Krista West is the designer and owner of Avlea Folk Embroidery. She has spent nearly three decades working professionally with historic Greek textiles and hands-on immersion in the world of Mediterranean art is what drives every design she creates. Each Avlea kit is rooted in a real historic source: vintage textiles from her personal collection, textiles she has researched in Greece, heirlooms friends have shared. While the patterns are centuries old, she adapts them for the modern needleworker with easy-to-read charts and specialty fabrics imported from Greece along with hand-wound DMC floss — everything a stitcher needs to make a folk textile genuinely their own. Explore the wide variety of kits we now stock at Unwind Fiber Arts! What is a needleminder? Needleminders are terrific for not just holding your needle when not in use, but for securing your fabric as you stitch, or holding your pattern to your frame. They can even be worn as a beautiful magnet pin! Needleminder is 1" across and comes with a 1/2" neodinum magnet (it's strong!)