Needlework Galleria
September 20-23, 2023
Exhibitors 2023
There will be new faces this year! We have selected a nice variety of exhibitors for Galleria to entice you with a wide array of needlework wonders. Check out the latest patterns from Galleria shops covering a wide range of designers or visit the Galleria Designer rooms to see their latest stitched models. Scissors, project bags, needles, q-snaps, linen, flosses, buttons, trims, needle minders, stitch kits, bead kits, mono canvas, thread organizers....the list goes on and on. Needlework Galleria is a stitchy candy store for needlework enthusiasts!
AuryTM
Aury Morillo started out designing small quaker animals and her passion for fantasy, tales and whimsey blossomed into a full-time design business. She has discovered that quaker designs come in many forms and the imagination will continue to present fresh and new tales. Stop by Aury's Suite and rediscover a fairy-tale land you'll never outgrow.
Creative Angle Crafting
A lifelong stitcher, Dawn started designing beaded stitching accessories about 10 years ago and started her shop soon after. Today we have not only stitching accessories in a variety of themes but also boxes, ornaments, and other beautiful things. All are possible for a beginner. Come to our suite and see for yourselves.
DDM Needleworks for GPA - Giulia Punti Antichi
Denise De More of DDM Needlworks presents Giulia Manfredini of Giulia Punti Antichi - GPA's fabulous designs. Giulia creates a wide variety of cross stitch designs and reproduction samplers. Giulia's is known worldwide for her beautiful pincushion doll designs and her most recent Ukrainian pincushion doll, Nila.
DDM Needlworks is a new designer with exclusive teaching projects and smalls such as ornaments and pincushion pillows.
Fabrics By Stephanie
Owner Stephanie Bishop began her love of stitching when she was taught to cross stitch at age 10. Wanting a special fabric for a new project, she realized she couldn't quite find what she wanted, so set about to dye her own. Soon after, friends began to request specific fabrics and Hand Dyed Fabrics By Stephanie was born! Stephanie's fabrics have been featured in several nationally known magazines and after attending her first wholesale market in 2015, has developed many relationships with designers whom have begun to design with her fabrics. Stephanie's passion is to supply inspirational fabrics and hopes to help you to bring your inspiration to life.
Heart Creek Farm Creations
Welcome to the world of Miniature Punch Needle. Heart Creek Farm Creations offers you my designs of 80+ Patterns & kits for Miniature Punch Needle. We also will have for you the Ultra Punch Needle, Morgan No-Slip Hoops, The Gentle Art Threads, Weaver Cloth, beautiful over-dyed wools and much more. Punch Needle is an ancient art form that is easy and fun to do. I think of it as Miniature Rug Hooking but using 6 strands of floss instead of wool strips. After Punching for 15 years, I have learned that only our imagination is the limit to what is possible.
The Heart's Content
Maureen Sorenson began her design business in 1976 after the birth of her daughter. She mistakenly selected a linen to stitch on and started to stitch over every linen intersection. The beginning of Maureen's "over one" career had begun! Maureen's needleart has spanned over 40 years and many stitchers have come to love and admire her unique and intricate needlework creations.
Inspired Needle
Retail needlework shop from Palm Coast, Fl. Yes, we moved! This shop is full-service and carries patterns, cotton and silk threads, fabric ranging from 10 count all the way to 60 count, needlework classes, finishing, framing and a myriad of needlework gadgets and tools that will make even the most fussy stitcher happy. We ship worldwide, so if you don't have an LNS, give us a call! You can also visit us online at inspiredneedle.com. Watch us on youtube - we have our own Inspired Needle channel.
Jan Hicks Creates
Jan of Jan Hicks Creates describes her style as modern with a vintage twist. She finds inspiration everywhere, from mixed media art to ceramic tiles to textiles. Jan is also fascinated by less traditional antique samplers and is drawn to those that are more colorful, such as Mexican and Spanish samplers and has reproduced several of these. You will find designs both small and large, whimsical and traditional in her portfolio. Jan’s background in knitting, scrapbooking and stamping have given her an appreciation for color and how best to use color and layout in cross stitch designs.
