Have you seen the newest Chatelaine Design? Nicki has posted a picture of “Persian Iris Garden” and it is gorgeous!! I don’t know what to do with my list of to be stitched’s… it is getting longer by the day!
The dilemma is I really want to do the mystery sampler next year… love the theme and I love the colours and I really want to do the illumenated mediaval sampler and I really am intrigued by Mystery IX – French Garden.
I’m already signed up for the Grape Threadkeeper Book class. One thing I can say about the new Persian Garden is that it has at least stopped me wavering about joining Medieval Town Mandala – I like this much much more! (Of course there is still the Egyptian Garden… it’s siren’s call is still calling) I suppose I could get the charts and join the groups but leave the stitching till I can fit it in…
I’m just relieved that TW has taken her leave of absence from designing or the dilemma would be killing me! TWs that are on the to do list at present and I have the Charts for are: Egyptian Sampler, The Fortunate Traveller and Celestial Dragon.
And of course I love the new Mermaid design by Mirabilia! I think I need to quit my job to keep up (probably wouldn’t manage it anyway!)
No Sampler left behind 
Cathy, I think you should join them and stitch them later if you want to , all of them I tell ya! š The good thing about the ones where you know what they look like is that you don’t have to keep up if you don’t want to as you know what it looks like anyway. It’s a lot harder with the mysteries isn’t it? š
That new design is so beautiful! š I hope you still join the sampler group – I think I’m going to be joining that one too, as it will be much more afordable than this new one probably!
Tell me about it!!! I think I’ll join the group to get the chart but try to finish some of my other stuff first. And that gives me a chance to see what fabrics other people are using too!
I’m having the same problem as well. I’ve already joined the Illuminated Medieval Sampler for next year and have Egyptian Garden that I haven’t even considered starting, all while I’m dropping behind with Alpine Seasons. I’m leaning towards Nicki’s solution to join it for the pattern, the hints and progress pictures, but stitch it in the far off “one day”.
That Chatelaine is awesome! I’ve been stitching from my stash but when I go to CATS in Hershey next month I think some Chatelaines will be going with me, if there are any there. They are really growing on me!