1985 McCalls Needlepoint directors chair?
 

Hello,...help, help!

I am searching for an old Needlepoint pattern that was available for order
through the magazine.

It is a McCall's Needlework & Crafts magazine pattern from April 1985,
Leaflet # L404.

It is a needlepoint pattern for a directors chair. The back has leaves, the
seat a birdsnest, branches and leaves.

I have searched high and low for something similar to the nest pattern to
put on a vanity stool.

Thanks, Signe

Chris_Signe wrote:

Hello,...help, help!

I am searching for an old Needlepoint pattern that was available for order
through the magazine.

It is a McCall's Needlework & Crafts magazine pattern from April 1985,
Leaflet # L404.

It is a needlepoint pattern for a directors chair. The back has leaves, the
seat a birdsnest, branches and leaves.

I have searched high and low for something similar to the nest pattern to
put on a vanity stool.

Thanks, Signe

I've got *tons* of McCall's Needlework magaziness from
the '70s and '80s and a few of the extra leaflets, but
sorry I can't remember having this one.

But doesn't it frustrate the heck out of you when mags
feature projects in their pages (almost like a bait and
switch!) then require you to send extra money in to
purchase the leaflet/chart/instructions? Here you've
just paid good money for the magazine (probably based on a
quick browse in the newstand) and see interesting stuff,
only to find out *after* you've shelled out for it, that
the instructions for something that caught your eye
aren't even included in the magazine!

Grrrr!

It's especially tick-off material for people such as
you and me who have a source or stash of old magazines.
Since tastes and needs change over the years, something
you see today might not interest you, but years later,
WOW! that's just the thing you want to stitch or make.
Then you notice that the instructions/pattern isn't even
in the mag. With magazines going out of business right and
left and short inventories, there is likely little hope
of getting it from the publisher, especially after even
five years much less a decade or two.

Or if the mag is one from overseas, even if you want
th extra leaflet *now*, trying to negotiate a deal with
the publisher to convert funds and mail out of country
is often a lost cause, or doubles or triples the price
of the item.

Ok, rant over for now.

What say the rest of you?

Nyssa, who spent 5 years and $100 tracking down a pattern
for a design featured in a Burda book that was *not* in
the book
At River's End
http://www.concentric.net/~Nyssa

Yes, yes, yes and yes again! It burns me up when magazines do that and
McCalls is famous for it.
"Nyssa" wrote in message
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Chris_Signe wrote:

Hello,...help, help!

I am searching for an old Needlepoint pattern that was available for
order
through the magazine.

It is a McCall's Needlework & Crafts magazine pattern from April 1985,
Leaflet # L404.

It is a needlepoint pattern for a directors chair. The back has leaves,
the
seat a birdsnest, branches and leaves.

I have searched high and low for something similar to the nest pattern
to
put on a vanity stool.

Thanks, Signe

I've got *tons* of McCall's Needlework magaziness from
the '70s and '80s and a few of the extra leaflets, but
sorry I can't remember having this one.

But doesn't it frustrate the heck out of you when mags
feature projects in their pages (almost like a bait and
switch!) then require you to send extra money in to
purchase the leaflet/chart/instructions? Here you've
just paid good money for the magazine (probably based on a
quick browse in the newstand) and see interesting stuff,
only to find out *after* you've shelled out for it, that
the instructions for something that caught your eye
aren't even included in the magazine!

Grrrr!

It's especially tick-off material for people such as
you and me who have a source or stash of old magazines.
Since tastes and needs change over the years, something
you see today might not interest you, but years later,
WOW! that's just the thing you want to stitch or make.
Then you notice that the instructions/pattern isn't even
in the mag. With magazines going out of business right and
left and short inventories, there is likely little hope
of getting it from the publisher, especially after even
five years much less a decade or two.

Or if the mag is one from overseas, even if you want
th extra leaflet *now*, trying to negotiate a deal with
the publisher to convert funds and mail out of country
is often a lost cause, or doubles or triples the price
of the item.

Ok, rant over for now.

What say the rest of you?

Nyssa, who spent 5 years and $100 tracking down a pattern
for a design featured in a Burda book that was *not* in
the book
At River's End
http://www.concentric.net/~Nyssa