One more flower box set! Old Fashioned Flower Garden

OK.....I figured I might as well put the last box together to finish these new colors I dyed for flowers. These are brighter than the previous dried flowers set. This is the Old Fashioned Flower Garden. Coral Bells, Snapdragons, Primrose, Rose of Sharon, Clematis, Bellflower, Bachelors Buttons, Lobelia, etc. You get the idea!

I will have a give-away on these after we have a few of the others out of the way. Maybe mid November. They are all available in my ebay store or direct from me if you want a chance to win a gift certificate.
Thanks for stopping by!
Nancy

Antique Dried Flowers floss collection give-away, enter now!

It has been a busy but wonderful week around here. My friends from Kansas stopped by to visit and we had a wonderful time as usual....just never enough time to spend with these terrific gals. I told them if there were more rolling hills, trees and snow in Kansas I would move there!

Today it was back to work.....so I still have a little....little...... room left in my workroom for boxes of floss so I thought I would add an Antique Dried Flowers boxed set. As the title says...they look like dried flowers. Perfect for samplers or your own antique flower garden. They remind me of the flowers and leaves I always pressed between books. I always loved finding them years later after I had long forgotten about them.

Lots of antique favorites in this set. It's a little dark today as we are expecting rain later today so the colors are actually a little lighter than this photo by my monitor.  English Iris, Antique Iris, Ivory Foxglove, Wine Foxglove, Brown Eyed Susan, Globeflower, Yellow Coneflower, etc. 12 skeins, 20 yards each. 240 yards of beautiful antique flowers.

I think I will do one more in this series of flower collections, The Old Fashioned Flower Garden. Stay tuned for that one. Remember that these are limited editions and they are selling quickly. Reserve yours today. They are $24.95 plus postage. nbelgian@aol.com

Rules: You must be a follower at the right. Click to follow by Faithful Friends. You must post a comment here. Post on your blog or facebook and get 50 more entries on this one!
Drawing to be November 1st since they are so many drawings in October. Make sure you have signed up for all of them. Lots of goodies going out of here!
Remember that there are surprise gift certificates in with the boxed sets. One in 10 is a winner! Yes...if you bought 10 boxes there would be a gift certificate included. There are 6 of the $25 gift certificates left and one of the $50. I have given out 2 of the $50 (I am adding one more) so far one 2 of the $25 since I started adding these. If you previously bought boxes I add that to your total for the draw.

Back to boxing floss....it's a good thing I love what I do!
Good luck in the drawing!
Nancy

Favorite things Give-away enter now!

Here we go again! After announcing another Favorite Things winner this morning I am posting another give-away for you to enter.

As promised.....lets have another Favorite Things give-away!!! Those seem to be the "favorite" give-aways.....you tell me your favorite things....floss.....trim bags......hand dyed linen or aida....charts.......a motto kit......lots to choose from.

 

                                      

                                                
                                                 
Rules:    You must post a comment here. You must be a follower....click to follow by Faithful Friends at the right. Post on your blog or Facebook and get 25 more entries!
Drawing to be October 15th and you must check back to see if you are a winner. You must follow! Remember...I don't have time to hunt you down! lol
I will have a favorite things give-away in November too... so be sure to keep up with the posts. I don't just do Christmas in December.........I have Christmas all year long! I love to share with my faithful followers. I appreciate all of you and I thank you for following and all the kind comments you leave on the posts. I am blessed in many ways.......especially knowing all of you!
                                           Nancy

We have a favorite things winner today!

Today we have a winner in the Favorite Things give-away. You tell me your favorite things....and I give them away! These are always so much fun to do and I will do this again in October, November, and it is always in the 12 Days of Christmas give-aways.

The lucky winner is Vickie (A Stitcher's Story). She said she would like floss in pinks and purples.....so I will have a nice floss package for you Vickie. Please email me with your address. Congratulations!

Thanks to all who entered. My next post will be for the October Favorite Things give-away so stay tuned! And be sure to enter....you might win. Just ask Vickie!

Nancy

The whole Primitive floss collection is finished!

40 hours later....the whole Primitive Floss Collection is finished!
A lot of work....yes. But well worth it. 46 primitive colors,920 yards! Lots of tans, weathered woods, sage,  Colonial Lavender, Mossy Stones, Buttercream, Mocha, Cocoa, primitive blues, golds, etc.
This will be $90 (1 free skein) in my ebay store or available direct from me. nbelgian@aol.com

Postage is only $3.50 in the US.....email for an International quote.

