It’s Wednesday – and a good day to make your embroidery dreams come true!
Have you been hankering to stitch something really special?
Well, here’s your chance to have a gorgeous embroidery kit mailed directly to your door, courtesy of the folks at Inspirations Magazine!
This is a fantastic give-away for three winners – and the best part about it? The winners get to select their own prizes!
Couldn’t get any better than that, could it?
Read on for the details!
Today’s grand give-away is for three winners, all of whom will be randomly drawn from the entrants. Each winner can choose a kit from those currently offered by Inspirations, which you’ll find on their website, here.
Included in your prize will be the kit as described on the website and the relevant Inspirations magazine that features the project, so that you’ll have everything you need to work the project – all the supplies (materials, threads, needles, any extra embellishments) and the instructions. The goodies will be mailed to the winners directly from the folks at Inspirations.
Recently, I’ve reviewed two Inspirations kits – this Modern Crewel kit and this Chatelaine kit. You can read my reviews to see those two kits up close and get an idea of what’s included in each Inspirations kit.
Give-Away Guidelines
In order to participate in today’s give-away, please read and abide by the following guidelines:
This give-away is now closed! Thanks to all who participated!
1. Leave a comment below, answering the question in #2. To go directly to the comment form, you can follow this link. Comments must be left on this article on Needle ‘n Thread – comments received via email or left on any other article are not eligible entries.
2. In your comment, answer the following question:
If you win, what kit would you pick and why?
You can see all the kits currently available here – please note there are two pages to the listing, so be sure to browse both pages!
3. Please make sure you leave a name (no anonymous entries) and a valid, working email address in the appropriate line on the comment form. If you happen to have a fairly common name (like Mary, for example), you might qualify your name with a last initial or a nickname or a place. This helps avoid confusion when the winners are announced.
4. All comments must be received by Monday, August 1, at 5:00 am Central Time (Kansas, USA). The randomly drawn winners will be announced that day.
The winners must contact me within three days with their mailing information. After three days, I’ll randomly select replacements for any winners I haven’t heard from. So be sure to check back on August 1st to see if you are one of the winners!
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Goodness! How can anyone choose! Can I say I love Love Letters and Flowers of the Sea?! They are all so beautiful (with just the right splash of daunting!)
Just saw the post for the give away. I feel like a kid in a candy store and only allowed one piece of candy. I choose the Chatelaine in red kit. I have been researching and teaching myself Elizabethan stitches for a sweet bag project. The Chatelaine would merry nicely with my sweet bag. I would like to thank you for your web site. My area has very few embroidery opportunities for my more than intermediate level of embroidery. Your site is my go to place for information, book reviews and instructions.
If I win I would definitely choose the Modern Crewel kit because I love the pattern and the colours are absolutely beautiful!
Catalina
I would pick modern crewel. I love the look of crewel but don’t work with wool yarns and this is perfect for me to try.
The Honey Bee Kit is the one I would choose as I have BEEn stumped looking for a creative BEEgining for a new design pattern. I have tried a bee in the past and it was not all the buzz I thought it would BEE.
Pick me! I really need to be inspired.
Thank you,
Carol
all the kits are very yummy, but I would pick the chatelaine kit because I never had anything as pretty as that for myself.
That is so sweet, Andrea. I would pick the chatelaine too! With all my heart, I hope you win! 🙂
If I win, I would pick the Chatelaine kit. I do so love anything embroidery/sewing related. These items remind me of a much more relaxed time when women had the leisure to create beautiful items for every day use.
I would pick the Small Change kit because it’s beautiful (! Love those bold colors against the dark background) and also because I’m going on a dream trip of a lifetime to Europe later this fall and was told a coin purse is a great idea to hold the euro coins.
If I were the lucky winner, I would choose the “Modern Crewel” kit because it appears to have some wonderful looking techniques that I am not familiar with.
I love the projects in the Inspirations magazine. Everything they publish is beautiful, but I would love to work on a gold work project.
Thanks so much for the giveaway chance. It’s hard to choose between such wonderful projects, but I think I would pick Flowers of the Sea. I love the bright colors on the black, and it uses threads and techniques I haven’t tried before. It would be a gorgeous project to work, and a great learning experience.
If I won (oh, please, oh please!) I would choose, “Tea for Two.” I have two UK friends and I would make them each a cuppa.
“Flowers of the Sea”… thinking beside the embroidery, beading would also add very much to the mystic bottom of the sea.
Hello: Ohhh so hard to choose, all their kits are interesting for different reasons……Chatelane is interesting but the gold work bee (honey bee) is neat too as it has black metals, and modern crewel is neat too so that I could see what wools and threads they use besides just crewel wool……But in the end perhaps I’d choose Winter’s Song to challenge myself with the shading 🙂
If I’m a winner I would pick the Gold Bee. I haven’t attempted gold work before and would love the opportunity to learn a new form of embroidery. Also I find the whole subject and history of bees, fascinating.
I would definitely choose the Honey Bee. My husband and I were bee keepers for 28 years. I lost him 4 years ago and this would remind me of him. I collect many bee things!
I would choose the Modern Crewel kit. The reason? The COLORS! Those glorious colors! And how could you go wrong with Jacobean? Combines, the design is flawless.
I would like to win the Modern Crewel Work Kit as I love the colour scheme and because it certainly combines an’old traditional’ design with contemporary colours.
I would pick Tulip or Love Letters or Prancer! Too many choices. Love monograms and I love whitework. Any one of them would be delightful!
What an opportunity, and what a hard choice to make among all the beautiful kits. I would choose Small Change, the elegant purse. It brings back memories of a purse my mother made, a beaded twenties style of purse, she crafted as a young girl.
Thank you.
I would choose the pink chatelaine but love so many of them. I have bought AS&E kits and the quality is superb. I imagine Inspirations kits would be the same since it is the same folks. I hope I get the chance to find out in the giveaway!
Decisions, decisions! Oh my, they are all wonderful kits. I would choose the red chatelaine because I have a granddaughter who has begun sewing and I would love to make this for her.
If I am fortunate enough to win, I would want to try the kit Flowers of the Sea. Scenes of fish and corals have been an interest of mine in several quilts that I have made, and I am recently starting to learn and practice embroidery. I think that I would learn much, and certainly enjoy, completing this kit.
I would choose Winter’s Song. I love Trish Burr and have been longing to try needle painting for some time now. I just haven’t taken the plunge. If I had a second choice, it would be Honey Bee. Because that’s what I call my Granddaughter, Beatrice. Honey Bea. Thank you for the contest.
So much to choose from Mary. I think I would choose the Tea For Two; love the colors and different techniques.
I absolutely love the modern crewel. The colors are beautiful and I love crewel embroidery.
I would like to win the Modern Crewel Work Kit as I love the colour scheme and because it certainly combines an ‘old traditional’ design with contemporary colours.
Hi Mary, I believe I would choose the Small Change purse kit. I have never tried to make a little purse; would give me a chance to try something new.
Love all the Inspirations kits, Prancers my favourite. Perhaps because his impish face makes me smile. Would give to my friends when done for a Christmas gift as they adore the season.
My choice would be the Modern Crewel kit. It is fresh and bright, a modern take on a traditional design, but it also gives a 70’s vibe.
Melissa
I would pick tea for two!!! Beautiful kits!!
What a great giveaway! Thanks for the opportunity to participate. All the kits are beautiful and it’s not easy to choose. I love the whitework Blossom bag and would choose that one.
Thanks again!
I would love the red chatelaine kit, then I could stitch along with you. And it would be a thing of beauty if the stitching went right!
I’d definitely pick the Pink Chatelaine. I’ve actually been looking all over for a chatelaine for a while, and figured “Well, I guess I’ll just have to get some jewelry chain and make one for myself.” Then I saw the Chatelaine kit and I love it!
Oh my goodness! What an incredible opportunity. I knew the minute I saw your review of the Chatelaine Kit that I wanted to do it. I am currently doing the Cabinet of Curiosities course over at Thistle Threads with Tricia Nguyen. When I saw Inspirations Chatelaine I immediately loved the design and knew that the pink one would work beautifully with the designs I have planned for my cabinet. The three pieces of the chatelaine will work wonderfully in my cabinet with the other tools I’m collecting to put in it.
I had planned to purchase the kit, but to have a chance at winning it is simply wonderful!
Thanks for the giveaway. My choice is Chatelaine (Red).
How would you choose just one, but my favorite would be the Chatelaine kit. I love anything sewing related that I could take with me to stitch anywhere.
What a lovely give-away! Thanks for this and allowing one to dream! I would choose the chatelaine (in red). I love the design and the thought of working with those lovely silk threads. In addition, it’s small, portable, useful, and does not require framing and finding a place to hang on walls that are becoming a bit over subscribed! I love chatelaines! Thanks again.
I’d probably choose the red chatelaine kit; I’ve had my eye on it and I enjoy making little needlework tools. But Garden Fresh looks like fun, too…
Decisions, decisions! 😉
Hello Mary
I would choose the Chatelaine kit in Red, should I be fortunate enough to win. I have loved embroidery since childhood but I also love all sewing accessory related pieces of work. Really, there is rarely a time when a new pin cushion or needle book doesn’t make me happy. So if these two are combined, well, needlework heaven!
My thanks for all your wonderful articles which have taught me so much and all our most hopeful good wishes for your return to full health.
Kindest regards
Sandy
My choice would be Modern Crewel. I love the design and enjoy crewel-work. To work this kit, with its wide variety of stitches and techniques, would teach me so much which I could take forward to other projects. The colours are glorious and, small though the finished piece is, it would have immediate impact wherever it was hung. I love it.
I am inspired by Mary Corbet and the beautiful work she does. I would love to win the Chatelaine (Red) kit.
So hard to choose! Such interesting projects! I would have to pick the garden fresh project… I think. Although the resting place one is so tempting too…. Oh so hard to choose! I haven’t done anything like either of those ones so it would be a fun and learning project.
Thank you for such a wonderful and gorgeous giveaway!
I would choose the Châtelaine kit in red. Your recent review made me fall in love with this set and I think my grandmother’s embroidery scissors deserve such a beautiful sheath. Besides, it seems like just the right amount of gold work to get me started on this new technics!
Hi Mary,
I would choose the Christmas Bouquet ornament kit. I am an absolute sucker for stumpwork, and this is gorgeous. I have my fingers crossed -all of them, and my toes too!
If I’m fortunate enough to win, I would love to receive the Chatelaine kit! It’s purposeful, historical, and lovely to the eye. What better way to inspire your needlework than keeping your tools in such beautiful homes.
Tulip. I would be delighted with any of the kits, but would love to try Hedebo and the tulip is so exquisite in its simplicity. That said, I know it would be a fun challenge for me!
All of the kits are beautiful, but if I were to win I would choose Resting Place. Hardanger is so beautiful! I’ve never attempted any hardanger that extensive, so it would be a good challenge and learning experience. Thank you for the exposure to these kits and for this opportunity!
Hi Mary- all these kits are incredible pieces- all worth to be stitched… If I would be so happy and win one of these fabulous things, I’d chose the red chatelaine. I’m addicted to embroidery and my next big project is a 1780 waistcoat-inspired by an uncut piece from the Metropolitan Museum New York, and it would be a great pleasure and honor to keep my needlework-tools for this in such an exclusive packing up…
I would choose the Chateleine (Red). I love the design and the challenge of the embroidery. I also love the functionality of the finished pieces.
Were I fortunate enough to win, I would choose the stumpwork corn on the cob kit. The reason for this is that stumpwork is one of my favourite techniques and I haven’t done any for a while. I enjoy the challenges of stumpwork as every piece is so different and I learn something new every time. This looks as if it would be an exciting piece to work!
Without a doubt it would be the hardanger piece – Resting Place! I am fairly new to this form of needle craft but would love to try my hand at completing this gorgeous piece. It looks like the kind of heirloom piece that I’d love to pass to my daughters when they are older (so I’d be stitching it twice!)
Dear Mary
What a lovely giveaway!
I would choose the Modern Crewel as I have become very interested in crewel work recently. I love the feeling that I am continuing an ancient style and these particular colours in the Modern Crewel kit are my favourites – luscious blues, greens and teals. I am a beginner to ‘proper’ embroidery, but am intrigued and fascinated by all the effects that can be created using stitch and colour.
(If I am not lucky enough to win – and I think there will be hundreds of entrants – I am thinking about treating myself to the Hare kit or Rabbits! kit from The Crewel Work Company).
Thank you very much for hosting the giveaway.
Best wishes
Ellie
I would choose Winter’s Song! I love doing birds! Thread painting is so beautiful and this bird is so cute all fluffed up with the cold.
Small Change or Modern Crewel? Choices, choices. I love crewel work in floss, it is my favorite way to stitch. Yet the coin purse is so dang cute. After much consideration and thought Small Change is my choice for a fun project.
What a fun Give-Away! I will choose Flowers of the Sea when I win because (1) I love undersea things, (2) it looks challenging and I could learn a lot from it, and (3) it’s probably not a project that I would do on my own.
I have purchased Inspirations kits before, and they are SO well put together and of extremely high quality. I *almost* bought the Modern Crewel already, but then decided to use my own colors and the chart in the magazine. So now I would choose the goldwork Bee! I have never done any goldwork; it seems like a small enough project to get my feet wet.
As always, Mary, thank you for your site, reviews, and all-around awesomeness!
I would pick the red chatelaine because it is beautiful – of course! – but also because it would be an interesting challenge for me using techniques I have not done before.
I have loved reading through the magazine and have always wanted to learn the art of Hardanger. I would pick “Resting Place” as it is such a beautiful piece of work.
Robin
I adore Winters Song! I think that would be my choice. Though Les Hirondelles is so pretty as well.
I recently purchased an online subscription to Inspirations and am awed by all the beautiful kits! I would choose the Chatelaine (red) kit–I’ve never worked with silks and the set just looks gorgeous. I also need some ideas for finishing my embroidery, and this would definitely inspire me!
Ever since I saw the beautiful Chatelaine kit offering in the Inspirations Magazine I have had my eye on it. The Tudor Rose is exceptional and I thought if I ever could get the kit I would do one in pink for my daughter whose middle name is Rose and one for myself in the beautiful rich red version. My embroidery scissors would find a good home in the scissor keep. Using the set during an embroidery project would make me feel a connection with past times and make whatever I was working on that much more special!
I would pick the Flowers of the Sea Kit from Issue 89…I have wanted to try a design by Helen Stevens…she is unique in her stitching and I know I would learn tons!!!
I would love the Chatelaine (red) or the Flowers of the Sea, they are both gorgeous and on my want list for sure. Thanks for the chance to win one of the beautiful kits.
I’d pick Flowers Of The Sea – I’m tempted by the Chatelaine as well, but Flowers is a style, techniques, and materials I’m less familiar with (which means less likely to want to tweak to suit my taste. I’ve already started collecting materials to do the Chatelaine in Soie de Paris – for more shine – and a slightly cooler and more historic color range (darker/brighter greens, less amber/golds)) – Flowers is one that I’d be happy to do as written, and thus do well with as a kit.
Hi Mary 🙂
You always have the greatest giveaways.
Which kit would I pick and why? Well that’s easy, lol. Winter’s Song. There are a couple of reasons. One, I just love birds, and this one is so sweet. Two, I have always wanted to try needle painting. I have quite a few books on the subject (thanks for your reviews and recommendations, by the way). But I haven’t quite worked up the nerve to try it. If I won the kit, I would have stitch it. I’d have no excuse, everything is included.
Thank you for the chance to win 🙂
I would be very happy to win any of the kits of course but I would choose the Christmas Bouquet – i88 Kit. I make a unique tree ornament every year and this beautiful ball topper would be quite different than any I’ve made to date. Thank you Mary 🙂
What an incredible choice to make… I would choose the red chatelaine kit!!! What a thrill to have everything selected for you in this beautiful kit!! Thank you for allowing us to dream like this!!
Hugs from Canada.
I absolutely love the Pink Chatelaine Kit. It looks so fun to stitch and would match my all pink sewing accessories! The goldwork bee also caught my eye, but I think the chatelaine would be my choice.
If I were lucky enough to win I would choose the Modern Crewel kit. I love the colour combination but have never tried crewel embroidery, so this would be the perfect incentive to learn something new!
The kit that I would most like to sew is Small Change. I would love to have the opportunity to work something so exquisite and colourfully vibrant. It could become a family heirloom.
I would choose the Garden Fresh kit. It is so different from anything I have ever done. I am always up for a new challenge. Good luck to everyone.
I would choose the lovely Les Hirondelles, because I love those swallows! Such beautiful colors.
Well I thought this would be difficult and looking at all the lovely kits to choose from it is hard. However from the minute I saw Mary’s post on the red Tudor Rose Chatelaine kit I wanted it. I do living history reenacting so working on and using this kit when completed would be perfect.
So many lovely kits to choose from! Wow! I would pick Winter’s Song. I love winter and robins. I’ve been doing mostly counted cross stitch pieces and have been thinking that I’d like to try more embroidery since following your blog. One of these lovely kits would be a good way to get back to embroidery.
I would pick the Chatelaine kit because it reminds me of my Gramma who taught me how to knit when I was 11, and how to crochet when I was 26. All of the handcrafts I do are because of her!! She lived a long, blessed life until she was 94 years old, crocheting afghans constantly for all of her extended family members, more than 300, full sized ripple patterned, until the Lord called her home!!
Thank you for this chance at a beautiful memory!!
Sandi Tipps
It’s because of Mary’s posts that I now subscribe to Inspirations Magazine. If I was so fortunate as to be one of the lucky winners I would choose the Chantelaine kit in red. It is beautiful and useful. I would love to honor my desire to produce beautiful items by working this kit but at this point in my life I’m not ready to splurge.
I absolutely love birds and especially stitching them on fabric. I have just completed a pillow top of a bird and would appreciate the opportunity to start another. So I would pick the Winters Song kit.
Kimberly
I would pick the gold bee as I would love to try gold work. In fact earlier today I rang my library to reserve books on how to do this. This depiction of the bee is sumptuous.
Jo
The ‘Small Change’ is a wonderful kit for beading. I have done many techniques including Goldwork and Stumpwork and love the attention to detail that they offer and would love to do more beading work. They were all lovely pieces.
Thanks you this opportunity.
Debra
The kit I would choose is ‘Small Change. I like the idea of being able to enjoy stitching something, then to be able to enjoy using it. Beautiful embroidery should be used and seen, so that it can be enjoyed by a wider audience.
This might be the best giveaway ever! I think I would choose the bee, because it is absolutely amazing, and I would probably never have another chance to try goldwork.
This is a hard decision. I have wanted several of these kits as I have read Inspirations magazine. I would choose the pink chatelaine as I would like to learn more about gold work, and it is so beautiful.
I would pick “Resting Place.” I like the simplistic look of the design. I also enjoy hardanger.
I would love to win the gold bee! I have been eyeing this project ever since I saw it in Inspiration magazine. I am proficient at surface embroidery and am ready for the challenge of gold work. The bee would be very rewarding to work on.
How beautiful! I would choose the “Tea for Two” kit, because I am in the process of setting up a corner cabinet just for my tea collection and these would look lovely on the wall beside it! Thank you for this opportunity!
Tea for Two is a gorgeous, lively design, and plays into my collection of teacups and saucers from generations of lovely ladies in my family. The oldest traveled to California over the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon. It belonged to my great, great grandmother, and was made in Prussia. Another, from a great aunt, came from ‘Occupied Japan’. Many were given to me when I became engaged, as is the custom in my family seat. It was only natural that a love of tea parties would follow, and I am doing my best to preserve this genteel and comforting afternoon ritual, inviting friends and neighbors to enjoy a cup of tea and bites of homemade treats. I would like very much to complete the lovely embroidery to celebrate my love affair with teacups and friendship.
When I first saw this kit in Inspirations, I almost purchased it. I love the design, the lace, and love sachets. This would be a beautiful piece to work on. A true future heirloom.
If I am lucky enough to win this wonderful prize, the kit I would chose is the Modern Crewel work kit.
A fan of crewel work, the very refreshing combination of turquoise and lime appeals to me. Always keen to advance my skills in crewel work especially, I would love to work this kit.
Hi Mary,
Oh My! I would choose the Honey Bee kit if I win.
I have always wanted to learn gold work. This would be the perfect opportunity to do so.
Barbara L.
I would choose Chatelaine in Red. It is so beautiful and something useful. My walls are rather full and having this item could be used and shared by wearing it.
As a Ren Faire participant I admire the Tudor Rose so the Chatelaine Kit (in Red) would be a lovely handwork project to work and use at Queen Elizabeth’s court. I love fine detailed & functional stitching projects and hope this one will come my way.
I’d love to make the Red Chatelaine. I’m obsessed with English history and got a Tudor rose tattooed on my forearm, to celebrate one of my trips to the UK. My surname also used to be Tudor – no relation unfortunately! The chatelaine design is so pretty, both in the pink and the red.
Thank you for the opportunity to enter! I would choose the Love Letters kit because I love letters. I make my living as a writer and have always loved fabrics with lettering. When I started embroidering, monograms were what I did first. I can imagine making a Love Letter for each of the people I love the most in this world.
I would be happy with any of the kits but if I had to chose it would be the Chatelaine kit. I love the design. I think it would be challenging for me but not too daunting. Best of all, the finished products will be items I can use.
I would choose the Modern Crewel kit. I love crewel work and I just love the colours in this kit.
Roma
What a wonderful contest. Decisions, decisions. I think if I won I would like the “Love Letters” as I suspect it is somewhat within the realms of my ability to do. It is lovely and best of all it comes with an Inspirations magazine! Yeah! They are so hard to find in my area and finances can’t afford a subscription at this point in time.
I wouldn’t mind the “Small Change” kit, the Pink Chatelaine”, or even the “Modern Crewel” Kits, all of which are lovely and would give me a real work out, and free Inspirations as well!
Thank you!
Hello!
This is hard……I would have to go with “Small Change” because it’s so adorable and the motifs could be used in so many other projects.And who doesn’t need a vintage looking coin purse!
Lynn
I am 71 years old and have had a stroke. I’m getting back to
Embroidery. The Prancer pattern would be lovely to win. It seems easy enough for me. I just love all the things you share with us. I have a subscription to inspirations magazine and can’t wait for it to come. Thank you
I would pick Modern Crewel. I love the colors and it would be way out of my needlepoint comfort zone. I think it is important to be able to do all the forms of needlework I judge and have been working at expanding my horizons.
I would definitely go for the beautiful, little goldwork bee! I’ve not done goldwork before and he would be delightful to stitch!
Thank you for another give away! I would choose Honey Bee as it is only in the past year that I have attempted gold work and I am approaching 68 years old. The seemingly simplicity of the design would I’m sure present me with many new techniques to explore. I have read the instructions for this piece in the Inspirations magazine which I subscribe to and of which I am only missing two issues to complete the set! Over the years I have completed many projects from the magazine and always find the instructions very comprehensive .
Flowers of The Sea is so beautiful. It reminds me of trips to the ocean with my grandchildren. To pass it down to one of them would bring back many wonderful memories we shared.
I would chose the Resting Place. It looks like a modern design that I could use in my house. I would also like to start doing more hardanger work.
Honey Bee
I have done a little gold work but always practice pieces; I would enjoy working this bee as a gift for my son who has just got his first beehive.
I took my time and went over the beautiful kits. How do you choose?!? I almost decided on the Chatelaine kit (red) but my love for the Birds of Winter Song just captured my heart. I do so love your choices.
Thank you for offering this to us.
God Bless.
I would pick the honey bee kit. My grandgirls are now maintains several hives and are enjoying the process. Besides I did some gold work years ago and enjoyed it…pick me please!!!
I would choose the Chatelaine in red. I loved seeing and reading it on your review. I even tried to find a friend who would order it for me. Stitching it would be a wonderful challenge and stitching a chatelaine is on my bucket list!
I’d choose one of the kits that features goldwork: I’ve wanted to try it for a long time, and a kit seems like the right kind of introduction.
First choice would have to be ‘Chatelaine’ to make as a gift for my granddaughter who is just coming of age. It would be a remembrance of her grandmother.
I love reading your blog. You really inspire me with your talent in embroidery. I would love to win Trisha Burr’s bird. I have admired her work, and would enjoy learning her technique of needle painting.
Oh! It was so hard to pick, but I am confident that my heartthrob is the Chatelaine Red. The complementing shade of green is so soothing and lovely and would be right at home surrounded by the green walls in my studio. I would cherish the opportunity to create something so artistically elegant.
I would love to win the Red Chatelaine. It is a beautiful. I have always wanted to have a class piece that Susan O’Connor has designed. I love Chatelaine. It has a lot of stitches that I love.
I love Inspirations, they have so many beautiful projects each issue! Looking at the current kits, it is really hard to choose a favorite. I think I would have to chose “Prancer”, the contemporary reindeer. There was an absolute stunning picture of him done on a black stocking in a recent embroidery newsletter.
Wow. Mary, after inspiring us with your reviews, this is a stunning offer- not one but three kits! Many of these projects appeal to me. Our EGA chapter is looking to do Alison Cole’s Honey Bee as a project next year, and the Chatelaine is so gorgeous and delicate I could go on and on. However, my choice is ‘Flowers of the Sea’. My son has long been fascinated by clownfish and other colorful sea life. This would be a terrific piece to stitch for him.
Thanks to you, and the folks at Inspirations!
Resting Place or Honey Bee. Either one is a skill I’d love to learn and represent classes I would take if given the chance. Inspirations and Mary Corbet always have exquisite projects that amaze me.
I would pick Honey Bee because if its colors and simple elegance.
Hm, it would be a difficult choice between Winter’s Song and the Tea for Two. Both of those immediately looked like fun projects that would end up being great gifts for my mom, mother in law, or grandmother in law.
I have always thought it would be so wonderful to be a mermaid and swim about the sea….so I would pick FLOWERS OF THE SEA for my choice to win.
There is another world under the sea and I would love to be a resident and enjoy the colors, the textures and even the friends I would meet.
I’ve narrowed it down to 5, but since I have to pick only one, I think it would be Flowers of the Sea. It certainly has some techniques that would be new to me, and it is fun to look at.
I would love to do the coin purse Small Change by Hazel Blomkamp because it is beautiful and useful!
I’d choose the red chatelaine kit. It’s elegant and it would be fun to work.
So many gorgeous choices! They all are beautiful. I would choose the Chatelaine in red simply because I love it!!
I would pick Love Letters with the initial M. I am a new embroider-Dr and think this would be an accomplishable project. Since this is a pre-order, if I cannot have that, I would pick Tea for Two.
I would pick the red version of “Chatelaine.” My primary hobby (besides needlework!) is medieval/Renaissance re-enactment, and “Chatelaine” is so very beautiful. It would make a fabulous gift for our Queen!
Although all these projects are beautiful, I would have to choose the chatelaine since I have something of an obsession with needlework smalls! This one is just exquisite!
Such an abundance of riches! I would choose Flowers of the Sea because I have been an admirer of Helen Stevens for so long and would love to work this piece of hers.
Those kits are beautiful! Which one? Hard to choose… It’s a toss up between the Red Chatelaine and the Tea for Two. Both are beautiful! The Chatelaine kit would make a lovely, practical addition to my addiction. I love the design and color, and I really like the symmetry. The Tea for Two… I love tea! Enough said! I think the Chatelaine kit would be ultimately be my choice.
If I win, I would choose the Red Chatelaine because it is beautiful!
Oh how lovely! I would like to do at least 5 of the designs. But if I had to choose it would be one of two (depends on the day) “Small Change” what a delightful coin purse, I love the design and colors, or “Winter’s Song”, I am a Bird and Winter lover. Best Wishes to all.
Decisions, decisions! This is a very hard question, but if I were to win I would want to do the “Flowers of the Sea”. It would be the ultimate “fish” picture to add to my growing collection of needlework fish hanging in my bathroom. It makes me very happy to see all the fish hanging on the wall. One cannot start the day “grumpy” with all these colorful, fun fish to see each morning.
Tanis
Thank you for this very generous giveaway. If I win I’d love the cute little robin kit. I love birds and these adorable robins hold a special place in my heart. Thanks for the chance. Teal
All of the kits offered in Inspirations Magazine are so lovely. This is the one magazine that completely “stops” my day so that I can absorb every word and picture. I have to say I would choose the beautiful Modern Crewel Kit.
The colors are so lovely and I have the perfect place to hang it in my home. Thank you Mary.
What a wonderful giveaway! I would select Chatelaine – Red because it has techniques I have not explored.
A gorgeous selection of kits and somewhat like browsing a chocolate box it’s all decision decisions! which one would I choose….hmmm ok I’d have to choose the Honey Bee cause I’ve always wanted to try goldwork and I love all things bee related. The bee stands out so well against the black background and just screams stitch me.
Be still my heart!! I have just come back to embroidery after many years of ignoring it and Mary Corbet is my embroidery idol! Having just received my first issue of Inspirations magazine this contest fills me with greed for all of their kits. If I had to choose it would be a close contest but I think I would choose the Modern Crewel or the Tea for Two…..Thank you Mary for your inspiration.
My kit of choice is “Flowers by the Sea”. This piece is absolutely stunning and uses beautiful threads. I have been admiring it since the day it became available. I hope you draw my name!
If you win, what kit would you pick and why?
omw!!! i just LOVE the Flowers Of The Sea!!! it is so beautiful!! that is the one i would choose! it just brings me joy to see it! 🙂
Winter’s Song is also a great choice!! all of the kits are very lovely!! i would love a chance to try them!
i used to embroidery all time as a kid/teen/young adult…then pretty much got away from it. my mom is actively passing from this world and i crocheted her something and did lots of embroidery on it. it was very difficult to embroider with thread on crochet pieces but i did it and am very happy with how it turned out. i am so very blessed to have found your website Mary and your vids to show me how to do different stitches!! they were AWESOME!!! (i looked at many vids after i found you-you were the 1st one i found when i googled embroidery tutorials) but YOURS WERE THE BEST!! i only looked a few seconds at others and just kept coming back to your!! so THANK YOU!!! you were a Godsend to me in my hour of need!!! so now i got the embroidery bug again lol :D!! so i would so love to try my hand at this again. and besides the lovely designs being offered, i would have the PROPER needles and thread!! (i used a regular sewing needle and a darning needle…very difficult!!)
thanks so much Inspirations Magazine and Mary (Needle n Thread), for the chance to win one of these awesome kits!! fingers crossed!!!
cindy
Not even a question but for me to choose the Modern Crewel Kit. My vision is slowly getting worse, and the colors and stitches in this kit would be easier to work.
The colors are bright and cheery too.
The kits are beautiful, and Inspirations magazine always has such wonderful projects.
I took ages absolutely drooling over the kits! So much beauty! I finally decided would choose the Chatelaine kit in Red – I love the fact it has a Tudor Rose at the centre, and the Minster here in York has this rose in one of it’s windows
I would choose the Modern Crewel Kit as I love to do crewel embroidery. My love for crewel goes back to Erica Wilsons PBS series in the 70’s.
I would choose the Red Chatelaine. I love the rich colors and the glorious design. Silk is a pleasure to use for embroidery. Plus the kit includes items like mother-of-pearl rings that are hard to locate.
I would pick the Winter’s Song kit by Trish Burr. I’ve been itching to try one of her designs and this one is just lovely.
If i were to win i would choose the Chatelaine Kit in red. Love, love, love combining beautiful embroidery and my sewing skills. It is such a sense of accomplishment to make a beautiful yet useful object (of art)!.
So many lovely kits to choose from! If I am the lucky winner, I will choose the Modern Crewel kit. I like the combination of a traditional embroidery style (crewel), blended with thoroughly modern colors. In addition, I would be learning a new skill, one that my grandmother was very proficient with. Maybe someday I can teach my grand daughter!
If I win, I will pick the Modern Crewel kit. Not only do I love crewel work, the palette of blue greens is so fresh and bright. And who could resist that beaded pomegranate?
I love the Honey Bee. I’m making a quilt with embroidered blocks and the bee would be a beautiful addition to highlight one of the borders. So generous to offer this giveaway to your readers. Love your blog and all the techniques, resources and tips you offer. Thinking of you often!
There are three that look really interesting. Honey Bee, Modern Crewel, and something about the Corn on the Cob. Don’t worry, I’ll be able to marrow it down!
A very difficult decision, but I would choose Winter’s Song by Trish Burr. I love her work and have always wanted to complete one of her designs for a long time. I also love thread painting and this is a beautiful project. Thanks for the chance to win a project from beautiful “Inspirations” which is my favorite embroidery magazine. Lois A in Idaho.
Thanks to you and Inspirations magazine for this opportunity. I would pick Honey Bee because goldwork fascinates me and would really stretch me as I’ve never tried.
Kathy
I think I would choose Flowers of the Sea. I have always loved snorkeling and this reminds me of being underwater in the Virgin Islands. It also looks like it had some new things for me to learn. But they are all beautiful.
Oh, me. Such a decision. I love them all, but my very favorite would have to be the Christmas bouquet.
Thanks Mary and Inspirations for such a wonderful opportunity.
Oh my! So many to choose from. I guess my first pick would be Resting Place. I love all of their designs. This is one that I have been eyeing for a while.
Ronda – CR, IA
Thank you Mary and Inspirations for these wonderful kits and opportunity. I would pick INS 89 Kit_Flowers Of The Sea 01 because the underwater scene is beautiful and I would be able to combine fabric paint, embroidery, beading and bobbin lace, in one composition. It would be very inspiring!
What a difficult decision! All the kits are so beautiful, but I think the Red Chatelaine would be my choice. I would use it every stitching moment and feel very special to have it by my side.
Inspirations Magazine introduced me to the wonderful world of professional embroidery. I would LOVE to win one of their beautiful kits. Thank you!
I have been wanting to purchase the “Tea for Two”..I have my mother’s collection of cups and saucers and it would go beautifully with “her” display..
I’ve only recently discovered your web site and blog, but I look forward to receiving your newsletters on a regular basis now. I particularly like the reviews you write and have purchased one or two things as a result of reading them.
If I won this wonderful give-away, I would choose the Chatelaine kit in red. I love it because it’s beautiful AND useful. I’m trying to get back into embroidery again after years of not doing it. I started with a short course on landscape embroidery, which included a little ribbon embroidery, and now I attend a regular workshop, where I’m learning gold work techniques. I’m really enjoying it, and I find newsletters like yours inspiring. I want to do more and more!
Thank you.
I would like to win the Goldwork Bee kit,because I have always wanted to learn this form of Embroidery ever since I saw the Royal School of Needlework students working Goldwork on a Heraldic Coat of Arms at the London Museum.
Love your Give-Away opportunities, Mary. The Art Deco chatelaine kit (INS 89 Kit Cover_Chatelaine Pink) appeals to my love of that style and the rich materials–silk and gold–would be a pleasure to work. The set recalls a mythic time of gracious living.
Oh my Mary! What a wonderful giveaway from Inspirations and you! It was a tough choice between Small Change or Modern Crewel, but I pick Modern Crewel. Thank you so much!
Mary in Billerica
Oh my gosh! How did you know that I spent all of last night perusing the stitchology site looking for my next “inspiration”? and then I opened my email and discovered this give-away! Oh joy! I would love to stitch ‘Flowers of the Sea’ ..the colors are so captivating, I love working with silk and it is a glorious piece. .what more needs be said? Except thank you to Mary and the Inspirations team?
I’m torn between the Modern Crewel and the Flowers of the Sea. I love Crewel and no matter how much I dabble, I always come back to it. But I’m trying to push myself to try different things so I’d probably go for the Flowers of the Sea kit. I’m fascinated by what stitching they’re doing to get the texture! Or maybe I’d get the Honey Bee as I haven’t done much gold work… How can you make me choose!!!!!!
Tough to decide but I would pick Small Change. I love it when art and functionality are combined. It is a beautiful way to save!
It is a hard choice, they all are beautiful creations.
My selection would be Wonders of the Sea. My passion is Needlepainting embroidery and this kit is so colorful. The fish is just begging to be put on a piece of linen.
The kits are all so lovely…I was torn between the Small Change purse and Tea for Two. Ultimately I would choose Tea for Two. I am an avid tea drinker and really think the design of those cups is so pretty…plus there are a lot of different elements to stitch, so should keep it interesting. 🙂 Thanks for the chance to win!
