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Originally posted 2008-11-27 06:13:01. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Happy Thanksgiving to those in the US! And Happy Fourth Thursday of November to everyone else! On this holiday I just wanted to share some amazing needlepoint eye candy. I found this amazing Bargello piece on EGA’s Greater Pacific Region site. It’s stitched by Jeannette Clark and is such an inventive an whimsical use of Bargello, I just had to share it with you. She wrote this about her piece: “I did this piece for step 3 of the Master Craftsman in canvas program with EGA. I have always thought that using bargello this way could look like flowers, so had to try it. In person the “fence” behind the flowers is not as pronounced a pattern as in the picture so the flowers and butterflies stand out more. I was trying for summer flowers against a weathered board fence. It

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The San Bernadino Chapter of ANG is huge, welcoming members from both near (east of LA) and far. Several of my friends belong to this chapter as long-distance members. The chapter is wonderful at having many exiting projects and at making it is easy for members who aren’t close to participate. They have recently put up a wonderful slide show of work from their members. You can view it on their site or on Picusa if you are a member there. It’s full of wonderful stuff. If you’ve never viewed this kind of slide show before, you may be wondering how to see more pictures. Under each picture there is a hidden navigation bar that pops up when you slide your cursor over it. If you don’t see it, slide your cursor down the picture. For each lovely piece, you’ll see the stitched needlepoint and the names of both the

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Originally posted 2008-10-04 07:12:05. Republished by Blog Post Promoter After my recent posting about selecting threads based on a choice of Watercolours, my friend Jan Fitzpatrick send me an email about her method of choosing thread colors along with this picture of a glorious Jean Hilton piece, French Perfume (available from Stitches from the Heart). Here’s her explanation of how she picked the colors “I open the skein of Watercolors, etc. Tie one end to the tag so I always know what color it is (and dye lot if needed). Then wrap the thread around the tag until the tag is covered. Then I use that covered tag and search my stash to find colors to go with it. The rest is how you describe your process. “I did two Jean Hilton designs this summer for our home. One started with Watercolors Rain Forest. I knew I wanted to pull

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My friend Diane over at Crafty Pod made these completely amazing robots from plastic canvas. Her post details the project and many more pictures of them. I am completely in awe of the wonderful and fresh things Diana does with plastic canvas. In fact there are several posts on this blog pointing to free projects she has made available using this ground, including: Using Plastic Canvas podcast Plastic Canvas Pendants Hook, Needle, Pencil Case Plastic Canvas Box Storage Box

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Daphne Goodyear is both an amazing and prolific needlepointer. Far better than lazy and cheap people like me who have most of our stitching sitting in boxes waiting to be finished. I just spent a long time on her wonderful site, Needle Artistry (UPDATE: Link added), exploring her work, reading her story, and admiring the work of other stitchers there. I easily could have spent the whole day lost in looking at her lovely work. It’s like a needlepoint only museum. The site is, by far, the best organized showcase for needlepoint I’ve ever seen. I’m not going to give away anything by showing you her work, just trust me and go. It will fire up your needlepoint, I know it did for me. UPDATE: The link for Daphne’s site is: http://needleartartistry.org/home.html

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I had something else planned for today, but when I saw these absolutely adorable Thanksgiving pieces stitched by Maelyse Webb from Rebecca Wood Canvases I just had to share them with you. Thanks to the folks at Needlepoint Study Hall you can see every piece in the set up close. I just love all the clever detail. As someone who goes for non-stress Thanksgivings (I went for them long before they became popular) I’ve never gotten into Thanksgiving pieces, but these are cute enough to make me change my mind. There are some good lessons to take away from these, even if Thanksgiving isn’t your thing. When making a set, pick a consistent thread and stitch (or stitches) for common elements such as background, borders, and ground. This makes them look like a set that is supposed to go together. Use the same thread for the same thing throughout. The

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Originally posted 2010-06-27 07:21:30. Republished by Blog Post PromoterDuring the recent TNNA, a Needlepoint Gallery was sponsored by The Needlepoint Group. Pictures were taken an they are now available on-line for us all to enjoy. Have a lovely summer Sunday!

