Needlework Stash

Current Count of kits and fully kitted projects = 76

After the Great Sort in 2015, there were over 175 projects counting WiPs and kits, but that was just a rough count.

Total count at first "official" inventory 12/2019 = 142 projects.  

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

There are 14 projects in the "chart pack/partially kitted" section.  

Other than Counted Cross Stitch

Dimensional / Stumpwork / Silk Ribbon

Needlepoint and Silk Gauze

• Four Roses Coverlet Miniature (Nancy Sturgeon kit) - silk gauze tent stitch (full coverage)

Surface Embroidery and Crewel

• Bateau Bayeux (With Threaded Needle kit) - crewel
• The Leafy Tree (Mary Corbet kit) - surface embroidery

Whitework

• Five Band Sampler (Counted Cutwork - kitted)
• RESTART of Vintage Cutwork Runner - Morning Glory (Buttonhole Cutwork - kitted - has a matching shorter dresser scarf completed, but cutwork areas need to be trimmed)
• A Lady's Sampler by Linda Driskell -published in Antique Sampler Quarterly (Counted Cutwork - kitted)
• Vintage Cutwork Tea Cloth 54 x 54 inches - Waterlily (Buttonhole Cutwork - 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) - also have pdf with non-hand drawn symbols (I need to get this pattern into some type of pdf reader that can manage marking off stitches.  It is NOT Pattern Keeper compatible.)
• Mirabilia
• Lady of the Flag (have "We the People" fabric. Also have original colorway threads and beads, but debating blue or 'Statue of Liberty verdigris' conversion)
• Titania (fairy) (kit)
• Dimensions 
• Sacred Connection First Nations Shaman (kit) - may replace navy 18 ct Aida with 36 count overdye Lugana in a 'night sky' colorway
  
• Alluring Sorceress (kit)
• Maureen Appleton Class
• Borgata Iris (kit)

Modern Style

• Art Stitch 
• Mission Glass Window (kit)
• Butternut Road
• Celtic Banner Sampler
• Victoria Sampler
• A Mother's Heart (kit)
• Drawn Thread
• 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)
• Star of Wonder (kit)
• Heart of Gold (kit)
• Angel Flowers (kit)
• Sally Ann Designs 
• Winter's Whisper (kitted - maybe change linen to dark overdye?)
• Samplers and Such 
• ABC Tin Topper (kitted)
• Shepherd's Bush 
• A Mother's Heart (kit) 
• Pansy Needleroll (kit)
• Friendship Needleroll (kit)
• Sweetheart Tree
• Fleurescence I (kitted, check linen count)
  
• Fleurescence II (kitted, check linen count)

• Needlework Smalls Sets
• Fancy Works 
• Whitman Vintage Red Tin Sewing Set (smalls - will need finishing supplies)
• Forget-me-not in Stitches
• Forget-me-not in Stitches - Secret Garden Necessary (kit - smalls set)
• Hillside Samplings
• Strawberry Fields Stitching bag and accessories (kit)
• Reproduction Feather Stitch Sewing Purse (kit)
• Lori Birmingham
• Lori Birmingham - Terri's Needle Case (kit - smalls set)
• Moss Creek
• Elizabethan Rose Stitchery Set (kit)
• Dogwood Needleroll and Smalls (replaced 'dusty green' with 'pale green' Cashel linen)

Historic Reproductions / Historically Inspired 

• Reproduction Samplers
• The Scarlet Letter - The Fanny Hancock Sampler (kit)
• the sampler works - Newburyport Sampler (kit)

• Historically inspired
• Sheepish Antiques - "Mary Pampin Needleroll" (will need batik/semisolid fabrics for finishing) - to match Shaker Box smalls 
• Nostalgic Needle (Sharon Cohen) - "Tudor Knot Sweetbag and Smalls" (kits) - 4-5 patterns, but one project: sweet bag, scissor sheath and fob, needlebook, tape measure case
• With my Needle (Ellen Chester) - "Cherished Workes Husswife" and "My Treasures Needlebook" (kitted together as a set) 

• Blackbird Designs - all Loose Feathers (LF #1 - #40) are kitted with recommended linen and threads.   NOTE:  These BBD projects have been finished or gifted.  Aug 2026 to May 2026, I will be working on several of these projects as part of the Blackbird Academy SAL.  
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. Sweetheart Sampler - LF #12
7. Spring Fling - LF #13
8. Summer House - LF #14
9. Sunflower Charms - LF #15
10. Garland Fair - LF #16
11. Evergreen - LF #17
12. Strawberry Garden - LF #18
13. Quaker Garden - LF #19
14. Secret Garden - LF #20
15. Garden of Life - LF #21
16. Moonlit Garden - LF #22
17. Bluebird's Message - LF#23
18. Awake the Dawning Day - LF #25
19. Beneath the Sunlit Sky - LF #26
20. Autumn Song Sewing Box and Pillow Pincushion - LF# 27
21. Peace on Earth - LF #28
22. Where My Heart Blooms - LF # 29
23. Rites of Spring - LF #30 (finish as project bag or folio cover)
24. Peacock Pin Drum and Needlebook - LF # 35 (accessories #1)
25. The Simple Things and Pincushion (or Fob) - LF #36 (accessories #2)
26. Summer Basket and Threadkeep - LF # 38 (accessories #4)
27. Winter Wonderland and Pillow Pincushion - LF #39 (accessories #5)
28. Hedgerow Birds Project Bag - LF #40 (accessories #6)
29. 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

Want to Kit (chart packs & partially kitted)

Other than Counted X stitch

• Antique Sampler and Needlework Quarterly 
• Large Reticella Sampler 2000 - missing in action, somewhere there is the linen, real pearls, and the four magazines are on a CD.   I know it's somewhere in the basement.  Just pray it isn't damaged.

Pictorial

• Mirabilia
• Queen of Freedom (have pattern and bead pack / treasures, no fabric or floss) - "Pledge of Allegiance" fabric or dappled parchment look
• Deepest Love (mermaid) (have pattern and bead pack / treasures, and some floss) - need "ocean" fabric that is different from 'Ships'
• Waiting for Ships (mermaid) (have pattern, bead pack / treasures and some floss) - need fabric with "ocean" hand dyed that is different than 'Love' mermaid

Modern

• 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) 
• 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) 

Historic

• Blackbird Designs LF #11 "And to All a Good Night" - need to replace linen with 40 count, bellpull finish
• Quaker Smalls Set (mashup of two patterns from the deep stash) - need threads (silk) 
• patterns include: With my Needle (Ellen Chester) "Quaker Needlework Treasurers" AND Sampler Cove (Diane Jourdan) "Quaker Huswife" (eventually do the casket to match?) NOTE: pattern for the huswife has custom linen cut with it and the ivory thread winder and piano key rule.

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.  I consider these 'partially kitted' because I don't know what materials the final design will need.

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

I also have a list of the patterns in my stash that don't have ANY materials collected.  This list is divided into the ones that I want to kit up when the stash shrinks down a bit more and the ones that are just 'in the library'.  There's also a section of "future purchases" and "for sale and trade".   Those lists are here.