What a lovely contest! 🙂 I would choose either of the chatelaine projects by Susan O’Conner. The embroidery looks beautiful and the items would be very useful to me as I am always displacing my tiny embroidery scissors. Thank you for the opportunity!
Red Chatelaine! It is so beautiful and yummy with all those silk threads.
Hello! I would choose the beautiful crewel kit “modern crewel” because the colors are luscious and it would give me a chance to practice my long and short stitch and stitching on curves!
If I won I would choose Trish Burr’s little robin. As winter draws to a close here in Melbourne, Australia in 5 weeks time, the little robins will be bopping around building their nests for Spring. Such a deep seated joy to catch one sitting on a fence and even more so catch one in an embroidery! I love the realism and detail in Trish’s designs. Fingers crossed!!
Chatelaine (red) is my pick. I love the idea of embroidering embroidery accessories. There’s lots to learn in this detailed kit. Thank you for offering a chance to stitch it.
I’d choose the Honeybee. I love goldwork and the design is so pretty!
I thank you for the really helpful reviews and information on kits recently Mary.
I have been drawn to Alison Cole and her gold work for sometime and so, if I were to win I would choose the delightful golden honey bee to be my first gold work project.
My choice is ‘modern Crewel’. The colors are beautiful and the kit is versatile and can be made into a little bag or pillow insert.
Thank you!
I would pick Flowers of the Sea. I’ve compiled a marine educators newsletter for years, and love to embellish quilts with embroidery and beads. This would be a great project to engage both of my passions.
My choice would be Chatelaine in Red. The colors and design are exquisite, so reminiscent of 17th and 18th century work. I have wanted to embroidery some needlework accessories for a long time but haven’t found anything I truly liked until I saw this. Hats off to you, Inspirations, for doing just that – inspiring people to create beautiful things!
Hello,
If I were to win my choice would be the Honey Bee. I have always wanted to do a gold work piece. I have admired this form of embroidery for a very long time. (fingers crossed)
I would choose Les Hirondelles because I’ve been wanting to learn about thread painting and I love stitching birds!
I heard about Inspirations about 2 years ago. Such incredible needlework! I did more embroidery when I was younger but got into other types of needlework over the years. Then I saw Trish Burr’s birds and I was smitten. I ordered Inspirations but have still not tackled anything beyond simple work such as Red work. So if I won I would choose Winter Song and challenge myself to work this beautiful bird. Thanks
I would pick Winters Song. I love birds and have made several bird art quilts. This would be a lovely addition to my collection.
Small Change would be my choice. I love the design and like being able to use the change purse and show off the design.
If I would win, I would chose the Chatelaine Kit. I love embroidery and all sewing. My mother inspired me, she was a seamstress and was always sewing. This is most important to me now and I wish to pass along my love for sewing and embroidery to my daughter. I would complete this kit and put these items in her sewing basket. My mother is gone, and has been gone for a very long time. Embroidery makes me feel good, makes me happy. Thank you for giving me the chance to voice my feelings.
I would pick the pink chatelaine – i travel a lot and have been trying different ways of transporting my tools and needles. Then i read your review of the chatelaine kit and was super inspired but not rich enough to buy it so it would be awesome to get to make that one!
Thank you–so exciting. If I won I would choose either Chatelaine or Love Letters. Both are small scale projects that would let me get a sense of Au Ver a Soie silk threads. I also can imagine actually using the finished projects. I am slightly more inclined towards the Chatelaine kits (either pink or red) because Mary Corbet has mentioned that she will be working on this kit and it would be fun to do it with her.
So many wonderful choices, but I have to say the red chatelaine. Elizabethan and Elizabethan-inspired embroidery is a passion of mine. I gasped when I saw this in issue 89. I also love smalls, so this project supplies both.
Keeping my finger’s crossed! Thank you and Inspirations -J
If I win I would choose Chatelaine (red). I’ve always wanted to stitch a chatelaine and this one is just beautiful! Thanks for the opportunity.
I have been trying to work up the courage to try thread painting for months. I even bought the A to Z book and all the threads for the baby owl project in the book but was still too nervous to start!
Winning i88 Winter’s Song would, I’m sure, be the final encouragement I so desperately need.
Carole
York, UK
Flowers of the Sea is the one that speaks to me
They are all beautiful and it was so hard to
decide on just one. Thanks for the contest!
If I would be lucky enough to be chosen for a kit, I would choose the Modern Crewel kit. I love the colors in this crewel piece. I would like working with the fibers in this kit. Modern Crewel kit would give me an opportunity to enhance my crewel stitching.
A hard decision but I would choose Chatelaine (Pink). It is absolutely beautiful!
What a fantastic opportunity – thank you for the chance to enter! It was really hard to choose one but I decided on Flowers Of The Sea – i89 Kit. There is such a variety of stitches in it and it is so unusual, it begs to be tried!
Small Change is the kit I want to stitch! I think it’s beautiful and I particularly like the small projects that I can use every day.
Honestly I would be happy with any of them but if I was forced to choose (what a lovely dilemma!). I would pick the Chatelaine. It looks like a great challenge with lots of components. A kit means you can dig right in without spending time on the search for supplies which can be a challenge.
Looking for fun projects this summer…
Possibilities are endless but chatelaine or garden fresh would be fun to win!
I am a little obsessed with bees and the bee kit is stunning. Plus, I think this piece includes stitches that I have not had occasion to use before. Love the magazine as well, so beautifully photographed.
What an honor it would be to win one of these beautiful kits from Inspirations! I love the magazine and love to embroider! The kit I would choose…and they are all so beautiful, it is honestly hard to choose just one…is Flowers Of The Sea – i89 Kit. My little grandson is always looking for Nemo, and this would be so perfect for me to do for his room! Then he could say he found Nemo! 🙂
Oh my goodness! I’d pick Prancer i88! I have a contemporary home and rarely find designs that compliment my decor!! I was smitten when I first laid eyes on it!
PS. I’ve been making Monograms from your collections as gifts and showed them at my sewing guild, getting tons of compliments! Thank you for teaching me so many techniques!
What an awesome giveaway! Thank you for this opportunity to enter.
I would pick the chatelaine kit – I am always looking for my little scissors & embroidery supplies, so this would help as it would be around my neck….lol.
I’m thrilled to have an opportunity to possibly win one of the Inspirations kits even if I have to choose just one. Your comments about ordering kits make so much sense to me as I sometimes waste a lot of time trying to find all the right supplies and have to settle for substitutes I don’t love. It would be wonderful to win the Chatelaine kit. Thank you from an avid Inspirations and Needle N Thread follower.
My friend Mary and husband have a candle, honey and beeswax business. Mary is a wonderful friend trying to survive cancer (and cancer follows and grows in her daughter and granddaughter). I would love to win the honey bee kit. I would stitch and present this project to Mary. This present would bring sunshine and happiness to her at this time. Thank you.
I would choose Modern Crewel. The colors are both beautiful and restful while the design is quite lovely. I’m drawn to both Crewel and Jacobean Embroidery and this has the best of both.
Thank you very much for this opportunity! First of all, they are all beautiful kits!
I really like Chatelaine (Pink) and Small Change for how useful the pieces would be but I know I need to choose one. So I would go with my fisrt choice ” Chatelaine (Pink).
I’m also enjoy knitting, sewing, rug hooking so the kit would come in handy!
Thanks again for the opportunity,
Teresa
What a fantastic chance to win a beautiful Inspirations kit. I would choose the ‘Small Change’ kit as it would be most certainly an heirloom and something I could never afford to buy. I have a copy of the Inspirations magazine no. 90 and have been drooling over that kit. I am keeping everything crossed, but good luck to everyone !
I love the Small Change kit, Jacobean motif and something useful when you’re done. (and I could never afford something like this just for fun)
I would choose the beautiful Small Change or the Chatelaine . . . both are outside of my skill level which makes them even more tempting!
If I win I would definitely choose one of the Chatelaine kits – the hardest would be to decide between pink and red
I would pick Flowers of the Sea by Helen Stevens. I live on an island and being surrounded by the sea,Helens piece inspires me. Her style of embroidery is unique and I can usually identify it when I see it.
So difficult to choose, they’re all so beautiful, but I would love Prancer. I have a bit of a reindeer theme going for Christmas, so he would be a gorgeous addition to the collection.
I would LOVE to win the Modern Crewel kit, Mary! Thanks for the opportunity.
Thanks you so much for give away treasures….Wow….I have everyone in my EGA group reading you now….we are hooked….your are the go to blog if we need to figure out something…..
I hope you feeling better…
Thanks
Nannett
I would choose “Winter’s Song” because I haven’t done needle painting before. This beautiful piece would be perfect!
Its so hard to choose! However, I think I’d pick the Chatelaine (Red) kit. I’m always misplacing my scissors – how could I ever do that again with such a beautiful place to keep them!
Oh, I think I love the Honey Bee Kit best! I’ve wanted to do a small Goldwork project, and this seems like the perfect thing! But it is really hard to choose…
Love the Chatelaine-red kit best for the beautiful Tudor Rose. I’ve gotten to love the “grab-n-go” aspect of kits and find myself buying more kits instead of sourcing all my own supplies.
Your review of the Chatelaine kit so made me want it!
I would choose the prancer kit. He just looks so happy, and it seems to have new techniques for me to try.
These are all beautiful kits, but the one I would choose is Les Hirondelles. I love both watching birds and stitching birds.
If I am a winner, I would like the Flowers of the Sea kit.
As I looked at the kits, my eyes were immediately drawn to the ear of corn which captured me when it appeared on the cover. But once I saw the clown fish, I had no other choice. My grandchildren love to watch and “help” when I do stitching and all three of us love Nemo, the clown fish. We will all enjoy stitching Nemo and his home.
I have been a reader of inspirations since the very beginning. I have done several of their projects but have never used one of their kits. It’s is on my bucket list of things to do.
If I were chosen, I would like the seascape. I have several grand children that have been after me to do one for them and this would be perfect.
All of the kits are marvelous. I take the Inspiration magazine and devour it each time I receive it. I would choose The chatelaine or the wonderful bee. Thank you for all that you do for the stitching world.
Karen
If I win I would choose the Winter Song threadpainting kit and stitch it for my friend in Scotland. This is a technique that I am seriously wanting to learn and this robin is so cheerful!
I would pick “Flowers of the Sea” if I was chosen to be a winner. Why? Helen Stevens-I’ve been a fan for years! And, I love the ocean, reefs and all sea life. This a beautiful example-it would be an honor to stitch.
Tea for Two! I would pick this kit … those cups look so nice, but the choice is hard !
Hugs from France
Mel
They are all so beautiful,it is hard to choose. I would choose the crewel kit or small change.
I would have to pick the Les Hirondelles – i89 Kit. Firstly the colours just caught my eye and secondly anything nature/bird related is a winner for me. I am self taught at embroidery and have never had a kit so i would use this as a self teaching project 🙂 Thanks.
Love the Pink Chatelaine kit! Or the Red!
I’m apparently addicted to making needlework accessories-I have more needlebooks, scissor cases, pincushions than anyone could possibly use but still I make more. Making these delightful smalls is a perfect way to try different stitches
Hi Mary I would choose the Christmas kit. i88 I believe it is . Christmas is my favourite holiday. Family comes homes and shares the festivities . Xmas concerts and turkey . The colours in the kit are absolutely gorgeous
All are lovely but the one that speaks to me is Winters Song. I love nature and especially love birds! I would love the chance to work on this little beauty!
I would like to try the Modern Crewel kit because I so seldom find crewel and I would like to try the raised stitches displayed in the picture.
I went and took a look at these lovely kits (not my first look, mind you). Hands down “Winter’s Song” i88 kit wins. For me, anyway. Dude, it’s a Trish Burr. And it’s a robin. Trish Burr needlepainted a robin and I have the chance to do the same. Poorly. But my ambition knows no bounds! And I love robins. I used to run along the trail by my home (I called it “slow-motion performance art”) and the robins would simply hop along in front of me. I never once caught up to one. I would love this awesome kit and honor those little hoppers.
To pick a kit is a difficult one but I would pick the Honey Bee since my grandfather and father were Apiarists. I love the Honey Bee even though I have a severe allergy to them. Yumm love the honey.
The Golden BEE! I love bees and have always wanted to try gold work!
Chatelaine would have to be my kit of choice: for the variety of techniques to be experienced and for the beautiful and useful items to be produced that will serve as both inspiration and encouragement!
I would pick the Chatelaine (red) because I love small, beautiful, useful things. Working it would certainly step up my embroidery game!
This is so exciting!! All of these kits are just beautiful. If i won, i would choose les hirodelles. I absolutely love these birds, and would love to learn how to stitch them.
thanks!
Donna
I would choose “Small Change” as I have wanted to try a Hazel Blomkamp design ever since your posts about Late Harvest. Gill, Cornwall x
Small Change! What a glorious purse that would be to make and carry. (one could gift it but hey, I would keep it)
It what a nice kit providing fabric, threads, beads, and hardware.
I would love to have the “Small Change” kit! I subscribe to Inspirations and have been drooling ever since I saw the purse. The colors and beads appeal to me and my love of vintage-looking purses.
I’d definitely choose the Modern Crewel kit. I love crewel work and this color combination has really been calling me lately. I agree with Mary’s review — it’s all about the colors!
I would choose Winter Song. I enjoy the real birds I have at my feeders and it would be so lovely to have one inside that I could watch all year long.
I would pick the goldwork bee, because I have never tried goldwork, and I love trying new things.
I would love to try the modern crewel! What beautiful colors! Jane
I would pick the crewel kit as I think it would make a perfect pillow to go along with one from my mother. Thanks so much for a great read in the mornings.
So much beauty, so hard to choose one! I would love to stitch Small Change as I love Jacobean designs, plus the colors are stunning. I have so many projects to stitch and I love small pieces like this one. Who wouldn’t want to have a beautiful change purse like this?!
I would pick the red Chatelaine because I love working with silk and the colours appeal to me.
If I win I think that I would have to choose Florentine in issue 89. It is so beautiful and I would love to do it. It is hard to choose as all of their projects are wonderful. Thank you for the opportunity.
I would love to win the Modern Crewel kit ! I am picking up embroidery and crewel work again, after not having practiced one of my favorite crafts in years. I used to do embroidery and crewel work, most often from kits, my faves being those w/ Jacobean design work. Love embroidery and crewel work kits! The Inspirations’ “The Modern Crewel kit” incorporates lovely stitch work designs, and with a Jacobean look. The blues and greens in the stitchery are fresh and lovely looking, and the project looks to be just about right for what I’d like to do; not too complicated, not too-big a project, but interesting and pretty. Would love to win this beautiful kit and try this Inspirations kit!
Tea for Two, I adore teacups from previous times they tell us so much about design.
I would pick the Red Chatelaine. I’m slowly building up a collection of needlework accessories that I have stitched and this set would be a great addition.
I would pick Les Hirondelles-I live in the country, every morning I sit on my front porch & listen to the birds singing. Two nests on my porch-a little wren & a cardinal (who is very protective of her nest). No swallows as of yet.
I would love to have this kit, Winter’s Song – i88 Ki, as I am partial to birds.
I would love the red chatelaine kit that you recently reviewed.
Dear Mary
This is indeed a hard choice and I have pondered for a few minutes on this. And, so early in the morning.
My first choice would be the Modern Crewel kit. I have done a lot of crewel work in the past and this would be a grand way to get back to it.
Thank you, Mary for all the work you do to make our needlework so much more enjoyable.
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Sharon
What a gorgeous array of kits! Difficult to make one choice! In this instance, I would choose Honey Bee — because it’s elegant, beautiful, and symbolizes so much that’s critical to/for our lives!
It’s definitely “Flowers Of The Sea” for me! I absolutely love, love, love anything to do with the sea and the abundance of life beneath it.
Too many beautiful choices. If I were to choose for myself I would pick the Pink Chatelaine kit. I fell in love with it at first sight. I think it would be a challenge for me. I also love Prancer, but I don’t like the way my satin stitches look so that might not be a perfect choice
However, I would also like to pick the Honeybee for my daughter-in-law.She is a ‘bee person’ and I know she would love that.
Tea for Two, I adore tea cups from previous times, they tell us so much about design. I would love this.
I have been looking for for a bee to embroider – because everybody calls me Bee. I looked at Inspirations Magazines Honey Bee and would like to embroider that.
I thank you kindly,
Bea
Chatelaine. Because, duh, it’s gorgeous. The tough part is choosing red to pink…
They’re all lovely but I would definitely go for the Chatelaine kit, as I really love the rose design and it is useful as well as beautiful.
I love them all for the difference in colors, style and techniques. But, I’d have to choose the Flowers of the Sea. I’m not a water person and yet while living in Japan I learned to scuba dive in order to share a family sport. I freak out every time, but once down in the world below, I have the most amazing experience, forgetting everything except the wonder of colors and sea life. This kit beautifully captures that world and as a bonus I’d be able to say, “I found Nemo.”
Each kit is absolutely gorgeous with rich colors and beautiful stitches. I am drawn towards the Chatelaine kit (red). I quilt as well as embroider and the scissor sleeve, needle book and pin keeper would be used when I quilt and embroider. Also I have never worked with silk and this project would introduce me to it.
I have several choices but since I am more apt to complete this one, my choice is Honey Bee. My reason, for the last year or more I have been reading about, studying, collecting info and supplies to begin a study of goldwork (or stumpwork). And I need that push to get me started. I realize without starting there is no completion and so I need to motivate myself to start on this new learning curve.
Thank you for this incredible opportunity to win a project of our choice…you truly inspire the needlework community.
All of the kits are beautiful, but I absolutely LOVE the Chatelaine kit in pink. The thought of embroidering something that I can use regularly for myself that is both useful and beautiful really appeals to me.
I would choose the Chatelaine (red). The design is
absolutely beautiful and would be a challenge to stitch.
I loved working the Modern Crewel kit and would enjoy another one. I usually give away my work. I would love to work PRANCER. My
Nephew and his wife are modern minimalists and the
Monocrhome coloring would blend well with their home for the Holidays.
Everyone should get Inspirations- a wonderful magazine.
If I were to win the Inspirations give away, I would pick the Tea for Two kit. I love the tea cup motif and find images of tea cups to be very soothing and relaxing. I like the antique look of this particular kit with the colors; they would go great in my home office.
I love all the kits and would be happy with any of them but I would have to say I would pick the modern crewel kit.
Thank your for this wonderful opportunity! It’s a very difficult choice. I would choose either the Chatelaine in red or Small Change. The Chatelaine would be fantastic because I have yet to stitch a set of these wonderful accessories. Small Change would be great because I love functional pieces that can be used and appreciated daily. Both would also challenge my to take my skills to the next level.
Looking at Tea for Two takes me to my ‘Happy place” All those lovely flowers just waiting for me,in all those lovely colors. That’s the one I would pick.
Thank you for the fun opportunity and give away! 🙂 I’d have a hard time picking between Flowers of the Sea and Modern Crewel. Both really are really colorful and appeal to me. Modern Crewel would be a good way to practice and perfect some stitches. Flowers of the Sea would be a fun way to stretch my skills and work with metallic threads more. I think those two are going on a wish list either way.
I would choose the Modern Crewel. I love the way it blends the traditional with the bright, modern colors and it would look fabulous in my sewing room! Thank you!
Prancer! I love his gracefulness but also the hushed quality of his colors beckoning me to meditate and wait for enlightenment.
This is a very generous giveaway! I love the Modern Crewel because of the rich colors and clean lines and even though they are all beautiful I would pick that one. I subscribe to Inspirations magazine and look forward to each and every issue. Thanks for the great giveaway!
Mary Ann
I narrowed it down finally to Christmas Bouquet i88. Such a difficult decision. I subscribe to their newsletter but can’t afford the magazine. To have one in hand would be the icing on the cake for me! Thank you for the chance
I would choose the red flower chatelaine because I love making smalls. I particularly like to stitch the technique that are used for these smalls.
Should I win, I would choose the golden Honey Bee. Over the decades, I’ve worked in a variety of embroidery media, but only a teensy bit in goldwork. I’ve always wanted to do goldwork, but price was often an issue—-and the time to work slowly and carefully in a new medium. This bee is stunning. What a first project it would make! Thanks for sponsoring the competition
I like the Resting Place kit. The title is soothing. The finished piece is simply detailed and I could enjoy it as a small table mat. And I have wanted to explore hardanger.
My first choice would be Flowers of the Sea, but since I already own that one, then I think I would choose Tulip. I have not done hedebo embroidery before, and I think it would be a nice piece to learn on. Also, being mostly Dutch, I love tulips!
Tea for Two for me!!!! I’ve been eyeing this kit for a couple of weeks and winning it would be awesome!!!!
So lovely! I would chose Modern Crewel, as the colors so appeal to me.
If selected, I would like Small Change — because (1) I know I would enjoy working the motif and (2) when finished, I would be able to use it every day, thus prolonging my pleasure. As much as I like some of the other options, my walls are already pretty full!
The Chatelaine in red fascinates me. I have wanted to make one to have all the tools at hand and easy to transport. Great for home and traveling.And it is beautiful!
Call it serendipity! After reading your review of the Chatelaine kit, I was inspired to try my needle at silk, but figured a kit would be the best place to begin. What better place to start than a kit that is reviewed and approved by Mary Corbet? I would choose Chatelaine Pink if I was lucky enough to be chosen.
I love the golden Honeybee kit, it just shines out among all the others. Winning this kit would BEE wonderful!
I’v always wanted to try shading on a bird .My choice would be Winters song by Trish Burr. I love her work.
Chatelaine (Pink) I fell in love with it the day I first saw it on your newsletter!!!
All the kits are absolutely beautiful but I really love the Chatelaine kit in red. I can almost feel the threads going through my fingers and can hardly wait for the results of your give-away.
I would choose Chatelaine (red). I’ve wanted to do this for awhile. I love the Tudor rose. I really like the balance of the piece.
I would pick “Love Letters” if I won, because I love monograms.
What a fabulous giveaway! I love the bird on the winter song, but my favorite has to be Chatelaine (in pink). I fell in love with the beautiful combination of traditional/useful aesthetic when you reviewed it the other day. Thanks so much!!
I would choose the chatelaine kit in red. I love the gorgeous silks, elegant design, and beautiful colors as well as the functionality of the piece. I actually tried to order inspirations for this specific project but it’s been sold out everywhere I tried!
Mary- were I to be chosen, I would love to work the ” Modern Crewel” kit. I am self taught in crewel, and at 70 years old, it is time I perfect my skills as well as learn new ones! Thanks for introducing me to “Inspirations” what a treat it is! Stay well and thanks for this opportunity.
I would choose the Christmas Bouquet. I have always wanted to try stumpwork and this would be the perfect opportunity. It is such a beautiful kit!
Mary,
This is wonderful! I would choose the Pink Chatelaine kit because I have been dreaming of it since you reviewed it. I love the delicate designs and I would use the finished products every day. I am in love with Inspirations magazine. I have a few issues and I never tire of reading them over and over. Thank you for this opportunity! Robin in NM
I would choose the beautiful pink chatelaine. I always thought I should have been born when these were popular, when woman should be rounded and no tan.
If I were to win it would be a very hard choice since I am drawn to so many but since a choice is required I would select the Modern Crewel. I am bit of an old soul when it comes to learning about embroidery stitches and I love love love how modern contemporary designers are stretching the boundaries to express new fresh ideas. Of course the colours are playful and bright so I am sure it would be a joy to stitch
A difficult choice! However, I would pick the red chatelaine kit! I have a bit of an addiction to making sewing accessories! And red is my favorite color!
There are always so many projects I really like in Inspirations. If I would be drawn, I would like the Chatelaine in red from Issue 89
I would LOVE to have the pink chatelaine kit. I’ve wanted it since I first saw it when it came out. I seriously debated sending for it but couldn’t justify the cost for a non essential. But I look at it every time it shows up and quietly lust for it.
Thank you for this giveaway, even if I don’t win during a few days I’ll may dream I am one of the winners and I choose the modern crewel, the pattern and the colors are so beautiful…
I’d choose the pink chantelaine. I’m obsessed with chantellaines.
If I win I would choose the Red Chatelaine. My mom is a passionate quilter and has been going through some health challenges lately. I would love to make this for her to lift her spirits! She would find the chatelaine really helpful to keep track of her scissors, etc while working on hand piecing in doctors waiting rooms. Thank you for the opportunity!
Oh, so many wonderful choices-hard to choose just one! However, would choose the Modern Crewel. Haven’t done crewel work since a child, so would love to pick it up again. Then the colors, love the blues and greens together. Plus, the blues would go great in our blue bedroom Thanks so much for this opportunity!
The Honey Bee is my favorite kit. I have stitched and finished the Home Sweet Home cottage, which included lots of bees. I am into all things Bee and Bee skep. Honey Bee would be a lovely kit to stitch and enjoy on my wall.
Prancer, I loved him when I saw him in my magazine. This is not a project that I usually stitch but seeing him, makes me want to stretch myself and try something new!
Wow! They are all so beautiful that it’s hard to choose. I think Chatelaine in red would be my choice.
Dear Mary,
If I win, I would choose the Chatelaine Kit (Red or Pink). Susan O’Connor does exquisite work. The accessories are useful as well as beautiful. The materials in the kit are the best that money can buy. But most of all, I’ve never used silk threads before and I’d like to give them a try and experience their glorious silkiness. I also love mother of pearl things, especially buttons and rings. I will get the olive oil and sugar treatment underway in readiness.
Thank you.
Dear Mary,
I subscribed to Inspirations magazine within the past two years and I am enthralled with all the beautiful work they show. Of course, with all the beautiful choices, I think I would choose either the Chatelaine (I could stitch it at the same time) or Resting Place because I love hardanger.
Thank you for your wonderful blog. I look forward to reading it everyday. It’s like getting dessert every time I read your webpage.
Thank you, also, for the people at Inspirations for their generous gift.
I would pick tea for two because My great grandma collected different tea cups and she started my mom and myself collecting. I have some of her cups and love them
Hi Mary! Thank you so much for another exciting give-away! Having just taken a two day a White Work course in Williamsburg, I know I would choose the white work kit! I’m totally and completely enamored with the simplicity and elegance of White!
Genevieve
Though I love Garden Fresh and even bought issue 90 so I’d have the directions, I love Flowers of the Sea more!
If I were chosen to win, I would choose Winter’s Song i-88 Kit as I love pictures of birds. They are all lovely kits but that one really takes my eye.
Hard, hard to choose! But I think in the end, I would love to do Love Letters the most (but Tea for Two was so close!). I think Love Letters would be great because my heart swoons for monograms and I think the project would be great for working on finishing skills!
I would pick the modern crewel because I love the colors and it reminds me of my friend that introduced me to this site that passed on last summer.
As a new convert to needle painting, I have learned from, and very much admire, Trish Burr. I would love to work her adorable little Winter’s Song Robin which would be challenge enough for me!
Homey Bee with its stump work wings and gold body. The best of two needlework types. Also I like insects.
I have a motley collection of needles/scissors/sewing tools all in a box. I would love to make a chatelaine and matching needle case of this superior design.
I would love to win the Small Change project by Hazel Blomkamp from Issue 90. This project is small enough for me to learn this type of embroidery after my years of counted work, and I love the design and colors! Thank you for your wonderful newsletter.
each kit is tempting, but i’d choose the blossom for two reasons~ one, i’ve always (as in since childhood) been attracted to whitework, but have never tried it. two, i adore functional art. i do believe my phone, a lipstick, a credit card and id, would all fit into that darling little bag, with it’s charming bohemian vibe and versatile color. it’s sure to become a summertime fashion favorite!
Thank you so much for this fun giveaway! If I win, I would love to try the Modern Crewel kit! I love flowers and I think this kit has a fun and whimsical style.
Leslie C C
I’ve ben a subscriber to both Needle ‘n Thread and Inspirations for several years now. Both publications not only inspire me, but I learn so much.
Picking only one project is near impossible as they are all gorgeous. My EGA chapter did a small Hardanger project and I have been looking for another to practice and enhance my skills. Resting Place would alow me to do that.
Wow! An Inspirations kit! Thank you Mary.
How to decide which single kit I would like. It’s either Trish Burr’s Christmas Song or Julie Kniedl’s Garden Fresh. I think with my current frame of mind, it would be Garden Fresh.
I would pick Winter’s Song (i88). I actually have the magazine and the moment I saw this little bird I fell in love with it. I keep going back and looking at him and wondering if it’s something I could handle. It would be so cool to win the kit for this adorable project! It would certainly push me out of my embroidery comfort zone! Thanks for the opportunity!
I would choose the little robin. I’ve been lusting after this piece since it was on their cover and even bought this edition digitally. I would learn how to do random long and short stitches! Thanks.
It is a toss between the Colors of the sea and the chatelaine. I would choose the red chatelaine kit. It would become a very personal and beautiful sewing notion set. Also it would be great opportunity to work with silks and metal threads.
They are all so beautiful. Hard to choose just one, but if forced I would choose Flowers of the Sea. I love anything to do with the ocean, and the black background makes all of the yummy colors just pop.
I would choose Modern Crewel because of the varied stitches and contemporary design.
Letters and Flowers of the Sea is definitely my favorite. I love the colors and the design with the fish swimming through the colors.
I would pick Les Hirondelles, I think it would be a lovely gift for my parents, who love all things wildlife (and it would fit in perfectly in with their decor). Thank you so much for sponsoring the contest!
If I win one of the kits, I would choose the Honey Bee. I have a little experience in gold work and this kit would help me increase my skill level and help me build confidence. The finished project will have a prominent place on my stitching wall.
I need to start a subscription to this magazine. There are several I would enjoy having. I am on my honeymoon, about to fly home, and think I would take the Under The Sea, pre order one to remind me of our snorkeling and tropical time. I might decide to go with the Tea For Two to put in our kitchen.
Thank you for the opportunity to win and to view the kits available.
What a joy it would be to stitch the Red Chatelaine Kit! For many years I have been fascinated with the accessories that women created to keep their sewing supplies safe. In times when needles and pins, scissors and other items were difficult to come by, women created these lovely “keepers” to protect their supplies from getting lost or harmed. Some were simple and some were very ornate. It would be an honor to stitch this special kit from my favorite magazine!
Oh, what a great chance. I read your review of the ‘Chatelaine Red’ kit and if I win I would love to choose that. Because it is great to make it and beautiful to use it.
It would have to be one of the chatelaine kits! I have been eyeing them since the issue came out, but funds have not permitted. I adore the pink one, but the deep red one just sings, and is an absolute winner :).
I don’t think I have ever been so excited by a giveaway!
I would love to win the little purse, “Small Change”. I make these little bags called click it bags and embroider monograms on them for gifts but they are not near as beautiful of “Small Change”.
I would choose Small Change for a couple of reasons . First, I would use it! I play mah Jong , and I would use it to keep change in for the games. Second, the colors and design are beautiful . I have stitched for years, and I’m branching out into crewel. I love it!
What a treat and fun contest! Thanks!
I would choose Flowers of the Sea. I collect fish, and I love the colors and variety of stitches! It’s an intriguing piece.
Mary, hands down my choice would be the red Chatelaine. I have been coveting this kit since it came out. I have purchased kits from Inspirations before , Strawberry Fields and Fleurs pour Granmere being a couple of my favorites . They are always beautifully done, andthe instructionshave never let me down. I have a number of their offerings onmyto do list , that I was able to source locally . Thank you for the chance to win this awesome kit. Nancy Breedon
I would choose the red Chatelaine kit if I won. True, it would be a real challenge but the beautiful colours of green, red and gold would inspire me to do my best.
While I love, love, love the sea flowers kit, I don’t think I would finish it and it definitely doesn’t go with my house, so I think I would want the red chatelaine kit. I travel with my stitching a lot (I am a crazy quilter and my daughter, who knits, is constantly telling me I need a more portable hobby!) I tend to tote around far to much stuff as all the fibers, beads and embellishments are an integral part of my creative process. Having beautiful holders for my tools would make my heart sing every time I look at them.
Wow there are so many beautiful choices! I think for me it would be a toss up between the Chatelaine (Pink) and the winter’s song. I would probably go with Winter’s song. They are both so pretty. Thanks for a great give away!
-Heather S.
The projects are lovely – anyone would love any one! If I had a choice, would choose the golden bee. I think I could learn the most from working that one, and I have a perfect place to display him!
Such great kits. If I won, I would pick the Christmas Ball. Loved how stumpwork was used in a different /creative way.
If I could choose a kit, i would make the Chatelaine. I love and use beautiful sewing accessories because using theme makes hand sewing,applique,embroidery etc. more pleasureable to me. I think I must have been a Victorian woman in another life.
The kit I would pick is “Small Change.” I love the bright colors on the black background, and who wouldn’t be proud to show off that little purse.
Honestly, your partners are so generous with these giveaways!
I’ve been torn between the hardanger placemat, the goldwork bee, and the Jacobean coin purse for awhile, but I used a very scientific method to decide which one I’d choose: Close Your Eyes And Point.
Small Change coin purse kit, I choose you!
I haven’t done anything in that style for some time now, so it would be nice to work on. And I think my daughter would love it! Those colors are definitely her.
(Although, I’m probably going to give in soon and order the hardanger placemat, lol!)
OMG – the Les Hirondelles i89 Kit! I watch the hummingbirds out my window everyday during their season. If I win this, I could look at them all year long. Thank you so much for your information and expertise.
Chatelaine red because I realy liked your review and I’ve kind of always wanted a chatelaine.
They are all beautiful but I love Stumpwork! So, should I be chosen, I would love to receive the Christmas Bouquet piece. What a generous contest, Mary and Inspirations! Thank you. Blessings and many prayers going up for you, Mary.
Dear Mary, I love all of them, but I especially like the swallows kit. The colors are are scrumptious and I’ve always wanted to do more of the technique on it. Thank you. Pam
Such pretty little embroidery kits! If I won I’d pick Chatelaine (Red) kit, because it looks very pretty and I think I could do the embroidery; but it’d be a good challenge still. I’m still relatively new at embroidery – I like doing tea towels because I don’t feel like they need to be works of art and if I mess up, it’s not a huge deal. This I would give a bit more attention to – but since it’s a small project it shouldn’t feel overwhelming.
So generous a gift and so hard to choose. I would go for the red chatelaine kit as I think it contains lots of different elements which would be a challange.Also I would have beautiful needlework accessories to inspire future embroidery projects.
Alexandra (Taunton UK)
Hi Mary – What a wonderful give away. How to choose? I’d love something beautiful and functional too.
I love the Pink Chatelaine. It is stunning. And if I stitch this, I get to admire it and use it every day! And yes, you HAVE to stitch every day.
Thanks again.
Judy
Oh Mary! This is going to be such a popular giveaway! I just love, love, love whitework embroidery, so if either of the Hedebo kits are still available I would love to try my hand at that technique … but I also like the Chatelaine needlework accessories set, so that would be my second choice. I don’t suppose I’ll win, but thank you to you and Inspirations for running such a delightful event. 🙂
I am leaning toward the Hardanger project…but Prancer is intriguing also…and those chatelaine kits…oh my… Thanks for the opportunity!
What a generous give away, Mary! And such a difficult and delightful choice … to make Golden Bee for my sister and finally learn how to do goldwork, to make Flowers of the Sea for my pearl farmer friend and add some tiny real pearls, or to make the Chatelaine for me ??? In the end it would have to be Golden Bee as it would so delight my sister, as her son is a beekeeper, AND I’d get to try and learn goldwork!
THANK YOU, Mary, for your kind generosity 🙂
Cathy In PA
I would love to stitch Modern Crewel. It is created with my favorite colors and I really like all of the different stitches used. Thank you for the opportunity to enter your great giveaway!!
Wow, I had a hard time choosing from so many awesome kits. I managed to narrow it down to the fold work bee, the undersea life and the modern crewel kits. I would thoroughly love doing any one of these three. I am new to surface embroidery so any one of these kits would be a challenge for me and a great learning experience.
Thank you for the opportunity to enter the drawing.
A. Cunha
Ohhhhhh, what a wonderful opportunity!
