A new year - a new design

And what a year it's going to be.

2016 isn't just any old year you know because

this summer Long Dog Samplers will be celebrating

twenty glorious, stitch filled years of designs each

one more dazzling and death defying than the last.

Each one stuffed full of colours, backstitches, 

cross stitches, happy stitches, Julia being really silly

stitches and the odd carnation and chick-a-birdie too

for good measure but also to fill in the spaces where

nothing else would fit.  See - my secret is out!

This new design is just the first of many projects scheduled

for release at intervals throughout the coming year with

the real "piece de resistance", the "Long Dog to end all

Long Dogs" (with a price to match) due to hit the road

running (because that's what Long Dogs do best)

this coming summer on our birthday.  You

have been warned so start saving your pennies now!

But to the business in hand, it is with glee and delight

that I give you the first flash of Band of Braves.

I really ought to iron these first but I hate ironing!

Band of Braves is heavily influenced by Native American

symbols and colours.  It measures 154 x 312 stitches in its moccasins,

is stitched throughout in DMC threads and the ransome

demanded on this occasion is £12.60 or a nugget of gold.

Now hurry up and buy yourself a copy before I go on the

warpath and send out a posse to bring you all in.

jools@longdogsampler.com

I'll be waiting for you!  Darn tootin' I will.

You will notice that I have refrained from adding

"yeehah" but the temptation was enormous.