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Front Cover
Joan Thomasson is our special November-December Cover Girl as this is the seventh year she has graced this choice spit! Can you imagine the idea of "scrapbooking" combined with stitching needlepoint? Joan's project, Frostfire, has been done so expertly that it is innovative and beautiful. In this issue she teaches us the techniques to create and preserve our own very special memories. Start your own creation now to be ready fo rthe rest of the instructions which will be in the Jan/Feb 08 issue. The project starts on page 7.		 Back Cover
Carole Lake is another of our favorite designers. For this issue she shares with us her dramatic and wonderful stitchery, Once in Royal David's City, to help us celebrate the season. Carole was inspired by a group of small stained glass windows when she visited Scotland. She returned home and went to work! This design is bold and dramatic and was drawn with sweeping lines that are not only graceful, but also clean and crisp. Basic sstitches ar worked on canvas using a wide variety of beautiful threads. The instructions are complete in this issue. They begin on page 13. Enjoy!
Triangle Santa Ornament
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Peg Dunayer designed this happy little project to brighten your holiday season with a bit of whimsey. Work your ornament in the canvas mesh size and threads of your choice.
The Saga of Shiny Bright
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Mary Ellen Merrigan found herself snow-bownd during a Christmas trip from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Clyde, Missouri. As the hours turned into days, she turned to stitching her Shiny Bright needlepoint ornaments inspired by the beautiful and popular Radko ornaments. thanks to a snowstorm, she managed twelve ornaments in 45 days. Happy Holidays!
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 her colorful needlepoint designs inspired by crazy quilts.
Holiday Ornaments
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What could be more fun than stitching up a group of colorful holiday ornaments? These 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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"Supplies include vodka" states Amy Bunger in her popular column. In this issue Amy completes her two-part dialogue on painting your own canvas.

From The Bookshelf
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Suzanne Howren reviews Marnie Ritter's Canvas Patterns Book 3. She also reviews Creating Contemporary Bargello - A Designer's Guide by Iona L. Dettelbach.

Jody's Needlepoint Excitement
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Jody Valentine not only issues an exciting design challenge, but also explains how to accomplish this fun idea! Have a ball creating your special ornament.

Adventures In Embellishment
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We are so happy that Tony Minieri is back! He interrupts his series on historic architecture to give us practical application of stitching architecture on a painted canvas.

Stitching Fool
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Are you ready for a test? In this issue our loveable fool teases us with "The Stitching Fool Quiz." Enjoy the fun!

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