Red and Cream Sewing Necessaires

I absolutely love red and cream......and these fabrics are some of my favorites. Here are just a few of my favorite reds...these sell as fast as I can list them! They are such nice gifts....and one gal said this is for me!!!! Made me laugh.
I dyed a beautiful red  floss just for these and I am including a small wooden spool with 1 yard of a mini red ric rac. It is adorable!
Singer sewing machine charm, scissors, hand made hearts, red heart buttons and I loved the red PLAID buttons! I have been saving these for something special and I think this is it.

I don't know if I will have time today to show the green and cream prints but I will try.

Also remember that the 15% of all of my floss, including collections, is ending tomorrow. This was my last sale for this year. Please make special arrangements with me if you need me to hold something for you.

Back to taking pictures!
Nancy

My ALL TIME favorite blue fabric for sewing necessaires

I decorate my house with a lot of red....antique red and cream.....I love red. And I also love an antique-looking dark blue. Like Flow Blue china......I absolutely love that china. So when I saw this fabric a couple years ago I bought it by the bolt. If I like a fabric...give me the whole bolt.

I dyed a cluny lace trim dark navy....used dark navy grosgrain ribbon for the tie.....pulled out some vintage cluny lace in cream and ecru.....dyed some dark navy, hand dyed some blue buttons and a dark blue floss and I had a box of vintage cream color buttons so I will use some of those. I added a few charms...scissors, sewing machine and made for you. Wool felt needle pages with my signature large flower head pin and my own little wool felt button/charm bag. Perfect!

Next.....I took the Moda fabric that reminded me of the Williamsburg sampler fabric ( I wish they had not discontinued that fabric as everyone asks me if I still make those) and I made a few out of the light blue and cream and the darker blue on blue fabric. I need to check to see how many I can make with the fabric I have. Of course they discontinued this one too!
I dyed buttons and my Ocean Waves floss went perfect with both fabrics...vintage trims and some hand dyed cluny ric rac...charms, buttons, etc.

Little bundles of sewing treasures is what one customer said after she received her order. Made me smile.
I will be listing these later today in my ebay store and they are also available direct from me. I always get emails after I post items so I figure I might as well give you the details up front. They are $25.95 plus postage.
I will give one of these away during the 12 Days of Christmas so be sure to stay tuned.
I announce a different give-away each day from December 1st through the 12th. Sign up for as many as you like or all of them. Then I announce the winners on the 13th through Christmas day. Lots of posts....lots of work....lots of gifts...and lots of fun!!

Thanks for stopping by.....I better get back to work!
Nancy

A new floss line for 2016!

I wanted to take a few minutes to tell you about my new floss line for 2016. I have always done limited editions. So when a color sells out, I don't dye that color again. The exceptions are the colors I use in the motto kits. Over the years I have turned down  opportunities to sell my floss because I only wanted to do limited editions. Well the time has come. I have had dozens of people ask me to do colors that I will keep in stock and I will do a whole line of colors in 2016. I will start with 130 colors. Believe me....that is a lot of colors to start with. I just placed my order with my DMC rep and the first part of the order will ship next week and the rest has to come from France. Then it will be a dyeing marathon followed by a floss carding marathon. I probably will wait until all the floss is done before I introduce the new colors.

Now....for pricing. I have been selling my 20 yard skeins for $2 for over 8 years to bring you a great value. DMC had 3 price increases during that time and I didn't raise my prices. This time their price increase has forced me to charge $2.50 for my 20 yard skeins. Considering most of the other over dyed companies charge $2.50 for  5 yards, I think my floss is still a very good value.

All of my current inventory will remain $2 until it sells out. I have a lot in this inventory and it is currently on sale for $1.70 per skein if you buy in my ebay store or direct from me. This sale ends on the 15th of this month so if you want to stock up I recommend you do it now and tell your friends the sale will be ending soon.

I want to say that I have turned down many offers over the years to have stores carry my floss. To do that it would have raised the price and the whole purpose of me selling my floss was to save stitchers money. Plain and simple. So I sell my floss wholesale price to all of you.

