The Bobbin Buzz & Stitchin' Bits

Glad you asked!

Larry and Holly Pike are the owners of ArtisticThreadWorks.com. We started the business in August of 2001 and since then Holly has digitized thousands of designs, keeping Larry very busy with building pages on our website. (Click here to read more about Holly and Larry)

Nita O'Keefe is the owner of NitasPlace.com and began digitizing in 1998. Since that start, she has become a Brother educator and an internationally recognized digitizer. (Click here to read more about Nita!)

While attending an embroidery conference in Florida, Holly and Nita met for the first time. They soon became friends and their friendship grew into what is today "ME And Thee Embroidery".

While Nita and Holly still own their own websites and their own businesses, they collaborate together on projects where it makes sense to have more than one person working on it. This website is one such project. Rather than each having their own newsletter online, they've combined their efforts to produce this cyber-magazine for both their customer bases.

They have also worked together on many other projects, such as NitasThreadNest, Fuwari designs, and the ME And Thee Signature Series of designs.

There seems to be some confusion still by our combined newsletter. We get emails every week from readers who aren't sure of the relationship between NitasPlace and ArtisticThreadWorks and TheBobbinBuzz and our other websites we own. I guess the easiest way to expalin it is this...

Holly and Nita have become very close friends over the last few years. They work on projects together, talk over new ideas for digitizing, travel together, and generally enjoy each other's friendship. Nita's husband CJ and I have also become close friends too.

One of the many coffee table talks we've had centered around our daily workloads of keeping up with our websites, advertising, newsletters, test-stitching designs, shipping products, digitizing, and on and on with the things that have to be done to make a web business run. We realized that if we could combine some of that work, we could get it done quicker and with less effort. In effect, combining some of the work that did where possible. And so - we've combined our two newletters into one place.

Nita still owns and operates her own websites at NitasPlace and NitasThreadNest while Holly still owns and operates her own websites at ArtisticThreadWorks and DigitizersWorld. Each site is independant of the others and offers different services and products. Our newsletter readers are invited to join whichever site suits their needs and tickles their fancy! There are different designs and projects and information on all the sites.

When we investigated what it was that confused people about this newsletter site, we realized that maintaining the original name of the ArtisticThreadWorks newsletter (Bobbin Buzz) for our combined newsletter confused many people. Some had assumed that the two businesses had been combined together to make one business. That's NOT what happened, but I can understand the confusion! Since we kept the name of Bobbin-Buzz as the newsletter domain name many people missed the title change at the top where it now says "Bobbin-Buzz and Stitchin Bits".

In order to make this clearer - we'll be setting up a new domain name in the near future. As soon as it's ready to use, we transition smoothly over to the new domain. That will happen in the next few weeks.

We are constantly working on new and exciting ideas for our members and our readers. Whether it's new designs or new types of embroidery, new videos, new projects, new sales, or completely new websites, our focus is always on bringing the best in embroidery to you in a fun and friendly atmosphere.

I'm anxious to show off some of the new projects we've been working on lately and we'll be able to do that in the next few weeks.

-- Larry