I guess if I add  more colors I could put it in 2 large gift boxes........maybe at a later date. I have linen to dye first.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Nnacy

$50 gift certificate winner!

As promised, as I mailed out 3 gift boxes of floss today, one has a $50 gift certificate with it! I do hope the lucky winner will post after she receives it. I would like others to see what goodies you purchase with it.
Here was the original post and I am repeating it as promised. I have mailed out one $25 and one $50 gift certificate this week. One lady had bought 6 boxes of floss so far and she has a great gift from me with this package. I think she will be surprised when she opens the box!

 

Nancy and her Floss Factory! Not Willy Wonka....but great prizes!!!!!

I was chatting with a friend and she said my give-aways were better than Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory! My kids loved that 1971 movie with Gene Wilder........and it made me stop and think on it. You guessed it!!! In Willy Wonka there were 5 candy bars that would have a golden ticket and you had to find one. How about a surprise gift certificate for merchandise from my shop? One out of every 10 boxes will have one!
It's never too early to start buying those gifts for stitching friends. And if you get the gift certificate you can redeem it or give it away! I will give 8 of the $25 gift certificates and 2 of the $50 gift certificates to start the upcoming holiday season. It will be here before you know it!
Read on.....

I got the new gold foil boxes for the Christmas sets. Antique Christmas with reds, greens and gold, and Victorian Christmas with cranberries, greens and golds. I also made the new cards to go with each gift box.

This special gift certificate give-away is only available when you buy direct from me, not on ebay. I wanted to give my special followers the chances to win.
I will number and hand sign each certificate. One in 10 is a winner! If you already purchased boxes.....I will make note of that and lower your odds of winning. For instance, a lot of my customers bought two boxes already. So 1 in 8 is a winner. I thought that was only fair because some purchased 4 boxes and more.
The gift certificate will be taped on the bottom of the box. That way you don't have to tear it open to find it.
I thought this was a nice customer appreciation give-away. I have a lot of regular customers and I truly appreciate your business.

I will repeat this post once a week for a while so everyone sees it. I know a lot of you are regular bloggers and some just occasional.

Thanks for stopping by so I could share this fun news with you! Good luck everyone!

                                  Nancy

Mother's Flower Garden winner today!

We have a winner  of the Mother's Flower Garden boxed floss set. 12 skeins, 20 yards each.
Delphiniums, Phlox and Columbines in this set. Each boxed set has a different name and different floss.

Today the lucky winner is: Rosey175
Congratulations! Please email me and give me your address.
Thanks to all who entered...be sure you have entered each give-away that I currently have right now.

Have a great day! I know one stitcher who will!
Nancy

Thank you! I have the best followers!

I just wanted to take the time to write a brief post to thank all of you for your kind words and offers to help me card the floss. It really lifted my spirits after being so overwhelmed with all of this work to do. I have a couple more 10 hour days left and then I will be happy with the thousands of cards that I did. I wanted to do 100 of each color to start and for most of the colors I did a lot more than that. I have a deadline as some of my Kansas friends are coming to visit in a couple weeks and I always like to have new merchandise to show them. Even if I didn't we would still have a great time but it makes it more fun with more goodies!

I finally got the part I ordered 4 weeks ago for my sewing machine so I will be whipping up new sewing necessaries this week......of course I will give one away! Stay tuned....you know there is always a gift going out of here to a stitching friend.

Thanks for stopping by....and thanks again for being such supportive and caring friends/followers. I truly am blessed!
Nancy

Auntie's Flower Garden boxed floss set give-away, enter now!

This is the last boxed set of floss in the Flower Garden series for now. Of course I may change my mind tomorrow if I dye more floss but the odds of that happening at the moment are a million to one. I am swamped with counting floss and putting it on cards. Hundreds of cards, thousands of cards and tens of thousands of yards of floss. Not going into a lot of detail......my helpers weren't able to do much floss so I am doing it 10 hours a day all week. Not much time for anything else...except a fun give-away! That will cheer me up!
Auntie's Flower Garden. In this boxed set of 12 colors, 20 yards per skein, are Marigolds, Hollyhocks and Dahlias. More beautiful colors to add to your flower collection.

