Northern Lights (Needle Adventures)

Northern Lights Cover Page, Courtesy of Lara Hartley

Northern Lights was published under the Needle Adventures name in 1990.  I believe the line drawn canvas below came with the instructions as it seems to have the Loretta Spears logo of an L above an S drawn in such a way that the bottom of the L shares a line with the top of the S.

Northern Lights Closeup Courtesy of Needleart Nut

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Line Drawn Canvas for Northern Lights with LS Logo, Also Courtesy of LH

Materials List:
18 mono canvas 7x7 inches
DMC floss, 1 skein #321
DMC perle cotton #5, 1 skein #321
Balger/Kreinik blending filament #003, 1 spool
Balger/Kreinik blending filament #001, 1 spool
Balger/Kreinik 1/16th metallic ribbon #001, 1 spool
Balger/Kreinik #8 braid, #001, 1 spool

Diagonal Brocade Stripes Heart

Diagonal Brocade Stripes Heart Model from Cover Photo, Courtesy of Lara Hartley

Diagonal Brocade Stripes Heart was published in February 1990, as part of the Christmas Heirlooms Collection.  I think this was published as a Needle Adventures chart but I am not certain.  To me the pattern looks very much like the Diagonal Brocade Egg pattern published in April of 1996.  Here's a link so you can decide for yourself.
http://lorettaspears.blogspot.com/2012/05/diagonal-brocade-egg-loretta-spears.html

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Outlined Canvas Courtesy of Lara Hartley

Note that the canvas above has the LS logo on the left side.  This outlined canvas must have been furnished by Loretta as part of a kit.

Materials List:
not available

Amadeus Diamond (Christmas Heirloom Club)

Amadeus Diamond from Cover Page, Courtesy of Lara Hartley

This small diamond shaped ornament has been described as "little heart on inside, red white and metallic white congress."  This was published as part of the Christmas Heirloom Club in December 1990 on plain white paper without a cover sheet.

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Supplies for Amadeus Diamond, Also Courtesy of Lara Hartley

Materials List:
white 24 count Congress cloth
#8 Balger braid in white #032
#8 red Kreinik metallic #003

Diagonal Brocade Egg (Loretta Spears Designs)

Diagonal Brocade Egg Cover, Courtesy of Needleartnut

Diagonal Brocade Egg was published under the Loretta Spears Design name using the typical pink cover page with a photograph. The publication date was April 1996.

Close Up Courtesy of eBay Seller msritter50

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Threads and Canvas, Courtesy of Lara Hartley

Materials List:

7x7 inch square white Congress cloth
Sampler Threads "Pineapple Sherbet"
Sampler Threads "Purple Iris"
Sampler Threads "Tropical Ocean"
Sampler Threads "Morning Glory"
Sampler Threads "Pink Azalea"

This design is executed on a piece of 7 inch square white Congress cloth using five shades of a hand dyed cotton floss from The Gentle Arts.  The kit photo below shows the egg outline drawn onto the Congress cloth.  I think the kit came directly from Loretta Spears this way.  The line drawn canvas seems to have her LS logo on the side of the Congress cloth.

See Diagonal Brocade Striped Heart, which has a similar pattern.  Only the center blue egg design is included in this chart.  The eggs on the left and right are unidentified  (although the pastel egg on the right might be her Brocade Egg and the egg on the left might be her Heirloom Egg 1992)
and not charted in these instructions.

eBay Kit Photo Courtesy of Gatesmaren

Summer Flowers (Loretta Spears Designs)

Summer Flowers Cover Courtesy of Lacunada

Summer Flowers is a tube-shaped ornament published in July 1996 under the Loretta Spears Designs name. It is hard to tell from the photograph but the stitches are tiny flower shapes on a stalk framed by two sets of leaves.

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Close Up Courtesy of eBay Seller smritter50

Materials List:

7x7 inch square of 18 count mono canvas
Watercolors #065 "Emerald"
Needle Necessities overdyed floss #165 "Parakeet Montage" (substitute ThreadworX #TX1112)