Tales from Periphaeria

I received an email from a stitcher who wasn’t able to download the latest complimentary design for Mothers’ Day few hours ago, and luckily she did send me that email: when my host moved my account to new, better server, few files had gone lost (I know, their system does not like apostrophes)!

All the files should be in their rightful place again, so, if you have had problems to download this is why it may have happened.

And by the way, second part of the Spanish Sampler MSAL will be published in 15th of May so remember to mark your calendars and subscribe to the TSS newsletter at Periphaeria Designs’ Community!

See you then!

“Wherever you go and whatever you do, May the luck of the Irish be there with you”

About a year ago I was asked to design something Irish and I promised to see what I can do to it. In the end of the 2007 I finally had an idea, or three, and designed few biscornus for you Ireland lovers - or those of you who itch to stitch themselves something stitchy for St. Patrick’s Day.

The set consists of three different designs, two monochromatic and one with various colours:

1. Geometric Clovers: 51 x 51 stitches.
   
2. Lucky Clovers: 53 x 53 stitches.
   
3. Pot o’ Gold: 55 x 55 stitches. (NOTE: The design contains over one stitches.)

If you love Ireland and/ or St. Patrick’s Day this is the set for you!

One Star’s Light Needlework Supplies has 1st anniversary sale and you get 15% off if you give the coupon code 1YearAnniversary when checking out (of all orders from now until midnight Eastern Time on March 12th). Go and shop!

I did too….
I only meant to buy some needles, but ended up buying two packs of Permin needles (26 and 28), Curious Cat needleminder and some Crescent Colours‘ cottons… because “you never know!“

Since the Valentine’s Day launch the chartpacks sold at Violarium are printed on-site, which means that the chartpacks printed and sold through One Star’s Light and Violarium differ from each other because the card stock used is different. They also differ size wise as Europe and U.S.A. have different default paper size.
Otherwise the chartpacks are the same quality you have got used to.

I have just got the questionable honour to report my first copyright infringement to a $SERVICE_PROVIDER. Does this mean that I am famous now?
I knew, when getting into designing, that there will be people who will steal from me like that, people who won’t respect my right to my intellectual property as I know there are designers who are so plagued by this phenomenon that they use most of their days reporting infringements and not doing what they are good at and what they love: design.

If you purchase my designs, never share them with anyone and respect my copyrights I thank you. If you have the mental spine to preach for the artist’s right for their creation, I am more than thankful, as the world needs you, us, needlework designers need you to help us to spread the knowledge.
If you purchase my designs and “share” them, or if you only stitch my designs without paying a dime of the think of this: would you steal the fabric and floss you use? No, because it’s a crime, as much of a crime as is stealing the pattern, stealing those few cents from the artist who created the design you love to stitch.

To end this with a funny anecdote: Guess was I amazed when I read the latest The Gift of Stitching and noticed that Helga Mandl’s design published in the magazine uses exactly same clover than a design combo I have designed a while ago and which I am currently model stitching for St. Patrick’s Day?
Great minds think alike, it seems and I had to send a courtesy email to Helga right away, just in case there won’t be questions of imitation. (In this case it’s fortunate that motifs, like clovers, can’t be copyrighted as such, only the final design.)

Yes, I am publishing a set of St. Patrick’s Day’s designs soon!

The chartpack had wrong monochrome chart in it. The file is now corrected.

If you have bought the file through me I have emailed you with the corrected version. I’m sorry for the inconvenience.

The lucky winner of the newsletter competition was Jeannie-Maree B. from Australia! Our lucky winner told me in her email that she never wins anything, therefore I hope that winning EIGHT new designs to stitch soothens that a bit.

Violarium Collection

I am proud to represent you a new series of stitcher’s tools!
 

The series started with two needlerolls: the violet and white is designed especially for lower count (28-32) fabrics and the white and red is designed especially 40 counts in mind.
New parts will follow each other every few months - the series is exclusively available through Violarium.

And the six others

All of these are available through Periphaeria Designs and all of our retailers.
All but Sunflowers contain charts for both monochromatic and colour version.

Periphaeria’s Birthday!

It was 1st of March, 2007 when Periphaeria Designs‘ first site went officially live. Since then we have changed to our own domain and offer wider variety of services (gallery and community) and better availability.

