Needlework Stash

Current Count = 99 kits and kitted projects 

Total count at first "official" inventory 12/2019 = 142 projects.  After the Great Sort in 2015, there were over 175 projects counting WiPs and kits, but that was just a rough count.

Notes:   Kit numbers do not include chart packs and 'want to kit' or 'future purchase'.  "Chart Packs" are patterns that come with 'extras' as part of the initial purchase price, but I have not purchased any other materials to start kitting the project up.  

Other than Counted Thread

Surface Embroidery and Crewel

• Tote Bag (gift from Wilma at work)
• Bateau Bayeux (With Threaded Needle kit)
• The Leafy Tree (Mary Corbet kit)

 Needlepoint 

(Traditional painted or printed canvas OR Silk gauze tent stitch over one.)

• Borgota Iris (Maureen Appleton kit)
• Four Roses Coverlet (Nancy Sturgeon kit)
• Vintage German Needlepoint Kit - Alpen Scene (gift from Oma)

Buttonhole Cutwork

• Reboot of Vintage Cutwork Runner - Morning Glory (kitted - has a matching shorter dresser scarf completed, but cutwork areas need to be trimmed)
• Vintage Cutwork Tea Cloth 54 x 54 inches - Waterlily (kitted - has 8 matching napkins completed) 

Pictorials

• Teresa Wentzler (also several charts and books not kitted) NOTE: books with multiple patterns are in the library
  
• Peacock Tapestry (kit) - have pdf with non-hand drawn symbols (need to get into Markup)
• Mirabilia (may want to replace or overdye linens on the Mermaids)
  
• Lady of the Flag (on "We the People" fabric) (kit) - debating blue or 'statue of Liberty' conversion, if so will need to replace threads and beads
• Deepest Love (mermaid) (kit)
  
• Waiting for Ships (mermaid) (kit) 
  
• Titania (fairy) (kit)
• Dimensions
• Sacred Connection First Nations Shaman (kit) - replace navy 18 ct Aida with 36 count overdye lugana in a 'night sky' colorway (may need to dye myself)
  
• Alluring Sorceress (kit)

Modern Style Samplers

• Collaboration (Shepherd's Bush/Just Nan/Charland)
• 1999 First Collaboration Bell Pull (kitted)
• Butternut Road
• Celtic Banner Sampler
• Victoria Sampler
• A Mother's Heart (kit)
• Drawn Thread
• Boo Scissors Keeper and Purse (kitted)  
• Winter into Spring (kit)
• Summer into Autumn (kit)
• Garden Recipe (kit)
• Real Roses (kit)
• Cloister Garden (kit)
• The Acorn Sampler (class) (kit)
• Toccata One (kit)
• Just Nan
• Peacock Majesty (kit)
• Chapter and Verse - Patience (kit)
• Butterflies, Blossoms and Bees (kit)
• Star of Wonder (kit)
• Heart of Gold (kit)
• Angel Flowers (kit)
• Shepherd's Bush 
• A Mother's Heart (kit) 
• Violet Needleroll (kit)
• Pansy Needleroll (kit)
• Friendship Needleroll (kit)
• Sweetheart Tree
• Fleurescence I (kitted, check linen count)
  
• Fleurescence II (kitted, check linen count)
  
• Hillside Samplings
• Strawberry Fields Stitching bag and accessories (kit)
• Reproduction Feather Stitch Sewing Purse (kit)
  
• Moss Creek
• Elizabethan Rose Stitchery Set (kit)
• Dogwood Needleroll and Smalls (replaced 'dusty green' with 'pale green' Cashel linen)
• Misc Designers
• Samplers and Such - ABC Tin Topper (kitted) 
• Lori Birmingham - Terri's Needle Case (kit)  
• Sally Ann Designs - Winter's Whisper (kitted - maybe change linen to dark overdye?)
• Art Stitch - Mission Glass Window (kit)
• Forget-me-not in Stitches - Secret Garden Necessary (kit - smalls set)

 Ornaments

• Willmaur (WM) Heirloom Santa AND Mill Hill (MH) Santa Ornaments (perforated paper) kits currently in the stash.
  