If I win, I chose the modern crewel kit. Its colours are my absolute favourites and then these colours with this curvy and still soothing design. And the beads, there are little, sweet beads worked into the picture. *sigh*
(And -if I might mention- maybe sommetime in the future a chatelaine Kit is worked in this colours with silver instead of gold. Then I would buy it immediately.)
Winter’s Song
Learning to threadpaint is on my list of “wish I could learn” techniques.
Not only does the placing of stitches look challenging, but getting just the right threads to do the job seems daunting. I expect the kit would help me over both hurdles.
I know just where I’d use this little bird too!
Hi Mary! I would choose the gold work honeybee kit. I have always wanted to try gold work. Thank you for this chance.
Oh kits wonderful kits…how I love kits…a great quality kit is just a wonderful thing. More and more I have been buying kits for my projects when they are available especially from the designers or artists. First I like supporting other artists and buying one of their kits does just that. The other reason is it is so rewarding for me to know when I start a project I have all the supplies to finish the project even if it gets set aside for awhile. It also will look just like what I first saw with no last minute substitutions because I waited to long to order a specific thread or can not find the supplies required. If I could choose one of the Inspiration kits, i think, oh this is hard, I would choose the Modern Crewel. I like the colorway and I have not done any crewel embroidery in a very long time.
If I win I would chose the lovely Small Change Purse project. I’ve already ordered the Chatelaine project and love the Jacobean motif on the little purse!
Absolutely the Honey Bee. I am fascinated by goldwork & bees & would love to work this project. I love Inspirations & Needle ‘n Thread – thanks for the chance to win!
Wow, what a hard decision. I love the colors and Jacobean designs of Modern Crewel and Small Change. But my favorite kit and the one I would choose is the Chatelaine Red. I love that it both beautiful and functional. What a lovely way to organize my sewing supplies.
Thanks Mary!
The Modern Crewel – never tried crewel work and this could be an opportunity 🙂
All the best to you xx
Thank you – yet again – for another give-away! It is fun to “hope” one wins! In the meantime, just as delicious to think about the possibilities! I think, at this time, I would choose the Honey Bee, although I am very tempted by the chatelaine. And then there is that pretty Crewel design — my friend would LOVE to work that project. Nope: the BEE! I have a perfect little frame for it and a place to hang it already! Just NEED that kit!! Here’s hoping!
Thank you for doing this, Mary!
Lets see…if I won, I would choose the Honey Bee kit, because the design is so simple and beautiful and I would never try goldwork on my own. Unless I would choose a Chatelaine, because I should have tool accessories that match the beauty of my finished projects. Actually, would I choose Flowers of the Sea because the sea? Or Small Change, because my great-grandmother made little beaded purses (which it isn’t)? If I won, I just hope I could stop dithering before my replacement is randomly selected!
Too glad and happy in hearing this grand Give Away… If I win I would choose Winter’s song…. once in my School days I won a prize doing a outline of a bird… My first prize in art of embroidery. Now if I win it would be pretty and joyful filling bird .. I would surely Enjoy it 🙂
What an exciting contest! Some years ago, I did a lot of crewel work, taught beginner classes in Panama and even designed a few pieces. But work, family, relocation and other creative pursuits engaged me and the crewel work was put aside. Now that I am retired I follow your blog with the idea that I will be inspired and dust off the hoops! Therefore the “Small Change” project just might be the right ticket to get the juices flowing again.
Please enter me into this contest.
Becky Hill
I would choose “Flowers of the Sea”. The colors are spectacular and it just really draws my eye.
Thank you for the chance to win.
How do I choose just one kit? They are all so beautiful and would love to do any one of them. I guess if I choose one it would be the Honey Bee. The gold supplies are the hardest to find so a kit would be wonderful.
I do so enjoy your daily blogs. You have helped me decide on several books and products I might not have found on my own. Thank you for all the wonderful ideas you provide for us.
If I am chosen as the winner, I would choose Modern Crewel as my prize. From the moment I saw it in a Mary Corbet newsletter I was absolutely fascinated by the color combinations. It is an amazing piece of color and stitch combination genius.
I would love the Christmas bouquet kit. I planned to do it for last Christmas but only got as far as buying the bauble. If I had the kit I would begin it now, ready for this year.
I would love to win Tea for Two. Not only is tea one of my favorite drinks, I love that kit!
I love the modern crewel, uplifting colours compared to the old crewel. Lovely new twist to crewel.
OMG – I love the Trish Burr Winter’s Song with the little bird perched on the branch! I had signed up for a Trish Burr little bird class at the National EGA Seminar a few years ago, but due to an accident (my husband broke his femur) I had to cancel. This kit is sublime. And I would welcome the opportunity to win her kit. Her thread painting technique is over the top – totally awesome and realistic! I am a crewel stitcher at heart and moving into the realm of thread painting with threads other than crewel wool is exciting to me as it will expand my stitching realm and open new learning opportunities for me.
So tough to choose!! I love this magazine. I have been drooling over Prancer for some time now. Love this!! I would definitely choose Prancer!And might anyway, even if I don’t win…..:)
Wow, what a difficult decision on which kit to choose. I fell in love with Chatelaine (Red) when I saw it in Inspirations and it’s been on my stitching bucket list.
Way difficult to narrow such beautiful things down to a favorite. So I’ll be practical. My chapter of EGA wants to do a goldwork peice this year because many of us have not ventured into goldwork yet. It looks like the bee would be the perfect project to start with. Small, doable and oh so lovely.
I would definately choose Blossom, it is simply wonderful.
Kind regards
Jette Sauerberg
Oh my golly, I may die of excitement! I love both the little robin and the chatelaine, but I’m going to pick the chatelaine (red! no, pink! no, RED) because I’m dying to try goldwork and also I’m taking the CoC course and all things historical are very attractive right now.
Thanks for hosting this wonderful giveaway!
If I were a lucky winner, I’d choose the Tea for Two kit. I love fancy teacups, and the finished pieces would look wonderful framed – I’d hang them near my china cabinet, of course!
Wow, what an opportunity! I really love the modern crewel kit and the small change kit, both are lovely and the colors are vibrant. I’d probably choose the modern crewel kit though. I love crewel work with a passion. Thanks!
I would have to say that I would choose either the chatelaine kit (either color suits me, they are both lovely!) or the coin purse kit. I’m building my own Victorian chatelaine based from an antique pin and additions that I can either find or make myself, to create a chatelaine that is unique to me! Every lady of the house had one in the Victorian age, around the 1880s through the 1900s. One of these would be the perfect addition!
Thank You so much for the opportunity to win one of these beautiful kits. There is not one that I would not be happy to recieve. If I was to choose I would start with the small change purse. I like the dark background and vibrant colors. This would also be the first time doing any embroidery. I have done cross stitch and currently am finishing up that project . I also love the looks of Trish Burrs thread painting kits . Wow. Would love to get into doing that! Thanks Mary.
I would choose either Love Letters — because I love making small gifts for friends and this would be wonderful Or, The Bee — because that would make a wonderful gift for me.
I would love to win the Pink Chatelaine kit. I haven’t much experience in surface embroidery, and this is so beautiful, I know I would endeavor to complete it, no matter what!!!
Thank you for having this contest, and also for considering my entry.
Pat Turner
Kingston Springs, Tennessee
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Inspirations. I have been a subscriber for a long time. Their kits are the best. They include needles, threads, fabric, and any embellishments you need. When they arrive it’s like getting a great present. I would pick the pink chatelaine.
Small Change. A technique I have never done and the beaded edge is so beautiful. Plus, it’s something to use!
If I win, I will choose Tea for Two. When I got my first issue of “Inspirations Magazine” a couple of weeks ago, I excitedly thumbed through it on my way from the mailbox to the house. Many beautiful projects caught my eye, but Tea for Two jumped right out at me. It took me back to a time many years ago when my Granny would set the table with her fine china and show my sister and me how to act like ladies. She’s been gone for a long time, but when I saw Tea for Two, I saw her beautifully set table, and the memories she made with us came flooding back.
the goldwork honeybee
I love the Small Change. I would love to see the look on peoples faces when I use it and get to say I made it myself!
I would definitely pick Garden Fresh as my kit to work as I have lived my entire life in the state of Iowa where corn is part of the landscape. This would be an interesting challenge for me to attempt, and I would love to give it a try.
Dear Mary: I have been trying to find a crewel kit for some time…..One can only find kits on line as stores that sell embroidery, kits, patterns, fabrics have closed in this Vancouver area. So, when I saw “Modern Crewel” I was excited,first, because I love the colours and here was my chance to try crewel work which I haven’t done for many many years.You’re weekly comments are inspiring.
If I won I would choose “Flowers Under The Sea” kit number i89. This kit is remarkable in that it uses silk and metallic threads (two of my favorites). It is a beautiful study of Mr. Clown Fish and his surroundings. Although I have never been to the part of the world where he can be found, to be able to bring home a little of that would be marvelous. This looks like a wonderful project I would be grateful to say how proud I am that I was able to do this delightful project. Thank you for the opportunity!
I would choose Winter Song. Love long and short stitching but haven’t tried a bird yet. Would be a wonderful opportunity to get me going on something different.
Hi Mary,
I have a great delemna ! Which to chose-
1. Red Chatelaine – creating a work box for our Guild as a continuing project for Pogramme this year. It will have “smalls” as part of the project. This Chatelaine is gorgeous !
2. The Goldwork honey bee would look stunning hanging next to my beehive (Katherine Duguid) worked on in Seminar this year.
3 then anything by Trish Burr alaways has my fongers itching to touch.
4 the Christmas ornament ! Bi have so many glass balls available from my crafting selling days! Oh my!
Should you choose my name, any of the above would be happily stitched.
Thanks for reading, Nancy
If I should win the prize drawing I would choose the Chatelaine kit for three reasons.
First off I’ve always wanted a Chatelaine. It would be nice to have every tool I needed at hand, and I love the name “Chatelaine.”
Secondly, I’ve been wanting to try my hand with silk and gold threads and this would be the perfect choice.
And finally, I love the colors in the red kit.
The kits are so pretty! I’m intrigued by Garden Fresh, and Flowers of the Sea is absolutely gorgeous. Since I’m a beekeeper, and a novice embroiderer, I think I would pick Honey Bee, as it is likely more at my level.
I would pick the red chatelaine. I love all those kits and the colors are so beautiful. I picked this kit because I would see it often and use it every day.
I would choose the change purse. I love the contrast of colors on the black. The brightness of the colors against the black is so enchanting. My change purse, which belonged to my mother, is just about to fall apart.
Hi Mary!
I too, love the convenience of a great embroidery kit! If I had to choose (and it is hard), I would choose the Flowers of the Sea-i89. I love the vibrant colors and the theme would fit right in with my bath decor!
Thank you for this opportunity!
Thank you! What a marvelous giveaway! I would choose Pink Chatelaine. Second choice Small Change. With both I would be learning new skills and working with colors I love. And since I can use them when they are complete, every day will carry a bright reminder of the joys of embroidery and a connection with all who embroider.Great encouragement to keep learning!
Daily wishes for your good health, Mary
Pam
I would love to work the sea flower kit. We have a newly remodeled home that needs this picture for a room with a beach theme. The variety of needlework stitches and the colors appeal to me.
Oh my goodness…they’re all so beautiful, but I would pick Small Change. And the reason is…wait for it….it’s Teal on Black and I AM a 5 year survivor of Ovarian Cancer!!!!!! It’s perfect for me and I would use it proudly.
The last oncologist visit I was told I have only one more check in…I was stunned, I thought I’d be checking in yearly forever, but NO…the doc said,
“we only treat SICK people.” Yeah, I’m FREE. I LOVE TEAL, so if I had to have cancer, glad it was Ovarian for TEAL.
And that is why I’d pick Small Change. Thank you for the offer.
The red chatelaine… My husband and I are long-time 18th century living historians and I have collected a number of needlework tools appropriate to that period. The chatelaine would be the perfect addition and way to display my prettiest tools.
I think I would choose Love Letters. The other kits are so beautiful but I think that Love Letters might be a kit that I could finish. 🙂
Thanks for this opportunity and I love your site.
I love the Flowers of Sea and would pick that one. It looks like it has interesting and challenging stitches. It would be so much fun to work on a little world that we don’t get to see.
I suspect I would join the huge crowd salivating over the Tudor Rose in either colour, so I think I would opt for the ‘Blossom’. I’ve never done whitework and I know that the Inspirations instructions would be a good learning experience. The design is very appealing – and I have a friend who would just adore getting the finished project for her birthday!
The Honey Bee kit would be my choice because it would give me a chance try a new type of thread.
Wow, so lovely, thank you! I would love the little gold honey bee, because it is the bees knees and it would look great in my new kitchen!
Thank you,
Rachel
I would choose the Tulip kit because I would like to learn the Hedebo technique. It is so delicate and fine. All of the kits, though, are marvelous. Thank you Mary, your articles are the best, as always.
Such beautiful kits and such a generous give-away! All the projects are lovely, and I’ll probably come back to the site and purchase a favorite or two, but my choice would be the Chatelaine in Red. I do historical embroidery, mostly high middle ages but up through Tudor, Elizabethan and Stewart times. The Chatelaine design speaks to my heart and interests — and I’d really USE the items!
Congrats to the winners, and thank you!
Ygraine
Gosh, all the kits are stunning, Mary. But no doubt, I would choose the Tea for Two kit for two reasons. First, I love tea, and the finished kit would look great hanging in my kitchen. Second, I am new to the world of embroidery and it looks like an item I could tackle and finish with success. Completing Tea for Two would hopefully increase confidence in my ability to consider a more complex project.
I would definitely pick the Modern Crewel kit. I love the colors and have always enjoyed crewel work. It would be nice to try doing this piece with the beautiful threads.
It’s the Red Chatelaine Kit for me. Being English this reminds me of the Battle of the Roses. To be able to keep a little bit of history and have the pleasure to embroider it would make this kit a must. I only hope that I will be lucky enough to be one of the winners.
Gosh, this is a hard one. I want at least half of them, but I can’t buy them. Eye candy sure enough. Since I must pick one, I think the Chatelaine, absolutely in red. The reason? Because you reviewed that one and I could see it much better. I trust your judgment, and those are such little luxury items.
This was hard, fun but hard. I would pick the honey bee since I recently finished the Craftsy Goldwork class with Lucy Barter and I would like to stretch my wings a little.
Rather like asking who your favorite child is, isn’t it? They’re all beautiful! In further proof that I have champagne tastes and a beer budget – Small change is my favorite, but it’s such a hair’s breadth over Flowers of the Sea it isn’t funny. The colors and the composition are spot on for both, but Small Change is ‘useful’ so it wins on that shred of advantage 😀
My choice, while extremely difficult to make is the kit called Small Change. I have always been mad for anything Elizabethan and this project certainly fits that. Plus it has luscious beading and threads. It would also work for me as all friends know I am a “purse-aholic”! Thank you for such a wonderful blog and this contest!
I love the Chatelaine kit in red! Red is my favorite color. I’m into doing little things and I have lots of things I could put in the cute little holders. Maybe they would control some of my clutter! Thanks for the give-away.
I would choose the chatelaine kit. I have been in love with them since I was about 17 and all romantic about medieval life and ladies accoutrements. I live the beauty and practicality of this kit. To be able to wear the embroidery is a bonus in my mind. I like both of the colourways. Simply put – “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” -William Morris.
For the understated clean lines of whitework it would have to be Blossom. Thanks for the chance to win it, Mary.
The kits are all beautiful so hard to choose. I am brushing up on my embroidery skills and would love to try Flowers of the Sea have not done beadwork so am excited to try. I love the sea and would love to do this piece of art.
Susan McCart
A very difficult choice because I love all of Inspirations Magazines projects, but I would choose “Flowers of the Sea”. The colors are beautiful and it looks so delicate and lovely, you almost feel you could reach out and touch the glowing corals and fish. It’s so serene and lovely, I think it would be perfect hanging in my bedroom!
I would choose Blossom. I love the elegant look of white on white. Also, being a florist, anything with a flower brings a smile.
All the kits are beautiful.But the Jacobeon coin purse would be my pick.
Wow! What a hard decision! I would love to pick all of the kits as they all look wonderfully fun. If I had to narrow it down I would choose the Chatelaine kit in red. The design is classic and matches an applique quilt project I’m working on. It would be a fun challenge for me. What a nice gift it would make to finish the lap quilt and the Chatelaine kit for my mother in law for encouraging me to to begin my journey in quilting and needlework
Good morning Mary.
I was so thrilled to read your newsletter this morning to find that the kit I have been absolutely drooling over for months is now being offered as a prize. The “chatelaine” in pink is gorgeous and as I’m relatively new to hand embroidery it is the perfect gift for me to give to myself! I subscribe to ‘Inspirations’and consider that magazine and your newsletter to be my soul food that gets me up in the morning. Any time spent on embroidering is time well spent.
I would choose Small Change to replace the purse that my daughter has stolen from me and because it looks like nothing I have done before.
Thanks
Sam
All kits are beautiful and inspiring. I choose Small Change because I need a change purse and what fun to make one and then while using it admire the design. Love the vibrant colors on black, very striking.
What a great offer! I would choose Winter’s Song by Trish Burr. I love her work and I find birds fascinating. I have wanted to work a Trish Burr kit for a long time. I also love Inspirations Magazine. Thanks for the offer. Kendra.
Thank you for the giveaway. I love my subscription to Inspirations and read it cover to cover.
I would pick Chatelaine in Red. I love “smalls” and also belong to a local sampler guild – Tudor Rose. How perfect.
I would pick “Blossom” whitework. I have been curious about this for a few years and just haven’t picked it up (yet). A new skill to explore. fun, fun, fun
I really love the Small Change project! I have been eyeing it up since I got that copy of Inspirations. Hazel B.’s designs are just gorgeous and I think this is the right size to get me started. I also love the idea of having a project I can use everyday to share beautiful embroidery designs to the rest of the world!
If I would be lucky enough to win, I would choose the Small Change kit. It looks like the kit is worked on either wool or velvet, both of which I love to work with and the colors are amazing. I also like the antique look of the purse.
All the kits I viewed are so beautiful, but I fell in love with the Chatelaine kit when you posted it on the July 15,2016 newsletter. Love that pink, it’s very elegant.
That’s a tough decision. It came down to two: Modern Crewel and Flowers of the Sea and I selected Flowers of the Sea. I like the colors used in the kit. I also like the design.
Anything pink is always on my list, so my 1st choice if my name is drawn would have to be the pink Chatelaine. Given my growing interest in Jacobean motifs, and the colors of it, Small Change would be a close second . . .
Thank you to you and Inspirations for this giveaway. : )
It’s so difficult to choose just one! I think I would choose the Modern Crewel to learn something new. I love the colors, and the stitching looks amazing. Thank you for offering a chance to win one!
Love Letters i89 Kit is so beautiful, I cannot resist choosing it! Renewing my childhood passion for free hand embroidery, this kit has all the stitches I am relearning as an adult… and I hope to do the design justice! I have always wanted to learn how to do that open weave stitching around the edge!
As a child, my first embroidery project was an iron-on basket of flowers on a pillow case. I used every stitch in my little embroidery book in that design!
Still in love with embroidering, I think this “grown-up” pillow design is perfect for me, especially since the capital D was the last, and most longed-for letter I learned in handwriting class as child! Thanks for this amazing opportunity! So excited!
What an exciting give-away!! I would pick the modern crewel. I loved it as soon as you featured it on your website. It is definitely on my bucket list!
Thanks to you and the folks at Inspirations for the wonderful give-away!
What a wonderful opportunity. I would love them all but I would chose Flowers of the sea because it is son intricate and I do love a chalange!
Winter’s Song! I have thought it beautiful since I first saw it in the magazine. Trish Burr’s work is extraordinary and I would love to attempt one of her fat little birds.
Hope this finds you well, Mary, and thank you for this opportunity.
Floss Hurley
Mary, I would choose RESTING PLACE hardanger Kit. I have always loved hardanger and ready to move on to something larger than a book mark.
If I win I would choose Winter’s Song, kit i88. The bird is gorgeous, such a beautiful bright sight on a dreary winter day.
I would pick the red version of the Chatelaine kit. It is so pretty and right up my alley right now as I am in the Cabinet of Curiosities class. I’m not really an embroiderer as cross stitch is my first love, but I would love to make the Chatelaine.
I love the honey bee. I’ve never done goldwork and it seems like such a beautiful introduction.
Ten years ago, I did 8 different tea cup cross stitch designs and gave them all away. It didn’t occur to me then to buy one to keep for myself, and since those kits are no longer easily available, I’d love to stitch these two beautiful teacups. I’m also making a crazy quilt with “tea” for the theme and these designs inspire me to get back to work!
There are lots of great projects to choose from, but I think I’d choose Winter’s Song. I have a thing for birds.
Honey Bee
I love Allison Cole’s work
Oh My!! I have been lusting after that Chateleine since I first saw it.
I would choose kit Winter’s Song – i88 Kit because I love bird watching. Thanks for the chance to win (and stitch). :0)
I have loved Inspirations since the first issue was published. It is my go to place for ideas. One of my EGA chapters is focusing on Crewel this fall, so I would love to have the modern crewel kit to use for demonstration. It is in one of my favorite palettes, so will look lovely in my house.
Lynn
I love the Modern Crewel design and colors. It reminds me of the Crewel I worked in the 60s. Modern Crewel is the one I would choose.
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Tea for Two. I love teacups, I have a collection of them and have tea pots also. This kit is one of my favorites, I’m itching to start it. Love the way you framed it also. Can’t wait to see if I indeed win the kit! Thanks so much for the opportunity to win one of your gorgeous embroidery kits.
I would choose “Flowers of the Sea” because it is just gorgeous!! If I could afford to purchase it I would. Beautiful!!
I would dearly love to work the red chatelaine kit. It would fit in so nicely with some of the older tools I have. Who has too many tools of this type?
Ohhh, I love so many of them. But I think I’d go for Modern Crewel.
I would choose Honey Bee. I am currently working on your ebook piece Lavender Honey and Other Little Things, so I am really into the bees these days. I have also been wanting to try gold work, so this would give me a gentle push into gold work with a small, do-able and lovely project. Thanks for the fun opportunity!
The modern crewel! Hands down. The colors and the design draw my eye. She did a great job with how the lines curve while using different stitches to hold my attention. Thanks for the chance to win it.
It’s so hard to pick…the pink Chatelaine would be my first and the Modern Crewel runs a close second. Thanks!
I forgot to say why! I’ve always loved the idea of chatelaines, I wish we could still carry them on our belts but I think I would get weird looks!
I would choose ‘Honey Bee’. I have always wanted to do some gold work and this piece would be a great ‘carrot on the stick’ to get me going on a trip with the Honey Bee as a finally (on one along the way).
Thank you for this wonderful opportunity. If I win, I would choose Small Change.
I would like to win Modern Crewel. The reason is that I have done crewel in the past but not been very excited by the subject matter which has put me off.
However, this modern crewel looks much more exciting and a bit more up my street.
If I were to win, I would choose the Small Change kit – I love the Jacobean motif, and would love to learn the finishing of a small clasp bag.
Mary, thank you again for the outstanding resource you provide!
I would choose the “Modern Crewel”. I’ve always wanted to do a crewel work project and I love the colors and the pattern. Thanks Mary
I love Inspirations magazine. They always have such wonderful articles and projects. If I had to choose out of their kits, I would choose one of these three: Tea for Two, Modern Crewel, or Winter’s Song. I love them all and can’t resist an English Robin!
Heather M.
I’d love the red chatelaine kit!
I choose “Tea for Two” to accompany my antique collection of tea cup and saucers. Plus I enjoy embroidery ! KKJ
“Small Change”! I subscribe to the magazine, saw this project a few months ago, and haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. It looks like so much fun to stitch.
Chatelaine by Susan O’connor in red would be my choice. Not only is it beautiful but also functional and I think I could do it justice. I also love the Robin but I think that it is a bit beyond my skill set at this time. Thanks to Inspirations for offering this give away. And many thanks to you Mary for all you do for us in providing inspiration and guidance. I always look forward to reading your next post.
Hugs from West Virginia
Dara
I would choose Tulip. It’s a beautiful item that could be made for Christmas, wedding, birthday, etc. I also grow lavender and that would be a perfect addition to the center
I love your magazine. I have some old issues that I look at all the time. Beautiful eye candy.
The brilliant colors and graceful lines of the modern crewel image caught my eye as soon as I opened the email! I do reproduction 18c crewel work, so this lovely modern twist on traditional elements would be a joy to make.
I would love to win the Chatalaine (Red) kit. It would be perfect for me as I have been devoting more time to embroidery lately and would love to have such a beautiful kit to keep essentials. It looks absolutely beautiful, I could take it everywhere and when asked tell them from whence it came. It would also be perfect sitting on top of my embroidery work.
Jo
I would love to have Small Change. I have lusted after that kit since I first saw it. I love Hazel Blomkamp’s designs and I particularly love Jacobean. Finally, my old change purse has disintegrated.
I love Inspirations Magazine, it is one of the few I subscribe to. Almost finished filling in missing issues.
I would pick tea for two – I would stitch it as designed and then again in Brazilian Embroidery. They would be gorgeous!
Easy! If I were lucky enough to win , I would choose the ” Modern Crewel Kit ”
Reason ….Just love those divine colours ! Fingers crossed 🙂
Debbie in Cornwall
My choice, should I win, would be Tea for Two. The cups remind me of the cups I once owned that me and my dear friends would sip tea from and have long and important conversations over. I left them behind when I moved from the east to the west coast. This kit would allow me to stitch them back together again.
I would choose the pink chatelaine kit. Pink is such a glorious color to me – reminds me of the sunrise on the start of a new day and the peaceful sunset on a day well spent. The finished pieces are functional as well as beautiful, and would love to have them for my sewing basket!
I’d pick the chatelaine in red. I love working with silk!
What a wonderful giveaway! I have drooled over several of the kit options via the Inspirations newsletter. Selecting one is a hard choice, but I would have to pick Modern Crewel if I should win. It took my eye when I first saw it. The colors are beautiful and I love the flow of the Jacobean pattern along with the stitches that are used. The combination is so beautiful, and I would love to win this kit and magazine. Thank you for a fun giveaway.
If I won I would love to receive the ‘Les Hirondelles’ kit. They are such elegant birds and the image captures that. I love doing thread painting, though I am only a beginner but such a kit would be a good way to move on to the next step, having done your sampler lessons previously.
I love the Inspirations magazine, again there is so much ‘inspiration’ and so many new techniques to try, and such beautiful photography.
I love Inspirations Magazine! Their kits are wonderful. I would choose the Chateline kit, in red. I am so tempted to order it anyway after your wonderful review. Love the colors and it would be wonderful with the Elizabethan stitching stuff I already have.
I would choose the Chatelaine (Red). It is gorgeous and reminds me of the holidays….which I love.
Thanks for the chance!
Winter’s Song – i88 Kit
It is a beautiful kit and I would love to do it for my friend Wendy who loves robins
What an amazing giveaway! I would certainly pick Honey Bee, because I love Bees. I also would love a small gold work project. Thanks for the chance to win!
I am disabled with a bad back so it is difficult to get around and i have lost my dominate arm, but taught myself to stitch with my non dominate arm. I enjoy stitching histoic counted cross stitch but really want to try gold work. I would pick the bee kit because it seems like a good kit to stitch as a first time gold work piece and it looks like it would be beautiful framed on the wall.
Untill my eye surgery two years ago, I was extremely short sighted and birds were mostly just moving dots in the sky. Now that I can actually see them well enough to identify them I have fallen in love with them! Should I be a lucky winner, I would choose the lovely “Les Hirondelles.”
If I won I would choose the Modern Crewel, not only because I like working with wool, even thin wool, but also because I love the colours and the design.
Thank you so much
Cristina
Hi Mary, You’ve got us all drooling now! I would choose the red Chatelaine kit, with Modern Crewel a close second – actually the two you’ve reviewed. I get Inspirations and so of course I’ve already drooled over them in that wonderful publication. I choose these because I love the designs, the techniques focused on with each kit, the color palette of each and the quality of materials. Thank you so much for great giveaway!
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I am an Inspirations yearly subscriber (through Wooley Threads). I have done several of the projects but have never bought a kit. I’d love to win now of the kits and make the promise to start (and complete) within 3 months of receipt a d to share pics when done. Hope one of the winners is me.
i would love to try Hazel Blomkamps Small Change. I followed your progress on your Hazel project and it was fascinating!
If I win, I would like the kit called ‘Small change’. I feel it would be a project on my level or slighly above and small enough that I will finish it. As a bonus, it is an utility object that I will be proud to use.
I would choose the chatelaine kit because I’ve been drooling over it for a very long time!! It’s absolutely beautiful!
Winter’s Song. I have been reading and studying up for doing a Trish Burr design. That project is perfect for me now!! Have to jump in somewhere and that looks just lovely.
It is so hard to pick just one, I narrowed it down to 2 and then I flipped a coin. So Chatelaine (in red) it is.
Why? I have never made something so delicate and beautiful for myself so if I win it will be utter delight.
Thank you for this giveaway
Probably the honey bee, because I have never done gold work before and I would love the opportunity to try it. That, and I had my mother looking over my shoulder while looking at the webpage and she just loved the bee! (Well, she liked everything but she liked the bee best).
If I win (I hope I do) I would pick Tea for two. The design is beautiful and give off a feeling of vintage teacups. Just lovely. Would fit in with the look I want to achieve for my home.
Having just taken my first workshop in stumpwork, I would choose Christmas Bouquet. I adore this design and it would be a good way to put my new skills to work.
I would chose Prancer. It would be the perfect addition to my holiday decorating.
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If I win my heart is thorn between two kits les hurondelles and winter songs. Both of them are so georgeous.
suzanne
I would choose Garden Fresh. I am fascinated by the realitic look achieved in this design.Then if (or should I say when?) my corn doesn”t make it in my garden I can still have beautiful corn to look at.
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Chatelaine would be the kit for me. I am a fan of Susan O’Connor and the kit will produce the perfect completed Christmas gift. It possesses enough of a challenge for me as well.
Thank you!
I fell in love with the Honey Bee. It looked so elegant! I have not worked with gold threads before and this looks like a wonderful challenge.
What an incredible opportunity to expand one’s experience. I would choose the Honey Bee as I have just completed a gold work piece designed by on of our EGA members. The challenge of gold work has intrigued and inspired me to expand my stitching experience. I believe you should always challenge oneself, to step out of the box and see where the stitching leads you.
When I win, I would choose the following:
Flowers of the Sea, Small Change or Modern Crewel.
Any one of these would send my heart soaring. I have never done this type of work and would thoroughly enjoy learning to do them.
Thank you so much for allowing me the chance to win one.
Such wonderful choices! Having worked a kit from Inspirations – I can say they are put together nicely. All of the needed supplies are there and labeled. They do a great job! I would choose the Modern Crewel or Prancer kits – I really like to work a crewel embroidery with crewel wool.
If I were to win I would love to have the red chatelaine kit. Because I love the colors and the techniques used.
I would pick the Bee, My State, Utah is the Beehive State. There are many examples of the bee or beehive in and around Salt Lake City. It is the example of industry and to be busy as a bee. When I was in a 4H sewing club, our club was called The Busy Bees.
Thanks for the opportunity to win something from the Inspirations Magazine.
Gayla
If I win I would choose the Prancer kit. My husband has used the same Christmas stocking for 50 years that his mother made when he was small. As you can imagine it is starting to fall apart. A few years ago she offered to make a new one for him but unfortunately passed away before that could happen. I saw the Prancer pattern used to make a stocking on the inspirations newsletter and thought it would be perfect for me to make! It won’t be from his mom, but I’m sure he would love it.
Mary what a lovely prize! I love Inspirations Magazine and am also very keen on stitching “smalls”, so if I were lucky enough to win I would choose the Chatelaine kit in the red colourway. Such a pretty design with an interesting mixture of threads.
Thanks as ever for your generosity.
Alison
Godalming UK
If I win, I would select the Christmas bouquet because I just love Christmas and I love stumpwork. What a wonderful way to put the 2 together!
Chatelaine (Pink)! So elegant! I love stitcher’s toys and this is just lovely, it would be a joy to make.
Thank you and thank you Inspirations! Such a hard choice, but I would love to try the Chatelaine in red. It’s spectacular!
Many thanks for such a wonderful give-away Mary! So many beautiful kits to choose from, as well as spectacular issues of the Inspirations magazine. The combination of the Winter’s Song kit and corresponding Inspirations issue no. 88 would be my selection if I was fortunate enough to be one of the three lucky winners.
Thank you!
Diane
I would choose Winter’s Song. I actually have this one on my goal projects list after reading the magazine but a kit would be awesome as I haven’t yet started to gather the supplies. I love the design and haven’t tackled anything with long and short stitch but want desperately to learn!
It was a hard choice but I would love to have the red Chatelaine kit. It’s so beautiful and would be a real treat to embroider. If I am not a winner I think I will either buy the kit or make it up from the magazine instructions. I have long planned to treat myself to some stitchy accessories and this set would be perfect.
Hi Mary,
I would pick the Chatelaine kit in red and spoil myself with the beautiful needlework accessories. It would also be a great way to learn some new finishing techniques. Thanks for a great give away!
I jumped at the chance to enter your Kit competition today as I am keen to try Crewel embroidery.
Should I be fortunate enough to be one of the prize winners I should love the kit Winters Song – i88. It would fit into the Christmas season beautifully.
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Thank you!
I would choose the Modern Crewel kit. I love the pattern and the colors are gorgeous. To win a kit like this would awesome.
Oh my, I would select the Honey Bee! So very beautiful.
While all the kits are beautiful, the two Chatelaine kits are my favorites. I am still torn between the red and the pink, but think I have to select the pink as my very favorite. I am a history buff, favoring the Elizabethan period and this design is so typical of that time. Having it in a Chatelaine would be a wonderful use for this work. I would wear it proudly!
I have tried to get a copy of the #89 Inspirations Magazine because of this kit, but Nordic Needle had sold out of them (even though their website stated they had two copies). Most disappointing!
Best regards, Cookie Ziemba
Thank you for providing this give-away. 😉
If I win I would pick Flowers of the Sea kit. As a practically-retired recreational scuba diver, it would be lovely to stitch this kit and remember the beauty of the “under the sea” flora and fauna.
Oh! the Rose Chatelaine – in red. My late father was from the county of Lancashire whose emblem is the red rose and I would feel a lasting link to him as I stitched and then used the chatelaine.
I would choose flowers of the sea because of the viberant colors and the attention to details
Oh, my gosh. I love them all! But I think I’d pick the bee. I love bees, and I’ve never done any goldwork, so I think the bee would be a good size for a first try.
Easy pick for me. My daughter’s name is Holly Belinda. Her nickname is HoneyBee. I would love to do the Honey Bee project for her. Thank you so much for the opportunity. Missy
I would choose the Chatelaine kit in red. I fell in love with it when I saw it on Needle and Thread and have kept going back to that post to look at it again and again. I’ve always wanted a chatelaine and this one is absolutely beautiful! And my favorite color is red! Perfect!
Hi Mary- thanks for another generous give-away.
I would choose the Honey Bee kit because I have never worked with goldwork supplies, and would love to! I think it’s one of the last embroidery frontiers for me.
Have fun going thru all these comments! 😀
I would pick Chatelaine Red. Because I love anything by Susan O’connor. Anything she designs it the BEST!
Thank you for this opportunity from Inspiration’s Magazine to win in their Giveaway!
I love the Modern Crewel kit. I have just started with Crewel embroidery and love this crewel kit offered in the Giveaway. This kit would give me the opportunity to learn more new crewel stitches thus expanding my horizons.
Oh yeah! A giveaway! I’m so excited! This is easy. I love the white work reindeer. He’s beautiful. And elegant. I’d love a chance to stitch him.
Thank so much much Mary!
Melissa Bird
These are lovely. Modern Crewel is my favorite. The blues and greens are beautiful and would look fantastic in my bedroom. Thanks for showing these to us.
A gift for my fabulous sister in law! As well as for me. I want to do Goldwork beautifully and my sister in law loves bees. My fingers are crossed.
If I win, I would pick the Chatelaine in red kit. I’ve been admiring this kit for a while now and just love the look and colors. All of the kits are so gorgeous. Fingers crossed that I win! Love you Mary!
