Teresa Wentzler is taking her site down

[jamethiel]

Hi All,
Just thought I'd post here in case you haven't seen the news: Teresa Wentzler is taking her blogs and her site down. It's the end of an era, and it's a little bit sad. I love her designs.

Some of her patterns are still available at Patterns Online, although she did remove her dragons from the internet in 2018.

If you want to grab any of the errata or floss lists from there, I'd suggest grabbing them in the next ~week. She says she's taking it down on the 14th of August.

She's got some free designs up here: http://www.twdesignworks.com/Free/


In addition to those, when she took her dragons off the internet, she removed them from the index page listing but didn't remove the actual webpages so here are four free dragons
Dragon Rampant (actually Dragon Saliant, but not everyone is a heraldry nerd)
Futurecast
Stretch
and Tempest


Get them before they're gone!

Comments

[kareila]

This news makes me so sad, but thank you for sharing it. It's been more than a decade since I did any stitching myself, so I hadn't been paying any attention to her site.

When I first started using eBay in 1999, it was to track down out of print Teresa Wentzler design leaflets. I still have them in my house somewhere.

Celestial Dragon, Unicorn, and Millennium are all lurking around my project pile in a half-finished state. The only ones I ever completed were the Castle Sampler, which hangs in my living room, and the Castle, which I gave away as a gift in 1992, to my eventual regret.

[jamethiel]

... do you want The Castle pattern? I accidentally bought two charts (goldfish memory. At least my taste is consistent!), and would be happy for one to go to another stitcher.

(I feel sad too. It's the end of an era!)

Also in case you hadn't realised, she did actually design a whole heap more dragons, although they're out of print and highly desireable now. You can still find them on ebay, though.

[kareila]

Oh, I still have the chart, I gave away the finished project. Thanks for the offer though!

[grey853]

Thanks for this. I love her designs, though I've never actually managed to complete one. I started one years ago and I just couldn't manage it. It was way beyond my skill level at that time.

She's a wonderful designer.

[scintilla10]

Thanks for sharing this news. I'm glad to have the chance to snag some of her patterns!