• Mill Hill Timberline Santas (set of three) - Completed:  "Scotch Pine"
  
• Douglas Fir
• Norway Spruce
• Family member ornaments
• WM Toymaker (in honor of my father-in-law - a woodworker)
  
• WM Tree Trimmer (in honor of my mother-in-law - the tree was her favorite Christmas tradition)
  
• WM Gardener (in honor of my dad - a master gardener)
• WM Musical (in honor of my mom - a music teacher)
  
• WM Lunar (in honor of my husband, an amateur astronomer) 
• MH Bell Ringer (for me)

Historic Reproduction Samplers

• The Scarlet Letter - The Fanny Hancock Sampler (kit)
• Kunste & Vliegwerk - Joshua & Caleb (redwork kit)
• the sampler works - Newburyport Sampler (kit)

Whitework

• A Lady's Sampler by Linda Driskell (Antique Sampler Quarterly - small kit)
• Five Band Sampler (Needlework - kitted)

Historic / Primitive Style

• Misc Designers
  
• ByGone Stitches - Christmas Quaker (in Sulky 12 weight) on 40 count linen (kitted) 
• Fox and Rabbit - Friends and Family (Quaker) - free SAL2020 (pink thread pack from Wilma's sister's estate)
• Sheepish Antiques - Mary Pampin Needleroll (will need batik/semisolid fabrics and silk ribbon for finishing) - to match Shaker Box smalls 
• Fancy Works - Whitman Vintage Red Tin Sewing Set (smalls - will need finishing supplies)
• With my Needle (Ellen Chester)
  
• Cherished Workes (husswife) and My Treasures Needlebook (kitted together as a set) 
• Quaker Needlework Treasurers (kit) - silk floss instead?
• Nostalgic Needle (Sharon Cohen)
• Tudor Knot Sweetbag (kit)
• Tudor Knot Smalls (kits) - scissor sheath and fob, needlebook, tape measure case
• Blackbird Designs - all Loose Feathers (LF) are kitted with recommended linen and threads 
•  NOTE:  These BBD projects have been finished or gifted
  
1. With My Needle - LF #2 (and a similar freebie Savior faire) - project and notions bags
   
2. Evening Shades the Garden - LF #3
3. Truly Thine - LF #6
4. Tulip Manor - LF #7
5. Sunflower House  - LF #9
6. And to all a Good Night - LF #11
   
7. Sweetheart Sampler - LF #12
8. Spring Fling - LF #13
9. Summer House - LF #14
10. Sunflower Charms - LF #15
11. Garland Fair - LF #16
12. Evergreen - LF #17
13. Strawberry Garden - LF #18
14. Quaker Garden - LF #19
15. Secret Garden - LF #20
16. Garden of Life - LF #21
17. Moonlit Garden - LF #22
18. Bluebird's Message - LF#23
19. Awake the Dawning Day - LF #25
20. Beneath the Sunlit Sky - LF #26
21. Autumn Song Sewing Box and Pillow Pincushion - LF# 27
22. Peace on Earth - LF #28
23. Where My Heart Blooms - LF # 29
24. Rites of Spring - LF #30 (finish as project bag or folio cover)
25. Peacock Pin Drum and Needlebook - LF # 35 (accessories #1)
26. The Simple Things and Pincushion (or Fob) - LF #36 (accessories #2)
27. It's Berry Time and Emery Berry - LF #37 (accessories #3)
28. Summer Basket and Threadkeep - LF # 38 (accessories #4)
29. Winter Wonderland and Pillow Pincushion - LF #39 (accessories #5)
30. Hedgerow Birds Project Bag - LF #40 (accessories #6)
31. Heart and Home Patchwork - 5-part mystery in LF 31-34, republished in A Heart Remembers 2022. (Note: LF #31 has part 1&2)
    

• Blackbird Designs books I own - so I have a better chance to not duplicate buy (again).  NOTE: books with multiple patterns are in the library.
  
• "Sewing Club" book 
• "Sweet Land of Liberty" book
  
• "Winds of Autumn" book  
• "Home for the Holidays" book

Will I ever finish?

 These are not in the 'kit' count and may eventually be un-kitted.  

My attempts at design for exchanges

I ended up using actual real designer's patterns.  Still, aspirational, so maybe I will get back to them at some point.

• "Kansas" Smalls
• "Patriot" Smalls
• Modification of Mill Hill Buttons and Beads "Quilts" on fabric - bell pull

Willing to sell (make an offer)

• Teresa Wentzler - "The Guardian (dragon) (kit)
• Heirloom Anniversary Sampler (kitted with silks) - Victoria Sampler
• Extra Copy of Blackbird Designs "Winds of Autumn" book 
• Shepherd's Bush "Millennium Needleroll" (repurpose - so totally obsolete)

Want to Kit (chart packs)

• Collaborations (Shepherd's Bush / Just Nan / Charland)
• 1999 Christmas Collaboration (have patterns and charms, but no linen)(may have threads)
  