The corn is my 1st choice. I have been experimenting with some wooden beads, but it would be great to have all the materials without having to search for them. The only drawback is the fear that I would drill a hole in my hand while enlarging the holes in the bead, but I have a friend who wants me to make it and is willing to do the drilling.
I have already made the cauliflower.
What a difficult choice! I would choose the Chatelaine kit in red. I love the beautiful classic design and that I would end up with something I would use daily. It would be just enough of a challenge for me without being overwhelming!
All the kits are beautiful but I would choose the Chatelaine (red) or pink. I love stitching “smalls” because I get a feeling of accomplishment in a relatively short period of stitching time. I also find the variety of techniques very interesting.
If I had the choice it would be Flowers of the Sea. I just love the bright colors of the piece and could see it hanging in my house.
Oh my, the Small Change kit would make a perfect change purse to go with my SCA/pirate garb! Love the colors and the beading. Thank you for hosting this fun giveaway!
Were to win, I would choose Flowers of the Sea, though it was hard, hard choice. I’m interested in expanding my experience using filament silk, but the clincher was the blackwork looking sea coral fan. It’s very reminiscent of a picture I’d like to render and I’d like to learn how it was done.
I would pick modern crewel kit. I have been doing crewel work for ages but the colors in the kit really caught my eye. Have been doing some free-stitching work recently. But the kit looks to be a bit of a challenge, which I could use. Thanks for the chance to win a kit.
If I were lucky enough to win, the modern crewel would be my choice. The blues and greens are m colours, as my friends could tell, and the modern treatment of crewel makes me liking this technique so much more than the traditional way
Hello,
I would pick Winter’s Song. I love birds so much. I paint them in watercolor all the time. The idea of stitching one is very exciting!
I would pick the small change kit. I love jacobean and have always wanted to sew a framed purse but have never attempted it. The projects are all very beautiful but probably beyond my skill level.
I would choose the red chatelaine project. I am enamored of historical needlework of the 17th-19th centuries particularly. This kit would provide me with everything needed to make my own lovely pieces reminiscent of those earlier pieces. The small bit of gold work really adds the loveliest finishing touch. I am an Inspirations subscriber of several years’ duration. It is a terrific publication! Thanks for the chance to win.
Dear Mary,
I would choose the Christmas Ornament. I loved your review of silk thread and would love to have the opportunity to work with it. Besides I love Stump work!
Sandra
I’d pick Prancer because it is so unlike anything I’ve seen, and because I love stitching Christmas items!
Chatelaine (Red)
No hesitation at all. It’s gorgeous, small enough and interesting enough to be something I would actually finish, and would be a finished object that I would use (useful FO’s are the best FO’s).
I have been enchanted by it ever since I saw the post here about it.
Kit Les Hirondelles. It has al my favourites, colour,subject (birds) and form, thread painting being my best liked option to spend time on.
What a tough choice! I’m torn between Modern Crewel and Winter’s Song. I love crewel patterns and the colors in Modern Crewel, but I’m also obsessed with Trish Burr’s beautiful designs and I love birds in general. But my choice would have to be (drum roll, please) Modern Crewel.
Becky – great minds think alike! These two are my favorites, too!
I am between two kits -Chatelaine (Red) and -Honey Bee. I love chatelaines and it does have a tudor rose! As for the honey Bee, I would love to try goldwork and come on, it is a cute Bee!
Thank you and Inspiration for offering this contest!
Barbara D.
(Barabal)
What a generous giveaway but such a hard question! I kept coming back to Tulip and actually, as i’m a subscriber i’d already seen it in the magazine, it’s on my wish list already!
Hi Mary. What a great opportunity! I regularly drool over the wonderful Inspirations kits. If I were to win, I’d choose Honey Bee because I have yet to try goldwork, so it would be the perfect chance. Thanks.
There are some beautiful patterns, but my favourite is Love Letters, it is so delicate, I would love to try and stitch it!
This one’s easy 0- I’d pick the reindeer. On Christmas morning, the year my father died – 2010 – we had a deer show up in our backyard. I so strongly felt my dad’s presence, esp. since his last hard months of incapacition were spent watching birds and squirrels from his window. Nothing more interesting than a deer would meander into view, And then rarely. But when it did, he’d smile and utter a “hmmm” of happiness. So from that Christmas, I re-decorated by tree, home and table with deer motife…and so Dad is still with us.
I would have a hard time choosing between the Modern Crewel (because I love the colors and would like to practice the techniques) and Winter’s Song (because I want to learn threadpainting and I think my husband would like the finished product).
These kits are all a temptation!
If I win my choice of one these beautiful kits it would be “Honey Bee”. My grandpa was a bee keeper and I have always been fascinated with bees since I was a young girl. Brings good memories.
If I win, I would choose winter’s song. I love Trish Burr’s embroidery and have always wanted to try one of her designs.
I would without-a-doubt choose the modern crewel kit. I am new to hand stitching and haven’t tried to crewel yet, but when you reviewed this kit… I was enamored! I liive in a gorgeous vintage house and this design would look gorgeous among my decor. Crossing fingers! And toes!
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I would love the red Chateline kit
How about you?
I would choose the Hardanger Resting Place. I first made a hardanger bookmark four months ago, and I am now hooked on hardanger. I just finished a hardanger pillow. Now I’m torn between my counted cross stitch project and starting a new hardanger project. Wish I had more time and another set of hands to do both 🙂
Hi Mary!
I would pick the goldwork bee! So beautiful. It would be something new for me to try! Thanks for the opportunity to win such lovely kits.
Best wishes to you.
Flowers of the Sea for ME! It is just so beautiful; I love underwater scenes, and I have the perfect seahorse that I think I can tuck in there. Maybe a mermaid, too? Pick me! Pick me!
I would pick the Red Chatelaine! I’m a sucker for things that are both pretty *and* useful, and I haven’t yet been brave enough to try my hand at silk embroidery. If I had that kit staring me in the face, I’d have no choice *but* to jump in!
I would love to sew the Inspiration Kit “Blossom”. Have tried a multitude of embroidery and smocking but never whitework! Would like to add this to my experience. Thanks
I think the blue birds would be my choice. Love to embroider living things. I’m still a beginner but with practice I am gaining confidence. The birds look so free. I would love this kit.
I would select Modern Crewel. The colors are very calming and inspirational. Makes one feel at peace.
Hi Mary,
Wow what a fantastic give-away! Thank you to you and Inspirations magazine. The kit I would choose would be the pink chatelaine kit. I have been eying that beauty since it was in the magazine and I just love it- plus I really could use a new scissor fob! That’s again so much,
Blessings to you!!!
Catherine T.
I like the Modern Crewel kit best, please. I’ve never done any crewel work and would like to try.
I have it narrowed down to either Prancer or Honey Bee, but I think I would pick Honey Bee. I love stitching animals and I love honey bees. I was also lucky enough to take a class with Alison Cole, and I love her work.
Flowers of the Sea I just love watching tropical fish. Also Winters Song I like listening to birds tweet.
As soon as I saw it in the magazine I fell in love with the Red Chatelaine!
That’s the one I’d choose.
Thanks!
The description of the magazine as ‘decadent eye candy’ is so accurate. I love when my copy arrives it is a real treat to sit down and devour it.
I would like the Chatelaine (Red). I have that magazine and loved the look at the time. I am reasonably new to embroidery so do not as yet have any handmade accessories. Although not sure I have yet seen a project I dislike.
Mary
I would probably pick the modern crewel. It is lovely
I would choose Winter’s Song. I am a huge fan of Trish Burr’s work, and I have recently begun to learn the long and short stitch technique with the help of one of her books.
What a difficult choice. There are so many I would like to do. The modern crewel one I think I could do without needing a kit. The coin purse I would love to do but probably isn’t so practical for me and anyway I am at the moment doing Hazel’s Sherry for Jack. So my choice is the red chateleine because it is a typically English design that I could show off when I am in my stitching groups.
I would love to win any one of the kits, however, les hirondelles, stands out the most for me. Swallows are among my favourite birds
If I win,i will pick the Hardanger mat as I love looking at Hardanger embroidery but have never tried it!!!
Sonia
Crewel is so fascinating. The ability to combine many different mediums to create art intrigues me. Can’t wait to get started.
Thank you so much for the giveaway!!! I would choose Winter’s Song (i88 Kit). I love birds and animal painting and I want to learn needle painting. I hope it’s a good day for you and that you’re feeling better.
I would choose “Flowers of the Sea,” by Helen M. Stevens. I have three of Ms. Stevens’s books, have long admired her work, and have wanted to stitch one of her pieces. This piece would stretch and challenge me and expand my embroidery skills immensely; I would love to give it a try.
If I win… well, I never win anything 😉 but if I did… most definitely either colourway of the chatelaine… because it looks like a mightily useful thingy! I would use it! And it would be a sweet treat to just follow some directions instead of having to do all the design work myself.
Thanks!
I’d pick “Small Change”. I’ve always wanted to make one but just haven’t.
I would love to win the Chatelaine (red). I have always wanted to make one and this would go with the Tudor gown I am working on.
The kits are all so lovely and the quality from Imspirations is next to none. After much thought, I would pick flowers of the sea. I think it is very inspirational and uses different threads and stitches. I always try to challenge myself when I pick a pattern or kit to do. The Flowers of the Sea would certainly do that and it is beautiful as well.
I would pick Garden Fresh. I am teaching myself to do Stumpwork and have completed four pieces so far. This would be the ultimate challenge!
Wow what a generous giveaway! Thanks Mary!
It is very hard to choose. My top choices would be Honey Bee, because I’d like to learn goldwork and this looks like just the right size to get a taste but not be overwhelmed. Christmas Bouquet because it is so different from how you normally see stumpwork displayed and it would make a lovely addition to our holiday ornament exchange at our guild (obv I would have to make another for myself). And Tea for Two because I love all things tea! These would look great in my tea-themed kitchen.
There are some stunning kits to choose from. I would go for winter song as I keep saying I must learn to thread paint so a kit would be a push in the right direction.
Hi This is a tough decision but after looking them over, I think I would enjoy the Chatelaine in pink. I love the soft colours. The reason is I love smalls and the chance to do that type of embroidery would be wonderful. I have stayed mainly counted embroidery, time for some variety. Thanks
I would choose Winter as I am a beginner at needle painting.this perky little bird would be a project to help me learn and help the winter here pass pleasantly. judi
I would definitely pick Honey Bee should I win. I have always been intrigued by goldwork and would love to give it a try!
I would choose Flowers of the Sea i89. I love the ocean… I live in New England not far from the water. This kit has so many interesting embroidery techniques that I would love to perfect. The colors and theme will certainly get me through our winters.
I would love Christmas bouquet! Christmas is a special time with my family and I could make the special bauble the centre of my table!
Hi Mary, Thanks so much for your generosity and your inspiration!
I love the Chatelaine. When I saw it in your email, I thought it is so lovely and elegant. It would be a nice sized project that could be finished in a shorter time that many big ones. I like the design and colors. I prefer red, but the pink is pretty, too.
Wow — How exciting! I would choose Flowers of the Sea if I were lucky enough to win. I would choose that kit because I would want to display it in my nautically themed room. I would look very nice with the Brazilian embroidery pieces I have that are sea related. Thank you Mary and Inspirations!
I love both chatelaine kits. They are classic and beautiful. While it is hard to choose between the two color ways, I would choose the red. Breathtakingly pretty.
I would choose Small Change because embroidering such an elegant purse (and putting it to use) would certainly make me feel like a fine lady from the days when embroidery was considered a skill no fine lady could go without.
I would choose the Chatelaine kit, in pink. I love things that are useful as well as beautiful, and goldwork combined with embroidery is the ultimate in luxury for me.
I would choose the Prancer – i88 Kit. It’s simple and elegant and my daughter would just love it. I think I could take my sweet time and do a beautiful job on it so she could enjoy it in her new home this Christmas.
I would pick the ‘Garden Fresh’ kit. My husband and I are building our own tiny home in the country. I think that picture would inspire us to get the kitchen done and ready to use. Help us get this finished.
Thank you for considering me.
Chatelaine red! I have been eying this one for so long…would love to find it in my mailbox! Thanks, Mary, for another contest!
I love needle painting and enjoy blending colors to get a oil painting effect. I would like trish Burr kits but the price is steep for me. Birds and nature are my current projects. Inspiration Magazine purchased in a craft shop here in Battle Creek Michigan inspired me to get back into needlepainting as I finally have more time to pursure it. Retired now!! I like duplicating animals and try to sew a realistic effect in color and form with a natural background with different embroidery styles of stitch at least that is my goal to achieve, anyway as I like CHALLENGE!! Still learning different stitches with videos I am a visiual learning I need motion to learn the process. Once I learn I will fly into this beautiful art form!!!
I would be thrilled to work the Chatelaine in pink! I fell in love when I read your review but knew I could never be so indulgent for myself. I’m familiar enough with the techniques to believe that with care (and practice!) I could do this lovely piece justice, but the beauty and quality of the materials would make this a once-in-a-lifetime project!
I would choose the red Chatalaine kit. I fell in love with the project, when you reviewed the kit and would like to try embroidering on the silk ground fabric. Judy
I would love to win the Modern Crewel kit. My favorite form of needlework is counted canvas needlepoint but if I win I will give it to my sister who is an extraordenairy embroiderder.
Tulip is my choice because it is something I do not yet know how to do. I love trying new things and this is beautiful. My grandaughter is getting married and this would be a beautiful gift for her.
I think I would have to choose the Honey Bee kit. I love all of the kits, but the Honey Bee would give me the greatest challenge of finding the materials, primarily because I’m very uncertain of the materials used. Having a kit will make that easy as well as increase my understanding. (But the Modern Crewel, red chatelaine, and hardanger kits were sooo tempting, but I probably have all the materials at hand to create them!)
That would be a very hard decision so I will put it off as long as I can while I pore over the details of each possibility! Thanks for the opportunity.
I’d choose the modern crewel work kit, love the colours and the idea of crewel work with threads rather than wool.
However all of the kits are very beautiful! What a choice!
I prefer the Winter Song kit. I have wanted to do thread painting for some time now and have one of Trisha Burrs book. Love the softness of the look. Love stitching small, one over one, patterns so think I would enjoy thread painting. Love your magazine and always look forward to the next issue. Thank you.
If I were fortunate to win I would love the honeybee goldwork kit. I have always wanted to try goldwork but had no clue where to start. While I love the threads…choosing them is intimidating to me. A kit with everything provided eliminates that fear.I If I win,I will gladly share my stitching progress on the honeybee kit with you. Mistakes and all…
If I were fortunate to win I would love the honeybee goldwork kit. I have always wanted to try goldwork but had no clue where to start. While I love the threads…choosing them is intimidating to me. A kit with everything provided eliminates that fear.I If I win,I will gladly share my stitching progress on the honeybee kit with you. Mistakes and all…
The kit I would love to sew is the Chatelaine (Pink) – i89 Kit. It not only has lovely colors, and stitches, but is also a very useful, and needed, item. I also like the Modern Crewel by Susan Porter, the colors, the stitches, all beautiful and would fit wonderfully on my guest room wall. thank you.
I love the bee, but I have been doing quite a lot of goldwork recently so I would choose the chatelaine kit – there are so many love kits that it is really hard to decide. Thank you for this giveaway, Mary, and best wishes to you.
Should I be lucky enough to win one of these beautiful Inspirations kits, after much umming and arring I think I would choose the small change purse. Thanks for the opportunity to particpate in the draw for this,
I would have to choose the chatelaine Kit but it will be difficult to choose between the pink and red, I love needle books and most of my scissors have blade protectors but this kit is so pretty.
Oooh, I’ve admired Inspirations kits from afar for a long time, wishing I could have one!! I love the chatelaine and modern crewel kits. I would be more than thrilled to win either of them! Thank you so much, Mary, for giving your readers this opportunity.
Oh my – I agree w/ others and it would be difficult to choose! Flowers of the Sea is so stunning and I love sea life so I would probably choose that! Thank you!
My winning choice is the Small Change
purse – useful for myself or for a gift, gorgeous colors and most importantly, achievable for my skill set.
Thank you for your generosity!
Since I already completed the Hardanger Mat and am working on the Modern Crewel, I choose the Jacobean Small Change. I’ve been wanting to try a purse, and this small design will teach me a lot about putting one together. Many thanks for the opportunity to win a kit from my favorite magazine, Inspirations.
The minute I received this Inspirations, I knew I would LOVE to work on the “Flowers of the Sea”. I have a room with an Under the Sea Motif and would really like to put up some of my own work. This piece looks like it entails a lot of different stitches and bead work. Beautiful use of colors. If I’m going to wish for something, I might as well wish for the best.
Decisions, decisions, I also loved the Goldwork Honey Bee.
Hello
I Like Inspirations Magazine which i used to get in the past. Since my economic situation change i can’t continue get the magazine on regulary base and of course i can’t get any of the kits.
The kit i will choose will be Modern Crewel this is in the same colors as my doutgher name Turkize.I like to try Crewel emberoidery too.
In Israel we don’t have planty of handwork shop.
Elian
I would pick Winter’s Song. It reminds me of simpler times and better days.
I would choose the Resting Place because i have always wanted to try Hardanger…i love the look of it, but was afraid of it because of the cutting involved…what if i did it wrong and ruined my work! It would have to be completely done over!At any rate, I am not gtting any younger and if i can do this one thing that i have feared doing, then maybe i can get up the courage to do othr projects, Hardanger, cutwork,other lace or lacey things….
Hi, If I would win, I would “pick” the corn on the cob. My dad died over three years ago and he was well-know for his garden of corn and we called it Bumpa’s corn for the grandkids. I think it would be so much fun to make this and think of my dad while stitching and then always being able to have corn on the cob no matter what time of year!
Thank you!
I would like to stitch the honey bee because I love gardening and all that goes with it, except for the weeds. The design is simple and timeless. I have never worked in gold work, but would love to try.
What a great opportunity. I would love to try the Honey Bee kit.
I would choose tea for two. I love that it is floral and the tea cups just have that traditional, cozy feeling!
Oh yes, Small Change sings to me….such a lovely gift for my brand new granddaughter….something she will always have to remember me by….and hopefully she won’t spend all the small change inside the purse!
Alison Cole’s gorgeous Honeybee would be my clear choice.
12 years ago I completed a GCC, Silk and Metal Threads, from Kay Stanis. It was a loooong stitching process, and I learned a lot. However, I haven’t yet carried forward with another step in goldwork. This kit would further my skills and bring me back to a wonderful set of techniques and materials long neglected.
Thank you Mary, for the chance to create this luscious bee!
I think I would choose the Chatelaine kit. I recently retired and am planning to spend more time sewing so it would be a good fit with my future plans.
Prancer – he’s beautiful. A great addition to a Christmas decor.
I agree way too hard to choose.. I just started to receive this magazine and the workmanship is so incredible. I am a beginner so I am in awe of everyone’s’ work. I would pick A winter song because I felt I almost wanted to reach out and hold this little bird it looks so real. If I do not win down the line I will order this kit and give it a whirl.
I would choose the kit called Simplicity as it reminds me of my grandmother’s tatting and I would be interested in learning this technique. Fingers crossed here.
What a tough choice!! They’re all lovely. My final decision came down to “Winter’s Song,”‘because I want more experience with needlepainting and a Chatelaine kit, as I’ve yearned for a chatelaine. I think it will have to be the Chatelaine in red, as I’ve dropped two pair of embroidery scissors on their points (%*.!~€) and now have a much nicer pair (which I’ve yet to use) that I’m determined to take proper care of.
What a generous giveaway! I love so many of those kits, but if I were the lucky one, I’d choose the goldwork bee – “Honeybee”. B is my last initial, and on the internet, I’m often known as juliebee, so of course, I collect bee patterns and stitched items…
The kits from Inspirations look wonderful, and thanks to your reviews, we’ve been able to see a couple of them up close and personal, which helps to show what great quality kits they are.
Hi Mary, if I were to win this giveaway, I would pick “Flowers of the Sea” because it looks like I would learn some new stitches and techniques from it and I LOVE tropical fish! I have been setting learning goals for myself in stitching and I think this kit would help me along that wonderful path of stitching exploration. 🙂
In Christ,
Gail J. gsquawkjones@msn.com
I love the simple beauty of stark whietwork. The choice I make would be Prancer for its beauty and statement of the simple, peaceful, nature of this beautiful creature.
What a tough choice! My favourite is Flowers of the Sea by Helen Stevens. The little clownfish poking out between the seaweed is so calming and the colours so beautiful. I love Inspirations Magazine and haven’t had a chance to get a kit from them yet. This would go right to the top of the stitching list.
I would choose the modern crewel kit — I love the colors and design. It would look great in my living room!
If I win, I’d select “Flowers of the Sea.” I want to work some more in silk and I just love the colors of the seascape.
In truth, it’s difficult to decide as they are all beautiful
Ooh-la-la! How fun! If I won I’d just simply have to go with the Red Chatelaine kit. The reason is too simple: it’s beautiful & I’ve tried to order it but it’s been unavailable!
I would pick the Small Change kit – but would never use it for change – instead, it would make a wonderful holder for needle packs and other related tools to keep them together for on the go stitching! They are all beautiful and would love to have any of them.
Thanks Mary, for another incredible giveaway.
I think that I would have to choose “Resting Place”. I have been longing to try hardanger embroidery and this kit seems like the perfect combination of challenging and possible.
What an exciting give-away, all the kits look fun but I believe my favorite to be Modern Crewel, for a couple reasons one I love the blue shades of colors and I’ve never done crewel work but always wanted to. Thanks so much for the give away. And thanks for sharing all your knowledge and experience with us!
i would choose the small change kit. we love antiques and this is so typical of what the victorian age use to use.
If I were lucky enough to win any of these kits I would be thrilled. But I would choose Small Change as my favourite because of the colours and stitch combinations and because it is both decorative and useful and would be used every day.
i would choose the small change due to my loving antiques.
These choices are too fabulous….I would be happy with any of them. But..since I must choose one, I would love the Modern Crewel. I have longed to try a crewel project and the colors are perfect for our master bedroom! Now you all know!
IF…& hoping, hoping…I would choose the kit, Small Change. I do adore crewel and would make this as a gift for a dear friend that quilts, makes small purses, etc and gives them away all the time. She needs a gift and this would be wonderful for her. Thanks for this wonderful opportunity.
I don’t normally do kits but Modern Crewel really appeals to me. I love the colors and that beads are used. Stitching with beads really appeals to me.
I’m torn between Tea for Two because it’s so charming, Honey Bee because the goldwork looks beautiful and Prancer because I love the geometric filling, but I think that Prancer wins by a hair.
i WOULD CHOOSE THE Modern Crewel – because i fell head over heels in love with it! thank you for the viewing experience!
Dayan
I fell in love with the Chatelaine when I first read your review of it. I love chatelaines, husifs, pincushions, needle books, and any embroidery/sewing related accessory. The design on this brings back memories of my family’s yearly visits to Lancaster, PA when I was growing up. I remember seeing many Amish designs similar to this. The kit I like best is the Chatelaine (Pink). Thank you for another fantastic giveaway.
All the kits are beautiful and unique but if I win, I like the “The Flower of the Sea” I don’t have yet something lots of beads and it looks 3D on the frame.
I would pick Les Hirondelles i89kit, the is I love birds. This beautiful swallow is full of color and detail. Thank you for the give-away
Thank you Mary and thank you to Inspirations Magazine for offering this awesome opportunity. I have always wanted to try gold work. So I would love to win “Honey Bee”. I really don’t know where to start so a kit would be wonderful to learn the basics and just maybe start me on a new form of embroidery.
I would choose tbe hardanger kit Resting Place. I have only been stitching for 3 1/2 years doing surface work. This kit would extend my skills.
Also I have a fabulous piece of hardanger done by my grandmother early last century. My grandmother was Swedish and the piece she did was the apron part of their national costume. I would love to have a chance to emulate her.
Hi Mary! I so love your site…subscriber for years and learned so very much. Wish I could take a class right in front of you. Wonderful prize for sure…I think the Modern Crewel Kit would rock my world and match my skill level for sure. I have a few of these magazines…very very beautiful work in them. Will cross my fingers and toes and wish all good luck as I usually don’t have any lolol…ps…all the kits are lovely tho! ty vvm for a chance too.. and God’s Speed to you.
While the colors of the Modern Crewel kit are very tempting, I would choose the Small Change kit. I would be making something useful (rather than just adding to my collection of pretty needlework in need of framing), as well teaching me how to use a purse frame in constructing a bag.
Thank you for running this give away! I’ve found your product reviews to be very helpful- and seeing your review of the chatelaine kit over the weekend prompted me to buy it. I ran across the design a while back when I was looking to make a needle book and didn’t feel confident enough to buy it. With your review, the temptation became just too great!
If I won I would pick the Pink Chatelaine kit. I would make it for a very dear friend. She and I met through our love of all beautiful handwork. Specifically at that time it was Knitting. We make gifts for each other every year. The colors are perfect for her house and are her favorites. As soon as I saw it, I thought of her. I love my Inspiration magazines. I bought many of them when my daughter worked in a quilt shop that sold them. Many things I have cleared out of my house, but I could never get rid of my beautiful Inspirations.
Thank you Mary for this wonderful blog. I would really love to win this give-away from Inspiration magazine and you! I am embroidering for little less than a year now and I follow your blog very closely. I carefully watch your videos and practice embroidering. It has been a wonderful and satisfying journey so far and I want to learn more and embroider beautiful designs. If I win this prize, it would bolster my enthusiasm even more and inspire me further.
I would like to have the Modern Crewel kit if I win, since that would bring me to the next level of doing all the stitches used in crewel embroidery. Needless to say, the design is fabulous and inspiring!
Thanks again,
Tanusree
OK, so I never win so I’m not going to stress over “which one” right now. I have too many “wants”. LOL.
I would choose either the Christmas bird (I do alot of birds in my artwork and love them, and my name is because my birthday is in Dec. so I love everything Christmas), the chatelaine kit, just because it is so beautiful (in red), or possibly the bee because I would love to try some gold work.
Thanks for the opportunity to loose. 😉
I would choose the Pink Chatelaine Kit because I like useful sewing notions that are special. Thanks to Inspirations magazine for offering this.
Thanks, Inspirations people and Mary! I would choose the Tulip hedebo bag, because I’ve admired hedebo embroidery for sooo long, but never been game to try it. The kit would leave no excuses…
I would choose “Small Change” because it is so beautiful. But, I might put something more valuable than change in it!
Oh, decisions, decisions… I’d like ‘Tulip’ the Hedebo sachet, should I be lucky. I’ve not delved into Hedebo, and it would be great to start with a kit and instructions to help me on the way.
If I were to win I would choose the golden bee. Just because I have always wanted to try gold work. Thank you for the opportunity to possibly win and give it a try.
Nina
What gorgeous things, I love them all but if I was lucky enough to be picked I would choose the chatelaine set. The art deco period is so elegant and the pink kit is beautiful. The experience of making such lovely things would be fab and I would treasure them! Thank you for the opportunity..
I would choose the Tea for Two. A friend is having a tough time (her husband is dying) and she loves tea. I would do the embroidery for her.
I absolutely love Mary Corbett’s emails and so look forward to receiving them!!
If chosen, I would love to have the Prancer kit please. Thank you so much!!
Chatelaine i89 red. This would be beautiful.
I have narrowed it down to either Les Hirondelles or Winter’s Song.
i would pick Small Change because i like anything having to do with the jacobean crewel style and it also has ribbons and beads and looks so cool and modern at the same time. thanks for this give away.
marysue C
I would choose the tea cups. They remind me of a lady from my childhood who helped me start me embroidery journey. She collected tea cups. I can still see them all over her home. These look so like some of the ones she had.
Oh my! There are all beautiful. I think I would choose Les Hirondelles as I am really interested in thread painting and this would be the bedt excuse to delve into it 🙂
I would love to do flowers of the sea. I’ve been admiring it in the magazine and it looks bright, cheerful, and challenging.
Oh!!! what a conflict. Two Hedebo kits to chose from in the list of kits available. I think I would choose the Tulip because it has more of a learning opportunity for me. Involves a lot of needle lace. On the other hand the Simplicity kit might be more useful. Oh dear….since my chances of winning are low (never won anything before) I probably wont have to make a decision.
Very, very tough choice but I think I would choose the Red Chatelaine because I could never afford to buy that for myself. It is so beautiful and reminds me of days long past when ladies spent their time embroidering pieces of beauty.
I love the Small Change kit and would choose it. The colors are so beautiful and I love the beading on it. I have always wanted to make a change purse like that and would be thrilled to win it!! Fingers crossed.
This is a really tough decision since Inspirations has so many great kits, but I will pick the Modern Crewel kit if I win. I adore the colors and it uses stitches I have never done before. I really hope I win, I have been wanting the kit since I got that issue of Inspirations, but I can’t afford it.
If I win , I would like Flowers of the Sea kit. It has very appealing colors. I love to embroider.
Thank you Mary, Red Chatelaine, would love to try a new technique.
Love the “Small Change” kit. One, the closure reminds me of a purse I played dress up with when I was a was a little girl.
Two, I love the colors and the embellishments with the beads.
Thank you for this opportunity to try to win this kit.
Thank you for making this wonderful giveaway possible. My first choice would be the Winter Song kit. I love birds and the design and color choices are beautiful. My second choice would be the Honey Bee kit. I have been intrigued by the gold work you have exposed me to and the Honey Bee kit would be a good way to dip my toes in it.
I think I’d pick Small Change but there are certainly lots of lovelies to chose from!
Thirty plus years ago I cross stitched a chickadee in a nest in winter. I would enjoy embroidering a companion piece for my little fellow with the Inspirations’ kit #i88, Winter’s Song. Thank you for the opportunity to enter this contest!
I would choose the Honeybee. It is simple and elegant and in sampler motifs, the bee symbolizes hard work and industry. The kit is especially interesting because of the bright gold against the dark background.
Thank you Mary for this stunning giveaway!
The choice is difficult!
If I win (fingers crossed!), I’d choose Les Hirondelles (the swallows) because I’m a bird lover and some of these beautiful birds are nesting in my small village, here in France. It’s always a joy to see them coming back each spring!
Have a nice day
Warm regards,
Ghislaine
Inspiration kits are magical – to have all the necessaries to create a work of beauty – the one I would love to do is ‘Tea for two’. I have recently rebuilt a new home so to be able to hang these 2 teacups upon a wall in my new kitchen would be heaven.
I would like to do “resting place” because I like arranger and my absolute first choice would be the “honey bee” because the gold work is just so beautiful.
That’s a hard choice, there are three I am really interested in. But, choosing one, I believe it would be the goldwork “Honey Bee” kit; for two reasons: 1) I’ve wanted to try goldwork for ages now and 2) my oldest daughters nickname is “Bee” – this would be so fun to learn goldwork and gift it to her when done!!
I would like the Honey Bee because I recently was treated to an Inspirations kit for a present and I found it really difficult to choose between the bee and the Chatelaine kit. I opted for the latter, so it would be wonderful to have the other too – if that isn’t just too greedy!
If I won, I would pick Tulip. I think this is just the right size of a project for someone interested in the Hedebo technique, but who has never done it.
How wonderful to be given such a choice! But I know exactly which one I would choose because after Mary’s lovely review I had already begun saving for the sewing Chatelaine kit set!
I would choose the flowers of the sea. My 6 grandkids would love looking at this. The colors r so vibrant. Thanks
I love your newsletters Mary, but the one I loved the most was the one reviewing the Chatelaine Kit. I have been and Inspirations reader for many years and I have revisited the pattern for the Chatelaine kit so many times, gone to the website and wished that I could afford to buy that Kit. I absolutely adore it and would so love to stitch it. I am so glad that your review was so favourable and I know that I will eventually weaken and somehow get the funds together for the kit. Thanks Mary.
If I were to win, I would choose the Small Change Kit. It’s traditional pattern and modern colors appeal to me. The skills required for the project are within my capacity. Finally, the finished project will be a beautifully functional piece that will be immediately put to use upon completion, giving me years of delight. Thanks for this opportunity!
I would l9ve to try Resting Place. I live in a house built in 1890 and this piece would be perfect for my home. I have tried my hand with Hardanger and can do simple things but this piece would be a challenge. I have seen old Hardanger pieces at a home in a livingroom village that represents life in the 1830’s of North East Ohio. I fell in love with Hardanger there, on the spot !
Inspiration is my inspiration and so is your blog and instructional videos and designs. I find them all so much fun and informative. You have taught me how to embroider. I enjoy embroidery and would love to have the Chatelaine (Red) kit. It is so beautiful and I would enjoy making it. Thank you so much for this opportunity.
I LOVE Prancer with his abstract body art that makes him so appealing!
LOVE Inspirations!! Their kits are beautiful. I love the “Tea for Two” kit the best. It reminds me of the many tea parties we have when the grandkids are visiting. I’m teaching both of them basic embroidery this August during their visit, passing along the embroidery torch. Thanks for the opportunity, Mary. (And may many healing blessings continue to surround you!)
Thank you for this delightful opportunity! I love the Modern Crewel with its’ delish-ous colours and patterns. Jacobean eye-candy at its’ best.
I also like the Honey Bee. It would afford me to learn more about goldwork and stump-style embroidery!
Thank you for your website Mary. I have enjoyed the Hungarian embroidery on your site, not to mention the Floral Script monograms.
Tea for Two. Very elegant. Will enjoy working on this beautiful piece.
I love the modern Crewel picture, the colors and design sing to me. My sister used to do such beautiful crewel work. I have kept any that she has given to me.
I just love this magazine. It has such a wide range of needlework designs and it has introduced me to so many new designers. What would I choose if I won? It would have to be Modern Crewel kit. The colours are so fresh and sparkling, they bring Crewel right up to date, just love it!
Val
Inspirations has always had such beautiful projects. I would choose the chatalaine because I love making sewing accessories. These are beautiful but it would be hard to choose between the pink and the red. What stitching fun these would be. Thanks Mary for the opportunity to win.
Hi Mary, Thanks for the chance to choose one of these lovely kits. They are all beautiful and any one would be just wonderful. The Christmas ball is my choice. I love Christmas and have made many ornaments and stockings throughout the years. Poinsettias,holly and mistletoe remind me most of the season so this kit would be a lovely addition to my Christmas decorations.
Oh the decision – I have never tried white work and would love to make my first project Blossom. I love Inspirations magazine and eagerly await each new issue. I find the big question is what to do with my old issues. Thank you for the opportunity to try something new.
Hi Mary,
I would like to have the kit called “Love Letters” because my beloved husband died unexpectedly March 22, 2016, my Mother, a WWII bride died on D-Day June 6, 2016 and my Dad, died of a broken heart after losing my Mother after 73 years of marriage on July 1, 2016. I would like to stitch remembrances for each of them. I’m hoping each project will help me process my overwhelming grief.
Thank you Mary
Kate
A delightful contest! There are several kits I would enjoy, but the most exciting kit for me is Small Change. I love Hazel Blomkamp’s work and I also collect antique beaded purses, so it’s the perfect choice for me.
My first choice would be Honey Bee. I did an EGA goldwork project almost a decade ago and would like to do more. This might be the impetus I need.
My second choice would be modern crewel. The picture is lovely and the colors are beautiful.
I would choose Flowers of the Sea. It looks 3 dimensional. It is so vibrant and looks as if it is swaying. It just shouts summer at the beach..
I have always wanted a Chatelaine, so I would pick the RED one, as it is so beautiful!
The Modern Crewel Kit has had me drooling since I first saw it. The colors are so yummy and fresh! Plus, what a great opportunity to add crewel work to my stitching repertoire.
Thank you Inspirations and thank you, Mary!
I would definitely choose the red chatelaine set: I have looked at it so often – yearningly – but can’t afford it right now. Oh it would be lovely!
Or – maybe Winter’s Song – or maybe the Honey Bee – they are all so delightful!
Mein Favorit ist “Flower of the sea”.
Das Motiv ist außergewöhnlich und ich würde gerne mit dieser Arbeit “untertauchen”.
I would love to win the Chatelaine Kit, i have a knee replacement coming up, so a few weeks rest giving me lots of time for stitching.
