Designs for June 2017! ...Thea's latest Designs

NEW!  #188 Gingerbread Retreat Cottage Leaflet!  Stitch this delicious Gingerbread Retreat Cottage, the ninth addition to the Gingerbread Village! Picture windows at the lower floor show a class where I’m teaching a group of happy students. You will be stitching with yummy silk flosses, Perle Cottons, sparkling beads and many delicious looking ‘candy’ buttons. Finishing instructions and colour photos are included at the end of this leaflet. Look for more Gingerbread Village additions in future!

NEW!  #189 Village Xmas Tree! Stitch this delightful three-dimensional Accessory to add atmosphere to your Gingerbread Village! Stitch more than one: some with decorations to place near your favorite buildings, and some without decorations, to suggest a forest around your scene. You will be stitching with yummy silk flosses, on various green linens. Finishing instructions and colour photos are included at the end of this leaflet.

NEW!  #185 October,
#186 November, and
#187 December Birthday Samplers!  Remember someone's birthday by stitching this little sampler. Featuring a Birthstone Heart stitched in sparkling metallic thread, and a medallion and tiny garden showing the appropriate birth flowers. These designs are dedicated to the birthday people!

#161 Stitchin Witches Sampler!  Woooo.... These Stitchin’ Witches are stirring up a wicked brew of crows and bats and cat’s whiskers! What could be more fun than combining stitching with these colourful and cackling Hallowe’en Witches? Stitch the three Cross Stitched panels by themselves, or stitch the whole fabulously colourful Witchy and Stitchy sampler to hang on your walls for Halloween! (click and scroll down page to product #)

#176 Gingerbread Quilty Ornaments!  Get this chart of Gingerbread Quilt Ornaments! One ornament shows a quilter putting in just ONE more stitch on her beautiful Christmas quilt - on a tiny Gingerbread stocking. The other ornament is a finished quilt, decorated with tiny star, heart and gingerbread cookie buttons. Two Accessory Packs help you find the buttons and threads more easily for the ornament you want to stitch..!  (click and scroll down page to product #)

#175 Poinsettia Place Sampler Bright red Poinsettias are some of our favorite flowers at Christmas time! Stitched with luscious over-dyed silks flosses, silk ribbon, metallic braid, snow charms and sparkling beads, it is perfectly designed for learning the few specialty stitches. Use the clear diagrams and instructions and stitch this beauty to give at Christmas this year. (click and scroll down page to product #)

#172 "Pumpkin Cottage" Sampler  Third in the Cottage Series! This sweet pumpkin cottage brings out all the colours we associate with Autumn, Halloween or Thanksgiving. The orange pumpkins make a colourful contrast with the lilac cottage, the yellow sand, white fencing and the black roofs. There is an Accessory Pack of silk threads and pumpkin buttons for your convenience. Hang in your home or cottage to remind you of fun times past, present or yet to come! (click and scroll down page to product #)

#164 - "Winter Cottage" Second in the Cottage Series! Spend some time stitching this beautiful little Winter Cottage! You can hang it atyour own cottage, or in your home to remind you of those special days when "Wintry Days bring Snow and Fun". This scene makes me long for those hushed winter days spent in nature, in the pure sparkling snow. The linen used is a perfect dark grey-blue, to evoke a dark and snowy winter sky! Stitch this new Cottage to hang next to your Beach Cottage this winter.. !  (click and scroll down page to product #)

  #174 - "Christmas Day" Stitch this fun and quick Christmas sampler! If you’ve always wanted to stitch something to celebrate the fun and joy of Christmas Day, this is the one for you. What a wonderful way to celebrate Christmas! Thea has stitched hers on Raw Linen, but you can choose your own coloured linen, using the same silks in bright colours !. Decorate your home with this lovely sampler of fun times past, present or yet to come! (click and scroll down page to product #)

Learning with videos and Animations! 
Have some fun learning new stitches with Thea's informal VS-Home Study Facebook Group classroom videos. Learn how to work specialty stitches of the featured design, and our great finishing techniques to make Thea's designs come alive. What a fun way to learn! Click on this link to Buy Full Student Kits for these exclusive Home Study designs!

Click here to subscribe to our NEW Victoria Sampler YOUTUBE Channel!  We have launched a new Youtube Channel for your enjoyment! Enjoy stitching with us as you learn how to make the designs and projects shown in the "Home Study" or "Previous Designs" sections. There is also a section organized in Alphabetical order of Stitches; a section for Hardanger stitches only; and a section for previous Live Webcast Classes recordings.  Spend some time browing through..!

Free Patterns and Stitch Animations are on our website!  Also in menu you can find other features like the Cyberclasses, Stitcherama Classes, Animated Stitches and Thea's Teaching lists. You can also find the Newsletter and our Victoria Sampler CHAT Group on Facebook and  Yahoo Groups... enjoy!