Thank you for taking the time to read through this. I am excited about this new floss line.......I get to play with dye and experiment with colors! Some of my favorite things to do.
I will keep you posted as to when the new colors will be available. I will offer a large selection.....soft sampler colors, primitive muted tones and a beautiful assortment for all of your stitching projects.

It sounds like the end of this year and the beginning of next year are going to be very busy around here....but that's nothing new!
                                                   Nancy.

My all-time favorite Sewing Necessaire!

This has to be my all time favorite fabric that I use for the sewing necessaires. I bought 10 yards of it a few years ago and I have sold quite a few of the necessaries in this fabric. It is a beautiful tan floral and is so antique looking. If you know anything about me....99% of everything in my house is antique! I love the "old fashioned" look to this print.

I love the sewing charms I include with this one. The adorable little dress hanger with frills on it....the antique bronze key and the little pile of 3 tiny buttons charm. Oh yes....can't forget the little wooden spool of hand dyed cotton cord I include.  I always include a skein of my floss, felted wool needle pages with the large bronze pin and my own signature button bag, felted wool and made by me, with the tiny antiqued safety pin with the bulb end on it. And a nice assortment of wood buttons. A great little package and a nice gift to give. I will be sure to have the give-away during the 12 Days of Christmas. I will probably give you your choice of fabrics on the actual give-away. My favorite may not be yours! lol

Thanks for stopping by. These will be available direct from me and in my ebay store when ebay quits giving me trouble with the picture uploader. I have been trying for hours this morning with no luck. Patience is a virtue.....so they tell me.
Nancy

Jingle as Ye Enter, chart pack give-away, enter now!

My most popular Christmas chart......I sold the first 200 with floss and bells....then listed another 50 and sell them on ebay......this is always a popular give-away and you still have time to stitch it to display for Christmas. The chart comes with all the over dyed floss and bells to make the wall hanging and the ornament!

Lets give two away!
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. I always like to give a lot of stitchers the chance to win.
Enter this one quickly as the drawing will be November 25th.

Good luck to all! And I can hardly wait until the 12 Days of Christmas!!!!!
Santa Nancy

Sewing Necessaires are done and here are a few photos

What a busy two weeks it has been. Every time I started sewing I had to stop for other things. I finally managed to get 80 sewing necessaires done. I have all the buttons, trims, charms, needle pages and the hand made felted wool button bags done too. I am now doing the finishing touches. Sewing on the mother of pearl heart as the pocket divider(or a hand made charm on some) and I am sewing on mother of pearl rings to run the ribbon through on the back side to dress them up. Lots of work!!

I like limited editions as you well know. I ran out of the Williamsburg Sampler fabric after selling dozens of these last year. I also had some of the Moda fabric with the sampler and alphabet that was similar. It is also discontinued now. Why do they do that??
Any ways....I took the medium blue background and dyed it light brown.  I also dyed seam ribbon for the tie and a beautiful skein of floss to add to it. I like an antique look. I also have some of the other colors in the fabric and I will leave then as they are and make some necessaires this week.

The bottom photo shows the other shades of fabric that I will use.

I have so many fabric combinations......lots of Christmas fabrics, antique tan floral is one of my favorites.

These make such nice gifts. I have 10 set aside that are already sold and a couple for give-aways (and I will have one soon). I have started listing these on ebay today with the tan fabric and I will list more soon. They are $25.95 on ebay.

Thanks for stopping by. I will show you more pictures as I get time.
Nancy

Primitive floss give-away, enter now!!

Lets have another Primitive floss give-away before we get to the quickly approaching 12 days of Christmas.....and you don't want to miss those!!!!

Lets give away 18 beautiful singles from the Primitive Collection. The whole set is 46 skeins and I will give away one of those sets during the 12 Days of Christmas.


A beautiful selection to stitch some primitive...or any other designs for that matter.