I would choose the chatelaine kit in red because my main hobbies are quilting, applique, and crosstitch. I believe I would use
those qpieces often doing handwork. I use needles and small scissors almost constantly while stitching. I must confess I a beginner embroiderer and therefore may not have made the best kit choice.
I’d be hard pressed to pick between the Modern Crewel and the Small change kits. The Jacobean motifs are both super tempting. Leaning a little towards the change purse, however, just because it is a functional item.
I would choose the chatelaine kit in red because my main hobbies are quilting, applique, and crosstitch. I believe I would use
those pieces often doing handwork. I use needles and small scissors almost constantly while stitching. I must confess I a beginner embroiderer and therefore may not have made the best kit choice.
I would pick Modern Crewel. I did some crewel stitching years ago. The modern version looks so interesting going I would love to try it.
Oh my goodness, how timely! I would definitely choose the chatelaine kit though as I said in my e-mail yesterday commenting on your review, I still can’t decide between pink or red! Sure would be nice to win this one though!
I would love to win the honey bee kit because it is a very realistic picture. If I won it I would give the completed kit to my husband who is a beekeeper.
Honey Bee!! I have been salivating over Trish Burr’s work for years. I am getting deeper into Goldwork and this would give me another artist’s approach. I have taken several classes from other teachers in the US, but won’t be able to get to hers – a bit too far.
hard choice… I’d be happy to take almost any of them… but I think my first choice would be the red chatelaine… I do love smalls! and kits with everything in them 🙂 the modern crewel kit would take me WAY outside my comfort zone but the colours are so wonderful!
I would love the Chalelaine in red. It involves techniques I do not know very well yet, the finished product is beautiful, and I’m into stitching things I can finish myself these days since I have too many pieces waiting to be finished or framed.
Hello Mary, another lovely competition with beautiful prizes, thank you. I would choose the Simplicity – i88 Kit – the Hedebo table runner, as I have just bought a copy of Inspirations 88 specifically for this project. A lovely easy introduction to Hedebo, especially as I am going to have to teach myself how to do this.
Regards, Marian (NZ)
I just love all the kits but I have 3 favorites. First Garden Fresh because I love how different it is and life like. Second Flowers of the sea, because I love the water and sea creatures. This picture is adorable reminds me of the movie Nemo. And Last but not least, (in fact this is probably the one I would choose) Pink Chaetelaine, because it is beautiful and I don not have a Chatelane or needle book as of yet. Such a hard choice to make.
Darcie
It’s a really hard choice, but I would pick the Christmas Bouquet kit – because of my name :), because I love making Christmas ornaments, and because I’ve really wanted to try stumpwork but don’t have a source for the wire.
Thank you!
Holly
Thanks for this wonderful giveaway. I would choose Small Change, I love Hazel Blomkamp’s work, the colours are so beautiful and the idea of creating something both beautiful and useful.
August 1 drawing. Honey Bee Kit, I really liked all the kits, however I am working on a blouse and the Honney Bee would be perfect. I look forward to your emails.
Thank You,
Gwyn
I am in awe of all of your kits but the small change kit is utterly charming. I would so enjoy working on this little “purse”. Thank you for the opportunity to join .
Sherry S.
If I were the lucky winner of one of these awesome kits, I would choose Small Change. It’s something I would carry with me and take it out for every cash transaction…then I would show it off! It is SO pretty. So pretty please, choose me!
WOWEE! What a nice giveaway! The Chatelaine (Pink) – i89 Kit would be my pick because it’s for sewing & it’s 3 pieces. What a treasure for the lucky winner. Thank you.
So wonderful! I get the magazine, but haven’t ordered a kit yet.
I would choose Modern Crewel because it includes a lot of stitching methods I haven’t tried before (and I love the colors)
Gosh, it’s so hard to make a choice! But the chatelaine in red wins out by a hair. It is just so beautiful! Thank you, Mary and Inspirations, for this wonderful give-away.
All the kits are so lovely and beautiful! But I would choose Chatelaine (Red), because it is absolutely amazing and I could never ever afford something like that by my self.
I wish all of you good luck 🙂
What a difficult choice to make. These kits are all so beautiful. If I had to choose one, I would choose the garden fresh. I love the dimensional aspect of this project and since we grow corn on our farm, it would make a lovely addition to my stitched collection.
Years ago I participated in an EGA sponsored class taught by Debbie Kelly. It became a ceramic jar lid with a stump work flower and a touch of goldwork. Ever since then I’ve admired goldwork and hoped to do more some day. I’ve purchased several books about goldwork but have never ventured into buying supplies.
So, my obvious choice would be-the BEE.
Garden Fresh – no contest! I’ve been ogling this edible looking corn cob for months and also have an earlier Inspirations kit of a 3D cauliflower – there wouldn’t be any grubs in my luscious stitched veggie garden 🙂
I would choose Tea for Two, to share with my closest friend. She just moved far away so she could live close to her grandchildren, and I helped her wrap a huge collection of teacups bequeathed to her by her grandmother, mother-in-law and some great aunts.
These fabric teacups can’t break!
If I won an embroidery kit from Inspirations, I would choose Love Letters, because of the lovely pink and white flowers. I love flowers: real, embroidered, painted or photographed. The flowers are on the monogram would be so cheerful to embroider! I spend the entire time I worked on the kit smiling!
Thank you for offering this opportunity! Norway is half of my heritage, the other German, so I have gravitated to Hardanger and Schwalm. “Resting Place” is my choice, of course. It is lovely and is the style of embroidery that I really enjoy working. I have not yet completed any projects similar to this one. It’s fun to try projects from a new source or designer!
Hi Mary
If I was lucky enough to win a kit I would have to choose Modern Crewel. My friend has already bought this kit and I have been tossing up whether to buy it or not as I just love the colour scheme. They are my favourite colours and so my eyes are glued to this kit. I have also seen it (partly) made up (she has not finished it yet) and it looks exquisite.
Regards Chris
I really like the chatelaine kit. I think it is very pretty and I like needle kits. I like the mother of pearl rings and ruler.
It would definitely be the chatelaine kit, preferably in red if that is back in stock–although I’d be thrilled with the pink version as well. It would fit perfectly with the design I’m doing for my reproduction casket.
They are all so lovely – I can’t choose!
I just love the Tulips (flowers of my country), the goldwork bug – I’m hooked on goldwork and the bright purse is also a must-have!
Am I spoiled to want all three? Yes, I’m afraid I am ..
Hard decision but I love the chatelaine in red! Great giveaway I love their stuff!
I would choose the Chatelaine kit. I just think it is stunning! I love the red one. It is so striking and yet dainty. I have always wanted one as I do a lot of handwork. I am especially interested after reading the article mentioned in your Chatelaine article. Who know they had such an amazing history. Thanks for the chance to win.
The choice is hard, but I would choose the Modern Crewel kit because I Have Jacobean Drapes and a white on white Jacobean loveseat. It would be wonderful to make something to coordinate.
BTW, Mary, I love your blog and read it every day.
Kathy S
What fun! My choice would definitely be Trish Burr’s Prancer contemporary whitework. My mom did lots of embroidery as I grew up and I have completed many counted cross stitch works myself along with various other projects. So I’ve seen many designs over the years, but these contemporary whiteworks have a completely different look about them. My husband and I like a bit of a ‘modern’ look in our home, and most embroidery designs do not fit our look. That’s a real bummer for me because I want to embroidery things for my home. But these kits will fit in (!!) and I find that very exciting!!! 🙂
Jana
I would definitely pick the Modern Crewel kit. The threads are my absolute favorite colors. It would look wonderful hanging on my office wall at work.
I would choose the corn on the cob kit because it is just too precious to not have. I have fond memories of eating just picked corn growing up in Ohio. I’ve also done the cauliflower pin cushion so I believe I have to do the corn.
I get Inspirations and drool over each issue, but I’ve never done any of the projects. Hard to choose, but right now “Garden Fresh” intrigues me, who knew you could stitch an ear of corn!
Who could choose any but the kit Inspirations. The colors, the fantasy and of course the dragonfly. Dragonflies have a special place in my heart. That is the most exciting kit of all. Thank you for the opportunity to express my opinion of the kits
I would pick “Small Change”,
To help expand my stitching range.
It would be great, this kit to create,
If this would be my lucky fate.
So many beautiful choices. If I was a lucky winner I would choose the Modern Crewel Kit as I have only been embroidering for a year and have not yet attempted this traditional style of embroidery. I want to learn all the different stitches and techniques, my hands are itching to get started! The modern colour palette gives it a twist.
Hi Mary
What a wonderful giveaway. (And by the by I do hope you are starting to turn the corner with your health issues. I have been following your letters and admire your resilience).
Picking a kit was hard as I was torn between the chatelaine kit in red or the fishes. Both are beautiful. In the end though I think I would choose i89 the fish, the reason being the vibrancy of the colours and the fact that the design is printed on black material. Black always looks wonderful for embroidery but I see very few kits that choose this.
Regards, Lucy
If I win, I would pick the Honey Bee kit, as it would be an introduction to a somewhat new technique – and I have several needlepoint canvases on Congress Cloth with a Honey Bee on them! I would love to use this technique & materials instead of the usual.
This is a generous giveaway. Inspirations magazine has been a favorite of mine for many years. If I would win I would hope to receive the Small Change Purse kit. I would use it to hide my favorite antique thimbles in while sitting on display near my sewing chair. Thankyou to Mary at needlenthread for the opportunity.
All of them are gorgeous,but I’d pick Honey Bee. I love the look of gold thread on black fabric, and Alison Cole is one of the best Goldwork designers out there.
I’d love to win “Honey Bee” – I’d love to try goldwork, and this kit would give me just the impetus I need!
I would love to win Winters Song i88 kit as I love birds and also love painting with a needle embroidery. Also love Inspirations Magazine having my local needlework store save me a copy each time they get the new magazine.
How exciting to be able to even hope to be one of the winners. If my name is chosen I think I would choose “Prancer” because it not only looks beautiful, it looks like I would learn to integrate many stitches. I’m in need of a good textile challenge right now. Thank you, Mary, for promoting this.
I would choose “Honey Bee” I have always wanted to try my hand at goldwork(I have signed up for Craftsy’s Goldwork on-line class), & I think this small but beautiful project would make a perfect 1st endeavor. I especially like that all the needed components are included in Inspirations Kits, a huge bonus.
If I won I would pick the Chatelaine (Pink) – i89 Kit. It is so pretty and would be very handy for my embroidery scissors.
Thanks!
I would love to try the goldwork honey bee. My second choice would be the thread painted swallows. Both are techniques I want to learn.
My top pick would be the chatelaine in the pink colorway. It’s so elegant, and I am always entranced by tiny needlework accessories – scissor fobs, pinkeeps, needlebooks, ruler cases…
They all look wonderful. But I am drawn to the Modern Crewel. I love the colors. I just had my kitchen painted and these are the colors in my “new” kitchen. I have not done any handwork in a long time and this kit would provide motivation and inspiration to resume an art form I love!
What a fantastic give away Mary!! I would def pick the chatalaine kit in red…I adore sewing accessories and Tudor roses, so it is a natural fit for me! Inspirations is a beautiful magazine, I love them! Hard to find them in Texas, so I order them. Thanks again for such a generous giveaway!
I would choose the Tulips as I have always wanted to try Hedebo. I have friends who even have Hedebo sticks I can borrow!
I would choose Winter’s Song. I have fallen in love with all things Trish Burr and Needlepainting. Plus, I adore anything Christmas and have a soft spot for sweet little birds, especially robins! Thank you for this chance to win!
Choosing one kit is a hard choice because they are all so beautiful! I am torn between the modern crewel, the goldwork bee, & the Chatelaine kits. After vascillating back and forth, I think I would choose the Chatelaine kit because it is something I would use & treasure. I first heard of Inspirations through your newsletter and have been subscribing for about 2 years. I LOVE this magazine and eagerly await receipt of my copy every 3 months! Then I savor it until the next one comes out! I haven’t yet purchased one of their kits, so this would be a real treat!
It really is a toss up. Most of the patterns there are wonderful. I think I would probably choose the Chatelaine pattern, most likely in red. The reason for this is that I work on the Renaissance Faire/Scottish Highland Games circuit and having something that I could also add to my outfit would be a wonderful thing. Plus, I really love Tudor Roses. They are the planned trimming for my new gown.
What a lovely giveaway! I would choose the Love Letters kit, because I have a baby granddaughter due to be born in 2 weeks. Her name will begin with “A” and it would be for her.
What a wonderful chance to win these lovely projects!! My choice would be the Honey Bee as I’ve long wanted to try my hand at goldwork. I have this issue of Inspirations and would love to make this little gem of a honey bee.
Nancie
I’d be torn between the Honey Bee and Garden Fresh — I’m in the middle of a stumpwork/wired/3D phase and those neat little rows look hypnotically appealing, but I’ve also been itching to try goldwork and haven’t had the chance yet.
Aaaand reading that back, clearly Garden Fresh would be the winner. The irony being that I’m not even allowed to eat corn on the cob!
My 8yr old friend whom I help with needlework, knitting etc is always giving me letters and pictures she has made for me so I would love to make one of these Love Letters for her. I am nearly 80 and she makes me laugh and keeps me young. P
What delightful kits. It was difficult to choose, but in the end I decided on Honey bee. I haven’t done much gold work, so it would be a challenge, and it is small enough project that I would learn a lot in a little space. In the end I hopefully would have a lovely little honeybee. I’d frame it and put it where I’d be constantly reminded of the virtues of hard work, perseverance, and the fragility of nature as demonstrated by the honeybee!
Thankyou for the opportunity, love your daily insights and inspirations that pop into my inbox. I would love to win an Inspirations Kit because I love to Stitch and need all the practice I can get on Fine Stitching.
Wow! I would choose Chatelaine in red. I’ve been eying this kit for some time. I love the colours and I would get to do a little gold work for the first time.
I would choose Winter’s Song. I’ve been wanting to try a Trish Burr design for a while now. That little bird is so cute!
I would love to win the “Modern Crewel” kit – it is beautiful with great colors and techniques/stitches that would be a challenge for my beginner level. Love it!
If I win I will pick Small Change because I love the colors and design.
Love the sweet little bird in Winter’s Song…and I love Christmas!!
My left thumb is coming along well, and the right trigger thumb surgery is next week….my hands will be in fine working order in a month!!
I would love the red chatelaine. I would like to try a little gold work and the rose has always appealed. Also I have been looking at making a set for my grand
daughter.
Since I just purchased Chatelaine due to your promotion of it(and resubscribed in a wanton disregard to the budget) it will have yo be Garden Fresh – a very difficult choice!
I would choose the Love Letters kit. I just love monograms. I also like the Christmas bird kit. Hard to choose. Thank you for the opportunity to win a kit and thanks for your You Tube videos. I just viewed the bullion rose bud video and it was a great help!
I really would love “Tea for Two”. I enjoy tea cup embroidery both hand and machine as well as applique. This beauty of this kit would certainly compliment my dining room. Thanks for the chance for such a lovely kit.
If I were so lucky to win, I would choose the Trish Burr – Winter’s Song. The techniques I would learn would be a challenge but worth the journey.
Thanks for the opportunity.
What a beautiful give-away! I love Inspirations magazine. I’d choose Tea for Two because the teacups remind me of my grandmother’s tea cups.
Flowers of the Sea would havebto be my choice. The vibrant coral and the little fish are captivating
I would choose Tulip, the Exquisite Hedebo sachet in white linen. I do love the delicateness of it.
I would choose this kit as it is a style of embroidery that I haven’t tried before and I love learning something new. I am always looking for something to challenge my brain as it is a way of reducing the chance of dementia as we get older. I would also do it in memory of my Mum who died of Dementia.
Thank your the wonderful opportunity. All the kits are beautiful, but I would have to pick ‘Love Letters’ because of my love of monograms!
All of the kits are so beautiful, thus making the choice of one kit extremely difficult. However, I would choose the gold work kit “Bumblebee”. I have only done one other gold work project and this one looks very pretty and interesting to me. I know I will learn a lot from it.
I love, love, love Inspirations magazine! I have been following that lovely periodical for years. It’s a difficult choice, but I have been admiring Hazel Blomkamp’s “Small Change” Jacobean change purse since I first saw it, and have been on the verge of ordering it several times. What a fun project I think it would be to stitch!
I would choose the Tulip kit because I love ALL types of whitework – haven’t yet tried hedebo and this would be a great chance to get started.
What a great giveaway! So hard to choose, but I would like to try the red Chatelaine kit. It would be a great challenge for me. A new skill to add to what I know. Thank you to Inspirations for the opportunity!
They are all so beautiful. My choice would be small change.
I’d select Tea for Two. A charming design. Will compliment my teapot collection!
I would pick the chatelaine kit. I have been looking at it for months! It is gorgeous.
My winning choice is Winter’s Song. I love needle painting designs and I’m just beginning to learn the technique of this lovely embroidery. The bird on this design is so fluffy and cuddly and I’d love to stitch him!
I would choose Winter’s Song if I were to win because I want to learn how to do a bird. So many to choose from that it was difficult to zero in on just one.
The Honey Bee – I’ve never done goldwork!
They’re all beautiful so choosing is difficult, but Resting Place would be a good project for me to learn/improve hardanger skills.
I would pick the floral .. Why you ask, because just like people, they come in many different colors, shapes, sizes and are unique in more ways than one ..
I would love to win and would pick SMALL CHANGE. It uses Cascade House silks, of which I am not familiar. I love to try new threads, and wouldn’t it be grand to pull this change purse out of your bag to give the cashier a penny?
Got my fingers crossed.
I would choose the Tulip sachet. I love Whitework, but I’ve never done any Hedebo and would love to try it. This design has such delicacy and I really love it.
Hi Mary
Definitely the red chatelaine kit!
Because it´s so dainty, I definitely need a scissors sleeve, I´d love to try out the silks and the gold thread AND…. a copy of inspirations magazine as a bonus!
Wow! How good can this get? Thank you for the chance.
I believe I would choose “Small Change”… The colors, technique, and the end product really caught my eye. Thank you!
Wow – what a fabulous opportunity! My choice would surely be the Flowers of the Sea! The clown fish is adorable, and the colors! Looks like a fine challenge to learn new techniques. I’ve dubbed 2016 the year of ships, so how appropriate to stitch from under the water as well. Charming!
Lana-Lee
Its very difficult to pick just one but I would have to go with Modern Crewel. I just love the design in my favourite colours.
I would love to do Winter Song. I want to learn needlepainting and a super quality kit seems like a great way to do so.
If I were lucky enough to win a kit, I would choose either the pink Chatelaine or Small Change kit. I just love the colors in both! I’ve mostly done counted work in my stitching “career”, so I know I would learn a lot from either of these projects.
I have enjoyed Stump work and have seen many projects in Inspirations Magazine . I have been thinking about trying to purchase the Holly ball kit but have just neglected to do it.
I would pick the Christmas Bouquet. I have the magazine that it is featured in and have been dreaming of getting the kit to do it. I have enjoyed Stump work and would be challenged by this project.
It would be really hard to pick between the “Modern Crewel, the Alison Cole bee, and the lovely Hardanger piece. I believe I would pick the Modern Crewel piece since I am trying to improve my long and short stitch.
I loved the realism of the Christmas Bouquet when I first saw it in Inspirations Magazine. Earning just a minimum wage, I can never afford to send for any kits but the magazine alone is a treat to myself. It is important to be able to be inspired and to dream about using more than just charity shop threads.
If I win I would choose the Modern Crewel Kit. The colors in this kit are beautiful. It’s been a long time since I have done embroidery & I have been stalling because I don’t what project to do. This would give me the start I need and also learn other techniques that I would love to try. Thank you for the chance to win a kit.
What’s not to love about the colours, patterns, texture & beautiful wool of the Modern Crewel kit! Maybe a pre-compiled kit would help get me actually get started & finish something for a change 🙂
All of the white on white kits are calling to me but ultimately I would pick Tulip. The fine, fussy, needle lace against the smooth white linen, the play on positive/negative space… They make me want to pick up needle lace again in the worst way!
Yeah… That’s the one.
I would order Flowers of the Sea! I am currently in Hawaii with my husband – our first holiday without children since our son wasborn 13 years ago so this would be the perfect kit to remember this trip with!
I would choose Prancer – i88 Kit. I have a friend that started collecting reindeer and this kit would make a marvelous picture for her collection. She has had a fairly rough year, her mother was diagnosed with 4 different cancers, all in-opperable) last year in the fall and so she had traveled from her home in Georgetown TX to Alabama many times this past 7 or 8 months to help her Dad and visit with Mom. Her Mom past away in May this year. I think this kit, made for her, would brighten her Christmas this year.
Also I have not used some of the threads and this kit would also me a nice challange for me.
Thank You,
Judy
Thank You,
I would choose winter’s song as I would love to become more proficient at thread painting
I would choose the honey bee gold work kit. Goldwork is something I’ve been wanting to try but always seems daunting and needing a whole different set of supplies then my standard embroidery projects need.
The Chatelaine in red. Partly so I can do a stitch along with you, and partly because it coordinates nicely with my Tudor Rose scissor keep that was my first embroidery project when I resumed after having not done any for twenty years or so.
I would choose kit ‘Tea for Two’. It reminds me of the many happy times my mother and I would have tea together in the afternoon. I was the care giver for my mother for twenty years. She lived with me, in the afternoon we would share a cup of tea and have a wonderful time of fellowship. She has just recently passed away. This would be a great memorial to the many happy times we had.
The chatelaine in either color! They’re both so pretty and I always love pretty tools for needlework
Oh my goodness, I’d have to choose “Garden Fresh.”
I would choose the modern crewel project. The colors are so beautiful. It would definitely be a challenge, so I’d love to give it a try!
Chatelaine in red for me. I was so inspired to try silk threads on silk fabric after your review of this kit. I have never tried silk thread, I have nothing like the Chatelaine kit, however, if i win I would stitch it for my daughter. I think it is so lovely and what a gift from the heart it would be. Thanks Mary for this chance to win something like this.
Leslie
Thanks so much for the competition! I would choose either prancer or Christmas bouquet – it’s Christmas in July season in Oz so I am feeling festive! Liz
I am smitten with the Tea for Two.
I would love to work the Golden Bee (goldwork) kit. This embroidery form is so graceful and this would be a new challenge for me. Although the design appears to be simple, working with the many different types of metal threads would teach me some of the basics of this art form.
If I were to win, I would definitely pick the Goldwork Honey Bee. I make beeswax candles, so as soon as I saw this kit it captured my heart. I love bees and Goldwork, and that design is beautiful.
Also, thank you for this opportunity.
Sincerely,
Lisa L.
Wow – so hard to choose. If I would win, I would pick the Honey Bee kit – it is just so darn cute and I love doing goldwork! Thanks for the chance at a great new project!
Oooh I would pick the pink chatelaine kit, because I love having pretty sewing accessories to use when I am embroidering.
Thanks. I would love Les horondelles. Or modern crewel. They all look amazing kits!
So many pretty one! I would pick Tea For Two, as I have a collection of teacups.
I think Goldwork is beautiful. I would pick “Honey Bee”. Would really like to try my had at doing a piece of Goldwork.
The chatelaine kit would be my choice. I would make it for my granddaughter’s wedding present. She deserves something this beautiful as she is so beautiful and kind. A memory such as this would be priceless. Keeping my fingers crossed and thanking you for the opportunity to dream, I remain….
Very truly yours,
Diana
Well it only took a second as soon as I saw Winter’s Song!, I could just chuck that little plump bird under it’s chin!
To choose between so many beautiful kits is hard. I would choose the Chatelaine kit. It is so lovely and I would show it off by using it when it was done!
What a wonderful magazine! I am very interested in a subscription. I would be blessed to win the Small Change Purse. I love Jacobean crewelwork.
What a nice surprise for someone! Although it would be a hard choice, I think I’d pick the Modern Crewel kit. I have always been partial to crewel, and from the first time I saw the ad for the kit in the magazine, I fell in love. The colors are so lively and bright there’s no way working on the kit wouldn’t cheer anyone’s day!
And this modern interpretation of an old technique looks like such fun.
The Chatelaine (Pink) kit is so lovely!!! I would definitely pick that.
Oh Mary
Wow wow, what an opportunity I’d love to stitch the modern crewel. Both blue and green are my favourite colours. It would be glorious to work with threads and techniques that I absolutely love.
dEAR mARY,
Dear Mary,
Thank you for organizing this chance for us to will one of these wonderful kits. I already have the Modern Crewel as I did the workshop with Susan last year, and she is a great tutor, I just need to get it finished!!! I would pick the red Chatelaine as it is lovely. After your review of it I was very tempted to buy it there and then…… but considering the number of kits and projects I already have, sanity won but if I were to win the kit… well that just wouldn’t count, would it?
Thanks again, Judy
S E Queensland
Australia
I would choose the Honey Bee kit so I could give the goldwork piece a chance to turn me onto a new hobby!
I love the prancing reindeer – i88
Modern Crewel please! The colors vividly jump off the canvas in such a beautiful way! Just what I need to inspire me through the upcoming fall season!
I would love to work the red version of the Chatelaine kit. I love creating all rhe accoutrements of stitching, then using them!
Penny
After much agonizing, I’d choose Chatelaine (Red). It’s so classy and elegant. And it’s practical. BTW, I’m not a pink person. The red appeals to me more, but both designs are nice.
I like so many of the Inspiration patterns. For this contest, I would select the Honey Bee kit. I really like the small gold work design, and I know I could complete it relatively quickly.
Modern Crewel. LOVE the colors!
If I am so fortunate as to win this prize, I will choose the Red Chatelaine. I generally stitch counted thread and this piece would be a bit of a stretch for me – the gold work and spangles and the speciality stitches. I have projects started with techniques that I know and love, but I feel that I am in need of stretching beyond my comfort zone.
Thank you ladies for making this drawing possible!
Lois
WOW!!! So many to choose from – each has something special to it. I have been following Trish’s projects and think I am finally ready to try my hand at needle painting. I love birds and Winter’s Song is such a cute little bird. Thank you for the give away!!! They are all wonderful and so hard to choose just one 🙂
Kim
If I win, I will choose the chatelaine kit because I love the flowers and I also like to make projects that are useful. This project is one that I would use every day as I do hand sewing every day.
What a wonderful prize! If I were to win I would pick the Chatelaine Kit in red as I love Elizabethan work and have admired this set since I first saw it in the magazine.
Absolutely amazing kits, is what I just have to say first of all!! I just have to pick Tea for Two. My mom and I have collected tea cups and now that she has passed I have them all! That kit is a remarkable resemblance of some of them!
Thank you for being so thoughtful to us stichers!
Good luck to all!
Michelle B
Arkansas
I would be very happy to win the Trish Burr bird kit I love her work. I have the complete collection of Inspirations magazines.
Thanks for such a generous giveaway. If I am selected as one of the lucky winners I would pick Modern Crewel. The colors are my favorite and would look great framed.
Hard to choose! After examining all the options, though, I think I’d go with Modern Crewel by Susan Porter. I LOVE the colors, and the stitch combinations are beautiful. It looks like a project that would stretch me, but still be within my reach. What a fun give-away, Mary! Thank you, and thanks Inspirations!
I would choose the Red Chatelaine, I have the magazine and really want to try this kit. I have just purchased the Bee kit and cant wait to get going, just have to convince the cat not to help
BTW love your website which I have been following for some time now and gleaned many tips to improve my skills
The “Small Change” purse would be my choice because I really like Hazel’s designs.
What a great surprise! If I were lucky enough to win a wonderful kit I would choose Love Letters as it would grace my shabby chic bedroom and remind me everyday how lucky I am. Wishing everyone good luck!
I would choose the Small Change kit.
I would choose the Chatelaine kit because I love stitching smalls and this kit features the tudor rose.
I am picking Resting Place. It looks so peaceful, even though I might have a few
not so restful moments stitching it. I love hardanger and always look forward to the challenge.
Going where I have not gone before! If I won, I would choose the kit “Resting Place”. I have never attempted hardanger embroidery and that kit looks like the perfect balance of challenge and without an overload of frustration. It’s also the perfect size, not to big or not to small. I think it’s such an elegant and classical piece… Please, please!!:)
Thank you to Inspirations Magazine and you, Mary, for organizing this giveaway. I would love the needlepainting kit Les Hirondelles. We have swallows that visit each spring and entertain us with their flying skills. This kit exemplifies that so well. Again thank you and hope that you will soon return to good health.
I think I’m partial to the Tea For Two kit because I love flowers and the simple outline of the tea cups… not too fussy!
I would pick the Chatelaine Kit. It’s gorgeous and my daughter asked me to put together a little sewing kit for her now that she’s on her own. Thanks for doing this.
Quelle bonne idée que ce partage!
Si je gagne, je prendrais le kit d’abeille, car je n’ai pas encore exploité ce type de broderie.
Merci encore.
Tea for Two because it’s just the thing to brighter up my kitchen and make me smile (as well as stop and smell the roses), not to mention that it is delightful.
If I win, I will have great difficulties to choose, because I would like :
1- The Chatelaine kit : I’m dreaming of a good system to range my stitching tools and this one is ravishing.
2- Modern Crewel : I’ve never tried crewel stitching and it would be a good occasion.
3- Tea for Two : I have a sister who loves tea cups and I would be very happy to offer her these two ones.
4- Flowers of the Sea : this kit attracts me since I saw it the first time.
You see my problem ?
Diane from Montréal (Québec-Canada)
I would LOVE to make the red Chatelaine kit! The design is so simple and elegant with beautiful little details and I believe it will be a challenge to complete.
Modern Crewel I’ve never did crewel before I like Honey Bee also!
So hard to pick just one! But if I had to, it would be the Christmas Bouquet. Lovely, and I want to try stump work!
I would pick Winter’s Song. I love birds and holly. It’s so beautiful!
Should I be a lucky winner I would choose the Modern Crewel Kit as I belong to Maitland Embroiderers group and Susan Porter will be visiting as a tutor later in the year. I have already signed up to do this class with her, to win the kit would be wonderful.
Winter’s Song is gorgeous….all the kits are gorgeous!! I have never tried threadpainting and I love anything with birds!
I’m torn between the chatelaine in pink and Christmas Bouquet. Either one of those kits would be fabulous to do. What a great contest!
As a subscriber of Inspirations magazine, I always look forward to receiving their magazines, and after traveling these last few months, I was particularly looking forward to finding my latest issue of Inspirations upon returning home later this week.
If I were lucky enough to be one of the three lucky chosen winners, I would choose the Modern Crewel piece. I love the colors and stitches used in the piece – absolutely beautiful.
If I am a winner I would pick the flowers of the sea kit. I love the sea and all the colors I both the real sea and the kit. I love embroidery using threads, beads and buttons. I do handwork as a means of relaxation after a busy day as a nurse. I just finished a crazy quilt round robin called Under the sea and this kit reminds me of the coral and fish I embroidered on those blocks. I would be so happy to win this kit. Thank you for the opportunity.
If I was lucky enough to win I would chose the red Chatelaine kit. I have admired it and coveted it in the magazine and monthly emails, although I am a novice embroiderer. It would give a chance to try out a lovely project!
Thank-you Mary for another lovely competition.
I, also, love the pink-rose chatelaine and am happily daydreaming of stitching it!
Best wishes,
Aileen
I would choose “Prancer”. I love the modern elegance of the design. It is so different than any other designs I HAVE.
What an amazing offer! If I was so lucky to win, I would select the gold work bee because goldwork is one needlework technique I’ve never tried. I’ve always loved bees I think because my favorite (only) grandfather was a bee keeper. Thanks for the opportunity!
The moment I saw ‘Chatelaine Red’ by Susan O’connor, I fell in love. I told my children that this kit is on the top of my Christmas wish list.
Thank you so much for this amazing give away, wow, really just wow!
Be still my heart! These kits are wonderful… and beyond my means. What a lovely opportunity! Thank you for making this possible for three lucky people!
If given the opportunity, I think I would choose Honey Bee for a several reasons. I want to do some gold work. I want to do a project I know I can finish in a relatively short time. I want to do this specific project as a gift for my daughter, who loves bees. This kit satisfies those criteria AND it’s beautiful!
They are all beautiful but I would choose Christmas Bouquet because it is elegant and imaginative.
I would chose the modern crewel. I love the colts and bead work. I love doing crewel work techniques.
All of the kits are really beautiful.I would choose the Flowers of the Sea because it represents the things I love about living in the islands especially the ocean.
I would choose “Flowers of the sea”. I have always loved under the sea motifs and the addition of beads make it the perfect kit for me!
I would choose the Honey Bee–I have never done goldwork and this would be nice to try and it would be a tribute to my Dad who had honey bee hives. Thank you for hosting this GiveAWay 🙂
OOh, Prancer – i88 Kit would be my choice, so much movement with the different stitches and each in it’s own direction. A little steampunk! Beautiful piece!
They are all so beautiful. I would choose Chatelaine (Red) because I’ve been lusting after it since I saw it in the magazine. Then when Mary reviewed it… oh be still my heart. Thank you Mary for the great giveaway
I love “flowers of the sea” and would love to have it. The coral is beautiful and so delicate. A great deal of movement can be seen in the embroidery. However, if that is not one that is eligible, I love Trish Burr’s ‘Winter’s Song’. Either would be fun and perhaps, challenging to do.
I just love the vibrant colours of the modern day crewel kit. It would be an excellent opportunity for me to learn and develop new techniques.
These crafts need to be shared with the fast paced world of today. To have the opportunity to relax and enjoy embroidery. Thankyou for sharing your talents, I just love the information in your newsletter.
I’m always inspired by the beautiful kits and designs in this magazine. I’d love to make the red chatelaine kit. Thank you!
Love them all but Under the Sea looks the most challenging so that would be my choice?
Oh my gosh, I’d have to go for the Chatelaine (Red), which I will also have to keep an eye out for that Mag! Although I could also happily pick the Pink Chatelaine, or the Modern Crewel, or Prancer, or …..
If I win I would choose the Flowers of the Sea kit. My grand daughter just loves Finding Nemo and clown fish and I would love to embroider this for her.
Dear Mary aren’t you a treasure I would really,really love to win the Modern Crewel kit. Crewel embroidery is such a gorgeous thing with so many variations in stitches, it is a smorgasbord to do and a feast for the eyes when finished and the modern twist to this is yummy!! I think it must be morning tea time I sound hungry !! Lots of love and best wishes to you Chris Munge Australia
I would choose the goldwork honey bee kit! I’ve wanted to try goldwork, but haven’t been brave enough to invest in the fancy threads! ^-^
Dear Mary, what a fantastic giveaway! I would definitely choose the beautiful Chatelain kit in pink. You made it look so irresistible in your review. Thanks to you and Inspirations for a wonderful giveaway.
Carrie PlaneNut
I love all of them but for me the chatelaine stands out as the most elegant.
Why do I choose this one? Because I love all things Elizabethan & the gorgeous Tudor Rose in pink is just for me waiting to be lovingly stitched!
Hello! My answer to which kit I would love to win is winter song with Christmas boutique and a runner up. Beautiful kits!!! Wish me luck!!!
After looking, I would choose kit with the mat from issue 88. It seems like a challenge with a simple concept. All the kits are nice, almost went for the fish, since I am a sucker for the ocean. Plus never heard of Hedebo stitching, but looked it up, it’s cool.
I would choose Flowers of the Sea! The colors are beautiful and I would love to try my hand at embroidering with silks and metallics. Thanks for the opportunity!
Garden Fresh – Since I don’t have a green thumb, I’d love to try my hand at ‘growing’ an ear of corn with needle, thread and stumpwork stuff.
It was a tough decision. Any one of these kits would be a treat to have. Thanks for the chance.
Love “Inspirations” magazine – eye candy with zero calories
I’d pick Chatelaine in Pink. Gorgeous and useful, what’s not to love!
I love the beautiful designs that Inspirations has in their magazines and kits. My choice of a kit would be the Red Chatelaine. The design has always appealed to me – it seems so fresh and uncomplicated. And, of course, the colors are wonderful.
I just love getting my Inspirations Magazine in the mail, it is a special treat for me. I am a carer for my husband, so Stitching is my saving grace. I would love to stitch Tea for two, or the Chatelaine. I have made Chatelaines for friends, not for myself. Hanging out to see if I am lucky.
