Embroidery News!

Good news for those of you who, like me, are into crewel embroidery.  Soon you will be able to purchase wool thread, linen and other supplies at the Wool & Hoop website.  I exchanged emails with Katherine this afternoon to find out a little more and she is hoping to get the new items in her online shop sometime in the next month -- yipee!

She was so sweet and said that she will drop me a line when the shop is open.  Until then she suggests looking for local needlepoint shops (oh, I wish I had one!).  She also recommended these two online shops:

• Needle in a Haystack
• Jenny June Fancy Work

You can find my review of Katherine's book The New Crewel back here.

And in other embroidery news.  Have you seen the cross-stitch charts from Anagram Diffusion?  They are from France and their Collection "Monochromes" is incredible.  I especially like their Sampler 4 Saisons.  I used to do cross stitch as a kid, but hadn't really found anything I liked well enough as an adult to actually pick it up again.  This may make me change my mind.

Comments

[rebecca]

Thanks for the great info and links! I was wondering when Wool & Hoop was going to start selling supplies. I have had an impossible time finding linen twill locally and was unsure about ordering from some random site online. I bought this book when it was released and have been anxious to try a pattern!

[Nicole]

If you think you haven't found anything since you were a kid it's because you haven't seen www.crisscrossrow.com and www.thefrenchneedle.com

(always ready to enable the cross stitcher)

[Cassi]

I have her book too but have had a hard time finding supplies so thanks for sharing this great news!

[Lisa]

Thanks for the information! I have really wanted to try out her designs. Do you think her projects are easy enough for absolute beginners?