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Welcome to our plethora of glorious packages fully dressed to bring holiday cheer. Stitch the magnificent bellpull in its entirety or select your favorite packages to stitch and turn into individual ornaments, pillow inserts, small framed pieces or even greeting cards! Marnie Ritter, an artist well-known for her special way with color and her delicate patterns has created another masterful project for our stitching pleasure. You will find instructions for the entire design in this one issue. The project starts on page 7.
Date Night Frankie
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Boo! Greet Halloween with this wild and crazy creation from the talented hand of Debbie Stiehler. what fun it will be to stitch this ornament and to display it to the trick-or-treaters in your neighborhood.
Eyelets And Squares
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Donna Dimarco created this easy-to-stitch design with a delicate and airy look. Enjoy working the simple, yet beautiful patter, and finish it as a pillow insert or make it into a handy frame weight. Use Donna's selection of stitching threads or create your own color palette from your stash.
Bert's Bears...A Love Story
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Caela Tyler shares with us a beautiful and inspiring account of Karen Race and her special friend, Bert Mesard. Be sure to read this wonderful story that will make you feel good. If you are a collector of bear canvasses like my friend, Amy Lou, you will be thrilled with this presentation.
Possibilities
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Our popular feature writer, Judy Harper, continues to experiment and find new and wonderful means of artistic expression. In this issue Judy inspires us with the beautiful Talavera and adapts some of these colorful images for needlepoint.
A Pail Of Treats
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This happy little stitching project is perfect for Halloween! It will stitch up quickly working cross stitches on Trinkets™ Sewing Cards or cross stitch fabric or canvas. Tricia Wilson Nguyen has a special way of creating small projects tha twill brighten the home and be fun to stitch.

"Amy"able Advice For The Stitcher
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Picasso or Rembrandt? asks Amy Bunger in her popular column. In this issue, Amy starts a two-part dialogue on how to paint your own canvas.

From The Bookshelf
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Suzanne Howren reviews Diaper Patterns, by Ann Strite-Kurz. She also reviews Amy bunger's cool, new sets of DVD's filled with great stitching information. A guest reviewer talks about New Twists On Needlework Embellishments by Suzanne Howren and Beth Robertson.

Jody's Needlepoint Excitement
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Jody Valentine talks about Boondoggle and Hoot Nannys and other terms not generally known as she investigates crafts of young people.

New Product Review
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Elizabeth Bozievich, frequent contributor to needlepoint now has taken on the feature of product reviews. Enjoy her information on the new Soy Luster™ threads made from Tofu.

The Stitching Fool
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How do you enjoy stitching with football, basketball or NASCAR in the background? Be sure to read what our loveable "fool" has to say!

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