Rules: Same as usual. You must be a follower at the right. Click to follow by Faithful Friends.
Post on your blog or Facebook and get 50 more entries. Send a friend to follow and get 50 more entries.
Drawing to be November 30th. and you must check back to see if you are a winner!
Good luck to all who enter!!

I am finishing all the hand made sewing necessaries. I got side tracked as I had an order for two stitched and framed mottoes from one of my regular customers and that took 12 hours to stitch each motto earlier this week. Then I dyed trims, over dyed some  Moda alphabet fabric and selections buttons, and charms to put in the hand made button bags....so much to do around here! I will show some of the necessaries this weekend if I can take pictures. It has been dark with rain the past couple days. I will also have a another give-away so stay tuned! I made a great primitive necessarie......I think you are going to love this one.

Thanks for stopping by!
Nancy

We have a winner for the Antique Dried Flowers boxed set...a great way to start November!

The lucky winner is Nan Davis. Congratulations! Please email me and give me your address. nbelgian@aol.com

 

I am still very busy sewing...and sewing......lots of necessaries. I will be adding the buttons, trims and charms and putting them together. I need to make the small felted wool button bags.....a lot left to do and then over 100 necessaries will be finished. And of course....we will give one away real soon. Stay tuned.

 

There are two more give-aways in November (so far) so be sure to sign up for them. Favorite things on the 15th and Be Ye Thankful on the 22nd. Scroll back to previous posts to enter.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Nancy

Happy Halloween and we have a floss winner today!!

Happy Halloween! And we have a winner of the boxed set of Halloween floss.


12 beautiful 20 yard skeins for lots of Halloween stitching.
Our winner today is gracie. Congratulations!! Please email me, nbelgian@aol.com, and give me your address.

We still have a couple give-aways to enter so be sure to scroll back over the previous posts. Remember...someone always wins!

Have a fun and very Happy Halloween!!
                                         Nancy


 

Give-away winners today!

We have a winner today for the newest Christmas floss set. 7 skeins, 20 yards each, 140 yards of Christmas stitching heaven.
                           
The lucky winner is: Jerry Melder. Congratulations! Please email me and give me your address. nbelgian@aol.com


We also have a fabric winner today!!! Looking at the comments this lucky winner posted on the original give-away was a request for some of my hand dyed aida. Congratulations Frances N!
I will send a couple pieces for you....please email me.

Thank you for entering all of the give-aways. I will have the Halloween floss drawing tomorrow and on the 1st we will have the Antique Dried Flower Box so be sure to check back. And don't forget to enter the Be Ye Thankful give-away that ends on Nov. 22nd. That is a $50 surprise gift package!

Have a great day. I know 2 people will!
Nancy

Be Ye Thankful give-away, enter now!

It's almost that time of year here in the states......our traditional Thanksgiving on the 4th Thursday in November. The date this year is the 26th and I am having my usual Be Ye Thankful give-away to celebrate. Since the original day was a celebration of the harvest....I can say this is a harvest of friends! And I am very thankful for each and every one of you.

I thought I would put together a nice selection of goodies to surprise one lucky winner. So you will have to wait and see what it is! These surprises usually have a value of $50 or more as I like to include a nice selection. You can suggest what you would like...floss, fabric (linen or aida), charts, motto kit, etc.....but first you have to tell me what you are thankful for!
 I am always thankful for many things....my wonderful family that surrounds me.....the blessings I have received through this business...and the friends and followers I have met which is the best part of this business. From all over the world I have met the nicest group of people that I enjoy chatting and sharing with.


The give-away will be on the 22nd of November as I will be very busy on the holiday.
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 stitchers to have a chance to win a gift. You must check back to see if you are a winner as I don't have time to hunt you down! lol

There is still time to enter several current give-aways....drawings to be Oct. 30th, 31st, and Nov. 1st. Fabric, floss and favorite things so be sure you have entered all of them. Scroll through previous posts to find out what you have missed.

