It's been awhile

since I've posted anything new. Not because I haven't been busy - - I have.
This was requested by our daughter for her friends daughter's piano. The first picture shows it overall and the second photo shows (I hope) that this is a 3 dimensional piece rather than just being flat.

A lovely Burled box

This is a gorgeous stitched piece mounted into the lid of a burled box. The box can be reproduced if wanted.

Claudia's Spool Storage Box for the wall

This box was made to Claudia's specifications to hold all of her silk floss spools. Painted in a rich, deep chocolate brown. The front of the box is made to hold your stitched piece. Scroll down to the white box with the stitched cats on the front to see what it would look like.

Spool Storage

This box is made to hang on a wall with removable spindle shelves for spool storage. The 'cover' opens from the right and is intended to have a picture (stitched or otherwise) inserted into the frame. The spindles are offset so you can see your thread color without having to remove the shelf. As always, we'd love to hear from you in you're interested in a special spool storage unit for yourself.
This is another shelf configuration. You can store the regular spools on the thin pegs and mini spools on the larger pegs. Mini's can be stacked 3 high to equal the regular spool height.

You've asked for it and now it's here!!

Thanks to Lauren of Sassy's Fabrics for the linen, Vikki Clayton for the silks and Stepanie of Nouveau Encore for the custom design. Of course without Larry creating the cakset for me, this would not be gracing my livingroom! This is made of a lovely dark cherry finished wood and sports gold knob feet.

The top opening is 4x6".

The lid is hinged and the front and back panels are identical. The openings are 2x6"

The end panels are also identical and the openings measure 2x4"

The design is available for sale on Stepanie's website (http://www.nouveauencore.com/). If, however, this is just not your style, Quaker motifs would work really well for all the openings.

Hope you like it!! If you're interested in owning a mini casket, please email us.

Decorated Hornbook

For my wife, she already had the chart picked out that she wanted to mount to the front of the hornbook so the size I made was pre-determined. Of course you can go smaller or larger depending upon what you want to mount on yours.

HORN BOOKS

My wife asked me to make her a hornbook (I didn't even know what it was!). This is the hornbook without any stitched ornamentation. As with all things, I'm finding that the final size is determined by the person wanting one. So email me with questions and I'll be happy to see about creating one for you.

Newest creation

This box came out of a discussion by some ladies as to the merit of having a wall mounted box with shelves to use as storage. Some ideas are spice storage, guest room and guest bath sundries storage, family room items that end up where they shouldn't be, spool storage, your imagination is your only limit. The boxes can be designed for the size of the stitched piece you want in your frame or as one lady said, she'll decide what to use it for and then determine the piece she'll stitch for it!

This is the front. This box is painted in a soft, lovely cream but our current colors are Americana red, blue, green, gloss black, gloss deep chocolate brown, a navy blue and cream. Stained boxes are substantially more expensive due to the cost of the wood that has to be used. Let us know what you're interested in. The other colors can be seen in a post further down.

Inside:

Thread winder addition

This is the latest addition to the wooden thread winders that are hand carved by Larry. Email for information.

Trinket box w/stitched cover

This exqusite piece of stitching, done by Mary C., was mounted in her custom made and sized to order gloss black trinket box. Click on the photo for a detailed image- it's awesome!