From: jwhite@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Joseph White)
Newsgroups: misc.kids,alt.sewing
Subject: Summary of Christmas Stocking kit suppliers (Kinda long)
Date: 14 Aug 92 04:33:29 GMT
Followup-To: misc.kids
Distribution: usa
Organization: Annapolis Detachment, CARDEROCKDIV, NSWC  Code 2723 
	      (formerly David Taylor Research Center, Annapolis MD)

Well, here is the summary that I promised on the sources of mail
order Christmas stocking kits.  For those of you who don't remember,
my wife is looking to make a Christmas stocking for our daughter Hillary.
After checking out some of the local craft stores, we appealed to the
network for the names/addresses/phone numbers of any and all mail order
catalogs that included any embroidery, stichery, needlepoint, cross stitch,
or whatever kits for Christmas stockings.

I had orginally said that I would do this summary in a week or so, well
it ended up being two.  My inlaws took my family to Texas for two weeks,
and I guess I didn't feel like doing anything for the first week they were
gone.  For that I'm sorry, if anybody was waiting for this summary.

We would like to thank everybody who gave us information that will
enable our house to be flooded with catalogs in a few weeks, 
much to my wife's delight (she collects them, and I try to throw them out
before they overtake the house, or living room anyway 8-)).

First, the people who were so kind so as to flood my mailbox with useful
information ( in the order that I received them).  I have assembled this list
by using the From: lines in the e-mail messages and/or from how the message
was signed.

csh@leland.stanford.edu (Cindy Stotts Howard)
oexmann@mozart.convex.com (Carla Oexmann)
marj@soap.ksu.ksu.edu (Marjorie P Devlin)
Marina.Salume@Corp.Sun.COM (Marina Salume)
nancy@world.std.com (Nancy C Reynolds)
gorman@acsu.buffalo.edu (Anne-Marie K. Gorman)
cfeem@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Eleanor Midkiff)
kimberley@evax.gdc.com (Sandy (Christopher's Mom))
Jean Jasinski <jean@hpfcso.fc.hp.com>   
"Lynn A Shinko" <eggbert@unix.cis.pitt.edu> 

Now for the list:  (some people suggested the same place, with different
800 numbers.  I suspect that the discrepency has to do with in state only
vs. everybody else 800 numbers.  The numbers listed below, are the 
numbers my wife called from Annapolis, Maryland.

The Stitchery  -  (800) 338-9662
Mary Maxim      -  (800) 962-9504  (800 information didn't have  a number
				    for them????)
American Needlewoman - (800) 433-2231
Herrscheners -  (800) 441-0838
Cross Stitch & Country Crafts Catalog  - (800) 678-2694
Land's End - (800) 338 -2000
Avon (See your local Avon representative)
Christmas Stockings in Cross Stitch (book $14.95) - (800) 274-7057
Cross Stitch & Country Crafts (mag. 1 year @ $19.97) - (800) 234-0740

Crafter's Gallery,  was another place that was mentioned, but the 800 number
given was a wrong number, and 800 information (800-555-1212)
didn't have another number listed.  The address given was:
PO BOX 4215, Huntington Station, NY 11750-0054.

Kim did not order the book or the magazine, and between her and her Avon
lady's vacations, we have not been able to check that out yet.
The person at Land's End, was suprised that someone was calling them
for a Christmas stocking kit (It's not part of their normal line of items
carried!).  They were even more perplexed when Kim told them where we
came about their number. (What's a Usenet newsgroup??)

Last but not least, I would like to thank Carla Oexmann
(oexmann@mozart.convex.com) for the offer to mail us some knitting patterns
for stockings, but alas Kim hasn't knitted anything since 8th grade, 
(a FEW years ago!), and I never took up knitting.  Thanks for the offer.

Joe White for myself and my wife Kim
jwhite@oasys.dt.navy.mil