Rules:
You must be a follower at the right. Click to follow by Faithful Friends. You must post a comment here. Post a comment on each give-away that you want to enter.
Post on your blog or facebook and get 25 more entries!
Drawing to be October 5th. You must check back to see if you are a winner...you must follow!
                                    Good luck everyone!
                                               Nancy

How to plump up your chenille trims

After I dye chenille trims they are dried and then wound on a card. Over time the trims can flatten. The more that is wound on a card or a cone in my case, the more it flattens. I wanted to plump up some of the trims.....and all you need to do is to wet the chenille, blot it semi dry between two paper towels and then pop it in the dryer! Fluffy and round again in a short time. Kind of like the old chenille bedspreads that flattened over time and needed washing and the dryer fluffed them back to new again.

For each of these 3 colors you can see the flatter piece of trim on the left and the fluffier and rounded trim on the right after it is dampened and put through the dryer. New again!

 

I just wanted to share that with you. A lot of you like a flatter trim but if you need a rounded trim, if you are couching, then this would fix it for you.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Nancy

NEW PRIMITIVE FLOSS SET, GIFT BOXED, GIVE-AWAY, ENTER NOW!

I picked 12 of the new Primitive colors and put together a gift box. Lets give one away! Drawing to be October 7th, lots of time to enter.
Rules: You must be a follower at the right. Click to follow by Faithful Friends. You must post a comment here. Post on your blog or Facebook and get 50 more entries! We want lots of people to enter and have a chance to win. These gift boxes are $24.99 and come with a fold over gift card. Makes a great gift for your stitching friends. I know they are on my Christmas list to give away.
I will have 39 of the new colors available in a couple days.

Thanks for stopping by!
Nancy

Nancy and her Floss Factory! Not Willy Wonka....but great prizes!!!!!

I was chatting with a friend and she said my give-aways were better than Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory! My kids loved that 1971 movie with Gene Wilder........and it made me stop and think on it. You guessed it!!! In Willy Wonka there were 5 candy bars that would have a golden ticket and you had to find one. How about a surprise gift certificate for merchandise from my shop? One out of every 10 boxes will have one!
It's never too early to start buying those gifts for stitching friends. And if you get the gift certificate you can redeem it or give it away! I will give 8 of the $25 gift certificates and 2 of the $50 gift certificates to start the upcoming holiday season. It will be here before you know it!
Read on.....

I got the new gold foil boxes for the Christmas sets. Antique Christmas with reds, greens and gold, and Victorian Christmas with cranberries, greens and golds. I also made the new cards to go with each gift box.

This special gift certificate give-away is only available when you buy direct from me, not on ebay. I wanted to give my special followers the chances to win.
I will number and hand sign each certificate. One in 10 is a winner! If you already purchased boxes.....I will make note of that and lower your odds of winning. For instance, a lot of my customers bought two boxes already. So 1 in 8 is a winner. I thought that was only fair because some purchased 4 boxes and more.
The gift certificate will be taped on the bottom of the box. That way you don't have to tear it open to find it.
I thought this was a nice customer appreciation give-away. I have a lot of regular customers and I truly appreciate your business.

I will repeat this post once a week for a while so everyone sees it. I know a lot of you are regular bloggers and some just occasional.

My new floss colors will be done on Monday and I am picking them up. ALL done for me! The guild needed a few extra days to get them all done and then I will have 50 new colors to list! Sounds like I can get another boxed set out of there. There are a lot of great weathered and primitive colors in the new colors. I will post a picture when I get them back.
Email if you are interested in any of the gift boxes. nbelgian@aol.com. The 12 skein boxes are $24.99, 2 Autums sets, One Halloween Collection and Mother's Flower Garden, and the large Grandmother's flower garden is $56 and has 28 skeins. All 20 yards each. All new colors this fall.
Thanks for stopping by. Now I can hardly wait until the Christmas give-aways begin!

        Nancy from the Floss Factory

Autumn Floss winner today!

We have a winner today for a gift box of my newest floss colors in the Autumn Collection.
                             
The winner is: The Eskimo's wife
Congratulations! Please email me, nbelgian@aol.com, and give me your address.

Thanks to all who entered.....be sure you have signed up for the other give-aways....lots of floss going out of here!
Have a great day!
Nancy

New Christmas boxed floss sets!

I have been keeping very busy these past few weeks dyeing 80,000 yards of floss! Lots of new colors. I will be taking these to the guild for them to card this week for their fundraiser. I like paying them knowing it is going for a fundraiser and it really helps both of us.

I dyed lots of new Christmas colors! I will have two different Christmas collections. Each set has the same 4 traditional and antique greens and the same 4 antique gold, brass and bronze. BUT there will be a set with 4 traditional Christmas reds and the other set will have 4 Victorian cranberry colors.
First is the Traditional Christmas collection. It comes gift boxed with a fold over card. I will print these with the name on the front tomorrow.

