The Silver Needle, an independently owned needlework shop specializing in counted cross stitch, has been in business since 1983. We have 4,000 square feet of nothing but cross stitch, stitched models, and everything under the sun youd ever want for needlework! We have a wonderful classroom / stitching area, and a beautiful customer rest room (which we went without for the last 19 years!) -- complete with shelves and shelves of retired shop models for sale! We have skeins, spools and cards of cotton, silk, wool, metallic, and overdyed threads... some of our favorites include those from Rainbow Gallery, Gentle Art Sampler Threads, Weeks Dye Works, DMC, Kreinik, The Caron Collection, The Thread Gatherer, and N