What's New at Heart in Hand Needleart
What's New at Heart in Hand Needleart
It has been a while since our last update so we
have lots of new designs to show!
Brand new to better cross stitch stores everywhere are a new kit and a new Mother's Wisdom™ Wee One™!
Our newest kit is called Star Spangled Summer. Featuring the title phrase with a button in place of the first word, this kit includes the fabric and embellishment. But oh, what an embellishment! The handmade button (the same type used in our new Celebration™ series described below) has to be seen to be properly appreciated. A photograph just doesn't do it justice!
Stitchers have asked for it and they've got it!
Another in our popular
Mother's
Wisdom™ series of designs has just
been released. Listen
to Your Teacher is perfect both as a
reminder for your favorite student or as a great quick-to-stitch gift
for a favorite teacher!
All the Mother's Wisdom™ designs as well as all of our other series can always be accessed through our Heart in Hand Designs Page!
There are lots of other recent releases as
well. 
Our
last update included the first two (Courage
and Peace)
of a new series of Wee
Ones™ called Inspiration™.
This series of quick-to-stitch designs are perfect to send a message
of inspiration and support to someone you love. The four newest are
now available at better cross stitch shops everywhere.
The third Inspiration™ design is called Love. The fourth features a home representing Joy.
The fifth shows a sturdy tree as the symbol of Respect while the sixth's message of Hope is represented through an array of stars.
While all of the designs in this new series can stand on their own, we are offering a free border on our Free Designs Page.
Recently, Heart in Hand sent their Automatic subscriber shops a complimentary set of the Inspiration™ designs. We asked shop owners not to sell the charts, but to use them to inspire someone. This open-ended suggestion allowed shop owners to use their imaginations. We received the following return letter from a shop owner describing the inspiration her gifts provided. Merry generously agreed to allow us to share her letter. We think you will find her letter inspiring itself. inspiring itself.
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Hi Cecilia, Thank you for the gift of Inspiration charts. I have done as you asked and gave each out as I saw the need for that particular inspiration. Hope went to a lady in our stitch group that just found out her husband had a cancerous mass in his colon. That same man was also recovering from heart surgery and had had his kidney removed because of cancer also. Merrilyn needed to hold on to something. When I nursed my mother until she died, I realized that sometimes, hope is all we have. Respect next went to my best friend Mary. She is the youngest of 7 sisters and is the one that keeps her sisters in touch with each others lives. A sister's husband has ALS, and was put on a ventilator, Mary's oldest sister is mentally-challenged and low functioning, Mary takes care of them and her own family. No matter what her family needs, Mary is there for them. Peace was sent to a longtime friend. She lost her mother to cancer, and her brother had been killed. She and I go through the same depression every Mother's day and Christmas. I wish I had a magic wand to erase her pain, but I think your pattern helped. Love went to Wendy, another friend. Her oldest sister had been battling pancreatic cancer for years, and last year her husband committed suicide on their farm. Wendy has been her rock, support and companion through these difficult times. Wendy's sister is now on the organ transplant list for a new liver. Wendy's love for her sister has been an inspiration for all of us. Courage was sent to a good friend of mine, Belinda Karls-Nace. Belinda and I go through similar situations in that we both are the lone ranger in our business. We do it totally alone, I have no employees and neither does she. Being the capable women that we are, we must make this look easy, because we also receive little to no encouragement. Not that we are needy and must be petted and patted all the time, but a kind word occasionally would be nice, instead of a criticism or "helpful suggestion". Belinda is also helping her mother through a difficult time, in addition to teaching classes, designing and of course, running her business Lastly, Joy. I kept Joy for me. I am tired, and spring in the midwest equals no sales in my shop. Its difficult to keep a smile on my face when I know that I am swimming in bills. I am hoping Joy will help remind what I love about stitching, and the joy a new project brings to a customer and friend. Also, I gave a set of patterns to Mary, my friend named above. She is a parole officer for Iowa State Corrections and is going to stitch the set with the border to put in her office, so her clients (inmates) will hopefully be inspired to be better people. Thank you Cecilia for your generosity, and also for helping me realize that there are people who need inspiration, all around us. Sincerely, Merry Merry Amann, Owner 515-278-6741 |
Grand
Old Flag, a new
Wee
One™, is a beautiful primitive design
featuring our nation's symbol. Stitched with fibers from Weeks Dye
Works and Gentle Art, the design incorporates a flag
embellishment from our friends at Just Another Button
Company.
We have also introduced two new series of Wee Ones™ that are proving to be extremely popular with stitchers. The first new series is called Bits 'n Pieces™. Do you ever need just a little design to fill a small space on your wall? Are you looking for a unique seasonal design to spark up your desk? Need a quick gift to stitch for a special friend? Our innovative Bits 'n Pieces™ series of small charts will fill all those needs! These designs will be released in coordinating groups and each group will use the same threads on both designs. Stitch one or both for a special friend. The pieces look great together or can stand alone.
The
first two are Friendship
Endures and Hodgepodge
Hearts. Friendship
Endures pictures the title phrase
surrounded by a border which includes tiny buttons. Hodgepodge
Hearts is a collection of hearts
stitched with the same fiber colors as Friendship
Endures. Be sure to watch for more of
this exciting new Bits 'n
Pieces™ series in the
future!
Our second new series is called
Celebration™
and celebrating is just what stitchers tell us they are doing in
response. Stitchers are enthusiastically buying these new designs and
the unbelievably beautiful buttons that are used on them. Photographs
of these handmade buttons can not do justice to them. These buttons
made exclusively for Heart in Hand Needleart are simply
incredible!
The first in the series is Celebration: Summer. A tiny sampler sprinkled with small stitched blackbirds alongside a tall, cool slice of watermelon are shown in this design, with a larger blackbird button perched on the watermelon slice.
Celebration: Autumn, the second in this new series, features a tiny sampler sprinkled with leaves alongside autumnal motifs including a tall pumpkin. The handmade button on this design is a pumpkin with a twisted vine hanging from the stem.
In addition to the free Inspiration™
border on our Free
Designs Page, there is a second free
design called Spring
Basket. This cute basket of flowers
features Heart in Hand's Heart Charm. And don't forget that our free
border for our "My
Favorite Things" series is still
available as well!
We hope you are having a great summer and as always thank you for stitching Heart in Hand Needleart!
Forest
of Trees
Courage
Peace
Summer
Fling
2007
Collector's Heart
Pink
Heart
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