Next is the Victorian Christmas Collection with the cranberry colors.

In October I will be giving away a set of each. I have so many give-aways going right now I need to wait a bit on Christmas!
These are $24.95 available through me direct or they will be listed in my ebay store later today.
Back to work.....boxing floss! Thanks for stopping by.
Nancy

Favorite things give-away! Enter Now!!

As promised.....lets have another Favorite Things give-away!!! Those seem to be the "favorite" give-aways.....you tell me your favorite things....floss.....trim bags......hand dyed linen or aida....charts.......a motto kit......lots to choose from.

 

                                      

                                                
                                                 
Rules:    You must post a comment here. You must be a follower....click to follow by Faithful Friends at the right. Post on your blog or Facebook and get 25 more entries!
Drawing to be September 21st and you must check back to see if you are a winner. You must follow! Remember...I don't have time to hunt you down! lol
I will have a favorite things give-away in October and November too... so be sure to keep up with the posts. I don't just do Christmas in December.........I have Christmas all year long! I love to share with my faithful followers. I appreciate all of you and I thank you for following and all the kind comments you leave on the posts. I am blessed in many ways.......especially knowing all of you!
                                           Nancy

Mother's Flower Garden gift box of floss give-away, enter now!

I am still working on the new gift boxes of floss and today I am adding Mother's Flower Garden. 12 skeins, 20 yards each.
Delphiniums, Phlox and Columbines in this set. Each boxed set has a different name and different floss.
Lets give one of these gift boxes away!

Rules: You must be a follower at the right. Click to follow by Faithful Friends.
You must post a comment here. Post a comment on each give away you want to enter.
Post on your blog or Facebook and get 25 more entries.
Drawing to be September 15th. You must check back to see if you are a winner. You must follow!

I am working on my next flower set and a great Christmas gift box. Boxed and the blank fold over card so you can personalize the gift you are giving. Or give it to yourself! lol
These are $24.95 plus postage. Available direct, email me, or in my ebay store.
Good luck to everyone entering!
Nancy

Halloween gift box of floss give-away, enter now!

I dyed some new Halloween colors and put together another limited edition gift box. 12 skeins, 20 yards each, 240 yards of stitching fun. Of course we have to give one away! $24.95 value!

Lots of variegated pumpkin shades, 2 variegated greys, a purple and a dark midnight purple.

I will be listing these in my ebay store this afternoon and available directly from me.

Rules: Same as always. You must be a follower at the right, click to follow by Faithful Friends. You must post a comment here. Be sure to post a comment on each give-away you want to enter.

POST ON YOUR BLOG OR FACEBOOK AND GET 25 MORE ENTRIES!

You must check back to see if you are a winner....you must follow! lol. Drawing to be October 1st so lots of people have time to enter. Good luck to all! Let the comments begin!

Nancy

P.S. If I am Santa Nancy through the Christmas season....am I the good witch during Halloween???????? 

 

Grandmother's Flower Garden boxed floss sets!

I am burning the midnight oil once again to play catch-up after the 4 months of the knee injury. So much to do and never enough time.

I put together a limited edition floss set, Grandmother's Flower Garden. Lots of beautiful flower colors in this larger gift box, 28 skeins! 20 yards each to stitch lots of beautiful Roses, Carnations, Violets, Sunflowers, Forget-Me-Nots, Lavender and Pansies! 4 colors to each flower.

Gift boxed with a gold stretch loop and a bow. These will be $56 plus postage. nbelgian@aol.com if you are interested.

Next I will be doing Auntie's Flower Garden so stay tuned. I may do some smaller gift boxes of flowers....haven't decided it. I still need to do the Christmas gift boxes too. Halloween? Is that too limited? Tell me what you think. I always appreciate your opinions. I don't do a lot of Halloween stitching but I know several friends that love that holiday. I tend to skip over it now that the grandsons are grown and I go right to Christmas decorating November 1st. Ok, sometimes a few days before Halloween.

I have been dyeing lots of floss.....LOTS! I found a local Embroidery guild and asked if they wanted to earn money by carding my floss....they said yes! (thank you Judy for suggesting that) I am thrilled as I can get thousands of skeins done in one day. I will be dropping off 30 colors, 2400 yards of each color, 3600 skeins! I would do a happy dance...but remember, I have the bad knee and ankle. OK....a little happy dance!

