August Sampler Share Out

Sampler Aug

So I got my August Sampler on my birthday! Which was a while ago I have to admit. I was totally enamoured with all my goodies so I have to share even if it is a whole month late! My August favorites:

My collage postcards from Paper Relics. Hope Wallace’s choice in graphics are always just spot on! She offers a great variety of ephemera, rubber stamps, clip art, greeting cards and soon she’ll have downloadable images!

My cute adorable lion pin from Wonderland Q. I have several of her pins and cards. The shrink plastic ones are my favorite and I have given them out as presents.

My Soap Cafe chocolate soap sample! This soap smells soooo yummy that it’s hard the ignore the “do not eat” warning on the label!

My Kawaii-Neh! felt pin. Such a great job on the detailing of this piece and an adorable name to boot!

And last but not least my spooky cute Ghostly Stationary from Cate Anevski of Bees Knees Industries.
I love her illustrations and would never have come across them if not for the Sampler!

Like what you see? Wanna join in the action? They’re always welcoming new people to contribute to the Sampler! Either way, if you subscribe or contribute you’ll be assured to get a super awesome Sampler package right to your door!

Hanukkah is a great reason to pull out your cross stitch fabric and thread and stitch up some fun seasonal cross stitch patterns.

If you have trouble spelling Hanukkah (I know I do!) you’ll want to stitch up the How Do You Spell… project from SKB Cross Stitch Design. This one includes a bunch of different ways to spell the holiday, along with some symbols like a dreidel and menorah. (Technically I think all the ways to spell it are “correct.”) The pattern includes full, fractional and bask titches, and measures 8.5 by 7 inches, or 21.6 by 17.8 cm. It has the date for 2004/5785 but you can easily change the year or leave that part off.

Another project with some fun word play is the Words to Live By chart from Sam Brie Stitches. This one includes Hanukkah related symbols and word presented crossword puzzle style, which is fun to stitch and to display. The design uses 10 colors and measures 74 by 103 stitches. It’s shown worked on 18 count fabric.

I may have shared these before, but the Hanukkah patterns from the Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery are so cute they’re definitely worth sharing again. Happy Hanukkah features a menorah, dreidels, gelt, stars and candles, and it fits in a 6-inch hoop. At 75 by 75 stitches, it comes out to 5.4 inches/13.4 cm on 14 count Aida or 28 count linen. They also have this cute little dreidel stamp cross stitch pattern, which is 39 by 49 stitches, or 2.8 by 3.5 inches (about 7 by 9 cm) on 14 count Aida or 28 count linen.

Works By ABC has a lot of great patterns for Hanukkah, but here are just a couple to get you started. The Rules for Dreidel design is fun for kids and adults and shows the different sides of the dreidel and what it means when you land on them. The stitch count is 62 by 94 and its shown worked on 32 count linen. It calls for three colors. I also like this menorah one, which measures 44 by 49 stitches and uses two colors along with coordinating seed beads. On 32 count linen as shown (equivalent to 16 count Aida) it measures 2.75 by 3.1 inches, or almost 7 by 7.8 cm.

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