Raise the Roof Designs: Purveyors of Needlework Oddities

Hailed by critics as "sick," "demented," "in serious need of psychotherapy," and most recently "shameless," Raise the Roof Designs is quickly becoming a household name. We hope in the future to be a name in several households.

Sue Rainer and Theresa Venette believe that needlework can be more than the same ol' pumpkin, snowman, and flower over and over again. We're working hard to bring you something different. We hope our sense of humor shows through in all that we create. These designs are available to stitchers through Shakespeare's Peddler, but check with your local shop first; we're distributed by Hoffman Distributing, Wichelt Imports, Norden Crafts and The Nordic Needle. If you have questions, comments, ideas or suggestions for Raise the Roof Designs, contact us at raisetheroofdesigns@yahoo.com. We'd love to hear from you!

UPDATED 4/10/08

New entries in the blog, and here are our new things -- yea! We had a great market in February, and we're busy working on new designs for you, too. Plus, we've been asked to be in the Ornament Issue AND the preview Ornament Issue by Just Cross Stitch. Watch for those!

Follow Your Art

Getting Old Sucks

Snip for a Queen

Wrong Side of the Tracks: Shiner's Tattoo Parlor & Border

You Suit Me

We are discontinuing some of our older graphs immediately, so it's kind of a "while supplies last" situation (we will not be printing any more of these once our supply is gone). You can see pictures and information about these charts here on this list. If your local shop doesn't have these in stock, they can continue to order all of these through Norden Crafts and Hoffman Distributing while stock is available. Or you can contact Shakespeare's Peddler at www.shakespearespeddler.com, and Theresa can help you out.

Crabby all year thru! This series is key-yoot all stitched up together as one. The frame is by Eastside Mouldings, and didn't it turn out great? We know a lot of you kept up with the crabbies this year, and we can't WAIT for you to see what we have in store for 2008...tee hee hee.

The designs on this web site are copyrights of Sue Rainer and Theresa Venette -- you may make one copy/enlargement of a chart you purchase to use as a stitching aid, but you may not make copies for friends or enemies. Any other reproduction of this chart, via computer, copier, fax machine, trained monkeys or monks sworn to a life of silence is prohibited by law, unless authorized in writing by Raise the Roof Designs. No foolin'!