Hard as it would be to choose, I think I would want the chatelaine. I love pretty chatelaines, and this one is beautiful! The only problem would be choosing red or pink
Oh My Gosh!!! What a wonderful opportunity and thank goodness I came back to your email to click your reviews and found out there were two pages of kits. I absolutely could not resist the Trish Burr threadpainted Robin. I have long wanted to try one of her designs and ALSO the Inspirations Issue #88 has a Salley Mavor interview. I follow her on FB and have one of her early books and I make little people with my grandkids from her book. Oh Golly, I hope I win and Thank you for this opportunity. I truly miss my subscription to Inspirations.
I would love to try the pink chatelaine kit after seeing your review the other day! I couldn’t quite justify spending the money on it but really loved the look of it.
My favorites are Resting Place, Tulip, Small Change, Chatelaine (Pink) and Christmas Bouquet. That being said I would go for the Christmas Bouquet and buy the others. All of the kits are wonderful but the reason for the Christmas Bouquet is that I like to do Christmas ornaments for my family and this one I would keep – it is absolutely beautiful and it is unique.
If I win, I would chose the Chatelaine Kit in Red. When I saw it featured it really caught my eye as it is something that I have been wanting to do for a very long time. Although I have learned many crafts over the years, Embroidery is the first craft I learned as a young girl and to this day it is still my favorite. Needle’n Thread is my go to site for everything embroidery. Thank you for the opportunity of winning one of these beautiful kits!
I’d choose the change purse. It is so pretty and useful!
All Kits are wonderful but if I win I would choose the Les Hirondelles Kit. I just love the vibrant colors.
I would choose Chatelaine kit. It’s beautiful and practical. I think I could learn a lot in the process of making. Because I will use these lovelies, I could see and enjoy them everyday.
If I win, I will choose Chatelaine (Red) 189. First and foremost, I wanted to stitch this the moment I saw it in the digital version on the magazine. Since I always have trouble printing the charts, I went ahead and ordered the hard copy with the intention of ordering the kit. If I win the kit, it will be icing on the cake. Secondly, it is in Red, my most favorite color. How can I choose anything else?
I would choose the elegant Chatelaine kit. Maybe in red? But the pink is so pretty, too. This is fun to think about! Thank you for this opportunity.
I’d love to have Winters Song
I’ve been working with color blending and this lovely bird will fit beautifully with the other projects I have completed so far.
These are truly exquisite! It is soooo hard to choose, but I would pick i88, Winter’s Song. I adore this little bird, and would love to try and make it for myself. I haven’t tried thread painting before, what a treat. I love things from nature, and this bird just speaks to me. Thanks for the chance to win!
Garden fresh! I live on a farm and would love to learn how to make that corn!
Oh I love the little purse Small Change. The colors are popping and fun.
I would choose the charming Tea For Two kit if I won.
I do really like the Chatelaine (Red) – i89 Kit. I always like needle books and making decorative everyday items, especially ones with roses.
If I win I would choose Small Change…as I would like to try the Jacobian motif. I especially love the colors. Would make a great family heirloom!
It was a hard to choose. I would love to learn threadpainting so I would choose Winter’s Song.
I’d choose Love Letters. It reminds me of my mama who passed 5 1/2 yrs ago. She loved embroidery and taught me when I was five after I asked her to. We shared embroidery and sewing for many years.
If I win, I would pick the Chatelaine kit in red. I choose that kit, because it is very beautiful, but still very useful. I choose the red, because it is more lively than the pink, although both are beautiful.
Madeleine
I would have to pick Flowers of the sea, I love anything to do with underwater.
Oh my, so hard to choose just one! I’m torn between the red Chatelaine, Flowers of the Sea and Honey bee! So many pretty patterns 🙂
I’d choose Honey Bee because it’s stunning, gorgeous but not so big and complicated to be overwhelming to a non-expert
I would choose Modern Crewel for two reasons. First, I have never done crewel embroidery but I would like to. Second, the colors are so peaceful and lovely.
Oh wow!! I have obsessively checked the availability of the *gorgeous christmas bouquet* since it was issued…hoping I’d have the extra funds to get my stitchy hands on it. Embroidery has been life changing for me in my physical and emotional recovery from a chronic illness. Something about this piece is so delicate and so resilient at the same time, so I guess that’s why I’d choose it, it reminds me how tough yet delicate we all are 🙂
Absolutely Modern Crewel would be my choice. As being able to try new types of stitching and Crewel is one I have yet to try. Love the design and history of the craft.
Tea for Two is my choice. This lovely embroidery set reminds me of the exquisite tea cups my grandmother collected.
All of them provide wonderful opportunities. My top choice at this time is Modern Crewel. It has been many (many!)years since I did anything in crewel, and this design makes me want to give it a go. I love the colors and the design. I often like one or the other but this one has it all….I might not even tinker with either the pattern or the threads. Almost unheard of for me!
What a fantastic offer! Thank you Inspirations and Mary. I am torn, so many to choose from, but my preference is the kit ‘Small Change’ by Hazel Blomkamp. I have chosen this kit because I love Hazel’s embroidery and also the purse would make a lovely gift for a special person or maybe just for myself!
Oh it is so hard to choose!! Well, if Fortuna were smiling at me, I would pick Small Change (the small purse). LOVE its bright color and I’ve been wanting to embroider a purse for ever…! The pattern also reminds me of certain Hungarian folk patterns (matyó or kalocsai, although the colors are different) that I so much adore. Win or not, thanks a lot for hosting this!
Thank you for another opportunity to win a give-a-way. I would love to work on Tea For Two kit. The choice was not an easy one. The kits where so beautiful and look like lots of fun. Since I have a large collection of tea cups, I thought it would be a good choice and once completed I would frame it and place with my collection of tea cups. Have a wonderful day.
Dianne
I will pick the small change kit. Not only does it look beautiful, I can make good use of it.
A
Dhivya G
If I win, I will choose the Small Change coin purse kit. It would make a lovely Christmas gift for my daighter-in-law.
Ooooh! I would pick the modern crewel, most likely. I love the colors and I would learn a ton of new techniques! It would be very hard to resist the bee though…I’ve never done any goldwork.
All of the projects are beautiful, but the red chatelaine
speaks to me. The beautiful material, the silk threads,
and the opportunity to have these lovely pieces to hold
embroidery tools would be fantastic
Thank you for having this contest
My choice would be Winter’s Song. Thread painting is stunning, and something I have admired for some time, but not got around to doing. A kit would give me the impetus to give it a try. Trish Burr is a master at this.
I love all of the choices, but the colors of the beautiful Modern Crewel kit just seem to call to me. The stitching will be challenging but I am definitely willing to go slow to do it justice and to achieve a beautiful piece.
No doubt, Flowers of the Sea. All of the beautiful colors are inspiring!…but Chatelaine is soooo pretty too.
Should I be graced with a winning draw, I would chose “le Chatelaine” in red. When I read the review in Insprations, I was captivated by the descriptions. The Tudor rose pattern is so enchanting. The colors look very lush. The idea of working carefully with such beautiful silk and ribbons is just entrancing. Most of the things I’ve made have been given as gifts, but “le Chatelaine” would be a project just for myself.
I am still new to Stitchery (after a 40 year hiatus). Began with Norwegian Hardanger Embroidery in late November 2015. Am just finishing my first project, a 24″ X 19″ Wedding Sampler that borrowed motifs & ideas from a number of other patterns. This has been quite an undertaking, but the almost finished piece is looking even better than what I had visualized before starting it 7 months ago.
WOW! I would definitely choose Chatelaine in Red. Or possibly Tea For Two -I’m a tea nut. OK, maybe it would be the Modern Crewel Work!
It’s a good thing I have time to think and dream!
Oh the joy of dreaming and choosing! I most certainly would pick the Modern Crewel….it just speaks to me…the swirls, the colors, the cohesiveness of the piece….all comes together for that “wow” factor……love it!
I would choose the Modern Crewel Kit. I love the colours and textures of crewel work. The density of the stitches, the creative way that they are used and how perfectly this work fits into our homes. It has timeless appeal and is instantly recognised as being the work of a skilled needlewoman.
I would pick the Honey Bee. I love the contrast of the gold on the black fabric. I think it would also be a good project to discover goldwork because it uses a variety of threads and stitches, without being a huge piece to complete.
If I win, I would choose the bee because my husband was a beekeeper for many years.
Mary, thank you so much for all your embroidery inspiration! How clever of you to have an inspiring contest with “Inspirations” magazine! All of their kits are beautiful but the “Small Change” kit is especially appealing to me. It is not only useful, but gorgeous as well. Thank you for keeping us all connected!
There are kits from several designers that really appeal to me. The choice is difficult, but I’ve narrowed it down to just four: Helen Stevens’ Flowers of the Sea, Hazel Blomcamp’s Small Change, Susan Porter’s Modern Crewel, and Trish Burr’s Prancer. They are all so different, each offering its own lessons and special challenges from these talented designers. Hopefully, I will have the opportunity to narrow this list to one. Thank you for the offer, Mary and Inspirations magazine.
If I were lucky enough to win, I would choose the Tulip kit not only because it’s gorgeous, but because it’s also practical in that it’s something that can be used for a purpose beyond just being decorative. I like to make birthday and Christmas gifts for friends, and I take care in selecting what I make for them. I try to give something that I think they would like and appreciate getting, and I can’t think of one friend who wouldn’t LOVE to get a scented sachet handmade in delicate handwork. Also, I have been wanting to learn Hebedo White Work and so, beyond making a lovely gift, it would also give me hours of stitching pleasure doing the type of stitching I love best. I may be projecting, since I’ve not done White Work before, but I LOVE Hardanger and Needle Lace, so I’m guessing I will also become enamored of Hebedo! Thank you for this opportunity to perhaps win a kit!
I would love to win “Small Change’ kit. I have been trying my hand at sewing purse frame to material the last few days. This would give me the right stuff to try again and the bonus of embellishing with embroidery, wow.
I would love to win the Goldwork “HoneyBee” as I have always wanted to try Goldwork so this would be the perfect opportunity!
Winter’s Song would be my first pick. I’ve been aching to try thread painting and that might be a decent place to start. Next choice would be Love Letters simply because I love monograms and initials. Thanks for a chance to win a choice from great kits.
Thanks for the fantastic giveaway, Mary–what a treat! I would choose Small Change because I love Jacobean motifs and beaded edges, and I just think it’s so charming.
I would choose the Honey Bee kit. I enjoy goldwork and I also have my own beehives. Bees are so interesting!
Thank you!
Catherine
Be still, my heart. They’re all so beautiful and I must mention how talented the people who did this are. I cannot choose among Honey Bee, Modern Crewel and Flowers of the sea. Honey Bee because I’ve always wanted to try gold work but was daunted by the cost of supplies and available kits. I like Modern Crewel because of the colour palette, the stumpwork and the various textures of the piece. Flowers of the sea is eye catching because it has movement, flora, fauna – the embroidery comes alive.
Thanks for the opportunity to win this.
You going to make three embroiderers ecstatic!
I would definitely pick chatelaine in red
…had browsed the inspirations kits after your first review Mary, and totally fell in love with it. The detail and love that goes into such a project appeals to me. I have never actually “finished” an embroidery project – as in, aftet the stitching (the fun part) is done I have projects that are backed or hemmed or in the car to be dropped off at the framers…but somehow just never got there. The fact that everything is available in the kit to complete at home – maybe this can be the first!
I would love to win the Small Change kit. I adore Hazel’s designs and have a couple of her books. I’d love to make a purse, but find the costs of the handles alone hard to justify.
Also, I am yet to tackle a Jacobean design so this would be a fantastic opportunity.
I have the last 4 years of Inspirations magazines and several older ones too.
I would choose Winter’s Song – i88 Kit, the reason would be, this reminds me of my mother whom is no longer with me. She loved birds and snow. We use to always sit and watch the birds and we also loved to sit together in the winter and have a cup of coffee together and watch it snow while we enjoyed each others company. I thank you for the chance to win! I would love to win this to also see what Inspirations Magazine is like, I have been wanting to order a subscription, but been wondering what is all inside 🙂
Oh, what a choice! I think I might just go for Les Hirondels as I watch the swallows flying around here all summer. I could have a second or third choice or….they are all so alluring.
I would choose the Chatelaine, a classically elegant design and my favorite type of embroidery.
Hi Mary
It’s a difficult choice, either Love Letters or Tea for Two.
Thanks for the chance to win.
Susan
This was difficult. So many beautiful projects! Winter Song would be my choice as I enjoy watching the birds in my garden and it would go very well in my “mom cave”
My choice would be Modern Crewel.I have been admiring crewel embroidery for some time and have just signed up for a beginners class at my local guild. This would make a great extension project building on the class.
This was difficult. So many beautiful projects! Winter’s Song would be my choice as I enjoy watching the birds in my garden and it would go very well in my “mom cave”
I would choose the Chatelaine in Red. I like the colors and would enjoy making something I could use every day.
My choice would be Christmas Bouquet. What better way to spend the spring months (in Australia) than stitching this beautiful item to be ready in time for
Christmas. Especially as the designer, Julie Kniedl lives only 2 hours away from our home town.
Barbara N
Dear Mary,
First of all, thank you for the chance to win and for all you are doing for the art of embroidery.
If the fortune smiles to me, I would choose either Chatelaine kit in pink, as I love art nouveau lines and colors and it is so much from it, besides I could make some usefull things for myself, or there’s another kit I like so much – the Flowers of the Sea, as sea is always my theme, I take much of inspiration from it, and the pattern of the kit is so lovely, besides it is such a perfect practice for me, as I’m just a beginner.
Thanks so much for the opportunity to win one of these fabulous kits.
If I am lucky enough to win I would choose Winter Song as I have always admired Trish Burrs Fluffy little birds.
Hi Mary!
So many beautiful kits, I liked many of them but I always go back to one kit; It is the Modern Crewel kit. I liked the design but mainly its colors (blue is my favorite color). It is so pretty. I can imagine it completed, framed and hung on my wall.
In the meantime I keep dreaming about it.
I would choose the Flowers of the Sea. I’m doing a quilt that has a fish swimming through coral. I also like Small Change and Resting Place. I was debating between those two, until I scrolled down and saw the fish. I subscribe to Inspirations Magazine online, so I guess if I don’t win, I’ll just have to find all the materials myself.
Dear Mary,
What a fantastic giveaway!
I would love to be able to embroider ‘The Prancer’. I love Trish Burr’s designs. This one is, as usual, so delicate and so beautiful with the subdued colours. Ever since I saw it in Inspirations, I have dreamed of embroidering it.
Very cordially
I would choose Tea for Two. I have a very special niece, whom I love very much, that really likes tea. This would be the perfect gift for her.
I would choose Susan Porter’s Modern Crewel Kit because of the amazing combination of colours she has worked into this design. Some of these threads are not readily available and I love the modern Turquoise and lime combination. Crewel techniques are a lot of fun and there are so many different elements to try.
I would pick Christmas Bauble. Such attention to detail, what a modern twist to an old favourite. Love stumpwork sure to be a family heirloom.
The Small Change clasp bag love it and need one at the moment. Save the pennies and they will reward you in pounds.
What a fantastic chance to win a beautiful Inspirations kit. The magazine is so inspiring as the title suggests, and the instructions for their projects unbeatable for depth and clarity. I would choose the chatelaine in red as my prize, it is both beautiful and practical. I have never had one of their kits before but I am so excited to be in with a chance to win one.
Sue in heat wave England.
I love love love Inspirations Magazine. I would dearly love to have the change purse, I have the chatelaine kit in my stash just waiting for me to begin it. Inspirations is an “inspirations” to us all. I really hope I win. Thank you so much!!!
I would choose Winter’s Song because of the lovely threadpainting technique. It’s so real that it pops right off the fabric. It is a very tough decision between that and Les Hirondelles, but the swallows look a little bit beyond my skill level.
Terri B
I absolutely love the tea cups. I can see myself spending many joyful hours stitching with those beautiful colours! The reward is a lovely needleworked piece to frame.
I love all of the Inspiration magazine kits and I know they are great value as I have purchased some in the past. My choice would be Chatelaine (red) by Susan O’Connor. I collect antique and vintage silver chatelaines and would love to add this wonderful embroidery design to my collection. Thank you for the opportunity to be part of this giveaway.
Oh, definitely the Honey Bee! Because I love bees and I’ve never tried gold work before.
I would choose the Chatelaine kit. It would be very special to stitch a reproduction of something ladies used in days gone by. When this kit was reviewed I was attracted to it right away, but it was too expensive.
I would choose the Honey Bee goldwork. I am currently learning goldwork via a wonderful tutorial through Craftsy with Lucy Barter who is a fabulous teacher, by the way. I love the intricacy of the stitchwork and hope to get much better at couching Japanese thread which has been my challenge. Love doing the cutwork though! Thanks!
Would love to stitch the pink chatelaine kit as it is so beautiful and would go with my embroidery bag!!
If I was lucky enough to win I would choose the Tulip hedebo sachet.
I have wanted to do hedebo for a long while and this kit is small enough for a learning piece and beautiful enough to be a special treasure.
Thank you Mary and Inspirations for such a wonderful giveaway.
Hi Mary, I would love to stitch the darling little Small Change
purse. The colors are so beautiful, and the difficulty level looks like I could stitch this project.
Love your blog! Thanks Karen
I would be thrilled to have the opportunity to have one of these kits. It would be hard to choose, but I think I would go with the honeybee kit. I have a special affection for bees, having grown up in the country. This goldwork design is gorgeous. I have my fingers crossed! The hardinger kit is also very tempting.
I would choose Love Letters, I’ve had a hankering to stitch some monograms for a while now and, as I’ve just redecorated my lounge I’m in need of lots of new cushions. Although Honey Bee is also lovely – I’ve never done any goldwork so it would be challenging!
Hello Mary..
Such a wonderful giveaway!! Each of these kits are so lovely. I would like to choose Modern Crewel..such a lovely colour combinations..and the various stitches that you could get to play with. If there is a second choice, I would go for Les Hirondelles kit, my little one just loved it. 🙂
I would pick the beautiful Chatelaine in Red. I would be the talk of all my sewing bees when I showed up to sew with that hanging around my neck. I so like to do the stitching and would not lose stuff under all the thread and fabric which would be really cool.
I am choosing Modern Crewel, because I never tried crewel embroidery, I want to learn crewel embroidery and I have fallen in love with this kit from the moment you made the review for Modern Crewel.
I love the crewel work kit- the colours are pretty and have done very little of this technique so would expand my skills and knowledge
The Tulip design appeals to me as it is so lacy looking, and I am a sucker for lace 🙂
Blessings
Maxine
Dear Mary,
Thanks for this generosity, if I could win………. I would like to go for
The Golden Bee.
(Where would we Bee without them)
BR.
Jan (yann)
I would choose the red Chatelaine kit. So beautiful with the Tudor rose and for storing all the necessaries for an avid embroiderer.
I would love the chatelaine project! Absolutely beautiful!
Dear Mary,
After reading your review of the Chatelaine project, I would pick that kit in red. Most of my recent project picks are useful ones, and a chatelaine one would be perfect. I love the Inspirations magazine because it has so many beautiful projects for so many types of needlework.
Suzanne
I’m stuck between two kits at the moment…the Winter’s Song because it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve seen and the red Chatelaine because it’s exquisite. I’d never in a million years be able to afford to buy either of them but one of those two would be my choice if I did win…probably the Chatelaine.
Hi Mary,
I subscribe to the electronic version of Inspiration magazine as I absolutely adore it, and have done for years. I love their projects, but haven’t bought a kit because of postage cost. My absolute favourite kit would be the stunning Prancer in white work, and it would be a first attempt at this technique. I would be proud to have him on the wall being able to say ‘I made him myself ‘! My second choice would be the Modern Crewel picture with its wonderful bright colours.
To be honest I would be happy with any of the kits as they are all beautiful, and I just love embroidery of all kinds. I started with cross stitch aged 11, and was instantly hooked. Have done hardanger thanks to my lovely designer friend Vicki at India Grace Design(UK). I even did some model stitching for her. Love it!
Thank you for a chance to win a wonderful giveaway!
Ylva in Inellan, Argyll & Bute, Scotland
Hello, I would choose Garden Fresh because it’s so beautifully intricate and would make a fantastic conversation starter. Having studied at the Royal School of Needlework, this would be amazing to sink my teeth into as it’s the only stitch I haven’t fully developed. Good luck to all others who enter. 🙂
I’d choose Blossom, the white work kit for the simplicity of being constrained to one color and the luxury of the stitching.
My choice is Christmas bouquet, why…? Because this is the project that I sent onto a FB friend who then decided to organise a “12 months of Christmas FB group” where each member of the group is supposed to make/create an ornament each month. And what have I done, I haven’t completed anything the entire time but I’ve found the ornament stand and the bauble on which to put the 3D creation I just don’t have the threads!
I have been wanting to make a chatelaine to organise all the bibs and bobs in one place for many years, I love the red kit and it would be the perfect prompt to get started
They are all beautiful & I would be greatful for any one of them. If I won I would love the Modern Crewel kit, I love the colours & would love to finally like to do a Crewel embroidery.
I would be so excited and grateful to win the Honeybee kit.
I have completed several thread paintings and stumpworks (incl the bauble) and a crewelwork piece, but I have never attempted goldwork.
Being a lover of stitching things from nature, Alison Cole’s honeybee would be the perfect introduction to goldwork techniques.
I would love either Les Hirondelles or the Red Chatelaine the are both beautiful.
I would love the Honey Bee because it is elegant and luscious and ‘goldwork’ sounds so noble.
Thank you for organising this giveaway.
P.S. If Inspirations happen to run out of the Honey Bee kit, I’d love Prancer, as would love to keep practising this technique and the colour combination is soothing.
Thank you for the chance to win one of these lovely kits. If I should happen to win I would choose the “Resting Place. I have recently had a class in Hardanger and this piece would be the perfect way to go forward from there.
G’day Mary,
Keeping us happily interested as always. Thanks to Inspirations and yourself for this opportunity.
Chatelaine (Pink). To choose for myself or as a gift, that was the question. The solution? Both! I’d use this Chatelaine with great satisfaction and in time it would be gifted to my Granddaughter, now seven, who has dexterous fingers and a mind to match for embroidery, including xstitch, graph and chart reading, knitting, etc. She adores her Nanna : ) and would treasure this Chatelaine lovingly.
The softish colours, lifted by the touch of gold, are especially appealing. The symmetrically ordered design is soothing to my wacky mind.
Just checked back and it’s one you’ve reviewed and will do with us sometime! Great choice Kathleen! Win or not, it’s been enlightening to give this some genuine thought.
Cheers, Kath.
I absolutely love the Chatelaine kit (red). I really love doing fine embroidery and goldwork and I this chatelaine would be an absolute beauty to add to my work basket.
I have already purchased Christine Bishop’s Hebedo sachet, but also love the Robin (i88) and I do need to practice my thread-painting!
I love the pink chatelaine kit. It is so interesting to read everyone’s thoughts about why they like a particular kit. I love how the Gold and pink work together. Thank you.
Thank you for this wonderful chance to win a kit.
The kit I would like to win is “Resting place.”
My adventure into embroidery has made a huge difference to the quality of my life. The challenge of the learning and the immense variety of genres helps to keep my mind active and has been fantastic therapy for my hands. Embroidery has given me an emotional “Resting place” and that is so very precious. In the last few years I have learnt Blackwork, cross stitching, Speciality stitches and thoroughly enjoy doing them. I would love to try Hardanger and a kit would be a wonderful starting point.
Prancer is calling to me. He is so lively and I love the different patterns and colours. Hope he comes to decorate my walls.
I’d pick the Chatelaine in red. I’ve never used Au ver a Soie silk thread and this is a lovely project to try it out.
Fingers crossed I get my chance to use it!
If I won a kit, I would choose Garden Fresh. I have been learning stumpwork for about two years, and I won a second at the local agricultural Fair last year. That ear of sweetcorn stumpwork looks good enough to eat, but also it will be a very challenging. I would like to complete it and enter it a Scottish Women’s Rural Institute show. Having all the right materials for such a project, and against competitors who are far more experienced than myself, I would be supremely happy to have a small chance for a ticket of commendation. ~ Sally-Ann
If I was to win, I would chose the Chatelaine (pink). I have had a fascination with Chatelaines ever since I have heard about them, and this kit is just exquisite.
For me it has to be Garden Fresh. I absolutely love stumpwork and this really does look good enough to eat.
Please Pick Me! If I am so blessed to be a winner, I will pick the beautiful Inspirations kit “Small Change”. I LOVE this pretty coin purse because of the vibrant stitched threads on a dark background. The lovely, historical Jacobean pattern and overall design of the coin purse is ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS! I envision passing this heirloom quality purse to my grand daughter and her daughter (hopefully) one day. Thank you for the opportunity to enter this fabulous giveaway and your wonderful newsletter – I am truly a winner every time it arrives in my inbox! – Robin
What a wonderful give away! I would choose the chatelaine kit in red, it is gorgeous!
I love all the whitework choices, but the small change purse is something I would love to try, and the fact that it was designed by Hazel Blomkamp is another plus. Love them all!
I have wanted the modern crewel kit ever since you reviewed it, i love the use of traditional embroidery done in a modern, fresh, zingy way, so that is what i would choose if I win.
Thank you so much for the fabulous give away. I would choose the chatelaine kit. I have been searching for drool worthy pattern for ages and this one definitely fits the bill.
If I won I would definitely choose the Love Letters kit. I have always been crazy about monograms, and this one is so lovely.
Modern Crewel is my favorite! I started out learning embroidery as a young girl and moved onto crewel work but somehow during our many moves the piece has been lost. Also, the colors of this kit are my favorite. It’s gorgeous and I’ve lusted for it since I first laid eyes on it.
I would choose the pink chatelaine. Before finding your site with all the helpful tutorials, I would not even have attempted such a project. Now, thanks to you Mary, I am encouraged to try. Having your expertise and help through every step makes me sure that I CAN do this. Thanks for all you do!
Good day!
All kits are beautiful but I will like to do Prancer by Trish Burr. I find this one done with very unusual technique… beautiful picture done with beautiful coloring. It’s simply stunning!
Good luck to all of us!
I just love all the Inspirations kits. But between the ones that can be chosen, the honeybee is my favourite.
Thank you for the giveaway. Such nice prizes! I think I would choose either the robin or the bee. I have not done gold work before (and love bees) and have admired Trish Burr’s designs for a long time now. It would be nice to get the chance to choose.
I love them all but feel Flowers of the Sea
is the one for me. That is only because I
have to choose
///i find myself greatly inspired by how closely the kit with the swallows reminds me of a lot of my own painting s// & would be greatly intrested in the challenge and apperative of the beauty // & thats what keeps embroidry timelessly theraputic & exciting//
Given a choice i would choose the red chatelaine because i have always fancied having something that pretty to organise my sewing and i also fancy maybe being able to pass it on to my niece one day – history continuing – somehow appropriate.
Hi Mary. What a wonderful opportunity to win a lovely kit. I would choose the Les Hirondelles kit. I love the colours and we had swallows nesting on the verandah on the farm house where we spent happy family holidays. They bring back childhood memories…
Thanks for the wonderful website and an opportunity to win such a nice embroidery kit. If I were to win I would choose “Small Change.” This project includes a nice variety of stitches to learn, and the functionality of the finished project really appeals to me.
This would be a gift for a special niece who is very involved the history of embroidery.
Hi Mary,
I would pick the “Small Change” Purse because it is so cute and it is a Hazel Blomkamp design so it must be wonderful! Thanks for the chance to win. Hope you are feeling better today.
Connie
Well I failed to name the kit I would choose. Can I cancel my first entry? The red chatelaine kit, my favorite, would be a perfect gift for a niece who studies the history of needle work. Lynne
Hi Mary! I would choose the Modern Crewel kit. Although I love all forms of embroidery, I believe that crewel is my favorite. The colors in this kit are amazing. Thanks to Inspirations Magazine for this giveaway. And thanks to you for your blog!
I would choose the Modern Crewel kit. Something about the colors just speaks to me! After you discussed this one recently, I just had to have the magazine in which it appeared. If I could win the kit, I would be over the moon. I’ve been wanting to get back into crewel and this is just the excuse I need!
I would choose Honeybee as I ventured into Goldwork recently and would really enjoy stitching this. I beleive it would stretch my skill.
I would choose Prancer because I love the simplicity of it. The color palette is great.
I’d have to agree with some of the others – so hard to choose! I think I’d have to go with Chatelaine though. Practical use AND I’d get to try out a bit of gold work? Yes, please 🙂 Thanks to Mary and Inspirations for the opportunity to win. I hope whoever the winners are, they get a ton of joy out of their kits.
I love Inspirations magazine and the kits are wonderful. I have purchased one of their kits before and it was perfect. There are so many beautiful choices, but I would choose Honey Bee. Goldwork would be a new challenge for me.
What a choice, how often to get to choose from such wonderful kits, makes it difficult! I would choose Modern Crewel Kit, love crewel, love the colors, love the design, but I loved all the kits!
I would choose the Modern Crewel. I done traditional embroidery and currently do cross stitch, primarily. But after following Mary’s work and, more recently, that of Helen Blomkamp,and I would very much like to learn a new technique. This would be the perfect vehicle .
I would love to win the golden bumble bee. I haven’t tried goldwork yet but he looks so beautiful I would love to see him framed and hanging on my living room wall.
I would pick the red Chatelaine kit. There are a few reasons for this.
1. I love pre-1900s history and especially the medieval times, so the chance to win a chatelaine makes me completely giddy.
2. I love the fact that it would be more than just an ornament but also practical, I have been raised to see that practicality is an important, more so than decoration which is why embroidery is a bit of a luxury for me not only because I am an university student but it lets be create something that would be for purely decorative purposes.
3.It would be a chance for me to create something for myself as everything else has been for my friends and family
4. It would be a challange, but I would be able to prove to myself that I can do more than I think.
Sorry for the essay Mary 😛 Thank you for the opportunity to win something as beautiful as this.
Hope you are well
After much deliberation, I’m picking the Modern Crewel kit. It’s got colors I love, a modern look, and it uses stitches I’d love to try, so I think I’d really enjoy the process of making this small jewel.
Thanks so much for this wonderful giveaway! I just discovered Inspirations magazine a year ago and have since become a dedicated subscriber. I’d have a hard time choosing a kit, and would be torn between Trish Burr’s Winter’s Song (I love her work and have all her books)or the Love Letters – both of which I’d likely do as a gift for my mother. The Pink Chatelaine is also tempting, but I’d make that one as a special treasure for myself!
I would love to embroider and make “Small Change” the kit for an adorable change purse. I’ve always wanted to make on and this one is gorgeous. It would be a bit of a challenge for me and might make me up my game a bit!
Hi Mary,
I would without doubt choose Les Hirondelles – I 89.
I have an ongoing collection of needle painted birds but this is one I haven’t stitched and it looks luscious. I must have it !
I love your blog. Keep up the good work and know my thoughts and prayers are with you.
Kathryn K
I would choose the thread painted robin by Trish Burr because I have a wall of birds! I love threadpainting because of the gorgeous detail! They are all beautiful however!!!
Definitely modern crewel. My goodness! What a lovely choice of colors. Just looking at its picture makes me happy.
I struggled to get the choice down to two. I’m a SCUBA diver so flowers of the sea is just beautiful to me and reminds me of dives in the Red Sea with the clown fish hiding amongst anemones, however the red chatelaine is so perfect. The symmetry, the colours, the right amount of bling, the historical feel. If pushed, I think the chatelaine probably just wins it.
Hi Mary, it is difficult to choose. I would choose either one of the following three (if still have a few days to make up my mind before the winning day, if I do win, lol): Small change, because I had a class with Hazel Blomkamp and never started the project I bought because it was too big. This one is just right for me not to be discouraged!
I also like a lot Tulip, because I love every whitework technique and haven’t done hedebo before and this project is so cute.
I also like Honey bee. I have never done goldwork and would love to do that. I met with Alison Cole at Embroidery Association of Canada’s Seminar last Spring and I like her enthousiasm. I really wish I am the winner, even though I will have to make a hard choice.
I would love to stitch tea for two. Inspirations’ 90th issue was a delight cover to cover. But this lovely sisters was my favorite. I hope I can win them.
Choosing only one is not easy but I would probably choose Modern Crewel. The design is beautiful, the colors are exquisite, and it has a fair number of different stitches. Modern Crewel it is, or maybe the Gold Bee, or the red Chatelaine.
They all look gorgeous but I would choose the Chatelaine kit in red…one of my favourite colours! Also, I’ve never stitched in Soie d’Alger and after reading about how much Mary loves it, I would certainly love to try it too!
The Modern Crewel kit would be my dream choice. The colors are exquisite and a gift to cmplete for my Mother who will be 82 in June. She taught me to love needlework at a very young age.
Gosh, it’s hard to choose, everything the Inspirations people do is wonderful. I think I would most love to do the Chatelaine kit in either red or pink. It would challenge my skills and give me a great chance to show off to those who most appreciate my embroidery, my wonderful guild mates.
I would like to choose the small change kit. This has such a beautiful vintage look. thank you for the opportunity of winning a kit. All of them are so beautiful.
As just about everyone else has said, it is very, very hard to choose. The chatelaines are gorgeous, I love the little bee, and on and on. But I think I would choose “garden fresh,” the corn cob because I just love dimensional embroidery and I would love to try some different techniques.
I would choose the Honey Bee kit. During this last year I have been experimenting with different hand embroidery techniques and Goldwork is on my list to try.
If I am chosen, I would love the Chatelaine (Red) kit. Thank you for running this contest.
I’ve been a member of a branch of The Queensland Embroiderer’s Guild for ten years now. We have a lovely assortment of beautiful china cups and saucers in our kitchen for our use. It is lovely to use this beautiful china whilst taking a break from beautiful, inspiring work. I’d love to work the kit, “Tea for Two”, given the opportunity. Thankyou Mary for your part in inspiring and encouraging embroidery around the world.
Thanks so much for the chance to win one of these beautiful projects. After much, much thought, I think I would like to do Small Change. I love the bright happy colours and would love to learn a new finishing technique by making the purse
I love several kits but flowere of the sea I think is the one I would pick. It is beautiful and looks like it would be fun and educational to work.
Hope you are doing well, you are in my prayers.
Hi Mary,
What a hard decision! I think I would pick the Goldwork bee. I’ve made another Goldwork bee and just loved the techniques. I’ve been dreaming of this bee ever since my magazine arrived. I also love Susan’s chatelaine and have taken classes with her and finished several of her pieces but the Bee has won out for top of the list. Now I hope I win him! Especially since it was your posts that introduced me to Goldwork in the first place!
You’re the best,
Vickie
I love stumpwork and Goldwork. I love to wine The Honey Bee Kit.
The kit I would pick is Winter Song. I adore robins and I love the way Trish has portrayed this little fellow in thread. I would love the opportunity to stitch this kit.
If I won, I’d choose the “Prancer” kit – it’s so fun and whimsical!
I would choose the Chatelaine in red. My embroidery tools need additional beautification, and it is beautiful! Plus, I could never afford it on my own.
Hello Mary,
Thank you for that giveaway offer and giving us this chance to win a superb kit. The choice is difficult as many kits are so beautiful. But, I definetly chose “the Flowers of the sea” for several reasons : first, the colors – so bright, so vivid ; second, the stitches used for the different fruits of the sea – which one for the Sea Gorgon for exemple; and last but not least, because I’m deeply into wild life at the moment, starting drawing projects in embroidery concerning animals scenary, endangered species in particular … and that’s exactly what I’m in !
Tea for Two would be my choice. I have an antique collection of tea cups that were handed down to me from my Mom. We always drank tea after supper growing up, and I still drink tea after supper with my husband. Tea for Two would be perfect in my home!!
I would choose Modern Crewel. Many years ago I was introduced to crewel embroidery while watching Erica Wilson’s show on PBS. I finished several pieces and then life got in the way. This kit will give me an opportunity to revisit the technique.
I would pick the gold work bee kit. I watched it being worked on a blog last year and thought it was absolutely gorgeous.
Difficult choice! I would choose the “Small Change” kit. I have read Inspirations for years and actually lived in Australia for 20 years. I have always wanted to make a small purse with beads and thread and these colors are me!
