
It will be in my sale on October 24, Instructions pnly. It is quick and fun to do and will work well for using stash. I give you a list of my threads and colors, but almost any combinations will work.
Interested in following along as I mount EWeek 2024, see News&Views
My World of Needlework
My website is up and working again and the countdown is on now till EWeek, my fall sale,
opens.
In the next days I will show you some of the designs.
A Reminder
If you are new to my designs, please read about my instructions and the reason I package them the way I do.
Scroll down to lower yellow navigation bar and click on
INSTRUCTIONS.
How I choose: Full Kit vs Instructions Only
Dowager Countess of Grantham offers me the perfect chance to explain why Dowager in the Evening (top design) is a full kit and Dowager Countess (bottom design) is an example of 'Instructions Only' (no threads no canvas).
The answer is simple: it has to do with the complexity of the design. It is ever so much easier to fiddle with a design that is simple like the Dowager Countess (the purple design) that to fiddle with changes to Dowager in the Evening (the blue design).
If you want to adjust parts of the design in Dowager in the Evening, you have my whole-hearted approval, I love when people fiddle with my designs but you need to begin with a full tool bar. Fiddling with the design and finding beads and colors that work together are a complex undertaking and if you start from zero, it will be a much more difficult task.
How do I know? I designed both pieces. Dowager in the Evening (blue design) took a great deal of concentration on my part and much of it was luck. Dowager Countess (the purple design) actually has more complex stitches but the overall presentation was much much easier.
I had an idea for making two versions of a geometric, one more complex, one simpler and easier for those of you eager to experiment from your stash etc. I need some time to work it out but look forward to trying it.
Why I don't offer three options for each of my designs
You request often that I offer three ways to buy my designs:
As full kits or as patterns and beads (no threads, no canvas, patterns only) or as patterns only.
I can't do this. Pressure is on me to ship fast and offering many options slows me down too much.
So I choose: a full kit or instructions only (no threads, no canvas).
NOTES on My Geometrics
I offer some geometrics as kits only, others as patterns only.
I hope this will give you some explanations for why I choose to sell one geometric as a kit only, another as a pattern only.
And also why I don't offer my followers all the options and let them choose.
Dressing Henry
Dressing Henry is a densely stitched sampler of layers of different patterns with collars (necklaes) of beads and pearls. It is the only time I have stitched bands of Turkeywork Ermine and likely the only time. The two interwoven Celtic designs, adapted from a famous Holbein painting took me hours to graph, but once graphed was surprisingly easy to stitch.
9 days to go and here is my grand piece for this year: Dressing Henry is a sampler of patterns I adapted from the portraits of Henry VIII by Holbein et all. On the left one of the many portraits I used to construct Dressing Henry.
On the upper right of my sampler are the White Rose of the Yorks and the Red Rose of the Lancasters, and on the upper left, the Tudor Rose uniting of the two.
The instructions are 58 pages long, with 16 Oversize Graphs. I have a good number of kits but the number is not unending.
