AUTUMN Thread Pack Photos + October Pack Contest

Hi There!

I hope that your week has been good and that you've been able to get some precious stitching time in? I have been busy finishing all the text for my book and updating my fabric listings on my site and on my Etsy shop!

I've also been preparing for the October pack and organising 2 extra surprises for next months pack.  I've received some great reviews about the September pack that I'll be sharing with you later in this article...I'm also launching a great contest to win a fabric trio pack worth 30 euros when you sign up for the monthly thread subscription.

First of all I'm going to reveal the photos of the September thread pack with the threads that Lily chose! I've been waiting patiently to show them until everyone has received them and now I can!

AUTUMN Pack Photos

Now that most of the packs have arrived I wanted to share a few photos of the lovely colours I had the pleasure to dye, prepare and send to the lucky subscribed ladies..

This Autumn range was chosen by our daughter Lily just for you. I love it as it illustrates all the tones and hues of the falling automnal leaves. I think it's a great range, don't you?

Some Great Reviews

Here are some great reviews that I received from happy stitchers! Thank you to all of you for taking the time to send me them.

Le Fil Atalie Thread Subscription Contest

I thought that it would be fun to organise a contest for the launch of the October thread pack.. You can win a fabric trio pack worth 30 euros when you sign up for the monthly thread subscription.

In order to participate in the contest all you have to do is sign up for the monthly thread subscription! All the new subscribers will be eligible to win the fabric pack. The link to find out all the information you need to choose the subscription that suits you best is here: https://bit.ly/MonthlyThreadsSubscription 

If you would like to receive a beautiful pack of stitching threads in your postbox every month, like the ones in the photos above, please read on... 

A pack of 10 hand dyed threads a month from the Fil Atalie range, ready to use and stitch with straight away on any of your designs, or for you to simply start a colourful collection!

Over 12 months you'll receive 120 threads, created, chosen and lovingly produced from my home in France to yours!

Whether you feel like giving yourself this gift or ordering it for a cross stitching member of your family or a dear stitch mad friend, I'm sure that these threads will bring pleasure and delight and give your stitching a little something extra!

There are 4 ways that you can sign up for this thread subscription:

Monthly Subscription (recurring monthly payments),  3 Months Subscription,  6 Months Subscription or 12 Months Subscription (you'll find information about each below)

4 Different Subscriptions Available

MONTHLY: Monthly subscription of 10 threads (Le Fil Atalie) + Small Gift + Surprises + Facebook Group.  1 colourful, harmonious and hand picked thread pack per month, dyed to order and delivered to your door. 

Automatic recurring monthly payment via Paypal. Free to stop your subscription whenever you want.

To order this subscription please read all the information on the sales page on my site..you need to purchase using the PURCHASE button (please do not place in the basket) or follow this link to subscribe directly: DIRECT LINK TO PAYPAL

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3 MONTHS SUBSCRIPTION: 3 Month subscription of 10 threads (Le Fil Atalie) + Small Gift + Surprises + Facebook Group.  1 colourful, harmonious and hand picked thread pack per month, dyed to order and delivered to your door for 3 months. Save a few euros by choosing this subscription

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6 MONTHS SUBSCRIPTION: 6 Month subscription of 10 threads (Le Fil Atalie) + Small Gift + Surprises + Facebook Group.  1 colourful, harmonious and hand picked thread pack per month, dyed to order and delivered to your door for 6 months. Reduction in the monthly price when you choose this subscription.

12 MONTHS SUBSCRIPTION: 12 Month subscription of 10 threads (Le Fil Atalie) + Small Gift + Surprises + Facebook Group.  1 colourful, harmonious and hand picked thread pack per month, dyed to order and delivered to your door for 12 months. Save money and get a month free when you buy this yearly subscription.

Please follow this link to find out all the information you need: https://bit.ly/monthlythreadsubscription

Delivery Information

Orders for the October Pack opens today, 24th September and will close on the 27th September at midnight. Any orders received after midnight on the 27th will receive the November pack. 

Please be aware that last month I had a few packs left over and the first orders received after the 27th may qualify for any left over October packs.

If you choose the monthly subscription you won't have to order again as you'll receive your pack every month after I receive your automatic recurring payment through Paypal. If you no longer wish to receive your subscription you can simply cancel the recurring payments in Paypal, or send me a message and I can do it for you.

If you don't have a Paypal account but would still like to buy the monthly version of  the subscription please contact me and I can set this up for you. 

I will be hand dyeing the threads to order and need a week to 10 days to do this. You will receive your subscription between the 1st and the 10th of the month. This delay depends on where you live of course!

I look forward to receiving any comments and questions that you might have in the comments below or via messenger or mail: tometlily@hotmail.com.

I hope to have you on board for this latest adventure and look forward to sending out your beautiful threads every month!

Have a great week full of sun, stitching and colour!

Happy Stitching!

Melanie

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New, New and Oh New!

Hello!

Yes it's me again .. and yes "it's already Thursday!" Time goes so fast doesn't it ?!

This week I'm going to show you some new blackwork embroidery designs, a new hand dyed thread colour, show you some pictures of the progress of the Tree of Life 365 day SAL, and announce a great show that I'll be doing soon and where we could meet!

New Blackwork Designs

It has been a while since these embroidery hoops were finished but I haven't had the opportunity to present them to you yet. Following on from the Spring and Summer Hoops, here are the Autumn and Winter Hoops.  This closes the 4 seasons of the year.