Live & Dye LA
Live & Dye LA is a small, home-based business specializing in hand-dyed cross stitch fabrics, hand-dyed floss, patterns and other cross stitch related tools and accessories. Since launching the business in May 2020, we have expanded our offerings to include custom designed needle minders, project bags, stickers and curated project packs consisting of exclusive items available only in these packs.
Mani di Donna
Italian designer Simona Bussiglieri expanded on her love of needleart when she opened her own shop in Italy. After marriage and then a family, it became clear that the day to day restrictions of owning a shop would no longer work. Simona expanded on the needlework friendships she had created and ventured into the design end of the business. Her needlework creations will impress when you see her true passion for the needle!
Meridian Designs
Karen McEwan is a married mom of two extraordinary and challenging kids. Her background training is in Fashion Design, but she spent years as a Travel Agent. She's been a cross stitcher since her teen years. Karen was encouraged by friends to turn her joy of stitching and artistic ability into new designs. Her style could be considered eclectic and quirky in some cases, artsy and romantic in others. She's also learned that she can turn almost anything into a bikini, but her real love is the beautiful ladies that she imagines. You can expect to see ladies of all shapes, sizes, and colors in her designs, as she believes everyone has their own beauty.
The Mindful Needle
Designer Dawn Friske is excited to welcome you to the world of The Mindful Needle Designs! She learned how to cross stitch back in the early '90's, and while she enjoys a wide array of creative pursuits, cross stitching is her passion. Her love of cross stitch really took off during 2020 and she began designing her own patterns. Nature, antique samplers, Quaker motifs, Christmas and Halloween are just a few of the sources where Dawn draws inspiration. She is very excited to share a new Halloween design with you, called Ghosts Will Rise, as well as a design using Quaker motifs, entitled Quaker Birds. You will definitely want to stop by her suite to see her fun, whimsical and thoughtful designs!
The Nebby Needle
My daydream of becoming a cross-stitch designer became a reality at the 2010 Shepherd's Bush Retreat in Park City, UT after showing Barb and Alma (of Blackbird Designs) a piece of theirs that I "expanded". Alma asked if I designed and I said "no, I just change everybody else's". She told me I was ready...and The Nebby Needle was born in October of 2010!
I offer cross-stitch designs using overdyed linens, threads and trims combining styles of traditional, whimsical and prim. I also have some "handmades" (pillows, pins, pincushions, scissor fobs, floss cards) and packaged embellishments (buttons, baubles, crushed walnut shells, lavender and trims) for your finishing pleasure.
Needle Bling Design
Needle Bling Designs is made up of Theresa Curry and Brian Stugelmayer. Our original cross stitch designs are anywhere from fun and whimsical ideas, to simple everyday things, or loving family moments. We create designs in many different ways that anyone can use in their everyday life or special occasions. We get our ideas and inspirations from all different places and walks of life.
Needleworker's Delight
Fabrics, fabrics and more fabrics! Needleworker's Delight is a retail store in South Metuchen, New Jersey. Home of Silkweaver Fabrics, Kevin and Jim will have a large selection of stitching fabrics to choose from. Come by our room and see the goodies we've brought along that you'll want to add to your stitching bags!
Olde Colonial Designs
Pam Reed with husband Bob of Bob’s Barn is a manufacturing and designing company that develops finishing items for the needlework industry. This is a two part family business. Pam’s sewing room creates designs for the counted thread industry bringing inspiration from family heirlooms, flowers and fabric with her designing efforts specializing in smalls and the use of Olde Colonial products. Part two of the business, “Bob’s Barn” manufactures Custom Boxes and frames for the many designers in the industry. Pam is also known for her teaching of heirloom reproduction inspired smalls and mending boxes.
Petal Pusher
Petal Pusher blossomed into existence when I combined my love of nature and creativity with my hobby of cross stitch. I'm so very excited to share with you my designs that celebrate the changing of the seasons, the beauty of nature and the tradition of needlework.