Thanks for stopping by...and good luck to all who enter. Let the comments begin. So tell me what you are thankful for. I am thankful for.............
Nancy

P.S.
If you have the time you should read the comments. I am honored that my friends share their personal stories with us....and you will see why this is my favorite give-away!

Be sure you are signed up for all of the give-aways!

I just wanted to tell you to be sure you are signed up for all of the current give-aways. I know a lot of people aren't regular bloggers and I don't want them to miss out. So scroll back on previous posts...you will find several that will be drawings on Oct 30th, 31st and Nov 1st.  Fabric, Halloween floss boxed set, Christmas floss and Antique Dried Flowers set.

I am already preparing the November give-aways.....my favorite is the Be Ye Thankful.......for our Thanksgiving here in the states but I think you can be thankful in any country. I will also have the Best Friends sharing give-away....a gift for you and your best friend! That has been a popular give-away in the past. Do you have a favorite give-away? I would love to hear what your favorite is. Or maybe a new give-away? You know I love to share with my followers!

I am sewing today.....I had so much trouble with my sewing machine I almost got a new one but this one isn't that old (of course the warranty expired). I had a gear replaced...lasted two hours. Got it replaced again.....and it quit again. Come to find out it was another part causing the gear to fail. I think I am ok now and ready for marathon sewing. It will be sewing necessarie time soon....love to give those away so stay tuned!

Thanks for stopping by. I love hearing from all of you.....tell me what your favorites are.....I will be waiting and listening......
Nancy

Just how many floss colors do I have? Want a good laugh?

I had a gal email me and ask how many floss colors I have. I told her I have small sets of 3-4 colors (a couple dozen), boxed sets of 12 and 28, large sets of 46 and 80 colors and lots of singles.
So she asks how many colors(skeins) do you have if I buy one of each? I started counting......and counting......

And counting.......got tired of counting and told her I had roughly 438 singles from all the collections and sets. How many yards is that? 8,760 and I think it would keep you busy for quite a while.
She asks if I have any other colors..........ok I do have a few drawers of singles that I had from my early years. I put them into 50 skein sets and put them on sale. That's another 1,000 yards. She waited a few minutes and sent another email. How much of a discount can you give me if I buy one of each? These are regular price of $2 and I run a 15% off sale on ebay. So I told her $1.50 per skein (25% off), you pay the postage, and I will GIVE you one of the 50 skein sets (or you can have a yard of 32ct linen or some hand dyed aida). Total before postage is $657. Saves you $100 on the 50 skein set. She said I'll take it and you should offer this to other stitchers. Well I know a lot of stitchers who buy a lot of floss......and this is a lot of floss!
So......if anyone else is interested in this special just let me know. I can calculate postage for you. Believe me...you won't run out of floss for a very long time!!! And just to show how much of a discount this is...I am about 1/4 the price of other companies who sell 5 yards for $2-2.50. This amount would be over $4,000.00. Such a deal! lol

Thanks for stopping by.
Nancy

Favorite Things give-away! Enter now!!

This seems to be the "favorite" give-away any time of the year.
I love to share with my faithful followers....and good friends......all year long. Not just during the Christmas season. I love the holidays.....I am going through the Christmas decorations as I skip Halloween (sorry!) and digging into the boxes of Santas and carollers.  I just can't wait until November 1st each year and it seems like I get earlier and earlier with the decorations. I add a few each day....hoping my family won't think I am crazy.....gotta love it when a grandson says "you know Halloween is next, right?"

So lets get to it..............and we will have two winners again!

.....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 50 more entries!
Drawing to be November 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

Back to the Christmas decorations....................
Santa Nancy

Favorite things winners today! Two of them!!

We have a favorite things winner today, actually we have two winners!!! I thought we would head into the holiday season with lots of goodies going out of here and today we have two very lucky stitchers who will get some goodies.The winners are:
Musicwoman and Pam Koontz
Please email me, nbelgian@aol.com, and tell me what your favorite thing is. Floss, linen, aida, charts, motto kit, etc. I will send you a wonderful present!!!!!

