(such a) Fickle Stitcher

As president of the Mississippi NeedleArts Chapter, I received in the mail today the quarterly (I think) mailing from National HQ. Included was the new Petite Project (PP). I thought I would share a photo of it with you.

Hey! That’s two photos… how’d that happen?

The new PP would be the item on the right. On the left is my own “Poinsetta Noel” designed in the early- to mid-1990s, which has been part of my teaching portfolio (to teach traditional Assisi which uses Italian cross-stitch) for 12 years. 

Now, what is a teensey bit interesting to me is that about that (what seems like) many years ago, I also had two of my other designs published as Petite Projects. (In the intervening years, I withdrew them due to a change in use policy.)

This one (there is a larger, if a little blurry, photo here) was designed in 1995, published as a PP in May 1996, withdrawn (in ????)and has been available on the internet as a free on-line class since 2001.  Another very similar SRE project was published as PP in March 1997 (and is still available from National HQ for chapter and MAL use).

Am I trying to say that not once but twice my intellectual/creative property has been plagerized? No, but it is a mildly distressing coincidence when you see thing so similar to yours.