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Wendy Costa’s Art Now Available in Needlepoint
Wendy Costa’s art has now been adapted to needlepoint and is available from Maggie Co. There are nine whimsical dresses and two delightful veggie designs that would be great in a kitchen. They are on 18 mesh. Social Bookmarking »
Adapting Randomly Cut Paper to Needlepoint
Last month my friend Lorene Salt & her husband were visiting Napa Valley. We met for lunch and Lorene brought me pictures of her wonderful stitching. I was blown away thinking about the piece pictured above. In fact I kept thinking about it. It was one of Lorene’s pieces for her Master Craftsman from... »
The Needlepoint Art on your Walls
A little while ago I got an email update from the marketing and forecasting company, Unity Marketing about what people put on their walls. I stuck many chords with me, as I’m sure it will with you. “If you want to know about the tastes and interests of the American consumer, you need only... »
Celtic Art in Cross Stitch – book review
Celtic Art in Cross Stitch Barbara Hammet I just love Barbara’s two other books of cross stitch designs (Art Nouveau and William Morris), so I was delighted to see this new books. The book opens with a very good introduction about Celtic Art which looks at it from the point of view of... »
Needlepoint and Art
As a needlepointer, I find that often my work gets trivialized by artists and by people who do other fiber arts. Needlepoint suffers from a “little old lady” syndrome, which is completely out of sync with the reality of the art we produce, which is often far more advanced than what is done by other, more accepted... »