Thank you to all who entered. Today we start another Favorite Things give-away so be sure to enter. Someone always wins!!!!
Nancy

Listing single skeins from the Primitive Floss Collection

By request (I do listen to all requests!) I am selling a lot of singles from the Primitive Floss Collection. I listed a nice variety of 18 to start with in my ebay store and they are available direct from me like everything else. $2 on ebay (20yds ea.) or on sale  $1.70 direct from me for a short while.
I picked a nice selection and the colors I have the most of.

Thanks for stopping by.
Nancy

 

Hand dyed fabric give-away, enter now!!

Heaven only knows why I buy so much fabric.....and I don't even have time to stitch these past couple years. If you like hand dyed fabric then you are going to love this give away.

I have 32ct linen in a dozen shades......or if you prefer aida or rustic fiddlers cloth I have that in 14 and 16ct....I need to check on that....maybe 18ct too.

If you like linen I will give you 1/2 yard (30x36") of your choice of colors! I will post colors on the day of the drawing and the winner.

If you like aida....I have 12x18" pieces and you can have three! I have a few larger pieces and need to go through them. I have a dozen colors available and I will be dyeing more in the next couple weeks before the drawing.

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! Send a friend to follow and get 50 more entries! I like to give lots of stitchers a chance to win.
Help me move some fabric! I just moved a tub of linen in my storage area....over 100 pounds of linen! I need to start my own stitching marathon and use some of it.
I will have a drawing several times over the holiday season so keep checking back and enter.
Drawing to be October 30th and you must check back to see if you are a winner! You must follow!!

Good luck to all who enter!
Nancy

Primitive Flowers Floss Set

Busy putting more floss sets together today.....lets call this one a Primitive Flowers set. 7 skeins, 140 yards of beautiful flower colors. I thought these were nice antique/primitive looking colors. Very nice shading in all but the Buttercup which is almost a solid yellow.

I will be dyeing floss for a couple more weeks, them more linen and then give the dye pot a rest for a while....and me! lol
I want to get back to designs and stitching. Other than stitching custom mottoes for customers this year, over a dozen of them, I have not stitched anything on linen. I need to have a retreat just to get some rest! Maybe after I move to the next house I will do just that.

Thanks for stopping by and seeing the new colors.
Nancy

Christmas floss give-away, enter now!!

                                       
By request....from one of my favorite bloggers/followers (there I did mention you!)......my newest Christmas floss set. Seven of my 20 yard skeins, 140 yards of Christmas stitching to be done. Santa Nancy is very busy stitching a gift right now for a friend using these colors. With as busy as I am I hope to be done by Christmas!

I was REMINDED (lol) that there is still plenty of time to stitch Christmas items. Of course there is! So lets give one set away!
Rules:
You must be a follower at the right, click to follow by Faithful Friends. You must post a comment here. You need to post a comment on each give-away that you want to enter.
Post on your blog or Facebook and get 50 more entries!

Drawing to be October 30th....plenty of time to enter so tell your friends. And remember...you must check back to see if you are a winner. I don't have tine to track you down! lol

Good luck to all who enter.
Santa Nancy

A few new Christmas and Primitive floss colors

I carded some new floss this week.....I don't think there is a week that goes by that I don't do floss around here......it always looks like a cotton factory exploded!
I did a new smaller Christmas colors set....the essentials.....Christmas Red, Old Fashioned Red, Olde Gold, Holly & Ivy, Dark Pine Boughs and Deep Forest Pine.

Then I added the Primitive color Primitive Taupe Brown.

And a Darkest Midnight Blue and Mixed Berry Patch. These will all be available in my ebay store tomorrow. I will be selling the Christmas as a set (and will give one away soon) and listing a lot of singles from the large Primitive Collection. I think there will be 18 singles for sale from this set. I had several requests to sell singles so I thought I would start with these.

Be sure you have signed up for all of the give-aways I have going right now. Someone always wins and it could be you!
Thanks for stopping by.
Nancy