New Release - Adam's Menagerie

I've completed stitching Adam's Menagerie!  Size is 198x200 stitches.
This  menagerie of little creatures will make you smile as you stitch.  The critters include a hedgehog, an ostrich, a red squirrel, quail, a pair of chameleons, even a hidden leopard!  
Adam's Menagerie will be a delightful design to stitch on upcoming winter evenings. The Genesis verse 2:19 tells the story of how Adam named the newly created animals and bird in the Garden of Eden.  
Wouldn't one of these little animals look cute stitched on a pocket or the edge of a collar?

The model was stitched with DMC on the Wichelt Beach Walk  32 ct linen. #65282 - similar to  524 DMC light grey green. As in all my charts, this one includes instructions for specialty stitches which are petite stitch and Algerian eye.

This design is available in shops and on my Etsy shop

News & Updates 11-18-10

Needleworker's Abecedarius was shipped November 17, 2010.  I am working on some additional releases before the end of the year.  I will post more information here as I progress.  Please also see my Blog for snips of other works in progress!! *     *     *     *     *
ADDITIONAL RELEASE SCHEDULE

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"Needleworker's Abecedarius" will be in stores soon!

The Only Gift

The Only Gift

American philosopher, poet and essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) offered this thoughtful statement in his Essay, “Gifts”.  This seemingly simple statement is in fact, a statement of great insight and depth of meaning.  A gift of oneself is the most beautiful and precious of all offerings.

  Size 231x187, full crosses and straight stitch.   Purchase information

Quaker Rocky Road

A Quaker Confection is on the menu! Purchase information here

Quaker Rocky Road - size  330x260

Wikipedia relates some fascinating information which inspired my design. “The world's first commercial ice cream factory was opened in Baltimore, Maryland in 1851, by Jacob Fussell,  a Quaker dairy farmer.  An unstable demand for his milk led him to mass produce ice cream which allowed this previously expensive concoction to be offered at prices everyone could afford. He opened ice cream parlors from Maryland to Texas, later selling his business to Borden.”  A big bowl of Rocky Road ice cream just may have been on the menu!

Quaker Rocky Road is composed of full crosses, back stitches and a single eyelet in tones of chocolate and marshmallow, with a few nut and berry tones shades tossed in for variety.  The chocolate chunks are stitched in the various browns, so that the motifs formed by the unstitched white linen areas the look of Assisi embroidery.

Back stitched Blackwork style filigree bands, border, various motifs in chocolate and pistachio reminds us of those dainty little ice cream wafers, a plaid "shortbread cookie" border completes the look.  The design reads “Chocolate Smooths the Rocky Road of Life”.  Isn’t that the truth?

Incidentally,  Smooths and Smoothes are both correct spellings!
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Please find purchase information on all of my original designs: 
TemptingTangles Etsy Shop 

for pdf files of all designs

Panoply of Posies - A Quaker motif sampler with a history

Panoply of Posies    size 250 x 250  - A garden delights in Quaker style motifs with a history, this design has been inspired by collections of antique geometric motifs gathered a century ago from needlework found in rural cottage households in Switzerland. 

These beautiful floral figures are reminiscent of wild flowers, ferns, herbs and grasses that blanket the meadows and hills of the rural landscape.  Model is stitched on Zweigart's light khaki davosa.  Suggested are Crescent Colors hand-dyed silks:  Baguette, Harvest and Mer Blue.  

                    

Panoply of Posies will soon be available in your local LNS through Hoffman Distributing. 

These attractive accessories use Panoply of Posies motifs

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The Creation Sampler-

Creation - size 286 x 240 

This amazing piece was stitched on 26 count raw linen by the designer and then almost a year later, painstakingly charted from the finished work.  Creation stirs both imagination and emotions with its swirling palette of storm cloud and sunrise colors.

This inspiring work evokes the wondrous drama of the words in Genesis, stitch painting the introduction to the  Biblical story of Creation

There are several specialty stitches in this piece with excellent illustrations and instructions to aid the stitcher in recreating them.  Charted in DMC.

The Creation sampler -a Tempting Tangles original

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Please find purchase information on all of my original designs: 
TemptingTangles Etsy Shop

for pdf files of all designs or 

More on twigs

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"Upstream" by Carriage House Samplings shows yet another idea for a twig hanger.  I used a bit of copper wire.  On another piece not pictured here, I had enough wire to twist it around the twig a couple of times and then make curly curls sticking up at angles, like those on grape vines.  Just a fun thought.

In case you are curious, this little hanging goodie was stitched on a bit of burlap.  It fringes very nicely.

- Deb

Panoply of Posies progress

I'm making pretty good progress in stitching my model for Panoply of Posies.  Here it is as of last night.  I managed to stitch the blue motif done during the Dr Who episode - and that is really saying something as it was hard to take my eyes off the TV!

Deb in Idaho


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