NEW DESIGNS!
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We are happy to announce that our designs are now availabe from both Norden Crafts and Hoffman Distributing!
One of the really nice perks we experience as designers is an opportunity to try new products. Vendors will provide us with samples of new fibers or fabrics to 'test drive' so to speak, often before they are readily available in retail shops. Obviously one of the reasons for such largesse is to entice us into using it in new designs. Naturally, shops are hesitant to stock new products if designers don't incorporate them into new designs right away. On the other hand, there's a bit of a catch-22 here as well: designers don't want to use something in a new design that isn't readily available in the shops. One solution to that conundrum of course is to provide for a substitute in the design instructions. But it's still hard for something or someone new to get picked-up by designers. We're a little bit conservative and set in our ways, I guess you could say. That doesn't mean we don't try the new product out!
The Charleston Sampler Guild, small though we are, was born out of a sampler symposium that was held here in early 2002. Charleston is a tremendously historic city and has among its treasures the oldest continuous museum in the country. Although there are not a great many southern/Charleston samplers being displayed out in the world in general, the museum has a nice collection, which was the seed for this symposium. It became evident that there are a number of women in the area who are extremely interested in samplers and Charleston samplers in particular. That interest became the Charleston Sampler Guild.
The guild meets and stitches at It's a Stitch, an LNS owned by one of the guild's founding members, Margot Anderson, and some friends. The shop specializes in knitting yarns and needlepoint canvases, but Margo "is willing to order anything a needlewoman could want or need," Ann notes.
Do you belong to a local guild or stitching group? We’d love to hear more about it.
461 Central Park West #3D New York, NY 10025 Phone: (212) 316-1514 Email: designs@arachnessilkenweb.com
461 Central Park West #3D
New York, NY 10025
Phone: (212) 316-1514
Email: designs@arachnessilkenweb.com