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