The Purple Thread
Designer Sharon Verbos shares her love of needlework by combining antique treasures, easy finishing, and fun stories into each of her creations. Her designs come fully kitted so all your supplies are right at hand. You will be amazed at how easy it is to create a work of art that you will cherish for years. Visit Sharon to find what amazing treasures she brought to Galleria.
Romy's Creations
Romy’s Creations is an Italian company run by Romina Petrucci. She started dyeing threads in 2007 just for her own pleasure, then she noticed that all her stitching friends liked and wanted to buy them so she began to do it more “seriously.” Little by little, her business grew to a point that in 2011 she attended her first needlework show in Italy and in 2015 the first one in the US.
She says : “Color is my life, my love and passion. I’ve always had a brush or a pencil in my hand….so, after I started dyeing my own line of threads, drawing my own designs was the next step. I needed to show how my colors brought life to needlework. Join me in a class or in my booth to discover my colorful world made of threads, charts and cute handmade needlework accessories!”
Rosewood Manor
Karen began her design business while working for a home party company that sold needlecrafts. She is known for her motif samplers, gleaning inspiration from quilts, nature and her surroundings. You'll never tire of Karen's patterns as sections of her designs can be stitched and used as greeting cards, bookmarks, ornaments, pin cushions and other treasured items.
Silver Creek Samplers
Needing an outlet in which to channel her creative energy, following the completion of twelve years of work as an art director for a quilt magazine, founder of Silver Creek Samplers, Diane Grick, discovered that designing her own cross stitch patterns came naturally. Cross stitch was an art form Diane had initially undertaken as a hobby a few years before learning to quilt. After three years of creating her own patterns, in 2009 she made the decision to contact a distributor, who immediately accepted her patterns, and to the delight of many, Diane hasn’t looked back since. She describes her original counted cross stitch designs as fun & folksical (a blend of folksy and whimsical).
The Silver Needle
Retail needlework shop from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Lindy's shop is a cross-stitcher's dream, filled to the brim with scissors, stitching accessories, threads, beaded projects and yards upon yards of needlework fabrics. If you've ever wished you could visit this shop, now's your chance, without having to make the trek to Tulsa!
Stacy Nash Designs
Hello stitchers, my name is Stacy Nash. I am a self taught stitcher and have been designing for about 16 years. I collect 18th and 19th century antique Samplers and use them to inspire my designs. I especially love big stitched houses, animals and flower urns.
I live in an old farmhouse in rural Indiana. It is home to our horses, goats, chickens, dogs and cats.
My designs reflect my love of old samplers, our animals and gardens.
Still Stitching With Susan, LLC
Susan Greening Davis is known as a needle artist/technician. She has had the pleasure of designing and teaching for shop owners, guilds, and events for the last 30 years. Susan studied her trade in Denmark, England and now Italy, as well as with the Danish masters who have visited the United States to instruct.
Susan designs all of her creations - from start to the famous “self-finishing” - she is known for. She stitches all of her creations as they come from her head, through her heart, and then the needle. After the correct fabric, fibers, stitches and finishing are completed the design is charted. We welcome Susan for the first time to Needlework Galleria! You will love her and her Suite.
Stitches and Style
Marinella Paoletti is an Italian designer who started designing in 2000 under the name Mingiustitch. After the birth of her children and family problems she realized that she could not devote enough time to her passion for embroidery.
Today, with new enthusiasm, she has created a new trade, “Stitches and Style”. The website is under construction, but you can find her creations on Facebook: Stitches and Style by Marinella or on Instagram Stitchesandstylebym.
Textured Treasures
The Textured Treasures design team of Karen Dudzinski and Christian Lachapelle are coming from Ottawa, Canada to offer a variety of counted thread, canvaswork, perforated paper and other needlework choices. We offer most of our designs fully kitted to save you from searching high and low for supplies. We also stock stitching fabrics, canvas, DMC, Rainbow Gallery, Kreinik and Mill Hill - particularly the Santa, Christmas Village and Laurel Burch collections. Please visit our Suite to see the wonderful items we've brought to entice!