Christmas Pattern Orders

The Christmas patterns will not be available after December 24.

Uncle Santa – $5.00

Noel – $5.00

O Holy Night – $10.00

Please include an address label. Postage is included in the pattern price.

If you want to order these patterns, you have one week to get your order to us.

Right after Christmas we will introduce 2 Valentine Itty Bitty patterns as well as 2 winter patterns. These will be available until January 25 only. If your order arrives after that you may get your order and you might not. And here’s why.

Connie is having arthroscopic knee surgery on January 6.

I am having a right knee replacement on January 23.

Connie is going to Florida for the entire month of February.

I will be recuperating during the month of February and won’t be able to go to the shop in the ice and snow.

So we can only fill your orders while we’re available.

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I’m working hard on #12 – so is Connie. How about you?

Send me pictures of your finished Dirty Dozen projects so I can post them. I have only one to show you today.

Almost forgot – this Hoya plant is probably about 20 years old and here’s the thing about Hoyas – they don’t really need much water thus qualifying them as succulents. Well, as you can see I overwatered this faithful plant – see those yellow leaves? Not good. People kill their houseplants generally due to overwatering. This plant will need time to recover from my mistake. Just FYI.

15 thoughts on “Christmas Pattern Orders

  1. Diane Bauer

    Ugh. I am so guilty of overwatering! I used to have a green thumb, but no more!!

    I didn’t get to work on my DD project tonight because I was helping Jenica make a “gentleman’s sleep cap” for her boyfriend. She has not been much of a sewist to date, but it seems that may be changing!! She had so much fun drafting the pattern and stitching it up!! And it turned out really cute!! So fun to have her enjoying something that has brought me so much joy over the years! Now if I could just get her quilting!!

    I will be looking forward to the new pattern offerings and will get my order in quickly!!

  2. Nancy Sturgeon

    I have a Hoya that must be around 46 years old. It came from cuttings off a dear friend’s plant. Still going strong though no blooms in the last few years. Wonder why. I rarely fertilize it. Also love the variegated one I received as a plant from my neighbor. It doesn’t bloom either.

    1. CountryThreads Post author

      Nancy Sturgeon- i should read up on non- blooming hoyas and post what I find out. Yours is not the only non-blooming older plant!

  3. B. J. Berlo

    My thoughts will be with you during those knee surgeries. I’ve have two arthroscopic, two total knee implants, and one revision! My only advice is to be faithful to your PT! It will make all the difference in the world! Connie – don’t try to walk on sand – too dangerous! Swimming in a pool is really good knee therapy. Good luck to both of you.

  4. Brenda in Iowa

    Thanks for the information about the Hoya plant. My mom died last year and I inherited her 60-year-old Hoya plant. I have such a black thumb. I’m afraid I’m going to kill it. The plant is still at mom’s apartment here on the farm. I’ve converted her apartment to a sewing space and have left the plant there. Sometimes, I forget to water it so I’m glad to know it is classified as a succulent and I haven’t been abusing it by not watering it.
    Merry Christmas, Mary.

    1. CountryThreads Post author

      Brenda – your mom’s Hoya will love you for not overwatering it! And they don’t like to be moved either so you’re doing all the right things! Wow – a 60 year old Hoya! Is it huge?

  5. Lee

    Good morning, Mary. Years ago I don’t know how many….you sent me a piece of your hoya. It has bloomed once and is so pot bound I am not looking forward to repotting it….so I don’t!
    Thank you so much.
    Giving plant starts is one of the best joys in life! My adult daughters are not “plant” people but my
    granddaughter is a jungle maker. Her plants do well and she loves them. I think they know when you love them. She and her new husband just purchased a house and the lighting there is perfect for plants. Visiting at Christmas and can’t wait to see her new ones.

    Merry Christmas and Happy blessings in the New Year.

  6. Lee

    Years ago I don’t know how many….you sent me a piece of your hoya. It has bloomed once and is so pot bound I am not looking forward to repotting it….so I don’t!
    Thank you so much.
    Giving plant starts is one of the best joys in life! My adult daughters are not “plant” people but my
    granddaughter is a jungle maker. Her plants do well and she loves them. I think they know when you love them. She and her new husband just purchased a house and the lighting there is perfect for plants. Visiting at Christmas and can’t wait to see her new ones.

    Merry Christmas and Happy blessings in the New Year.

    1. CountryThreads Post author

      Lee – my niece loves plants, too, and does well with them but has limited light. Her mother, my sister, doesn’t have a green thumb – Jenny inherited hers from me, I guess! Take some pictures, Lee- I’d love to see her plants!

  7. Starrla Opferman

    Love the Santa wall hanging and will be sending an order. I inherited a very old hoya from a dear friend who passed and she was 86. It came from her mother’s. I have never seen the plant bloom and I know they do. Any tricks you have to coax it into blooming for me. I wish you well on your next total knee. Starrla

    1. CountryThreads Post author

      Starla – a Hoya won’t bloom until it’s very root bound – mine bloom all the time on a little stamen – where it continues to bloom the next sequence, always on that same stamen and if you could count the rows you’d be able to tell how many times it had bloomed. Don’t give up! And don’t overwater!

      1. Starrla Opferman

        Thank you for the reply. I am very careful about watering but did not know about needing to be root bound.

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