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We hope you will get a chance to drop in at the store and visit our friendly staff and quaint surroundings!

When you visit us at Gitta's we will be quite happy to assist you in whatever you may need or require. Our very dedicated staff will be more than happy to assist you and to make your visit easier we have listed here for you our staff !   

Gitta's Friendly Staff
Gitta, Kathrin, Monica, Ietje, Mary and Nathan the framing master!

July 30, 2004

Moonlight Madness Weekend

The whole town of Port Credit/Mississauga will be celebrating with sidewalk sales, music, food and street entertainment from 6:00 to 11:00 pm.  

Drop in and see us on  Saturday, July 31st Gitta's and  many of the merchants along the waterfront will be having a sidewalk sale to celebrate the weekend!

On-Line Customer Appreciation

Our way of saying thanks to you for visiting our site!

For every web order over $ 10.00 we will be pleased to enter you into a draw - where you may have the chance to win a $10.00 Gift Certificate. 

At the end of each month , once we have drawn the name we will post it here on the site, to let you know who the lucky winner was! 

NeedleArts Tour - April 

Another successful tour has ended and we are pleased to announce the winners of our Grand Prizes and Gitta's Door Prizes.

Door Prizes 
 Sam Bolton, Mary-Ann Moorshead, Amy Cousins, Linda Chesiuk, and Nicole Baron

Scavenger Hunt Winner
A.P. Crawford from Williamsford

We want to thank everyone for participating in this year's Needlearts tour as we managed to donate $ 125.00 to the Cancer Society!

Watch for news regarding next year's tour we are planning something quite different !

With the increase of computer-generated charts on the market, there is also an increased concern with regard to such charts.

I feel the greatest confusion is the terminology.  “Computer generated” - what exactly does this mean.  In my opinion Computer generated designs are images scanned into the computer and then filtered through a charting program.  “Computer printed” charts are charts that have been hand designed and then input into a program for printing purposes only.

But nothing is black and white and there are differences between the companies that create computer-generated designs.

I cannot speak for all of them but by working in a stitching shop I can tell you some of the things you should be looking for when purchasing such designs.  The most important difference you should be looking for is – is the photo on the cover a picture of the original artwork or of the actual stitched model.  Speaking as a stitcher with little time for actual stitching, I want to see how the design will look before I dedicate months of work into a piece only to discover that the stitched work does not look like the leaflet cover.

With regards to our own line of computer generated charts, “Timeless Designs”, I can assure you that the photo on the cover is the stitched model and that it is not simply scanned through a program.  Once scanned, colours are changed, eliminated and combined, images and faces are shaped, and the chart is not released until after the model is stitched. 

© Copyright 2004
Gitta's Petit Point 
271 Lakeshore Road East
Mississauga, Ontario
CANADA  L5G 1G8
TEL: (905) 274-7198
FAX: (905) 274-2194
Toll Free ( Canada & USA)1-866-660-4127

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