• 2000 Friendship Collaboration (have patterns and charms, but no linen or threads)
• 2001 Celestial Collaboration (have patterns and charms, but no linen or threads)
  
• Drawn Thread - Little Spot Sampler (pattern includes charm, but no linen or threads) 
• Sampler Cove (Diane Jourdan) - Quaker Huswife (do in silks, casket to match? NOTE: pattern has custom linen cut with it and the ivory thread winder and piano key ruler)
• Just Nan - Common Ground (have bead pack and smalls finishing pack, but no linen or threads)
  
• Wildflower Cottage Creations - Mini Whitman's Valentine Tin (have pattern and tin, but no linen or floss) 
• Heinzeit "Beer" (pattern includes charm pack, no linen or threads)

Want to Kit (have pattern only)

• Ross Originals
• White Tiger (to match the one from 1994 - check fabric count on completed orange tiger)
• Victoria Sampler 
• Stumpwork Bee (pdf - need to print) - do last and modify corner to go with dragonfly and butterflies to make a square display
  
• Stumpwork Butterfly (pdf - need to print) - do both hydrangea (yellow butterfly) and daisy (multicolor butterfly) versions
• Lavender & Lace Celtic Ladies - possibly do together ala Stitching Mommy
• Celtic Summer (have some of the needlepaint floss)
• Celtic Spring
• Celtic Autumn (oranges conversion)  
• Celtic Winter (possible conversion with blue cape / hood) 
  
• Lavendar & Lace/Told in A Garden/Butternut Road - Fairy
• Carriage House Samplings - Houses of Hawk Run Hollow (change verse to 'house' theme)
• Needle's Prayse - Treasured Friends Sampler 
• Plum Street Samplers - Twelve Days (as ornaments) - free SAL2015 (need to print off)
• Birds of a Feather 
• "No Honey"
• "Bitter Flower"
• Mirabilla 
• "Raven Queen"
• Long Dog Samplers - Renaissance (will need a hank of silk)
• Heaven and Earth Designs
• Half Sick of Shadows (Waterhouse) - paper (need to re-buy PDF)
• Garden of Delights (William Morris Tapestry) - paper (need to re-buy PDF)
  
• Raven God (S Law) - PDF - have e pattern in PK
  
• Blackbird Designs (single patterns)
  
• Ella Vaughn Adams 
• Unconventional X Stitch
• Field Notes: Dragon - PDF - e pattern in PK

Caught my eye - future pattern purchase

• Mill Hill and Willmaur Santa Ornaments to buy
  
•  my heritage - 2015 'Celtic' Santas (Scottish and Irish ones)  'English' (Williamsburg) and 'German' (slightly modify the 'bishop' one?)
• Need to figure out Mill Hill Santas for JC, Angie, Carl, Alexis, Kimi
• Misc Samplers
• "Three Things" by Moria Blackburn (wanted this one for a LONG time) 
• Abby Rose "Sister's Sampler" (Bronte quote)
•  Cross Stitch Antiques "Mary Alice Clark" aka "Father kind and true - 100/3 silk
• From the Heart Needlearts "Quaker Bees"
• Plum Street: "American Sampler" and "American Welcome" (hat tip to Salt Box Stitcher)
• Pictorials
• Mirabilia "Garden Prelude" (for Kimi - change hair to strawberry blond)
  
• Bella Fillipna "Bellatrix"
  
• Carriage House Samplings - other "Hawk Run Hollow" designs - esp Halloween
  
• "Guardians of Notre Dame" by Ingleside  Imaginarium
• Lavender & Lace "Guardian Angel"
  
• "Fredrick the Literate" (Cat in Library) by Dimensions
• Blackbird Designs
• "Raven Bewitched"
• "Bells of Christmas Day" book
  
• Lolacrow SALS (on Etsy)
• Haunted Library
• Greenhouse of Oddities
• Deadly Aquarium
• Lila's Studio 
• "Nevermore"
• "Halloween Quaker" - on dark mottled linen
• "Anna Ohman 1873" - red monochrome
  
• The Blue Flower
• Moonlight Sampler "I have loved the stars...."
• Huckleberry Farm (40 count purplish linen ala Handworkmaniac)
  
• Tudor Bee
• Quilting Bee
  
• Long Dog
  
• "Opening Gambit" - in Sulky 12 weight variegated on 40 count linen (or higher)
• Ragnarok
• Pilgrim
  
• Full Coverage
  
• HAED /Spangler "Literate Dragon" or "Dragon Bookshelf" or 'Technology you can count on'
• Carolyn Manning "Northern Lights" (50 count over two in silk?)