I want to thank you for being there, purchasing my designs and giving a good word to your stitching friends about PD. As much I would loved to invite you all over for coffee and cookies it’s a logistic impossibility so I came up with another good idea, and this one has zero calories: “Heartfelt”.

You can find this design from the usual direction, but I advice you to hurry: this is a limited-time only complimentary design and will be taken down midnight 31st of March. After this it won’t be available for free.

And… have a happy Valentine’s Day!

(You can read the latest newsletter in here.)

Firstly, I am happily amazed by the response the Mystery has got. The newsletter subscriber list is getting very long very fast so I hope we can see many versions of the sampler stitched!

Secondly, if you are curious to get some sneak peeks about the Valentine’s launch visit Gallery’s Works-In-Progress album.
Some of the teasers are rather blurry as for some reason I haven’t been able to get sharp pictures lately… ah well.

Now, I will make brew some strong coffee for myself and prepare the designs for sale - keep thumbs up that it is sunny tomorrow so I can get some lovely daylight pictures of the models!

Hop at the Periphaeria Designs’ Community and read about the Spanish Sampler Mystery Stitch-A-Long I am organizing - for free!

It starts officially 15th of March, but project info and the gridding line chart has been posted so you have enough time to grid the blocks to their rightful places.

See you there!

… though the winner will be kept secret until 14th of February.

My dear winner, you will be contacted couple of days before the 14th, so keep a close eye on your email inbox…

I am happy to announce you that I have set a date for the next launch!

The Date is 14th of February, which is also the day when I am going to announce the lucky winner of the little competition. Currently my goal is to launch six new designs (the fourth model is about half stitched so with luck there may be more), a not-so-small-surprise and a complimentary design.
The complimentary design has been designed to celebrate Periphaeria Designs‘ first anniversary and it will only be available a limited time (from 14th of February to midnight 31st of March (GMT+2)) so mark your calendars - or, if you are not subscribed yet, subscribe to our newsletter!

I’m eagerly waiting to celebrate the Valentine’s Day with all of you! Until then: happy stitching!

In the little competition I have blogged about previously (click the link) so if you haven’t already done it’s time to subscribe to Periphaeria Designs‘ right now!
And as you know that your stitching friends are dear to you let them know about the competition too - as enabling is half of the fun, right?

Important note: As I forgot to add the time zone for the close-out I have decided that everyone who has subscribed before or during 1st of February 2008 (according to our mailing list provider) automatically takes part.

May the Lady Fortuna be with you.

Happy New Year to you! I hope your year will be prosperous in every possible way and stash fairies will grow your stash!

For the understandable reason of having health problems (and then I got a trainee position which has meant even less time for designing or stitching) new designs have been nowhere to be seen.
I DO miss launching the new designs and therefore I decided to leave the current Design-In-Progresses be in the DIP pile and concentrate on a completely new set.

That seemed to be a good idea as the urge has come back and I am eagerly awaiting to be able to launch new designs during the first months of the coming year. (One reason for this urge is that I have been inspired by someone and my creative juices are slowly starting to flow.)

And to give myself yet another incentive to reach my goal I will thereby announce a competition!

The spiel goes like this….

1. How to join?:
   The only thing you have to do is to join Periphaeria Designs‘ mailing list and have your hopes high! If you already subscribe to the newsletter you don’t have to do absolutely anything. It won’t get easier than that!
2. The Prize:
   One of each of the designs to be published in the next launch. (In *.pdf format.)
3. The competition runs…:
   From now to February 1st and the lucky winner will be announced in Valentine’s Day, 14th of February, when I will send the winner an email.
   IF I don’t receive a reply from the winner within one week new name will be drawn, so use such an email address you read frequently to ensure to get your possible winnings in due course.

It is THAT simple and everyone has as good probability to win than the other stitcher as I will use an impartial Lady Fortuna, Random.Org, to choose the number of the winner (all the newsletter subscribers have a subscriber number and that will be used as your lottery ticket).

Feel free to spread the word (with link to this entry) to your stitching friends, in blogs and on forums.
I keep my thumbs up for every one of you!

The Cross Stitch Expo starts tomorrow and lasts until 16th of December.
This means, once again, designs in special price when you make the purchase through Cross Stitch Expo so if you have eyed some of my designs do pop by and see if it is there too.
For those of you who need some extra seasonal decorations for their home or ornaments for their Christmas tree I can tell that you can find Lumikukkia in special Expo price and as they are relatively small you still have time to stitch them all by Christmas!