Thank you for this opportunity!
Kim G
I would choose the pink chatelaine. It is beautiful and it would help me to keep track of my supplies so I would have more time to stitch!
I think the Chatelaine kit is beautiful and I especially love it in red. I would choose that kit, for the (slightly) challenging new techniques and because the finished stitching project can be put to use doing even more stitching!
Trish Burr or Hazel Blomkamp kits. I would love to try crewel embroidery, have bought books on it. Just have to find the courage to take the plunge.
If I win I would pick the Chatelain kit in red.
I would definitely choose Modern Crewel! I have been fascinated with Jacobean style embroidery, and this kit would be perfect for me to try this style!
I would love to win the Chateline in Pink. I have a passion for needle keepers, fobs, and scissor sheaths. I could never justify purchasing such and expensive kit but to win one and to be able work with such quality products would be a delight.
Oh my! There are so many beautiful kits! However I narrowed it down to the small change purse. It is so pretty and useful! Thank you for a chance to win!
It’s a three way tie! Can’t choose between A Resting Place, Honey Bee and Christmas Bouquet. They’re all stunning! Also I’ve never tried a hardinger, gold work or stump work project…. I’ll be delighted with any of them!
Oh the choices! As is usual, my eye is drawn towards the vibrant colors that splash across the Modern Crewel kit. I’m a sucker for the flashy 🙂
Hello Mary,
What a lovely contest! I would absolutely, no questions asked, hands down choose the Tea for Two. Why? I’m an avid tea drinker and would love to put those up in my kitchen. Love the fact that they have beads AND thread to work with.
Thanks for the fun opportunity,
April H
To choose or not to choose! I love all of these projects but if I were a winner I would have to go with the modern crewel (love those colors and textures) or flowers of the sea, also very beautiful but then again….
I would choose “Flowers of the Sea” because it made me smile instantly the first time I saw it. Thanks for the opportunity!
What a wonderful position to be in to be spoiled for choice.
I am very tempted by the exquisite Hardanger of Resting Place or the Modern Crewel you so temptingly reviewed.
In the end though I would select Small Change, as a way to explore Hazel Blomkamp’s style and end with an eminently usable piece to boot.
Truth be told I might end up changing some of the colors, but then I can never leave well enough alone.
Thanks to you and Inspirations for offering this lovely opportunity.
They are all so beautiful but I would choose the chatelaine kit. It would make the time that I can embroider very special whilst using such lovely accessories.
My favourite kit is the Chatelaine (Red). I subscribe to the Inspirations magazine, and have wanted to try this kit since I first saw it. Get very excited every time I see the magazine on the door mat.
Ella Richards from Southampton, UK.
I would choose Love Letter because I just bought monogram e-book from Needle’n Thread website last week and I have been practicing. A perfect timing to be motivated to finish the real project.
If I was lucky enough to be chosen, I would pick the red chatelaine. I would make it for a very good gardener friend of mine and it would remind her of the flowers in her garden and that I made it,as she knows red is my favourite colour. Good luck to everyone !
Should I be so fortunate to win one of these lovely kits, any would be amazing! However, having read your tutorial on the Chatelaine, I immediately wanted to do this project. I have a friend who sews amazing things, (I am the embroiderer). This would be a perfect Christmas gift/keepsake for her! She would treasurer it forever and there is plenty of time to complete it for the holidays. i89 Chatelaine #89 – pink
If I win I would like the modern crewel kit because I love the contrast of colors with the turquoises and seafoam greens. And, I have always wanted to try my hand at crewel but afraid to and this project is small enough that I could do it
If I had to pick just one kit, it would be the Red Chatelaine. There are many other projects I’d like to do, but this is one where the kit would be the easiest way to get all the materials together. It’s a beautiful project – one I’d really like to try stitching some time!
Mary in MN
I just love the Inspirations Magazine and always wonder why it is we cannot buy on the shelf here in Canada. I subscribe and would love, love, love to do the Chateleine kit as it is beautiful as well as having a practical use. I have the magazine sitting at home ready! Thanks, Mary, for revealing the magazine to me years ago.
This was hard! But I instantly picked the small change purse – I would feel so much “richer” to carry my change in such a beautiful purse! The gorgeous design and colors helped win me over. Thank you for the generous/hopeful inspiration.
Les Hirondelles – i89 Kit
This one looks really sessile plus I love birds. Although I think I was going through them for half an hour.
Although Honey Bee and Modern Crewel…. Ahh no… The bird. The bird is so beautiful. Im going to close the thing down so I’ll stop stairing at them.
Ahhhh
I think Small Change looks delightful. But so does Tea for Two, Love Letters and Prancer.
Forgot to mention why – I love Hazel Blomkamp’s designs and the kit includes the purse frame making final assembly a real possibility.
If I win,I would love to choose the Les Hirondelles – i89 Kit. It is so beautiful and would be a wonderful experience for a beginner like me to work on.
Thank you Mary for this opportunity.
Sandhya
Hi, Thank you for the opportunity to win the Inspirations embroidery kit! The are all beautiful but if I won I would like to win the Tea for Two set. I have the perfect place for it above my server. The images are very sweet and I know they would inspire a few of my friends to pick up the needle!! Thank you Mary, I love this blog and look forward to every post!
Ginny M
I would pick the modern crewel. The colors are absolutely beautiful.
It was very hard to choose just one of these gorgeous kits but I would pick the red Chatelaine kit. I have long wanted to try my hand at goldwork worked with silk and I would love to have such beautiful accessories when I stitch. It would also be a nice project to work along with you on, Mary.
I would pick the red Chatelaine. I liked Mary’s review on it and I love doing needlework of all kinds.
I’m having a hard time choosing between Honey Bee,Flowers of the Sea , and Chatelaine Red. They each contain techniques that I am working on/learning now and would help in my progression as an embroiderer. Since I seem to prefer working on smalls, I will opt for the Chatelaine.
If I win, I will pick either the “Honey Bee” kit or the “Chatelaine (red)” kit, because I have never done goldwork or silk embroidery before, and I would like to try them both. I will probably choose the “Honey Bee” because it’s smaller, so I’m more likely to actually finish it in a timely manner 🙂
Love the Chatelaine in red though Winter’s Song is a close second.
Already stitched the holly & ivy leaves of the Christmas Bouquet & started the cauliflower pincushion by same designer. When the corncob project appeared on my subscriber copy of Inspirations, I mentally set that as a future goal: so the opportunity to win “Garden Fresh” makes a priority today. Not that you wouldn’t keep me busy as a bee with that challenging goldwork kit here in SF.
They’re all so gorgeous! But if I won, I would pick the Small Change kit, it just keeps drawing my eye back to it, I especially just really love the color combination. Flowers of the Sea also really grabbed me, but out of the two I think I would enjoy working on Small Change more. Thank you for this chance to win!
Thank you, Mary for a delightful and generous contest.
I choose “Flowers of the Sea” in honor of my daughter who called me recently from the North Atlantic to say this, “Mom, thank you for teaching me to scuba dive when the two of us lived on Maui. I have now scuba dived from every ocean and off of every continent in the world. I love you!” What a terrific message from my dear daughter.
She and I scuba dived many times and are very familiar with the scene depicted in “Flowers of the Sea”. The scene depicts the necessity of preserving coral and tropical fish in their habitat. PLEASE DO NOT PICK THESE FLOWERS would be a good subtitle. 🙂
If I am the winner, may I please transfer my win to Margaret Harrelson who submitted “Honey Bee”? Her story is compelling.
I just tried to order the bee kit from Inspirations website, howeer, the shipping to U.S, is $48.00. That seems excessive, so I am going to pass. FYI
I would choose Tulip. I am very interested in learning about Hedebo work,
Schwam and other kinds of drawn thread work.
Looking through those kits has me drooling! The Chatelaine would be so fun to stitch along with you, but my heart is set on Tea for Two. I’m teaching a couple girls embroidery, and we drink a lot of it as we’re stitching. The girls would love to learn on those adorable teacups!
Chatelaine, definitely, in red. SO beautiful, and I actually need a needlebook.
Of course, I also want Modern Crewel; I love the colors (I’d want Small Change, too, but the embroidery would self-destruct in no time, in my purse). AND Resting Place because I’ve been thinking about learning Hardanger for a while. And . . . and . . . but if I can only do one, Chatelaine is my favorite.
HOW CAN ONE CHOOSE!!!! i LOVE THEM ALL. i WOULD HAVE TO SAY MY NUMBER ONE WOULD BE THE fLOWERS OF THE SEA. wE HAVE A BEACH CABIN ON THE WATER AND IT WOULD BE PERFECT FOR THERE. tHE COLORS OF WATER AND SUCH.sUPER CONTEST.sANDI
I would pick the Chatelaine Kit in RED – I have always wanted to make one and this one is beautiful.
It’s a tough decision, the designs are all lovely and nearly all use techniques that are new to me. In the end though my favourite is Winter’s Song; it’s a style of embroidery I really want to master and with such a beautiful design to inspire me I’d definitely achieve it.
Just love the Inspirations magazine! If chosen, I would select the Small Change kit.
I would pick the Chalelaine Kit because I have been eyeing it ever since I saw it in Inspirations magazine. I am planning on investing in a very good pair of embroidery scissors next year and what a beautiful way to keep them in good order! Thank you so much for this offer.
All of these kits are lovely!
But if I were to win this give-away, I would chose the Red Chatelaine i89.
I have been thinking of making myself a pretty chatelaine for awhile now.
My sister gave me some pieces like scissors and a needle case, that she picked up on her trip to Italy, a couple of years ago. But it needs embroidered pieces to put it all together.
And I just haven’t been motivated to do it,lol.
I love inspirations magazine and would cherish s truth burr kit. I’ve been working on some needle painting projects and find them to be enthralling. Trish Burr is at the top in this particular specialty
Josn
I love inspirations magazine and would cherish s truth burr kit. I’ve been working on some needle painting projects and find them to be enthralling. Trish Burr is at the top in this particular specialty
Joan
The red chatelaine is my favourite pattern, it is stylish yet practical.
I love all the kits and love to embroidery. I would choose the chatelaine as I have a sweet granddaughter who loves to embroidery also and I would love to make this for her Christmas present!
I would chose Winter’s Song. I’ve been wanting to try a needle painting project for a long time and I find Trish Burr’s borda really inspire me. They arte so lovable. Thank you Mary
All kits are pretty and beautiful….
Was impressed with the movies….finding Nemo and finding dory…..
My favorite kit is the flowers of the sea….
I also like Trisha burrs kits…
Will consider myself lucky to win either of these kits…..or any other…..
Enjoy your embroidery expertise…..
thanks….
I would choose the Chatelaine Red Set, because it’s so beautiful. The colours are amazing and the stitching is so delicate. I’ve admired it ever since you reviewed it, but as a student this is far, far out of my price range.
Dear Mary,
I would choose the Resting Place kit because I love counted work, tone-on-tone, and white pieces.
Happy stitches,
Kaethe Pittman
I love Inspirations Magazine & all their beautiful projects. I’ve been wanting to try one of their kits, but haven’t decided which one to order. What a great opportunity to win one here! I would be happy with any one of the offerings, but I think my favorite is the Christmas stumpwork piece. I’ve done a little stumpwork & would love to further my techniques with this kit. A close second favorite is the pink chatelaine.
Thanks again Mary for the chance to win one of these fabulous kits!
Julie H.
Hello, I love the “Tea for Two” kit. Before we downsized I had a beautiful collection of tea cups and tea pots that I was not able to take with me and I really miss them, however, I do have room for these two little cuties and they look like they would be fun to make up. Thank you for such a fun give away.
I’ve been enjoying your kit reviews, and fell in love with the beautiful Chatelaine you featured, in the pink colourway! It’s the kind of classic embroidery that I’ve always been drawn towards but have never been brave enough to try stitching 😉
Thank you very much for hosting such wonderful Giveaways, this one is very Grand indeed! Good luck to the many other entrants as well.
If I won this give-a-way, I would choose the red chatelaine kit. I have done some basic goldwork and also used Au ver a soie threads on a limited basis and found I love working with both. This would be a further exploration into the goldwork genre…..and the product a very beautiful one!
Thank you, Mary, for giving us a chance for these beautiful kits….and for all you do to bring the beautiful stitching world to our doorsteps.
My pick is the red chatelaine kit, I have been admiring this one in particular for quite awhile. After reading your review, I am really in love with it now! I have been hoping to stretch my savings to make an order for one of these kits, they are all so fabulous!! With an opportunity to win one….gotta be crazy not to get my name in the mix. 🙂
there are so many pretty ones
I guess it is between Flowers of the Sea or Les Hironelles or small change
If I were to win I would pick the pink Chatelaine kit. I love the fact that it is not only beautiful, but also functional. Also, I’ve been looking for a good needle book pattern and this would fulfill my needs nicely. The whole set would be nice to take with me when I’m working on a project “on the go.”
I would choose Prancer – the contemporary white work piece. I have not tried white work yet and love the holiday designs.
wow this is a hard choice but if I were to win I would want the honey bee, just because I am dying to try gold work and have been to timid to try it
If I win I would probaly choose the Chatelaine pink kit. Hope I win..
Oh – how can I choose???? The Red Chatelaine is certainly a favorite. I would pick it because I love stitching projects that are useful items that I can use daily in my stitching and admire their beauty.
I would pick the Modern Crewel kit because I love the stylized flowers and the colors.
I would choose modern crewel because I love green and turquoise used together and I haven’t done much crewel embroidery in the past. I love that it uses several different stitches including the trellis stitches. They are just so beautiful to look at and figure out how they were stitched.
I would pick the crewel kit, I havent been brave enough to try this yet & a kit definitely is the way to go! Thankyou for the chance!
What a wonderful opportunity. My first choice would be the Red Chatelaine kit. I love chatelaines and this one is reminiscent of Elizabethan motifs. I also want the opportunity to worjk with silk thread on Silk satin. And lastly, this kit gives me the chance to try goldwork for beginners. If this kit is unavailable I would choose the honeybee for the opportunity to try goldwork. Or alternatively Trish Burrs Winter Song just because I love her work so much.
Mary Kinsey
I would choose Winter’s Song, what a beautiful Robin print. Thank you so much for offering this giveaway!
I have chosen (Winter’s Song – i88 kit).
Because of my passion for birds. This particular one looks real, and that’s exactly want I need, because I decorate my bedroom with embroidered birds, yes, I frame them.
The “Love Letters” really caught my eye. Beautiful!
I would choose Modern Crewel. I have an affinity for Jacobean Style Crewel. The colors in this kit are what attracted me to it right away.
All the kits are very beautiful.
Thank you for this lovely chance to win.
Marlene
Mary thanks for providing another great opportunity to experience a kit from a leader in the embroidery world. Inspirations magazine is my go to magazine for “inspiration”. Love it!
But to the question: which kit would I select: tough choice as any would be exciting to work on but my first choice would be the chatelaine by Susan O’Connor. It would be the next best thing to taking a class with Susan O’Connor.
I also enjoy stitching a collecting needlework related items. It’s a beautiful design.
Susie
Modern Crewel for me! The colors and pattern are beautiful and I’m very drawn to crewel work. So many wonderful stitches and textures. Thank you, Mary.
As a fan of Christine Bishop and able to attend her classes here in South Australia I would choose the Tulip. I love any form of cutwork and would like to try Hedebo. I have been thinking about purchasing this kit for a while, so have got my fingers crossed.
Dear Mary,
I would love to do the Modern Crewel embroidery kit. I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of working with wool thread, it’s such a unique and cozy feeling material. I especially love the designs for crewel embroidery in general.
If I was lucky enough to win I would definitely chose Chatelaine. I’ve loved it since it was featured on the blog but would never be able to afford it.
I would love to win the Modern Crewel Embroidery kit. I have borrowed the Inspirations Magazine (#90) from our Embroiderer’s Guild Library, and have decided to make this as my first attempt at Hazel Blomkamp style of embroidery. I love the way she uses colour and have wanted to try one of her designs for some time now. As a smaller project hopefully I will find this a good introduction.
As I have been wanting to attempt a Hazel Blomkamp embroidery for some time now I would be thrilled to win this kit. Her designs are inspiring.
The Modern Crewel Kit by Hazel Blomkamp is beautiful and I would love the opportunity to try it as my first attempt at crewel style work
I fell in love with the pink chatelaine the moment I opened my copy of Inspirations. This fantastic magazine offers a kit that would challenge my embroidery skills but would be so useful and a beautiful addition to my sewing kit. For this reason it would be my kit of choice if I’m lucky enough to win.
Thank you for the opportunity to win one of those beautiful kits. My choice would be the “Small Change”. I have always loved Jacobean designs and the stunning contrast of colors against the dark background makes it even more striking.
I would pick up the Modern Crewel Kit as I like historic embroidery, crewel, Jacobean and recently I got interested in American sampler. Crewel & Jacobean is a paradise of stitches while samplers teach a lot about history in a given region. Thank you for such a grand give away. Warm regards.
If I won, I would choose Winter’s Song (i88) by Trish Burr. It’s a lovely holiday design. Inspirations certainly gets our fingers itching to take up our needle and create. Thank you, Mary!
Katrina M
Carmichael, CA
If I were to win, I would choose the Honey Bee kit as I’ve long admired your beautiful gold work but have been hesitant to try. This would definitely give me incentive to try something new. Thank you.
I would choose the Chatelaine kit in red because, not only is it beautiful, it seems like a good introduction into gold work, a side of embroidery I hope to learn one day, and because the end result is very functional. Challenging, gorgeous, and functional- hard to beat that!
I would love to have the goldwork honeybee. My great-grandfather immigrated to Texas from the town of Stein am Rhine in Switzerland. The family crest included 3 honeybees over a bee skep. I have been looking for an embroidery pattern related to my family history. I just finished a Brazilian Dimensional embroidery flower sampler, so I need a new embroidery project.
What a terrific opportunity. Thanks ever so much. I’d choose Love Letters just to have something by Elisabetta Sforza. I found her blog from one of your posts. Her work is exquisite.
What a nice giveaway. If I were to choose a kit I believe It would be either the love leter kit or the tea for two I would do one of these kits and give the finished project as a gift. Many thanks for the give away.
I would definitely choose ‘small change’ as it has so many of the elements I love in surface embroidery, crewel work with some shading(not unlike needle painting) and beading, which was my first love. It’s a gorgeous design with a beautiful, varied colourscheme, and best of all, for me, it is a piece of embroidery with a purpose… Becoming a very pretty purse. I have put aside too many projects part way through because I just didn’t know what I was going to do with the finished piece, framing can get expensive! I think the fact that it will be an item I can use will encourage me to keep going if it gets tough or my mind wanders to other projects, because I want that embroidered purse!
Everything Inspirations produce is beautiful – so hard select just one kit! However the kit I would love to bring to life is “Les Hirondelles” – being a bird lover, the swallows would be wonderful to work, and I would enjoy seeing them flying around my home.
What a truly lovely thing for Inspirations to do – such generous give-a-ways.
All the kits are so lovely it’s hard to choose. I would pick Tea for Two because I know I could complete this project and they would look lovely in my dining room.
I would choose the pink chatelaine kit. It would be beyond my skill to make at the moment, but would certainly motivate to improve enough to make it.
That modern Crewel kit is absolutely gorgeous, and your info on it clinches it – I’d pick that one!
Wow! What an opportunity! I felt like a kid in a candy store! Hardanger is so elegant. Goldwork is beautiful, and investing in supplies is out of my reach. I decided that the realism and beauty of Trish Burr’s thread painted winter bird is too much the resist! I would love to learn Trish’s technique. This project looks like a great learning opportunity and a compact, doable, pattern! Not mention that my teenage daughter told me, “Do this one, Mom! It is so, so pretty!” Who can resist an approval like that?
If I were to be chosen as a winner, my choice would be the Chatelaine (red) i 89 Kit. It is such an elegant trio of accessories to create, make and use for all of my personal hand embroidery projects. The details are gorgeous and I would be so proud to have completed this kit it would be a heirloom to pass onto my daughter. Thank you for the opportunity!
If I won the giveaway, I would pick the Love Letters kit because I have long admired Elisabetta’s work and follow her blog. I’ve also spent the past few months focusing on my monogramming skills, and it would be a thrill to give a floral monogram a whirl.
I like Tea For Two because I love having tea in my chintz cups and the embroidery would make me happy because it reminds me of my chintz cups.
All of the kits are mouth wateringly wonderful. At this time, I choose the Bee,since I am working on starting a home business named “Kathryn B Designs,” and this Bee would Be my perfect logo for Kathryn B!!
It took me all day to make up my mind which one I would choose. If I was lucky enough to win I would like Small Change. This is one project that wouldn’t sit around waiting for me to get around to making it.
All of the kits are lovely. I’d select Small Change or the pink Chatelaine because I enjoy creating beautiful items that are useful.
I love the teacups (Tea for Two). I like all things tea and this looks like a project I can successfully complete.
Oh, my, this is a wonderful giveaway! I would love to make and have in my sewing basket the Chatelaine kit. It is so lovely.
My choice if I were to get chosen would be the red chatelaine. Not only is it a beautiful piece but I love the idea of finishing small treasures. The colors are vibrant and inspiring.
Thank you for a great give away!
If I were to win, I would pick the Love Letters kit so I could embroider the pillow for my mother. The beautiful flowing monogram created with those exquisite tiny flowers is right up her alley. She would definitely take this to all her appointments to show it off. It sure beats the cross-stitch bookmark I made her that she’s showing off now!
If I was able to choose a free Inspirations kit, I would choose the Modern Crewel kit. My interest in crewel embroidery is just emerging (have done mainly cross stitch in the past) and the colors make my heart sing. They are happy colors!
I would pick the pink Chatelaine kit as I loved it when you posted the pictures of it earlier this week. It also looks like a fun project. I live with a husband and 3 boys so I love girly stuff. 🙂
I would so love to do one of the chatelaine kits. I am a huge fan of Susan O’Connor and have worked several of her patterns on my own, but to have the kit with everything in it would be wonderful. Here’s hoping…
If I win I would choose Love Letters. It would be a work of love and caring for myself. The letter “C” for my name, Carol, and a reminder to Care for myself with love.
I would pick the chatelaine….either colour…both are beautiful.love that individual pieces can be a small project in itself.such gorgeous kits.
That was a hard one to make, I finally decided that one couldn’t go wrong with Alison Cole and her Honey Bee goldwork piece. It would give me a push to get into gold. Thank you for making this draw possible and for such a great site!
I would choose the small change bag, the bright colors on the black are just beautiful!
What a quandary to put a girl in! How on earth do you pull these things off Mary? Your powers of persuasion must be second to none, but I am not complaining.
I have just ordered the Chatelaine kit, so not that… I like the bee but maybe she is just a bit much goldwork for a novice like me, so I guess it would have to be Modern Crewel because of the colours and I love crewel work.
If I win? Love Letters is my favorite choice. I really enjoy monograms and/or letters of the alphabet. I’m a cursive person at heart.
I’m currently taking the Embroidery Association of Canada’s Whitework correspondence course. I’m working samples of Ayrshire, Richelieu, Monogramming and Hedebo, among others. The dainty sachet bag “Tulip” is done in Hedebo. It would give me a chance to try my hand with my new skills.
Such a lot of choices but my favourite one would be” Winters Song” I love Robins and although all the kits look perfect it has to be the little robin…
I would have to pick the honey bee. Reading this site had given me a fascination for gold work. I’ve tried a little playing around, but I’ve realized some sort of small kit would probably be a better idea.
If I won, I would choose the Modern Crewel kit. It has the beauty of a traditional design with a truly contemporary feel, all done up in my absolute favorite colors!
What a choice! They are all so beautiful. I would finally choose the tulip as I would like to come to grips with needlelace.
What a wonderful array of kits! But if I had to choose one it would be Prancer. I have always wanted to try Whitework and this looks an interesting piece. I also love the cheeky deer 🙂
I would choose the Chatelaine (Red) – i89 Kit, was admiring it when you posted about it and I recently made a (much simpler) chatelaine and would love to tackle this.
The projects are all beautiful, and this is not an easy choice, but I think I would go for the pink Chatelain kit – not only does it require techniques I am not yet familiar with (thus giving me the possibility to learn them), it is also very useful – and oh so pretty, too. Wouldn’t it be great if I were the lucky winner…
Thanks for the chance of winning one of these gorgeous kits! I love the Modern Crewel project, the colors and shapes really appeal to me. Fingers crossed!
Thanks so much for the opportunity to win one of these kits.
I love the chatelaine and was intrigued by it when I saw it on your blog. Would love the opportunity to win it!
I would choose the Winter’s Song kit. It’s a beautiful pattern and I’m trying to improve my thread painting skills.
What a great and generous give away! I would choose the Modern Crewel kit as I am currently obsessed with Crewel and Jacobean style embroidery and those blues and greens are exactly my kind of colours. I’ve been lusting after that design ever since you reviewed it! 🙂
I love crewel embroidery, but have always wanted to make a chatelaine! Thanks for the giveaway!
I love the red chatelaine kit – lots of the others too, but that’s probably my favourite.
I would love to win the Honey Bee. I’ve always wanted to try gold work and this little fellow would be perfect.
Carol
So difficult to choose- they are all so nice. My pick will finally be the Honey Bee, as I am interested in learning and doing more gold work. I especially like the historical design. My next year I’ll enter it in the State Fair honey exhibition!
Thanks
This is so exciting. Thank you for this opportunity. If I was to win a kit I would choose the Prancer. I am a fan of Trish Burr’s beautiful thread painting
I would select the red Chatelaine kit. I would love to have more experience working with silk and gold thread. This is a very nice kit. Thanks for offering the contest.
What an awesome give away! The pink chantalaine is gorgeous! I love things like this to keep my sewing implements in something beautiful!
Totally love your blog, I look forward to receiving it daily! You are an inspiration.
I choose Pink Chatelaine! It is beautiful and functional – an irresistible combination…and yet so delicate. And small enough to not be an overwhelming project because they can be done one at a time. That’s the one for me!
If I could choose definitely the change purse. It is so beautiful. I love Hazel Blomkamp’s books so it figures I would go straight for her design.
Hi Mary,
Thanks so much for this amazing opportunity!
I would choose the Modern Crewel because I have been wanting to try crewel and I LOVE the design and colors!
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To your health! Hugs!
I would love to win this kit giveaway. I subscribe to INSPIRATIONS and happily await each new issue. Choosing a kit would be a pleasure. The kit would be HONEY BEE (goldwork).
I have admired goldwork for many years, but the materials are not easily within reach. Ordering individual supplies seems almost impossible. I’ve thought of just using what I have, but I have no gold so the project would turn out much different. Having all the correct supplies would be a wonderful thing.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful giveaway.
All the kits are absolutely beautiful! I narrowed it down to two and decided I would love to stitch the Flowers of the Seas. The colors are beautiful and I have always wanted to do an ‘underwater’ scene. You can imagine the movement of the fish and plants! I am recently retired and now have more time to devote to embroidery. I think this kit will be a challenge I will thoroughly enjoy. The finished picture is striking. Gorgeous kit! I hope I get lucky and my name is drawn.
I love Inspirations, and having read your review of the Chatelaine kit I’d have to plump for that in the red, it looks so beautiful, and useful too.
Mary, when I received my copy of “Inspirations” #90 I was smitten with the article regarding “Modern Crewel — traditional design with modern colors”!!! It looks yummie and I would love winning your contest to try this out! Hope you are having a happy day!
Thank you so much for this opportunity. My choice would be the red chatelaine. I’ve loved the colors and the delicate embroidery since the first time I saw it. It would be a delight to win and a challenge for me to complete
Oh my – it is so hard to pick just one kit!! I love the chatelaine (pink of course) and the small change purse. I also love the crewel work in turquoise. Which to choose?… I would love to win the Small Change kit (Jacobean change purse). I have a love for Jacobean and I think the colors in this kit are fresh and modern. I am also intrigued as to where the bead work fits in. Thank you SO much for a chance to win the kit and the magazine.
Hi from Alberta Canada!
The kit I would choose is the Chatelaine in red.
I have never worked with silk and this would be a great opportunity to start.
I live in a small town in northern Alberta, and except for some DMC threads, everything embroidery has to be ordered in. I never know where to start with silk, so following on your newsletter helps a great deal.
Thanks, have a great summer!
Brenda M.
These are all great kits. I like kits. I am working my way through an assortment I have purchased over the years right now.
Winning one of these would be lovely and I would pick the Small Change project kit, it is charming to have useful everyday objects to be able to use and carry with me or give to my sister to use. The style of the change purse is nice and the pattern on it is very pretty as well.
the designs are all beautiful and interesting, but I would choose to win the Red Chatelaine because I’ve always wanted to make one and I think I would enjoy using it.
Wow! They are all so beautiful! I guess I would love to win either the Love Letters kit because of the simplicity and colors or the Modern Crewel which reminds me of a trip I took to the English countryside.
Laney
This is a tough decision but I would choose the Modern Crewel Kit. I try to pick a particular project for our county fair and this is stunning with the colors and the wonderful twist that it is modern.
I love so many of them and I have already done the Trish Burr bird. I think I would love to do the Chatelaine, then the next one would be the stump work Christmas ornament.
It is hard to choose as all the kits are stunning. There is the bee with the gold work, flowers of the sea for the beading, modern crewel for the different wools, and the thread painted birds. In the unlikely event that I should win, I would go for the chatelaine because of its luxurious fibers and daily usefulness.
Yeah, really hard to choose. I narrowed it down to three — and that was hard enough to do — the Chatelaine (in red I think), the Love Letters, or the Prancer (gotta love that reindeer).
I would choose the honey bee kit, as I’ve been wanting to get into goldwork, and I love the contrast between the gold and the black background. So cute and elegant at the same time!
What an incredible selection, so many choices. If I were to win I would choose Tulip, the Hebedo sachet kit. I enjoy needle lace and this would help me improve my skills.
I would love to refine my needle painting techniques and Les Hirondelles would be a delightful way to achieve that.
If I win, I would love to try the Small Change kit. It looks like it has a nice variety of techniques, and I’ve never stitched a Jacobean flower before. Thanks for the opportunity Mary!
What a great contest! I recently subscribed to Inspirations magazine because every issue is jaw-dropping. I would be thrilled to win the Chatelaine kit in pink. It would be a great chance to try the silk thread that you rave about.
Thanks, Mary, health and happy stitching!
That red Chatelaine is calling my name! And what a generous offer
Thanks so much for running this giveaway! I have been eyeing the Modern Crewel kit since way before you started working on it. That’s the one I’d pick.
All of the embroidery featured in Inspirations is beautiful and I agree it is the best embroidery magazine published. I would love to stitch the chatelaine in red which is my favorite color.
I would love to have the Chatelaine Red kit. I have been admiring it since I saw it in the magazine. This year I have gotten back to embroidery and I need a place for my stuff. Thank you.
Definitely the modern crewel kit. The colors are gorgeous and it will be just the right blend of traditional and modern. Thanks for the chance to win.
Without hesitation I would choose the red Chatelaine. I have a hard time not staring at it.
“Small Chamge” appeals to me because I love purses and bags (and it would be so lovely tucked into “Blossom”). Thank you for this opportunity!
As an ardent follower of this blog and Inspirations magazine, I could not resist entering this wonderful giveaway.
But – to have to choose from all those beautiful kits!!!! Sheer torture!
I changed my mind so many times, but in the end it has to be the Modern Crewel!
So beautiful, elegant an utter joy to stitch, I thought imagine the thread, soft as it slips easily through your fingers, the design, so intricate and absorbing, taking shape and colour and texture as your needle passes through the fabric.
A kit like this would be so glorious to stitch, that you would feel almost sad as it was completed…….
Oh, yes. The Modern Crewel would be my particular choice. A piece of stitching to touch the heart and to melt the soul…….
What more could you possibly want………..
If I got to choose a kit it would definitely be the small change. I collect purses to display in a quest bedroom. I love this small change purse and would be able to tell everyone, I made this one.
There are so many yummy kits that this was a hard decision to make. But I positively adore the beautiful Modern Crewel design. The graceful design is very romantic and feels like you could have seen this in a museum. Yet the traditional piece is artfully updated with gorgeous stitches, colors and delightful beading details.
I am positively itching to get my hands on this really outstandingly beautiful kit. I only hope I could come close to achieving the same results as the presentation picture! And pomegranates in blue. Extraordinary.
This design is a WOW!
Thank you for this opportunity. I would choose Modern Crewel. The colors make me happy.
Oh, oh ,oh. For those of us who live in the rural areas where we have no access to a shop, kits are our saviour because everything you need is in one package. I have just finished the fun corncob with stash left over. Love it. So what would I choose? Either the modern crewel or a kit to take me out of my comfort zone and one with product I know I cannot get easily. Thank you for your giveaways!
Should I win, I would choose Love Letters. I have only recently begun to embroider and am finding my way and loving it. My reason for wanting to do it was that I have a large and loving family every member of which I provide a stocking that I have made at Christmas. My task for the next couple of years is to embroider the names of all 35 (currently) members of the family on the cuff of their stocking. The Love Letters kit would give me practice with exactly the sort of thing I am wanting to create – and it’s beautiful!
I have always been in love with crewel. I would love to have a chance to work the Modern Crewel and hopefully it would be a jumping off point to try more crewel embroidery.
Judy O’Brien
Thank you so much inspirations and Mary for
the chance to win a kit. I would choose to
Have the tropical fish and reef kit as it reminds
me so much of our Bermuda reefs. Every one is
Gorgeous. Sue in Bermuda
Mary, What a truly wonderful prize! I think I would choose the Resting Place hardanger kit. I just love hardanger but have never tried the border treatment featured in it. Thank you for the opportunity to win a kit from this wonderful magazine!
If I could make a wish on one of these beautiful projects, I would wish for the Love Letters kit. I love the combination of letters and thread. I just fell in love with this kit.
This is definitely one of the toughest questions to answer. However, the project that piques my interest, makes me smile and want to start stitching is the “Honey Bee” in goldwork. I am totally enchanted with goldwork, and find bees very cool.
I would pick modern crewel, it has butterflies, i love the color, and the design is just great!!
Oooh, I love the modern crewel! The colours are amazing!
I would choose Small Change because I enjoy working Jacobean crewel embroidery, because of its historical connections and because of the bright colors in this kit. Thank you for offering this opportunity.
Hi Mary,
I would choose Susan O’Connor’s Chatelaine. I guess like most stitchers, I have ‘a thing’ for beautiful needlework tools ( and perhaps the not so beautiful, especially if there is a special story attached to the tool!)
I love the red version, although it is hard to choose. The pinks are so soft and pretty – not my normal stitching style. I would also like to branch out from using stranded cottons to trying silk, although I will need to get the olive oil and sugar out for that. Feeding wood fires isn’t conducive to soft, scagless hands.(It is winter in Australia – apologies, if you in the northern hemisphere, are sweltering!)
That hint was brillliant, Mary. Thanks so much for it.
My other reason for choosing the Chatelaine is the I find the whole War of the Roses, Tudor period, fascinating. The Tudors were quite a clever family, especially in the way that they took the Red Rose of Lancaster and the White Rose of York and melded them into the Tudor Rose, in an effort to win over a people and a country torn apart by years of civil war. Despite this period being over 400 years ago, this form of rose is instantly recognisable as the Tudor Rose.
Thanks for the chance to enter.
Kind regards, Jenny S.
So hard to choose. I’m tempted by the honey bee because I’ve never done a goldwork project before. But my heart says Tea for Two.
Thanks so much for this fabulous giveaway.
Oh dear what a choice but I would dearly love the opportunity to stitch the Red chatelaine. The luscious colour of the bright red silk with the fabulous gold on the silk background looks fantastic, My fingers just itch to stitch the design. Thank you Mary and Inspirations for giving me the opportunity to put my hat into the ring to have the possible chance of stitching the project.
Oh my! I have looked the choices over and I think I might be brave enough to try the Chatelaine (Red)! It looks lovely and I would HAVE to learn some new stitches. The swallows really called to me but I think I would definitly learn more from doing the Chatelaine.
I love the Modern Crewel kit. Like you I love the colors. I probably would not have put those colors together but it is beautiful! Even though I haven’t done crewel work in a while this design intrigues me.