Autumn & Winter Hoops

Spring & Summer Hoops

The charts and kits for these designs are available here: https://bit.ly/2MRlrkO and here: https://bit.ly/2HYsE3S

New Thread

A new Atalie thread was born during the month of January. I had a lot of pleasure creating it. I wanted to add a royal blue to the collection. Here is Lazuli! ...I'll let you in on a secret there are others in preparation!

Lazuli

The Lazuli thread is available here:  https://bit.ly/2SfPk4h


New Show

 I know, i know this isn't a new show ... it's quite the contrary! This year  La Passion au Bout des Doigts club celebrates it's 10th birthday! I'm really pleased to participate in this show and to be able to present you all my new designs and threads, at the end of February. More info will come.

New Month

The SAL 365 Tree of Life has really taken off! We are 71 registered ...for now, I say for now because there are new ladies signing up every day and registration can be done throughout the year.

January passed very quickly, in part thanks to the good mood in the group! Here are some pictures of the participants month of January!

January Winners

Every month I want to reward stitchers who have participated and are up to date with their leaves ... a little bit of extra motivation to encourage them on. I'm also giving a small gift to the stitcher who participates the most in the group with her posts, photos, comments and support for the other ladies.


The lady who's name was drawn out of the hat is MAURA!

Maura's Tree of Life - Holland

The best contributor for Januray is JANET!

Best Contributor - Janet - England

Congratulations to both of you ... your prizes are on the way!


Would you be tempted to join us for the SAL 365 Temperature with this year's Tree of Life chart? One leaf per day to cross-stitch, colour depending on the temperature outside. At the end of the year you'll have embroidered a tree of life unique to you, made stitching friends all over the world, all that whilst doing yourself good!

All info is here: https://bit.ly/2Eg1aDu

See you next week for another article on embroidery, colour and well-being! In the meantime, have a wonderful week!

Happy Stitching!
Melanie
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Mushrooms, Squirrels or Falling Leaves...

Hello friends!


Do you like this heat? .. It's summer after all, but 38 degrees during the day and 33 at night takes it's toll doesn't it?!

In addition I don't need to explain that working in the heat isn't easy at all!

Since my last article, my sister and her family have arrived for 5 weeks holidays! Not at all obvious for me to be able to work with all the distractions that that entails..so I do the minimum and I enjoy the beach and my family..I'll have time to catch up later ...


Hoop Competition

In my last article I made a cry for help to find themes for my next two creations. Not many of you participated, but those that did gave me some very interesting and varied answers!


Autumn Hoop

There were a lot of proposals in common, among which Mushrooms, Squirrels, Chestnuts and Leaves seemed popular

I had a long think and I believe that leaves will be very pretty, embroidered with blackwork using beautiful autumnal colours ..

Winter Hoop

For the winter theme, I immediately knew that it was going to be fir trees! An internal intuition in me that it was the good one!


Winners

The name of all those who had proposed either the leaves or the fir trees (well everyone really!!) were put in a bowl, and Maisy, my niece drew the winners .. one for each hoop ...

Cheeky Little Maisy !

SO...For the Autumn hoop,  the winner is Mamité.
For the winter hoop it's Didine! Congratulations to both of you! Please send me your mailing address to receive your charts.please be aware that the designs havn't been designed yet, so it will take a little time!


August Promotion

For the month of August you can take advantage of my promo AOUT15, in the shop and benefit from -15% on any purchase ...

THANK YOU

Thank you for your encouragement and nice comments..I love to write for you and without you I wouldn't be able to! Please share this article, or talk about my blog with your embroidery friends and help me make Tom & Lily Creations known ... a solo entrepreneur..made in France!

Happy Stitching!


Melanie

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I need your help + Competition

Hello Hello!

It's incredible isn't it ..that we're already July 21st..time flies so fast! I hope you're enjoying a pleasant summer holiday, or at least enjoying the warmth??

I'm still frantically preparing for The Handmade Show in England, in September .. By the way I'll have free admission tickets soon to give away.. so if you're interested stay posted?!

At the moment I have my hands constantly in my latex gloves and a mask over my nose and mouth..this isn't great during the summer heat .. (+ hot flashes due to menopause!) But it's essential  to dye the stock of stitching fabrics and threads needed for this show! ..on the other hand I love what I do so ....

Is this Melanie or Meredith Grey (haha)??

So as the title of this article says..I need your help! A few weeks back, I launched a contest to find the titles of my two new blackwork hoop designs ... do you remember?

Dragonfly Waltz & Under the Sea

It was Roseline, Can Poi and Tortue who won the draw (by the way, the charts will soon be ready!)

This time I need your theme ideas for the rest of the designs in this set. I have to create the hoops for Autumn (on a pastel orange dyed lurex brittney fabric) and Winter (on white brittney lurex) and that's where I'm stuck ... I have a few ideas, but I thought that it might be fun to ask you to give me yours!

So please enter your autumn and winter theme ideas, which you think would fit in with the existing two, in the comments below ... and the best two (one for each season) will win the corresponding charts!

Thanks in advance for your ideas, which will be great I'm sure! Thank you also for sharing this article, you'll help me to increase the participations and make my brand known ; 0)

I can't wait to read them!  You have until August 8th midnight for your participation and you can give as many proposals as you want! Results on August 9th to share some of the themes and the winner announcement.

In the meantime, you can still take advantage of the free 3 + 1 offer on all my stitching fabrics here: http://bit.ly/2zaBR4D , until July 31st, but don't wait too long as stocks are going fast!

Happy Stitching!

Melanie
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