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Books really are quite magical. This quote pattern is perfect for any Stephen King or book fan! Contains full stitches, back stitching, and French knots.

This is a PATTERN ONLY! With your purchase, you will receive two copies of the pattern as a PDF. These PDFs will include:
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2. Black and white with symbols
All pattern copies will come with a thread supply list and digital rendering of what the completed piece will look like.

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Size (in stitches): 36w x 43h
Design for (suggestions only): 14ct White Aida
Thread type: DMC
Number of thread colors: 8

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14ct Aida: 2.6” x 3.1” (6.5cm x 7.8cm)
18ct Aida: 2” x 2.4” (5.1cm x 6.1cm)

Sizes are approximations. This was designed to fit in a 5” x 5” frame or a 6” hoop. The finished piece shown was finished in a 5" x 5" frame. Be sure to cut enough fabric around the piece for stitching, finishing, and framing.

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„But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.“

—  Stephen King, book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63 (2011), Chapter Final Notes, page 1030,(First Scribner hardcover edition November 2011)
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20210722191755/https://libquotes.com/stephen-king/quote/lbj3k9y Archived] from [https://libquotes.com/stephen-king/quote/lbj3k9y the original

„Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.“

—  Carl Sagan, book Cosmos

42 min 33 sec
Variant: A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), The Persistence of Memory [Episode 11]
Context: What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

„I will admit that an artist may be great and limited; by one word he may light up an abyss of soul; but there must be this one magical and unique word.“

—  George Moore (novelist) Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist 1852 - 1933

Source: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 12.
Context: I will admit that an artist may be great and limited; by one word he may light up an abyss of soul; but there must be this one magical and unique word. Shakespeare gives us the word, Balzac, sometimes, after pages of vain striving, gives us the word, Tourgueneff gives it with miraculous certainty; but Henry James, no; a hundred times he flutters about it; his whole book is one long flutter near to the one magical and unique word, but the word is not spoken; and for want of the word his characters are never resolved out of the haze of nebulae. You are on a bowing acquaintance with them; they pass you in the street, they stop and speak to you, you know how they are dressed, you watch the colour of their eyes.

„It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak.“

—  Samuel R. Delany, book Equinox

Equinox (1973)
Context: It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is real, and that is one kind of magic. But sometimes a vision will rip up from them and shriek and clank wings clear as the sweat smudge on the paper under your thumb. And that is another kind. (p. 163)

„The books I loved most as a child were those that contained elements of magic—the whole series of Oz books, Mary Poppins, The Princess and the Goblin—I could name them indefinitely.“

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