Brilliance (Loretta Spears Design)

Brilliance Model, Photo Courtesy of Needleartnut

Brilliance is another Loretta Spears Designs ornament, published in August 1996.  Needleartnut has posted a phooto of the original purple model from the instructions plus her version in red on her blog.  Once it is finished, I'll post a photo of the final design here.  The cover page is on pink paper but occasionally you will find a different color of paper used (see photo below).
http://needleartnut.blogspot.com/2012/01/brilliance.html

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Cover Page Courtesy of Lacunada

Materials List:

white 18 count mono canvas (note that Loretta did not specify the size needed, perhaps because this is finished stretcher over a styrofoam ball)
red Japanese Toho beads
Kreinik cord #012C Purple
Kreinik size 12 braid in color 012 Purple

Brilliance, Courtesy of Needleart Nut

Here it is all made up.  Lovely!
http://needleartnut.blogspot.com/2012/08/twinkle.html

Victorian Heart

Victorian Heart

Victorian Heart was published in the January February 1991 issue of Needlepoint Plus.  Photos of the model below are courtesy of Lara Hartley and of the magazine cover, Ann of Baton Rouge.

Red Version, Partly Completed

To see a red version of this heart check out the partly completed version for sale with a xerox of the instructions on eBay.  Many thanks to the seller Threads4Ever for permission to reuse the sale photos.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VICTORIAN-HEART-Partially-Finished-Needlepoint-by-Loretta-Spears-Silk-Mill-Hill-/251683150317?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a997c19ed

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Materials List:

7x7 inch square piece of white Congress cloth

"shaded" silk floss

DMC cotton floss

Balger silver cord

Mill Hill beads

Needlepoint Plus Jan Feb 1991

Victorian Heart, Front and Back Views

The Snowflake (Loretta Spears Designs 1996)

The Snowflake

The Snowflake is a round pointed ornament published under Loretta Spears Designs in January 1996.   I believe this was the last ornament chart Loretta ever published although she did mystery projects through 2000.  Note that there is another ornament called Snowflake, published in 1994 that is square and turned on point to make a diamond shape.
http://lorettaspears.blogspot.com/2012/07/snowflake-needle-adventures-1994.html

The Snowflake Cover Page With Some Threads and Canvas

Needleartnut stitched this in blue (below).  The model Loretta stitched herself was in bluish white (above).  You can read about the original threads and the blue ones that were substituted here.  All photographs courtesy of Needleartnut.
http://needleartnut.blogspot.com/2012/01/snowflake.html


Here's The Snowflake made up.  The instructions for this design have a line drawing of a snowflake next to the materials list.
http://needleartnut.blogspot.com/2012/09/another-one-done.html

Materials List:

7x7 inch piece of white 18 count mono needlepoint canvas
Rainbow Gallery's Flair in #557 and #558 (one card each)
Kreinik blending filament in #032


This link shows Flair 557 and 558 which Loretta used in her model.
http://www.needlestack.com/WebStore/Thread/RG_Flair.html


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Needleartnut's Blue Snowflake

Christmas Heirlooms: Threads

Threads from Christmas Heirlooms, Courtesy of Pierette

This is another Christmas Heirlooms ornament stitched by Pierette.  She says it is called Threads.  Apparently it was one of the Christmas ornament club series.
http://lovetostitch99.blogspot.com/2010/02/loretta-spears-christmas-heirlooms.html

Threads Before Finishing, Also Courtesy of Pierette

This link shows the ornament before finishing.  I am also showing the pattern here, just in case the link doesn't always work, so you can see the intricate pattern better.
http://lovetostitch99.blogspot.com/2010/02/christmas-heirlooms-called-threads-all.html

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Tear of Joy Ornament (Christmas Heirlooms Collection)

Tear of Joy, Courtesy of Pierette

Pierette has stitched Tear of Joy, a small ornament included in a Needle Adventures booklet dated October 1993.  It is labeled Loretta Spears' Needle Adventures Christmas Heirlooms Collection. She's kindly given permission for me to post a photograph of her finished piece here, plus link to her website which has several photographs of her piece and Loretta's model.
http://mystitchinggallery.blogspot.com/2010/06/tear-of-joy-loretta-spears-designer_12.html

 October 1993

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Instructions, Model, Front and Back of Tear of Joy

Here's another image courtesy of Pierette which shows the booklet cover, Loretta's model, and Pierette's front and back before assembly.  Here are the supplies needed as listed in the instructions:

Materials List:
7x7 #18 peach canvas
7x7 stretcher bars
Waterlilies - Burnt Toast #062
Madeira #304
AK beads #H811