Cool news

Knowledge and Needles can now accept credit cards!!!
I am now the proud owner of an iPad mini and a nifty gadget called a square which allows me to accept credit cards and debit cards too, I think.
I just tried a sale with my own card and WOW it worked like a charm.
It will take a bit of getting used to but hey...now I am in the 21st century!

CGNA 2013

Okay so this is what I have stitched lately. It is a little  smaller than the piece below  but then it did not take me a year and a half at 15 hours a day either.

This gorgeous  wall sized  piece of cross stitch  is based on a scene from a famous Chinese novel. It was on display at the Cataraqui Needle Arts Guild  Needle Arts Fair on Saturday. It was another excellent day.

Below are a couple of  photos of my booth. My best selling  item on Saturday  was the new  boxed set of  16 new DMC colours . People were also taken by the selection of 28 and 32 count fabric.

 I was very tired  but happy  at the  end of the day. 

Changes

There  are numerous changes happening  in our lives these days.  Here is one of them...I have a new floor in the shop and it looks great.  Since the place was  in disarray anyway I took the opportunity to do a bit of re-arranging. Now all the  Weeks, Carries, Crescent Colors, GAST and DMC varieated threads are hanging on the opposite wall. These threads are still $2.00 each or 6 for $10.00. I'll stick with that pricing for as long as I can.

 I moved the aida cloth to the wall where the threads were originally hanging. 28 count fabric  resides int he basket and the blue box below.

I am making an attempt to keep the counter relatively clutter free but I could not resist putting a little Halloween display there,. just to entice people.

The large plastic bin contains 32 count fabric  and the three baskets to the left  all contain sale items. I will be at the Cataraqui Guild's Needle Arts Fair at the  Kingston Senior's Centre, 56 Francis Street on Saturday October 5 so I hope  lots of stitchers will take advantage of the great sale stuff  I have in these baskets.

With  the problem with my eye, the work around the house and the new dog I have had very little opportunity to stitch but I did manage to do these  little ballerinas. They came from the book you guys from London gave me last month...Thank You for that. They are going to be made into sweet little ornament for my 4 great nieces for Christmas.

Mollie and Macy are learning to get along. Mollie tolerates and Macy torments. Macy doesn't understand that Mollie is not like the puppies at Puppy School who have as much energy as she does.

And the last change that is happening...Dan and I are leaving for Florida for the winter on November 16 so there will be some more changes around Knowledge and Needles.

The shop will become a mail order shop for the winter. You can email me  if there is something you need or want and I will have good friends here who will package up the order and mail it to you.

I will also still be going to the market in Nashville in February and while there will not be an Open House  I will post all the pictures between here and the K&N website. If there are things you want from Nashville...you can pre-order or see them on the website and I can mail them out to you.

So you see...The times they are a changin!

Macy

We miss Paddy terribly, so much so that the void she left in our lives had to be filled with something. So while we'll never forget our Paddy, we now have a new little bundle to love. She is a Golden Doodle, named Macy.

It has been 11 years since there was a puppy in the house and believe me it is quite different than living with two older dogs who liked to sleep most of the time. There is much less sleeping going on around there these days...just lots of going out hourly, frantic running every which way  and quite a few baths ...she likes to dig!

She is very fond of Mollie who is being very patient and  tolerant of the upstart and her antics.

Also, thank you to everyone who came out last weekend to the Stitching Day. It was great! I do have a white plate left over . If it belongs to you, let me know so I can get it to you.

Stitching Day 2013

What an excellent day we had...the weather was beautiful...the gallery of finished projects was most impressive, we visited, we chatted, we compared projects, we oohed and ahhed, we laughed alot and  we ate well...what more could one want?

We stitched in the stitching room

We stitched outside

We stitched in the garage.

There were 35  of us in all, from Ottawa, Brighton, Trenton, Belleville, London, Tottenham, Uxbridge, Whitby, Oshawa , Cobourg, Trenton, Frankford, Campbellford, and  Mississauga!

My Beautiful Paddy

Paddy  2002 -2013
You brought much joy into our lives.

Golden Wedding Anniversary

Catherine is a Friday stitcher who decided to commemorate her Golden Wedding Anniversary  by adapting Ellen Chester's "Adorn Thy Heart" sampler into a beautiful reminder of 50 years with her husband Peter.

Here is her sampler and pictures of the happy couple  50 years ago and now.

Congratulations to both of them!!!