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From: merr...@u.washington.edu (Ethan Merritt)
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Subject: Re: Story ID: Children's short fantasy about magical tapestry
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 21:59:27 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <3B41FEB5.443E9...@monarch.net>,
Joan Digney  <jdig...@cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
>I'm trying to track down a story that once appeared in Children's Digest
>magazine (70s?).
>
>It was about a princess/lord's daughter who was being forced to marry
>against her will. She was an expert needleworker and tried to drown her
>sorrows while waiting for the inevitable marriage by working on an
>enormous tapestry.
>
>Upon stitching a likeness of her dog into the tapestry, her dog
>disappeared, the likeness being so perfect he couldn't exist in two
>places at once. Upon realizing this is what had happened, the girl
>stitched herself into the tapestry to escape the unwanted marriage.

quite possibly:

Andre Norton "Through the Needle's Eye", reprinted in 
_High Sorcery_ Ace 1970

			Ethan A Merritt
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Ethan A Merritt