Ping to the Vast Right Wing Knitting and Needleworkers Circle. Come bring your needlework and let's talk.
I have an awful time remembering the titles of resource books! I have several on needlepoint (I think the one you mentioned and one really gorgeous one on Tiffany style projects), but mostly I just print the free patterns and ideas you can pull off the net. (I especially liked those blackwork links you provided last week, which led me to needle lacing, which led me to. . . another obsession.)
And I have several books on costume design and construction. "Elegantly Frugal Costumes" is one of my favorites, and probably the only title that comes right to mind. Sorry I'm so hopeless with reference titles!
This isn't really a cross stitch BOOK, but I love the Just Cross Stitch magazine's yearly Christmas ornament issue. Many designers (I don't have an issue handy, but I would say 30, approximately) design an ornament for each year's issue. Some of the patterns are issued yearly as a series, which is nice for fans of a particular designer or design.
This issue comes out in September each year, so it should be in shops and on newsstands now. Also, I'm sure that http://www.just-crossstitch.com/ would have info.
Oops, just checked that website and it is under construction. Oh well!
I know this is totally OT, but flame me anyway.
In the first VRWKNC thread, many people shared how they like to do their needlework while watching political events on TV. Well, I love to do my needlework while watching coverage of disasters on the Weather Channel!
I was working on the cross stitch portion of Carriage House Samplings' "Quaker Stocking" during Katrina on TWC. Now this is pretty intense stitching (see the photo on the website), but I was churning those stitches out during the coverage--and I pretty much finished 2/3 of it during that time!
Here is my stocking, almost to the bottom of the page:
http://www.carriagehousesamplings.com/newdesigns.htm
I did the one in browns.