'The Sparrow' Unveiled!

Excited to have picked up my finished The Sparrow from the framer yesterday! Alas, I did try for a mini photo shoot, but light wasn't the best and I had to stop! I did get a few, but I do want to get some better pictures, to choose for the front cover of the design! This wasn't awful, but I know I can get a better picture!

This design gave me lots of peace and calmness while I was designing it! And I think if you stitch it, it will also give you that same peace and calmness! Some softer colors mixed in with more prominent colors, done with a mix of overdyed fibers from Crescent Colours and Gentle Art Simply Shaker Threads on Lakeside Linens Vintage Examplar 40 ct linen. I love it, and I hope that you do too!

This one does show the frame choice better:

Do you see the sparrows in the tree?

I hope to have the patterns formatted and completed by the first of the week, if not sooner! If you would like a copy, please shoot me an email!

Thanks so much for visiting Tree of Life Samplings blog and as always your comments are very much enjoyed!

Warmly, Jan @ Tree of Life Samplings

Sneak Peeks of Newest Design!

Introducing, well with a sneak peek or two, of Tree of Life Samplings newest offering, 'The Sparrow'!

It is now at the frame store, hoping to have it back home and a photo session with it, by the first of next week! It was a joy to design, I love how it turned out and I hope you all do too! If you have any questions about it, shoot away, I will be glad to answer!

Have a most wonderful stitchey week!

Fondly, Jan @ Tree of Life Samplings

Sharing a Quaker Silence beauty!!

I thought you might like to see a finished Quaker Silence done in two colors instead of the cover model's palette! So pretty, don't you think? This was stitched by Kathy and she shared the finished picture with me. Kathy used the recommended fabric (40 ct Lakeside Meadow Rue) but went with Belle Soie Silks for her color palette.

 If you have a picture of one of my designs that you have stitched, please do email me with all of the particulars and a picture of the completed design! I love seeing what everyone does with their projects!!

I will be posting again soon, with a design update or two! Please forgive my extended absence, without getting into a lot of detail, I have been very ill and even spent a couple of weeks in the hospital. I am feeling so much better now and look forward to giving you more designs to stitch. Hoping that will be soon!!

Have some fun with your stitching!

Jan @ Tree of Life Samplings

Designs update!!

I wanted to keep you all informed about my designs, and that was and is, the primary reason for starting this blog! So I thought I had better check in with you and let you know what I have been up to!

I had originally planned to release a Christmas design this year, my first in the Emma Rose series! Some of you might remember that Emma Rose indeed did exist, she was my great-grandmother. I have always been fascinated with her, she passed away when I was a young child, but oh the memories I have of her! I am doing my best to create this series, in hopes that you can incorporate and personalize, some of the special memories you have of some of your family members!

Due to the time element, I decided to forego releasing Emma Rose Christmas this month, but she will be released...she is designed, just not yet completely stitched! I think for all of you stitchers out there, that would like to stitch this charming sampler, I could at least give you adequate time to stitch it, so I will release Emma Rose Christmas, sometime the latter part of 2010! In the meantime, I will have an introduction sampler for Emma Rose designed by the Nashville Market in February of 2010. I do have an additional sampler that I would like to do, again about Emma Rose, possibly released at that time, so I hope you bare with me!

I also have intentions to release a Noah sampler by market time and possibly another sampler, titled Sparrows! So if I get myself busy between now and then, these designs will be ready for your purchase!

I recently got signed up with Hoffman Distributing, and the patterns are really selling, have filled several purchase orders, in the last few weeks. I am so grateful there are so many of you, not only supportive of my design efforts, but also wanting to stitch them! That is my primary joy, to design pieces, that you not only love, but truly want to stitch and hang in your homes! That is what spurs me on, with my designing!

I thank you from the bottom of my heart, and I will do my best to continue to please you! Thank you for following, reading and posting to my blog, I so enjoy reading your comments!

Till next time!

All my best,

Jan @ Tree of Life Samplings

New Mercies is framed!!

The sun is kissing New Mercies this morning! It is finally in it's glorious frame and I couldn't be more pleased with it! The model was stitched on 40 ct Meadow Rue by Lakeside Linens, with Gentle Art Sampler Threads! Although don't feel boxed in, you can stitch this on anything you like.

Patterns should be ready by Monday, that is if everything goes right, so feel free to pre-order by emailing me!

I appreciate so much all of the emails and support I have received for my designs. It means the world to me to have your thumbs up!

I really love reading all of your comments, thank you in advance for those!

Enjoy your Autumn weather, I am!

Love, Jan @ Tree of Life Samplings

Another sneak peek..and complimentary design!

Okay, I know this is hard, to just see a portion, and there is no one that is wanting to show you more than I, but I hesitate to do so, until the piece is framed! New Mercies is now at the framer's, and should be ready to share next week, in it's full glory, so bear with me!

In the meantime, I am leaving you with a small complimentary design! Hope you enjoy, and experiment with colors, to make it your own! I call it Harvest Moon! Thanks for your support of my designs!


Love, Jan

New Release coming soon!

Here is a small pic of a sneak peek, of my third design to be released, in the next few weeks.

New Mercies
Stitched on Lakeside Meadow Rue, 40 Ct
Stitched with Gentle Art Overdyed Fibers

Thanks for the support!