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gos The October issue of The Gift of Stitching e-zine is available now. Editor Kirsten Edwards says on GOS blog,

Inside (and on the cover) is a beautiful needlework set by Deborah Thorpe of Midsummer Night Designs. It includes a sweet bag, needlebook and scissor fob. In the Designer Profile this month we interview Kay Hanson Cavnar of Lilybet Designs and she has designed a lovely Christmas ornament. We also have two charming Christmas stockings to hang on your tree designed by Carli De Fillo. Carli has been working on the Plimoth Jacket Project. We have an article by Tricia Wilson Nguyen about the Plimoth Jacket in All Things Counted. We have more wonderful charts from our columnists including how to finish Lody Steward’s 15-sided biscornu. There is so much more so hurry online and download this issue.

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This one has that bold, trendy Halloween look that would be right at home on a sweatshirt, tote bag, or anything else you want to give a bit of spooky-season personality. The Spooky Season Embroidery Design from MySimplyEmbroidery is a digital machine embroidery file, and the listing shows it as an instant download with 1 PDF and 1 ZIP file included.

What makes this design stand out is the graphic style. The listing images show the words “Spooky Season” in a drippy Halloween-style font, with a skeleton, bats, a spider web, a cat, and a spider worked into the layout. It feels modern and playful rather than old-fashioned Halloween, so I can see it appealing to stitchers who like seasonal embroidery with a more current boutique-shop vibe.

From a practical point of view, the file comes in three large sizes: 7.56 x 4.55 inches, 8.64 x 5.20 inches, and 9.23 x 5.55 inches, with stitch counts from 15,471 to 19,038. The included formats are DST, EXP, JEF, HUS, PCS, PEC, PES, VIP, VP3, and XXX, and the listing says a production worksheet in PDF is included as well.

The seller also notes that the design was manually digitized, which is always a nice detail to see on a machine embroidery listing. The usual embroidery-download reminders are there too: you need an embroidery machine and know how to transfer the file, and the seller says they are not responsible for design quality if the file is resized, converted, or edited. The listing also allows buyers to use the files for personal projects or items to sell, but not to resell or distribute the design itself.

From the shop side, this one looks reassuring even though the item itself has no reviews yet. Etsy shows MySimplyEmbroidery with a 4.9 rating from 213 reviews, 1.9k sales, and 3 years on Etsy, and the seller is listed as usually responding within 24 hours. The shop is based in Krakow, Poland.

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