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I'm glad you found your way to our little corner of the World Wide Web!
I hope you will relax and enjoy your time here. Please browse our catalog and view the complete line of Creative Keepsakes products. Our site offers online purchasing through PayPal to ensure your credit card orders are secure when sent via the Internet. If you wish to place an order by telephone, mail or fax, you can use the printable order form. This form makes a handy guide for shopping the site. If you have a questions, please feel free to contact us.

Thanks for visiting!
Diane Thurlby Bruce

Additional pattern views...

Creative Keepsakes' patterns are now published by Simplicity

Pattern Company. We continue to offer the classic patterns shown in
our catalog, as the designs for Simplicity will be new ideas. To shop
for the new patterns, please visit the Simplicity web site.

New Products!
Shop for piping, laces and silk-satin ribbon, including the ones accenting these new Simplicity patterns. View and shop for trims...

Suggestion
Stitch a machine embroidery design on jumper and/or tote in place of applique. View our embroidery collection...

Click on titles of interest below to navigate quickly to those specific sections.

Company Information - Read the history of Creative Keepsakes and an introduction to Diane Bruce Thurlby, product designer and president of Creative Keepsakes, Inc.

Idea Gallery - Photographs with new ideas and useful tips for practical applications of our products. Updated frequently, so check back often.

Free Downloads - Easy to use downloadable guides for free pattern adaptations and smocking ideas to use with some of our most popular catalog items.

Beginner's Guide to Smocking - Descriptions (with diagrams) of the most popular smocking stitches.

Projects - Instructions for constructing simple smocking projects that can be pleated very easily without the use of a pleating machine. (If you decide you want a pleater, you can locate shopping sites for that, as well as other supplies, on our favorite links page.)

Catalog - Product descriptions which are divided into the following sections for easier navigation.

smocking design plates and books
garment patterns for children and adults
applique books
quilt & tote project book
trims (piping, laces and silk-satin ribbon)

New Products - Information on our most recent products and publications.

Favorite Links - We've provided this section to help you locate other interesting web sites (primarily sewing and smocking organizations, publications and shopping sites).

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Creative Keepsakes, Inc. | 2315 Lakeshore Drive, H-3 | Hot Springs, AR 71913 | Phone 501.760.1922 | dianet@creativekeepsake.com
All designs provided herein, as well the content and images on this web site are copyrighted material of Creative Keepsakes, Inc.