INDEPENDENT NEEDLEWORK NEWS

I am currently working on a darling design which was created by amateur designer Melanie Farrelbegg; I’ll post about my own progress soon on my personal blog, which has needed attention for some time now (sorry), but I’ll share a picture of what it should look like when finished with you here because I am so impressed with Melanie’s work.

I discovered Melanie’s design while perusing the selection of British magazines available at my local Barnes & Noble (where I went only because Borders, the store I prefer, at least locally, was already out of the majority of their non-US cross stitch magazines … I seem to be still running behind with just about everything these days … sorry again).

A side note: Why the heck haven’t any of the major bookstores realized importing the fabulous French magazines — and LOTS of them — would be a superb addition to their inventory?

For her design, Melanie won a contest called the “Design and Stitch Challenge” sponsored by UK magazine Cross Stitch Crazy, and so her design and its corresponding chart is published in the Christmas 2007 (Issue 105) volume of this magazine. Lucky us … and congratulations, Melanie!

However, the main reason for this post is because I am selfish. I have also fallen head over heels for the design created by the second runner-up, and I simply must find her and obtain the chart. Her name is Janet French, and her design, Frog Prince, would make a perfect Valentine’s Day gift for that special someone. Just look how cute he is!

The only problem is, I don’t know Janet or how to contact her, and a Google search proved unhelpful.

So I am turning to you, my audience of faithful readers and researchers, for help. I am quite sure there will be several among you who might also want to stitch this design, too, and I know with the amazing connections available to us on the Internet, Janet is only a hop, skip, and a jump of a contact away from me.

I am making an offer to publish Janet’s chart here, if she is willing to let me do so — or I will sell it here for her if she’d prefer to do that. I have no idea if she has signed away her copyright to her design for a time to Cross Stitch Crazy, but I have found no mention of her design being published in a forthcoming magazine and do not see it available through Cross Stitch Crazy’s website; therefore, I am making the following offer to Janet:

Assuming you still own the copyright to your design, I would like to help you market it here, through Independent Needlework News. Alternatively, if you wish to offer the design as a free chart, I would also be most happy to publish that chart here. And if you do NOT want it published on INN, that is also fine — it is completely your choice, of course — but I would at least like to let my readers know where they might obtain the chart.

So, Janet, if you are reading this, PLEASE contact me!

To anyone who may know Janet, please refer her to this post, and thank you in advance for your assistance.

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