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Originally posted 2008-11-12 04:58:46. Republished by Blog Post Promoter 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 Embroiderers Association of Canada. It’s an adaptation anyone can do and so I asked her to share it with you. This is what she says about the piece: For this project I was told to cut a piece of black construction paper into various shapes. I was then supposed to glue it onto white paper as if it were an exploding diagram. Once I had a design that I was happy with, I glued the black pieces on to the white paper. I then traced the

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The Scarlet Thread has a wonderful, long interview with their newest designer, Jeff Kulick, on their blog, It’s a Stitchy Thing. I’m in awe of Jeff’s wonderful pieces and his stunning stitching. In the interview you’ll see lots of wonderful pictures of his work and get some great ideas for innovative things you can do with your own stitching. I’m really looking forward to seeing more of his designs in print (my top choice would be that Log Cabin in different sizes)

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Making needlepoint kneelers for your church is a lovely project, not only beautiful, but one that can get the parish deeply involved. On this lovely summer Sunday, let’s take an Internet tour of a few churches with kneeler projects. Click on the church name for the photos. Grace Cathedral, the Episcopal Cathedral in San Francisco, has a Flikr slideshow of their kneelers. Of particular interest, but not religious, are the kneelers of California wildlife. These could inspire other projects. Holy Trinity in Connecticut has a page showing the centers of their kneelers with a nice description of each symbol’s significance. Church of the Redeemer in Pennsylvania, has a lovely long Communion kneeler with close-up pictures of each. St. James in Virginia has a charming set of kneelers with simple bold designs in bright colors. The white backgrounds are a nice change from the more traditional darker colors. All Souls Cathedral(Asheville,

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Recently Pocket Full of Stitches has had a Zecca Trunk Show at their shop. Zeccaa’s designs are bright, colorful and contemporary. But what I REALLY love about this post from PFOS is the tremendously inventive finishing ideas from the folks at Zecca. I’m going crazy for the needlepoint ends of the round bags, the napkin rings, and, best of all, the place card holders (pictured above). I’m going through my old needlepoint to find thins to finish this way

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Originally posted 2009-01-31 06:57:18. Republished by Blog Post Promoter I just love this Twinchy. It showcases everything I like about Kachinas. It has feathers, lots of color, and antler horns. The stepped pyramid around the mouth represents the mesas of New Mexico and Arizona. The charts or drawings for all the Twinchies along with notes for stitching appear after the pictures. This Twinchy is based on a fragment of Pueblo pottery. While newer pottery is white, older pottery takes on a creamy color I just love. It isn’t symmetrical because I’m not as good an artist as they are. The medicine bear fetish was my inspiration for this Twinchy. I wanted him to fill up as much of the space as possible, but I was drawing freehand and drew it wrong. So he looks too big to fit the size and is bursting out. The line drawing is the proper

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Thanks to the great folks at Pocket Full of Stitches, we have a lovely gallery of inventive needlepoint finishes photographed at the recent Dallas Needlework Market. I’m always perplexed at how to finish my needlepoint, so I am so grateful for these many wonderful ideas

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I always enjoy looking at Gail Hendrix’ delightful needlepoint designs. A tremendously creative artist she works in a variety of styles. Recently she put her catalogue up to view on her website. Along the right side of the page you can view her complete line, three catalog pages at a time. Most canvases are only pictured unstitched, but there is a nice sprinkling of finished canvases to fire your imagination. You can also click on links to her custom work. Page down and be treated to several wonderful slide shows showing a canvas or a group of canvases in detail

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I looked at this picture and all I could say was “wow!” Thanks to Susan Deshensky (who gave permission for this post), we have a lovely gallery of pictures from this red & white quilt show. She took these pictures at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. The 560 (yes, you read that right_ quilts are all red & white with no other colors. These quilts have been collected by Joanna S. Rose and have been displayed by her husband as an 80th birthday present. So why The Armory? It was the only place big enough to display them all. Look through Sue’s gallery of photos and be inspired by how wonderful these quilts are. I’m sitting here thinking about doing a red & white needlepoint piece shortly

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