I would choose Flowers of the Sea because my other hobby is marine aquariums and it’s one of the best needlework depictions of marine life I’ve seen.
Exciting kits you are offering. I would like to win the Modern Crewel kit. I learned embroidering from my grandma and am looking to get back into beautiful work of hand stitching. I would love to learn a new technique of hand stitching.
Thank you
If I’m one of the lucky winners I would choose the red Chatelaine. I love the choice of threads and especially the colours. I have always wanted to stitch a chatelaine and have been eyeing this one ever since receiving issue 89.
Thank you Mary for this lovely opportunity. If I were blessed so, I would pick Prancer by Trish Burr. I have long admired her work and this project looks just right to start what might become a love affair with whitework – whether it is contemporary or traditional.
I WOULD CHOOSE the Chatelaine as my interest in Chatelaines was raised by reading the article in the Inspirations News letter. They are such a useful article for the needlwomen of today How much my grand mother and my mother would have used such an article. I plan on making a set for my daughter and myself who has also followed in her grandmother and I hope her mother,s footsteps with her craft and art. Thank you for your most interesting and encouraging mail.
I would definitely have a hard time choosing from such a wonderful selection. That being said ,I think chatelaine kit is the most practical one in terms of an embroiderer. Thank you for this lovely give away
I’d love to have the Honey Bee! There are others that are close second choices!
Such beautiful kits….I think I would choose the Chatelaine kit in red because it is both beautiful and practical and it would be a challenge to sew up
Choices, choices, how do you choose. I love the honey bee, modern crewel and winter’s song and would have difficulty choosing, but likely would go with honey bee. I love goldwork, but am still a beginner in this art form, so a small project would be best. I do love all of Trish Burr’s pieces, and love her books, but have not yet done much surface embroidery. I love the colors in modern crewel, but have not done crewel work in years. So many projects, so little time!
I would love to win Simplicity i88 Kit. The number one reason is I would love to replace my worn out one. While in a small town in Germany, I got a table top, with tea cups and it has been so loved through the years. I really need a new one to replace this one.
If I win, I will choose The Winter’s Song kit, because I love birds, and I have admired Trish Burr’s kits for a while now. I love her style of thread painting, and the little robin is so cute! I am crossing my fingers!
So many beautiful kits to choose from! If pressed I would have to pick the “TeaFor Two”. I can already picture them on the wall in my dining room!
Thank you Mary for the beauty you bring into our lives!
If I was to be blessed with winning I would choose the bird. I live in an area that song birds and would like to have a picture all year long. Thank you.
I would choose the Chatelaine (red) kit because it is very practical in addition to being lovely and I like to make things that I will use. Plus I really like the thought of having a scissor holder attached to everything else so that maybe I would stop losing them.
As always, Inspirations kits are amazing. If having to pick one, it would be the Chatelaine (Red) kit. The pattern and colors are timeless and beautiful. Annette
Being English I am an enthusiastic tea drinker and would love Tea for Two. These cups would be a real challenge and so pretty when complete.
I would get the Small Change. It is so cute! My sister wants me to make it and give it to her. Greedy.
If I were to win a kit I would pick Winter Song. I have long wished to embroider a bird but supplies here are next to nothing. This would be perfect. Thank you
Every time I get a new copy of Inspirations there is so much I want to make, all of their projects are stunning. I have never worked from a designer kit, in some ways I worry that I wouldn’t make a good enough job of it. To choose 1 project is hard, but it would have to be the chatelaine project, in red, because it really is time my sewing tools moved on from the tatty items I use everyday, such as coloured plastic tape around my scissors handle and a Needlecase that was thrown together from a scrap of felt that never got finished, and my pins in a plastic box. Is this a curse of ‘cobblers shoes’ do you think? Using tools from beautiful holders would at least make me look more polished when I go to classes! Thank you for the opportunity to dream.
The Inspiration projects are all so beautiful – choosing just one kit is hard! But, if given my choice, I would choose the Chatelaine (Pink) kit. I’ve been drawn to gold work lately and this beautiful project has goldwork and silk shading! This project has some nice finishing techniques that I would like to learn.
Thank you Mary and Inspirations!
All the kits look great but I think I would pick Modern Crewel. I read your review on it and I am really intrigued! Love to do it. Hubby just got diagnosed with Cancer….so my buying days are gone for a bit. Love to win the kit. Thanks for the opportunity.
I would choose the red chatelaine, because it’s a beautiful design and has silk fabric and threads and a little bit of gold.
What incredibly beautiful choices! I loved the Small Change purse pattern. I am so inspired by this blog – it makes me get my embroidery things out do much more often! Thank you!
I would love to do the chatelaine. I’ve always wanted to do one and this would give me the incentive and courage. Thanks for offering the chance to win.
Je choisirais le kit chatelaine rouge,parce que cela mélange les techniques, ce kit est original et il y a des perles, des fils métalliques, un kit a batir et l on peut le transporter. J’aime les petits objets et le rouge est ma couleur préférée.
Merci de nous faire connaitre de tel beautés.
If I win, what kit would I pick and why?
It’s a hard choice between winter song (the thread painted robin) or the red chatelaine. Winter song because it’s thread painting and beautiful beyond compare, and I’ve always wanted to do embroidery like that.
In the end however, I’d probably pick Chatelaine (Red) because 1) I adore needlework accessories, I recently finished a biscornu pincushion. 2) It would be a wonderful introduction to goldwork and 3) Everything that actually useful and also pretty is very fabulous. I prefer stitching useful things and this is the only set I’ve seen where I like all the pieces and not just one or two.
The Tulip or Blossom, tulip, I love the color, can never pass up pink, Blossom because it will chalenge me. I am new to embroidery after almost 60 years. Some really big changes for me ,so its like learning all over again with a lot of new stitches.My goal is to get as good as Mary and all stitchers in Inspirations. I hope I make it. Thank you
I agree with previous commenters. So many lovely kits, so difficult to choose one; however, I have recently become interested in crewel embroidery. I love the history that goes with this type embroidery. Also, I have begun collecting Appleton Wool Skeins and have an enviable stash amassed. Perhaps working the “Modern Crewel” kit would be the jumpstart I need to launch the crewel embroidery passion I wish to develop.
Easy choice, Chatelaine in red. It has it all, gold work, silk threads, bold design and you end up with something useful. My loose scissors and scattered needles would be sorted. Finally!
It took forever to choose but I am most attracted to the goldwork kit. I love goldwork and the materials are so hard to come by. I can find crewel wool, stranded cottons and silks but not gold threads so that would be my choice.
If I win, what kit would I pick?
I am having a very hard time deciding. I love bees and gold work. I am always looking for new sewing accessories to make and the red chatelaine is gorgeous. I have had my eye on it since the magazine came out. Lastly, I love crewel work and this one is unbelievably beautiful. I think I would go with crewel work.
Thank you and Inspirations Magazine for the chance.
I would like the Winter’s Song as I would like to try thread painting. Also my husband loves to feed the birds and I know he would like this kit.
I fell in love with the chatelaine when you featured it a few days ago. I especially love the pink. So that would be my choice: The Chatelaine in Pink.
If I win, I would choose Christmas Bouquet. I have long wanted to try my hand at dimensional embroidery, but lack that last little bit of incentive to actually do it. I’m thinking that beautiful little kit would be just the push I needed to get started.
The kit I would pick (although the choice is very difficult!) is the Modern Crewel. The colours are luscious, and the design is very pleasing. It looks very enjoyable to do, and quite different from any crewel embroidery I did in wools (although that is years ago now).
I would choose the Modern Crewel kit because the colors make me feel happy!
Wow wow wow! I’ve always used your website as a reference source, but I’m a fairly new and very enthusiastic follower of your blog! After your post last month wherein you mentioned Trish Burr, I’ve become a HUGE fan, and have a kit sitting in my Etsy cart! Picking just one was a really difficult decision, but I would LOVE to win the Prancer kit. I love Christmas decorations and think that would make a wonderful pillow! Plus it makes me think of Bambi 🙂
Thanks so much for the opportunity!
I would pick the red Chatelaine kit because it is just absolutely gorgeous, there is some amazing embroidery, some gold and because, well…. it’s a Susan O’Connor design.
Inspirations magazine has beautiful projects.
I didn’t follow instructions on my previous comment so I am recommenting and following institutions this time. I think I would select the goldwork bee kit because I haven’t done much goldwork and I would like to try it again.
I would choose ….. The modern crewel kit! It has beautiful colors. It has lots of textures and techniques. It’s of a size that isn’t intimidating. Perfection!
I would choose the chatelaine. I admire the “old fashioned” look of these pieces and have always wanted to stitch one
I would pick the red Chatelaine! It’s beautiful, useful and romantic all in one.
I would choose the Chatelaine (Red). I admired this project when I received my copy of Inspirations. I enjoy every page of this magazine.
Connie
Oh my. Hard choice to make. I’m about to retire after 45 years of full time work. And I have been dreaming of getting my hands into different types of whitework. That being said, of the particular kits being offered, I’d choose the Red Chatelaine set. It is so classically beautiful, and highly practical. Yes, the Red Chatelaine.
A faithful follower of Needle n’ Thread, Terry
Wow,what a terrific giveaway. The kits are all gorgeous. I am partial to crewel so would choose the modern crewel kit for its gorgeous colors which would look great in my house. That Prancer is pretty great too. Decisions, decisions…
I picked something that I can indulge myself in the embroidery process and my family can enjoy the artwork afterward. Honey Bee won the vote. Thank you Mary!
I would choose Winter Song i88.
My husband is from England, & until I met him I did not realize that the English Robins were different from the robins we have here in Canada. Our robins are members of the Thrush family & are quite a large bird compared to the tiny British robins that are members of the Tit family. They also have much different markings which make them a much more delicate little bird.
I would choose the Flowers of the Sea kit since I am a scuba diver, love spending my time in water and my bathroom is done is an ocean theme. It would fit perfectly!!
I love the Modern Crewel kit. I really like the combination of a traditional design and very modern palette of colors. They really pop! And I’ve never tried crewel embroidery!
Wow.. What a great Give away. I would choose the colors of the Sea… its so lovely, very colorful and splendid. Stitching this would also add emotions to my long pending dream of deep sea diving.
Thanks for this awesome giveaway.
I would choose the Pink Chatelain kit because I think it is just lovely.
If I win I would choose the tea for two. Beautiful! Thank you.
Thank you Mary–another great give-away! Winter’s Song speaks to me as the perfect gift for a friend who has helped me thru some rough patches. She loves Inspirations magazine & Trish Burr, plus feeds the birds in her yard. And she actually finishes embroidery projects so I will get to see it in person during my lifetime!
I love kits from Inspiration as they present new challenges, techniques and color. It is difficult to pick just one. I will go for the modern crewel as it presents a new way of looking at it with the modern colors. I also love their kits because they are already designed and all I have to do is enjoy, enjoy and embroider.
I would choose the Modern Crewel kit, love the colors and the challenge.
If I were to win I would pick Honey Bee because it is elegant, but deceptively simple. And because I think insects are attractive and interesting motifs with so many creative possibilities. And because it would give me a chance to try my hand at goldwork. I so admire goldwork.
Hi Mary,
I would enjoy the challenges of the Garden Fresh kit. I have worked kits from Inspirations Magazine before. Their designer provided instruction articles within the magazine itself are easily to read and follow. The kits are quite complete.
Noelle
Of all of the beautiful kits offered, I’d say my favorite is Trish Burr’s Winters Song of the thread painted robin. Our winters are long and the appearance of the robin heralds the arrival of spring. Hope I get lucky-I’d love to have this on my wall.
Oh My I think I would choose the red chatelaine!Why!! its so pretty and it looks to be a challenge>> thanks for your blog I love it!!
I love Les Hirondelles for the color and movement…
Which kit would I pick and why: Wow, there are so many wonderful kits to choose from; picking just one is difficult! However, the one that initially spoke to me and I kept going back to was Winter’s Song, a beautiful needlepainting of a bird on a holly branch with snow flakes falling. This image is what I think of when I think of winter, birds in the snow. I feed sunflower seeds to the birds in the winter and they just mesmerize me. I have been wanting to try my hand at needlepainting and this design is just calling to me. I’ve been looking at different kits, but hadn’t yet found “the one” to purchase, but this is the one!
I am a beginner embroiderer. After looking over the kits my heart is drawn to Modern Crewel. I love the colors and I love the design, this is the one I would choose.
I am a beginner embroiderer. After looking over the kits my heart is drawn to Modern Crewel. I love the colors and I love the design, this is the one I would choose.
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The red chatelaine because it is so gorgeous and useful!
Oh My! What wonderful choices. I have ordered from Inspirations before and the quality is awesome. I think i would choose the honey bee. It would give me an opportunity to try gold work which I have never done. I also have a friend who keeps honey bees and this would be a wonderful gift to make for them.
Thank you Mary for a great web site.
Mary your web site is wonderful. I have learned so much from you. You provide me with inspiration and motivation to pull out my needle and thread and create.
I would definitely pick the honey bee. It would give me the opportunity to try dabbling in gold work which I have always wanted to try. Thank You Mary.
I love Flowers of the Sea. I’ve never tried the techniques involved, but would like to. I enjoy learning new techniques, like the butterfly stroke in swimming.
I would choose Flowers of the Sea” I just love t
he vibrant colors and the sense of movement. The coral is a striking color to the eyes. You can almost feel the motion of the ocean in the seaweed.
Mary in Oregon
I would choose the Chatelaine (Red), this is just so beautiful words can’t describe. Inspirations kits are always top notch it is a joy to get a kit with everything needed to complete the piece. Good luck to all!!
I would pick Love Letters. I have been so inspired by the recent monogram posts on Needle-n-Thread lately. The only monogram I have ever done was on a pillowcase for my sister when she went away to college – and that was many years ago (harvest gold was a hit color then). I was very young and it was not the most accomplished work! It would be so fabulous to make this beautiful cushion for my sister for Christmas or her birthday.
I love, love, love the honeybee. My son raises bees as a hobby and this would be a wonderful surprise gift for him. I’ve done a little goldwork, but generally stay away from it because it can be pricey and the supplies have to be mail ordered in my neck of the woods.
It’s a difficult choice, but ultimately I think I’d like the red chatelaine kit the most – partly because I’d like to try my hand at working in silk (I like stuff with a sheen to it) and partly because I’d like to try the finishing instruction and get a feel for the materials involved. I haven’t done a great deal of finishing yet, and I have a difficult time translating recommended materials from books to stuff that’s availiable in the Eu. Seeing you stitching it is sure to be a great indpiration as well.
That being said, I was quite tempted by the christmas stumpwork kit, as well as the needlepainted robin – beautiful designs.
Thank you for a great blog 🙂
No doubt in my mind at all – I’d choose the red chatelaine! It’s beautiful, unusual, and useful! How often do you get that combination?! Though once finished, I’m not sure I could bring myself to use it on a day-to-day basis – it’s just too exquisite!
Ooooh, I would love to have the Red Chatelaine kit! I adore needlework accessories, and would love to learn new embroidery stitches since all I’ve done so far is cross-stitch. Thank you for this opportunity!
They all look so beautiful! I certainly love the colors in Modern Crewel and the design of Love Letters. I’ve been trying to think of a pattern that would be a suitable gift for my grandmother, and either of these would be great!
I would pick the pink Chatelaine by Susan O’Connor because I think it is exquisite and I have always admired these types of sewing accessories. They remind me of fine items from a long-ago era.
This would be a tough choice. I’m torn between Modern Crewel because of the colors and materials and the Chatelaine in red because of its beauty. I’d have to spend a little more time thinking about it. Thank you to Inspirations (my favorite embroidery magazine) and Mary Corbet for this wonderful opportunity.
I’d choose Honey Bee, because it’s gorgeous and I need to work more on Goldwork.
Every Inspirations kit is lovely so it is hard to choose, but the little Jacobean Small Change purse would be a different type of project for me- and the colours are gorgeous.
Hi Mary,
I would choose the Honey Bee kit if I win.
I have always wanted to learn gold work. This would be the perfect opportunity to do so.
Regards,
Valentyna
If I win I choose Chatelaine Red because it is beautiful, an embroi1dery challenge, and it is useful when finished.
My goodness, that’s a difficult choice! The red chatelaine kit, but I’m terribly intrigued by that ear of corn!
I would choose Les Hirondelles – I am an avid birdwatcher and Les Hirondelles colours are beautiful to behold
I was tempted with other kits, but I would like the Chatelaine (Pink) the best. I’ve always wanted to make one and not having all the parts necessary has been my greatest excuse. Now this Chatelaine will have a story to go with it!
If it’s not too late, I would prefer it in red.
YUMMYYY! As with so many other great ladies, I am wishing for the Red Chatelaine. I love the Tudor style and I love the touch of gold work. The hardest part will be, if I win and once I finish it, do I keep it or give it away.
Mary, thanks for all the fun you have provided for me with your wonderful site!!
Kathleen
I would choose the red chatelaine kit. I love hand sewing and embroidery. This is a beautiful and functional piece that I would use every day.
If I were to win, I would pick Winter’s Song. It reminds me of the Eastern Blue birds we have here that love to sit in the holly trees.
I love the Honey Bee; I’ve been wanting to try goldwork for ages and haven’t been brave enough. 🙂
They are all so beautiful, but I would choose “Prancer”, because I need more Christmas crafts to do, and it is just gorgeous!
If I won I would choose Small Change. I love Hazel’s designs.
Thank you Inspirations for this great give-away!
I would chose the modern crewel because my crewel skills are very rusty and I’ve been wanting to get back into it. This would be a great chance to do that.
If I were lucky enough to win, I would pick the Christmas Bouquet kit, i88. I have loved it ever since it was published but can’t find the suitable clear bauble. I need all the stumpwork practice I can get because I have a wooden casket carcass here just begging for me to get up my courage to try to do it. Little projects (may ;-)) get me going.
Thanks for the opportunity to dream.
The beautiful Chatelaine is my choice, in red.I love the historic nature of the design…the red looks like the Tudor Rose. The lovely mix of silk work and metal thread is also a winner for me.
Oh my, I narrowed it down to 4. Flowers of the Sea and Garden Fresh really stood out – both very different and challenging. Chatelaine-red and Small Change may be more practical. I love the beautiful design of Flowers of the Sea and am enchanted with the ethereal look, so that’s the one!
Carol b(cl cc)
Thank you for this opportunity. I am currently doing the exercises in Trish Burr’s “Needle Painting Embroidery Book” and have several of her other books with luscious designs. It is so rewarding to see a design come to life, but I would like to try something different and seascapes have been on my mind for quite a while. I love the colors and theme in Flowers of the Sea and I am ready to branch out and work with silk filament and metallic threads as an addition to my repertoire.
So, the choice, if my name is drawn, is Flowers of the Sea kit.
Thank you again, Janice
I would love to try doing the Chatelaine (Pink) – i89 Kit. I love history and tudor roses! Have a nice day!
Very hard to choose . All the kits are beautiful. Because I often take my embroidery with me I would choose the Chatelaine Kit to help keep me organized.
I would choose the Chatelaine kit (in red) as I have never made a chatelaine and would like to make one as a keepsake.
I would like to do the ‘Prancer’ kit as it looks so elegant. With Christmas coming up this would be a delightful project to complete. Thank you for the opportunity to win.
I would pick the gold work Honey Bee firstly because the design is so beautiful and would lend itself to additional variations such as a Napoleon piece, and secondly because I’ve been wanting to learn gold work and this could be the start of something great!
Thank you so much for the chance to receive such a kit, Rick P
I think I’d do the Chatelaine in the red colorway: it is just stunning!! I just discovered you blog today and have been reading your posts for hours now: Just lovely!! Thanks for all the inspiration!! Hugs, H in Healdsburg
So many beautiful kits to win – what beautiful give-a-ways. If I won I would just love to get my fingers stitching on Winter’s Song – such a beautiful little bird – and I love birds and would love to do one for each of my three children in time.
I would love to get the small change kit. I would appreciate the chance to get experience working on a dark ground in a kit, I like the design, and it’s a useful project once it’s completed!
Inspirations Magazine has the most beautiful designs and terrific instructions to go with each project! I never grow tired of going back and looking through some of my older issues. I have pondered for awile now which kit I would like to do the most. After all, they are all gorgeous! I have chosen to Modern Crewel. I self-taught myself basic crewel many moons ago and then went on to learn and do a variety of other embroidery techniques. I would truly enjoy doing crewel once again. This kit has stitches I’ve not done before, and the colors are glorious. Thank you, Mary, for another fantastic drawing opportunity.
I would love the Chatelaine (Red) – i89 Kit. I’ve been looking for a beautiful way to store my scissors, needles and pins. What a great giveaway!
Thank you for another great give-away. I collect Inspirations magazine (and it is indeed an inspiration to read). I would love to win the Chatelaine in Red kit. I have purchased other kits from them and the quality is excellent.
Take care Mary and enjoy the rest of your summer!!
I fell in love with the Modern Crewel embroidery when you first reviewed it. Great colors. Many years ago I used to do a lot of crewel. Thanks, Mary! Hope you’re doing well.
I choose Prancer Kit i88. Ive always wanted to do white work. And this is small enough to do. And Prancer is so cute I just love him. This kit would be a good one to learn whitework. I know Trish Burr has a number of kits out with cutest and nicest designs I have ever seen in her White work.Love them. Thanks for this opportunity Mary and Hope you are getting better I know you hstill have your sense of Humour.
Flowers of the Sea is absolutely stunning, and would be unbelievably fun to stitch with the colors and textures involved.
I have always wanted to do a chatelaine. I also love functional pieces. I would love to win the red chatelaine project. This would be so nice to do as a kit – just everything comes together and no work finding everything to do it!
As a subscriber and fan of Inspirations Magazine, I have admired all of their kits as well as many of the projects for which directions, but no kits, are available. The red chatelaine drew my attention because of its beautiful detail, its vibrant color, and its luxurious materials. Of course, the items are stitchery tools. What’s not to love!
Thanks to you and to Inspirations for this give-away.
Thanks to you, Mary, especially for sharing your expertise and enthusiasm.
–With prayers from your fan club.
In the middle of doing Late Harvest Hazel Blomkamp and love it so would love to do Modern Crewel in contempory colours
I have fallen in love with the red Chatelaine, when I saw it in Inspirations a while ago. But the kit is a bit expensive for me, even though my scissors keep is almost 50 years old, canvas work, and completely ready to be pensioned off! I thought I would adapt the design to threads I have now, but it would be so wonderful to be able to use the right ones!
So many beautiful choices-I would pick ‘Small Change’ or perhaps ‘Honey Bee’. The little change purse would make such a delightful trinket. On the other hand, the gold work piece is so elegant.
So many delightful choices! At least the chances of winning with your contests Mary are better than the lottery :-)). I would pick the red Charleston if I win. It is so gorgeous, classic and useful. I’m creating a new project/embroidery box and it will be perfect for it. Good luck to everyone with the contest!
I would choose the Honey Bee kit. I’m a beekeeper and they are the most amazing creatures. I love working with them and would enjoy making the kit.
I have just returned from a fantastic trip to Alaska, Canada and Seattle. Taking my trusty evening purse, which I have had since the late 1970’s (remember Oroton?), I found unfortunately it has now passed it’s use by date. The Small Change project would give something to treasure and use, hopefully for a long time. I also have a new found passion for Jacobean embroidery thanks to Susan Porter (Modern Crewel) who provides so much inspiration to us here in the Northern Rivers of NSW.
I would select the new crewel kit. The colors are so beautiful and updated! Crewel is my passion and it would be a wonderful piece to work!
How I would love to get a kit for the very lovely chatelaine. I have in mind to make a chatelaine for my daughters, and this design is exquisite in either colour way.To receive a kit would be a great start.
Thankyou for this chanc to win
I would select the Honey Bee Kit. I love bees. Thanks for the chance Mary.
I would pick Small Change. I would like to learn the techniques for purse making, as I have a vintage bakelite purse clasp that I want to design for as well. Besides I love the pattern! Such yummy colors!
Mary, if I won, I would pick the red chatelaine kit. Because red is my favourite colour. And because it is pretty and oldy worldy. And I have a dear friend who would like to stitch it very much. That’s three reasons and my lucky number. I hope that the luck of the Irish is with me.
They are all wonderful kits. I love birds so I like the Winter Song. I also like to make things that have a purpose so I like the Red Chatelaine and the Small Change purse. Best of luck to everyone.
I definitely have several favorites. I would probably choose “Tea for Two”, since my husband and I got together partially because of our mutual love for tea (and nice teacups), and partially because the cups are so beautiful. The “Chatelaine” kit is amazing and beautiful, but I’d never be able to finish it right now: I have little enough time to craft that I’m not really focused on anything just for me. The other one that I’m drawn to is the baby blanket, since I’m expecting in November, and that would be quite nice. But I think, overall, it would have to be Tea for Two!
I like the Tea for Two..it is so very charming. ALL the kits are gorgeous and any one would be wonderful. Thank you for this offer and your generosity.
I would love to stich the Winter’s song. I love the bird, it reminds me of my mother who loves birds too.
I like the fresh stiches, it makes the bird so real.
I would like the Flowers of the Sea kit because it is so unusual with its textures and stitches. We live close to the water and this would be so beautiful in our home AND my grandsons would appreciate it since they love the movie with the clownfish! Thank you.
If I were so lucky as to win the kit give away, I would select the kit “modern Crewel”. The colors are delightful and this piece reminds me of work my grandmother did. I’m new to Crewel, and trying to perfect my stitches. I already receive Inspirations Magazine, and drool with every issue.
What a generous give-away! Inspirations kits are wonderful and it is difficult to choose. However, if I were a lucky winner I think I should like the challenge of the red chatelaine as I have never attempted anything like it before and it would be really useful for my embroidery tools – but the modern crewel kit comes a close second!
I am so excited about this drawing! If I were fortunate enough to win, I would definitely select the Chatelaine (Red) – i89 Kit. Elegant and useful, I have loved it since the moment I saw it!
As a matter of fact, I have already purchased the pattern, in hopes of buying the materials as soon as possible.
With the kit, I would have all the gorgeous materials at hand to indulge to my hearts content! What a dream!
What a hard choice to make! I would like to improve my skills in needle painting so would pick the Trish Burr kit, but then again I would like to learn some goldwork techniques so maybe the Honey Bee….
If I were lucky enough to win, I would choose the Chatelaine kit. The work looks so elegant and delicate that would make it a timeless piece to be handed down through generations.
Thank you very much Mary and Inspirations Magazine: you are truly inspirational!
I would like to have the dainty Oh Baby kit. I love white work and was thinking about doing a drawn thread project
I really like the Red Chatelaine as I have been working more lately on projects that I will use, rather than pretty things to hang on my walls, and the chatelaine is so pretty and useful. Plus, I am hoping that once you start on your kit, I can learn from you and hopefully make mine look as beautiful as yours will be.
The kit I would pick would be: Les Hirondelles – i89 Kit. I am an avid birdwatcher (yearly birdwatching trips in May in Canada) & would love to increase my skills in thread painting. I find his technique much more challenging than counted tread embroidery. The former requires a keen sense of observation & needle/tread placement. The result is so realistic when it is completed that I find it looks like a photograph. Swallow are such magnificent birds and such fine builders of nest. They return to the same site, year after year to raise their young. Barn swallows (represented in the kit) have such wonderful iridescent colours. I hope & will be one of the lucky winners.
Ah…so many beautiful choices, but I do like the pink Chatelaine…so delicate as well as useful…such a combination…lol
The choices are wonderful. I’d choose Bijou as I’m a bird nut and it’s bright and colourful. I’m new to metal threads but I’m working on a couple goldwork designs.
First of all, thank you for offering this Mary! And good wishes for healing.
If selected, I would choose the red Chatelaine. It’s absolutely lovely, and I would so enjoy such a delightful set of “tools” for plying my favorite pastime.
Dear Mary!
Of course, I have big plans almost to all embroidery designs from Inspirations! But from this list of kits, I prefer to have Spring Delight by Margaret Light because I decide to try the crewel technique as it is my dream of the last year or two. Also, I love so much the spring palette and round form of the design. It gives many opportunities for finishing and do not limit my own fantasy. Thank you so much for the opportunity to win something ideal!
Iya
I’m not certain – I think I would choose either the Modern Crewel piece (those colors!) or Les Hirondelles (I love needle painting!)
Thank you for a wonderful website full of ideas! I always find something interesting when I stop by. I would love to stitch the Honey Bee kit if I am selected..though a close second is the Spring Delight! Thanks again, Sheila
I would love to do the flying bird kit. I love birds and it would make a great addition to my collection. I am teaching my children the importance of birds, bees and many more creatures in our world now and in the future.
What a lovely giveaway! If I were able to choose one of these kits, I would pick INS 89 Kit Cover_Chatelaine Red. I love the idea of making a set of needlework tools and the red colour has a more classic look to me than the pink for some reason.
There are so many lovely ones but I would have to choose the Chatelaine in Red. Its so beautiful and I am always looking for projects that involve embroidery and tools that I use everyday.
I would love to win Les Hirondelles. I watch the swallows swoop and glide gracefully as I do my morning walk. Being able to catch one in stitch would be wonderful.
I would love to do the red chatelaine kit, although the gold work bee is tempting as I have wanted to try gold work.
I would choose Winter’s Song. Thread painting is so lovely and the bird is adorable.I have wanted to try this for awhile now and it would be a perfect project for me. Thanks for offering such a wonderful opportunity!
It is not easy to choose. Finally, I would like to win Bijou.I choose it beacuase it is surface embroidery with a little bit of goldwork, beads ans sequin. It is a modern interpretation of a bird. I will be so happy to stitch it with the real kit.
Excuse the way I write in English my first language is French. Thank you you are so generous.
Nicole
I would have to choose the Chatelaine in Red. It’s a lovely, lovely design and an absolutely beautiful set of sewing accessories. Thank you very much for this give away.
I will pick the gold work honey bee. I’m new to gold work, this project seems to be perfect for me. I used to have an apiary, but I couldn’t beat whatever is out there killing the bees. I love this kit
I definitely love the Kit Chatelaine (Red) because all the details and the pearls delicate and elegant just a exquisite taste, I love to do that kind of things!
It is so crewel to us to try to narrow our choice down to one. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.) However, if I can only choose one, I will have have to go with the Modern Crewel kit. I love Jacobean style embroidery!
I would love to win an Inspirations kit , I would choose the Modern Crewel kit because I love the colours, thank you
I’d choose the Modern Crewel kit. It showcases several of my favorite colors and in addition would teach me some new skills. What more could I ask?
I would love to win the honey bee kit. It is a beautiful piece of goldwork that looks manageable in scope. Plus a goldwork kit is amazing since all the threads are sourced for you in proper amounts!
All are beautiful, but I would definitely choose the Chatelaine (Red) as my first choice. The color and threads are wonderful. My second choice would be Hana as I am interested to try the Japanese beadwork (currently studying Japanese silk/metal thread embroidery so this would be a nice complement). Again the colors are terrific and I love working with beads!
Suzanne
I love the Chatelaine in red, so so pretty. I’ve been daydreaming about it since you posted your review. Also, I’ve been slowly improving the general quality of my embroidery tools. New accessories would feel so fun and fancy!
I would choose the chatelaine because i want to learn how to use some of those rich beautiful threads and new techniques. I do not have a beautiful chatelaine like many of my stitching friends. I love period stitchery. And I decided to focus on all types of goldwork stitchery this year as my stitching goal. I just completed the National EGA online goldwork class. This would be a perfect opportunity to continue to extend my stitching knowledge so I can share it with others.
Thank you.
What an exciting opportunity! I love Inspirations magazine, and their very detailed instructions. If I am lucky enough to win I would choose the Chatelaine kit in Red, because of both the exquisite design and the opportunity to learn new techniques. This design fits right in with my love of 17th century samplers and needlework. I am very interested to learn the techniques used for finishing and the touch of gold work in this project.
Thank you for this opportunity.
Hi,
Thank you so much for offering this giveaway! If I were selected as a winner, I would choose the Modern Crewel kit. I love the design and colors, and it would be a great opportunity for me to learn new embroidery techniques.
Warmly,
Molly
Inspirations magazine is always full of such beautiful designs. I would chose the chatelaine kit. It is very Elizabethan looking. Crossing fingers.
Oh my word. That is a wonderful giveaway but I am so indecisive! I think I would choose the honey bee – I have never worked with gold before and I have just come back from a lovely holiday where I saw bees close up for the first time, in a hive with a glass front, and they were so fascinating! I would love it as a little reminder of that.
Hi there, that would be a very hard choice indeed.
I think I like “Spring Delight” the most, the motif is charming and the colors are beuatiful. And looking at the details finishing such a project would definitely improve my embroidery skills.
Thank you for the great giveaway!
Difficult choice- I think I’d go with Bijou because it looks as if I’d be learning many new techniques and stitches. Thank you!
Si je gagne mon préféré est le kit crewel, il est absolument magnifique, j’adore faire ce type de modèle en plus e vert est la couleur de l’espoir pour moi.
Merci
I really like the Modern Crewel kit. Why? I’ve had a “thing” for crewel patterns since the ’70’s and I love Jacobean patterns. This one looks particularly nice
I would choose the Modern Crewel kit as I love the blues and greens, also the Jacobean design. A close runner-up would be the Honey Bee kit. It was a hard decision as all the kits are so beautiful and rich! I enjoy reading your blog.
I have newly discovered NeedleNThread and am thoroughly enjoying reading ALL of it!! Now, after learning about Inspirations Magazine, I’m thrilled that there is a give-away!! If my name was chosen, I would select the Small Change Purse. I love embroidery with beading and this little purse just seemed to speak to me! I would welcome the challenge of creating something so lovely! It would also be a great way to experience Inspirations Magazine!
I would stitch Chatelaine Red. I have a strong memory of reading a historical fantasy book as a girl and reading about the “chatelaine” the lady of the house kept at her waist. I hadn’t the faintest idea what that meant but oh, did I want one.
There are so many great kits… But I would prefer the red chatelaine. I love its very detailed look. This would be a very nice thing to have in embroidered beauties collection.
If selected, I would choose Modern Crewel and give it to my friend Peggy Kimble. Having retired almost 3 yrs ago, I resolved to return to cross stitching. One thing led to another, and I met a wonderful, very experienced stitcher named Peggy within a half hour drive of my home. This delightful 93yr old has introduced me to blackwork, hardanger, reticella, temari etc, etc through our bi-weekly visits. I truely never knew all of this existed! Peggy shares her vast knowledge, her huge library of stitching books, and even introduced me to Needlenthread. Peggy recently arranged for me to complete her own crewel design and kit, which she had given to a friend over 20 yrs ago and was untouched. So I could keep working on that one, and she could enjoy doing a modern crewel design – these are her colours for sure. Yesterday, we joined with several other friends and celebrated world embroidery day – our second annual on the shores on Georgian Bay Ontario – a whole new world has opened for us both.
I would love the Chalelaine in Red! I have been searching for a set to embroider fo awhile. ( Mary, I’m out of town til Friday Just in case my name comes up☺️)
I have been pondering and pondering. The Chatelaine is beautiful and silk embroidery would be new to me. And in addition, I would have some useful stitching tools.
Modern Crewel is modern (of course), in blues and greens and uses cotton rather than wool, so again it would be a change from my usual crewel work. Spring Delight is in crewel wools. The colour choices meant that Modern Crewel was the winner here.
I’ll plunge for the opportunity to learn new techniques and go for the Red Chatelaine.
Thank you for this wonderful give-away.
Regards,
Helen
Hard to choose but the Spring Delight dogwood wreath is so sweet. Beautiful colors and shading!
I would pick the modern crewel embroidery kit because I like the pattern and the colours. Thanks for the giveaway Mary.
What a difficult choice. I will go with the Goldwork Bee. I had a class with Alison Cole and she was simply delightful. Took the fear out of goldwork.
I have been getting the Inspiration Magazine for years. I love it! It has so many wonderful projects in it. In this last one I would like the Japanese Beading kit. I love working with beads, adding them to all my projects. I would like to learn more of their type stitching.
It is hard to choose just one. It is really a good issue.
Thank you, Debra Puma, Ca.