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The Spirit of Cross-Stitch Video Library offers a wide range of needlework techniques featuring exclusive projects that are designed and taught by some of the foremost needlework teachers today! Take a new and exclusive video "class" each month ... at an incredibly low price of $19.95 each or $239.40 for the 12 set! Clear, concise instructions, close up camera work and animated stitch diagrams make mastering new techniques easy! At the same time, our projects are beautifully interesting and exciting to stitch. As always, we stand behind our tapes and guarantee your satisfaction.

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Pulled and Drawn Thread
designed & taught by
Jean Farish Huls

Pulled and drawn thread brings lacy openness to conventional cross-stitch. Learn how to remove and re-weave linen threads to create this delicate stitchery technique.

Jean's 6" x 9" band sampler combines traditional stitchesPulled with the newest in stitching fibers and button embellishment. This sampler is designed to be easily personalized as a birth or wedding announcement or for any special occasion. With your choice of colors and quotation, it's a delightfully easy project to complete.

Length: Approx. 80 minutes.

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Linen Band Ornament
designed & taught by
C.A. Wells

Master the art of creating simple yet stunning projects - easy to finish in a weekend without looking like it! You'll learn C.A.'s secrets to success with this sachet/ornament design that can easily be delightfully feminine or strikingly masculine. The design features a ribbonLinen Band Ornament and chain stitch joining method which you can apply to many future projects. Two color choices, a whitework alternative and a choice of finished sizes allow you to customize your project.



Length: Approx. 60 minutes.

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Ruskin Lace
designed & taught by
Linda Driskell

Ruskin Lace is an ancient needlework technique that is surprisingly easy to master - especially with Linda's wonderful and warm instruction. You'll learn the techniques of cutwork (precisely cutting away a section of linen) and needleweaving to fill the open linen with aRuskin Lace lace-like design.

This beautiful motif can be used in a variety of different projects. Shown as a needlecase, it can also be used for a sachet, ornament, ringbearer pillow, jewelry and more!


Length: Approx. 90 minutes. Bonus program included!

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Stitcher's Case
designed & taught by
Merry Cox

You'll learn a variety of traditional sampler stitches as well as a great finishing technique while you make this pretty and practical stitcher's case. Included in this case is a needlebook, scissors holderStitcher's Case and Merry's special "mattress" pincushion. Merry eagerly shares her love and knowledge of needlework with you - and there's lots of it to share! Merry works each new design with teaching in mind - and so she makes the challenging project easy to complete!

Length: Approx. 90 minutes.

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Duplicate Stitch Christmas
Sampling Sweater

designed & taught by
De Selby

Duplicate stitch is a quick technique yielding rich and highly personalized results. Duplicate stitch can be applied to "store bought" sweaters as well as those hand knitted.Duplicate Stitch Christmas Sampling Sweater De Selby designed Christmas Sampling so you can learn all you need to know for the multitude of designs available...designs for many holidays & seasons. You'll work with a variety of fibers and learn embellishing stitches, too. Come visit with her and learn this age old process!

Length: Approx. 60 minutes

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Hardanger Heirloom
designed & taught by
Linda Abel

The roots of Hardanger embroidery are traced from ancient Persia, through the Italian Renaissance, on to Norway and finally to the United States with the immigration of thousands of accomplished needleworkers.Hardanger Heirloom

Linda Abel brings a fresh look to traditional Hardanger embroidery with use of hand painted fibers and a lovely combination of stitches. You'll learn all about Klosters - the basic building blocks of Hardanger - as well as details like Dove's Eyes and Picots.

Length: Approx. 90 minutes. Bonus program included!

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Edging Variations
designed & taught by
Martha Schmidt

Learn the secrets of the Nun's stitch edging and Three Sided Fringed edging, great finishes for bookmarksEdging Variations and other quick projects. Also, learn the more elaborate three-sided Scandinavian edge which finished Martha's delightful needlework. You'll find yourself looking for projects in which to put Martha's finishing techniques to work! Martha also shares the Bullion Rose and will have you creating one, petal by petal, in no time at all!

Length: Approx. 110 minutes. Bonus program included!

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Tatting
designed & taught by
Linda Driskell

Shuttle tatting is a delicate art that magically appears with repetitions and variations of just one stitch! Although at it's peak of popularity 100+ years ago, tatting is quickly gaining renewed popularity with many needleTatting enthusiasts today. Learn this technique with the guidance and encouragement of Linda Driskell, noted teacher and designer. Her tatting experience and ability to teach beginning students will allow you to master this technique with "practice, practice, practice" as Linda teaches you to do.

Length: Approx. 60 minutes. Bonus program included!

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Whitework
designed & taught by
Linda Jary

Whitework yields a rich tone-on-tone design that is perfect for any home decor. Shown as a pillow in this video, Linda's design would also be suitable for framing. She approaches the project by designing ever-increasing squares around a central square so the stitcher can call the work finished at any stage!Whitework Additionally, "Whitework" doesn't have to be white. Best represented when the fabric and stitching fibers match as closely as possible, there are many color choices available. The secret to beautiful whitework is the play of light and shadows on the variety of stitches used.

Length: Approx. 90 minutes. Bonus program included!

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Silk Ribbon, Blackwork & Hemstitching
designed & taught by
Jean Farish Huls

A diminutive sampler packed with two of the hottest revivals in needlework today: traditional hemstitching and silk ribbon embroidery that guarantees great results with your first attempt.Silk Ribbon, Blackwork & Hemstitching Then, her introductory lesson on silk embroidery will equip you with the skills and knowledge to create many more projects. Concertina and "spider" roses prairie points, plume stitches, the basic Japanese silk stitch and tips on adapting familiar stitches like the chain and stem are included.

Length: Approx. 120 minutes

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Silk on Silk
designed & taught by
Maureen Appleton

Maureen Appleton's Hawaiian Hibiscus captures nature's amazing detail in Whiteworkthis intriguing needlework technique of stitching with silk fibers on silk gauze. Sit with Maureen for just about an hour and she will tell you how you can accomplish this forty-stitches-to-the-inch masterpiece. She'll share hints and the secrets to excellent stitch techniques.




Length: Approx. 90 minutes.
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Stitching "One Over One"
designed & taught by
Maureen Appleton

Stitching with a single fiber over the intersection of a linen thread crossing is seen by many stitchers as a goal - and sometimes an unattainable one at that! Maureen Appleton will ease youStitching One-Over-One into this challenge by presenting you with a design motif rich in detail that can only be achieved in "one over one" stitching. This tantalizing Jamaican Rose design features over twenty shades of floss - all colors stitched in a single strand!

Length: Approx. 60 minutes

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