PDF Patterns

Did you know that a portion of my designs are available as PDF downloadable patterns? Well they are.

I have not, nor do I ever intend to give permission to any other seller to offer my designs in this format, so be aware that if you see them out there in cyberspace, being sold by anyone other than me, that they are pirated copies (and please let me know!).

I just decided to add two designs to my list of available PDFs...

I Sew'd My Heart, which many of you received as a free chart when you sent me a photo for my Around the World collection. Now available for purchase in my etsy shop or by contacting me directly (and still available for free if you want to play along and follow the rules as seen here).

And Partrige, Pare, & Turteldove, an early Christmas design of mine that I originally made available for a just short time. I still get requests for it from time to time, so I've permanently added it to the list.

Around the World

Am I still collecting photos from around the world? Why yes... yes I am!

I'm not sure that I will ever stop, quite frankly. I have truly enjoyed seeing all the places that you lovely people have taken me, and I want to see more!

Just recently, you could find me in Bath, taking the waters with Jane Austen and a few of her more charming friends (including Mr. Darcy, bestillmyheart).

It was quite invigorating, I can tell you, and I came back with the loveliest assortment of new acquaintances and lengths of ribbon and a Gothic volume to read by candlelight.

Won't you invite me along on a trip, or at least let me visit your back veranda or stitching parlor?

If you do, and if you have the presence of mind to send me a picture of the occasion, I'll reward you with a pdf of this charming little pattern...

It is my little token of thanks that I give away for free to those who participate (following my quite flexible rules, mind you).

Around Here

The Bait

A week ago, I mentioned a free exclusive chart that I would send off to anyone who participated in My Heartstring Around the World contest.

I finally finished stitching the model... want to see?

I was so proud of myself it was ridiculous, the day I wrote the little poem. It just came to me, and sounds so much like the fatalistic sayings we find on those old school girl samplers... Poor little girls, stuck in parlors and classrooms, stitching poems about their bones rotting, and early death, and wondering if their sampler was the only way by which they would be remembered.

My poem reads:

With a needle I sew'd my heart
on a piece of linnen

T'wil linger here
still Bright and Clear
when I am gone to Heav'n

I signed my sampler with a fictional name, Star Felicity Jamison, and a date 1836, but if you were to end up with this exclusive chart, you could freely replace the name with your own. There is a heart of course, some tulips and bell flowers, a peony and a bird. I finished the model quite simply, with hem-stitched edges, and pinned it to my work basket.

All you need to do, to get a free copy of this chart, is send me a photo to add to my growing collection. A photo of my blog header live at a location you like. If you don't have a portable computing device or smartphone, see if you can recruit a friend who does, to help you out. I myself am limited to just my PC, so I can relate to your inability to take the internet with you. Get creative! Have one of your friends pull up my blog at your stitching group, pose the group with my blog header, and I'll let you share the chart with them. Take me to the beach, the mall, the library, the pick-up line at the end of the school day, wherever...

Intrigued?