As I stitched this little quilt block on Zweigart’s black and white canvas one word kept coming to mind — hard. This canvas is tweeded. One direction has black threads, the other white. While the individual threads are the same as mono canvas, the woven effect is not and therein lies the problem. As you... »
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Modelstitchers Needed!
Originally posted 2008-08-07 09:14:01. Republished by Blog Post PromoterI’m looking for some model stitchers for a number of small (18 stitches square maximum) quilt blocks for a new eBook. You get to make the block in your choice of threads, colors, and fabric.... »
Quilt Block Coasters with Stitch Guides
Making the transition from stitching your first needlepoint sampler to doing canvases can be a hard one. The projects should be good-looking, appealing enough that even an experienced stitcher will want to stitch them. They should be small, so that the stitcher ha a... »
New Ideas to Display Needlepoint
Originally posted 2008-02-19 08:12:31. Republished by Blog Post PromoterI’m cleaning up my hard disk today and found a spreadsheet sent to me ages ago from Jane Wood of... »
My Life in Bargello
In 2007 at the time Bargello Revisited came out, I went on a Virtual Blog Tour, visiting different blogs. My friend Pierrette asked me to visit her blog to... »
Reggie, Reggie!
Originally posted 2006-07-10 05:56:03. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThat’s what people chanted when he was playing. Although I didn’t get to his face yesterday, everything but face and... »