Happy New Year!
I hope you've all had a wonderful festive season.
Now's the time to take down all those decorations of course, so if
your walls are looking a bit bare, why not invest in a new design to
stitch to brighten them up? This month we're featuring some of our
most popular TV and Film designs such as the wonderful Scooby Doo
Mystery Machine pictured here, so find your favourite and get
stitching! For those readers who have been well and truly snowed in
during December (UK and East Coast US readers, this definitely
includes you!), let's hope it doesn't happen again. However, if it
does, stitching is definitely the way to fill a boring day stuck in
the house!
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The Mystery Machine from Scooby Doo, one of our most popular TV designs. |
There's nothing on......
Here at Stitchtastic we love a good TV or Film
icon. But why does it have to be an actor? We all know they're
overpaid and suffer from terribly inflated egos, so why don't we
start worshipping their vehicles instead? This already happens with
a couple of our most popular TV designs. First of all, the Reliant
Regal from Only Fools and Horses. Delboy would love this caricature
of his van and so will you, as it is a striking design containing
quite a few blocks so is a nice easy stitch.
A US icon next,
with the A Team Van. Probably more popular than the A Team
themselves and determinedly protected by BA Baracas, it makes for a
fun stitch and is quite detailed, using 24 DMC colours.
But
what about films? A favourite from the sixties immortalised in
stitches is our Italian Job Mini design. But wait! Not only do we
have the old style minis, but also the new ones! Both cost £27.95
for a kit.
Over Christmas, I watched the film 'Cars'. What a
great film! The stitching is fantastic for younger fans, it's one of
our only designs that is stitched over the entire design, no patches
of aida are left for background so it looks very effective. Using 19
DMC colours, the design is one of our most striking.
Our TV
and Film range includes more than 15 popular vehicles, so visit
http://www.stitchtastic.com/catalog/caricature-tv-film.aspx to
see them all.
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Delboy's Reliant Regal from Only Fools and Horses
Don't Touch the Van, but you can stitch it!
Which do you prefer, the original or the bright, shiny new one?
A great film and a striking design to stitch |
Stitchtastic
Stitchers
This month's featured stitcher is Moyra from Wales.
She's a prolific stitcher and has sent us 2 completed Stitchtastic
designs. First of all, our Vespa Scooter design which looks amazing,
so much detail on the wheels and seat in particular. She's also
stitched our Harley Electra Glide caricature in blue. Moyra says she
can't wait to do more of our designs - that's fine with us Moyra,
particularly if you keep sending in these lovely pictures!
If
you'd like to be our featured stitcher, send in your photos and a
little bit of information on you to sarah@stitchtastic.com, or post
on our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/Stitchtastic.
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Moyra's lovely Vespa cross stitch
Moyra's great Harley Electra Glide stitch |
Advance notice - stitching shows coming up!
It's getting towards stitching show season again.
Once the gloom of January and February are over, we
can emerge from hibernation and show off our designs
to the world again, at Stitch & Craft 2011 at
Olympia, London 17 - 20th March and Sewing for
Pleasure at the NEC in Birmingham, 24th - 27th
March. Apologies to our non-UK readers, at the
moment it's not practical for us to exhibit outside
of the UK but why not have a trip over for a show,
and see some of the sights whilst you're over?
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Looking forward to seeing you all at a stitching show soon!
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Next Month
We're going to look at our range of Lorry and Van
designs next month (apologies to our international readers, lorries
are just trucks!) As usual, we'll be looking for more stitchers to
feature so please send in your pictures.
See you then!
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Questions or comments? E-mail me at
sarah@stitchtastic.com or call +44 (0) 114 2353958
Until next time
Sarah
Designer
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