Back to the dye pot....I have to have all the floss dyed by the 1st for the guild.
Thanks for stopping by!
Nancy

New boxed floss sets give-away enter now!

I had a great day yesterday on my birthday....thanks to many of you who made it so nice. Great presents, dinner out with my family (no cooking or dishes allowed on my birthday as my son spoils me) and a wonderful day with my family.

Today it was back to work and I started putting together some boxed sets of floss with new autumn colors. 12 skeins, 20 yards each, I have previously sold similar boxes and given some away. I always donate them to retreats. In fact I was just contacted today from a guild in Texas asking for a door prize donation and I will send one of these boxes. Retail is $24.95. A nice box with a clear lid and gold stretch loop. I just ordered fold over cards and I will add one. A nice addition if you are giving this set as a gift.

So lets get to the floss!!

There are two different Autumn color sets. Lets give one away! Lets start off the Autumn decorating/stitching early.
Rules: You must be a follower. Click to follow by faithful friends at the right.
You must post a comment here. Post on your blog or facebook and get 25 more entries. Drawing to be September 1st and you must check back to see if you are a winner. Remember.....I don't have time to hunt you down!! lol
I will also be putting together a flower garden set shortly and of course we will give one of those away. Maybe a Christmas set.......so much to do!
You can use the picture shown above if you want to post on your blog or facebook.
Thanks for stopping by!
                                         Nancy

Lots of winners today!!!

Thank you for all the birthday wishes...it's going to be a wonderful day, especially because I get to share it with some of you. We have chart winners today:
                                  

We have several winners. gensearch, Rosella and lets add KimM.
Congratulations! email me and give me your address. nbelgian@aol.com

Now for the Favorite things winners!  The winners  told me several things that they like....but I will need to know what type of fabric you stitch on, favorite colors, etc. Your favorite things!
Cindy (in Maryland) says she likes my Spring charts,,,,,
Librarystitcher says she likes 14ct linen and perforated paper. I think I will let her pick a motto kit from my store to start with.
Congratulations stitchers!

I have been putting together some gift boxes of floss with Autumn colors . I have sold quite a few of these on ebay with other colors and given them away on my blog several years ago. I will also have a give-away on my next post so stay tuned!! I will also have another Favorite things give-away  soon as it seems to be one of the favorites. Maybe I will do one each month until we start the Christmas give-aways....sounds good to me!

Thanks again to all who entered. And thank you for all the birthday wishes, cards and gifts. You guys are the best!
Love,
Nancy

Just finished a patriotic sampler

About 10% of my 300+ patterns are antique reproductions. I saw this antique motto on ebay but the condition was poor to fair.....so from that small photo I re-did the pattern and stitched this motto for me. Harder than a lot of the mottoes that I do simply due to the length of the long satin stitches around the letters and for the long stitches of the golden rays. They were placed carefully after I had stitched everything else in the motto. I am not going to offer this motto in kits simply because the pattern transfer was difficult, time consuming and the stitching would be hard for a lot of stitchers.
This will simply hang on my wall by my American flag and be proudly displayed. It is difficult to see the golden rays that arch across the whole top of the motto.
           Free and Independent by the grace of God

I just got a new camera and this is the first picture I have taken with it. I can't believe how many settings and adjustments are on these cameras and it will take me a while to get used to it.

I just wanted you to see what kept me busy for several days. I am still having trouble with this knee after the injury so I am sitting a lot to say the least. I will need the knee replacement farther down the road but it looks like I might need the ankle replacement before the knee. Favor a bad knee and put all your weight on your bad ankle for 3 months = joint replacement from this arthritis. I hope and pray it is a ways down the road! I am quickly wearing out! lol    Two bad shoulders, bad hips, one knee and one ankle. How about a body replacement???? Sounds good to me....sign me up!
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.
Nancy

Favorite things give-away! Enter now!

          Roses are red
         Violets are blue
      When it is my birthday
      I will share with you!!

Come celebrate my birthday with me! August 14th.....lets have a party! If you have been a follower of mine for a while, then you know I love to share my birthday with my stitching friends.
It's my favorite things birthday party!! Tell me your favorite things.....floss? Linen? Aida? Hand dyed trims? Sewing charms? And your favorite colors!!
Drawing to be August 14th so hurry and enter.  Two lucky winners will be drawn.
Rules: You must post a comment here. Post on your blog or facebook and get 50 more entries!
You must be a follower, click to follow by faithful friends at the right.
Lets have a party!!!
Nancy