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Originally posted 2011-03-20 07:14:55. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Liz Morrow has added four new Bargello patterns to her site. Vegas Nights, delightful in reds, was blogged stitched by her, so you could follow her progress. White Noise, a monochrome project, features three different patterns. The first monochrome Bargello I did was white, so I’m excited to try this one. Hen & Chickens hasn’t been seen before and combines regular and diagonal Bargello with a lovely (and simple) shaded four-way background. Prickly Pear shows how great Bargello can be as a background when combined with the wonderful charted needlepoint cactus. All are available with a PayPal cart on the first page of her Bargello section. For an additional fee, you can also have them printed and mailed

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For lovers of Bargello Needlepoint there can be nothing finer than new projects. That there are four lovely ones is even better. The four have two groups of small projects (crackers and hearts) and two larger projects, including the one on the cover of the most recent Needlepointers. Even better there is a charming free design of a fish. You can find them all on her Bargello & Needlepoint 2 page

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Vineyard Silks has new shades in both Vineyard Classics (silk ) and Vineyard Merino. The colors are simply lovely blue-greens with names such as South Beach, Ocean Breeze, and Laguna Beach. These form a color family. They are pictured here Planet Earth’s Pepper Pot Silk has a new color, Melon, a grand classic melon/coral color. This has been one of my favorite colors for years. There are new colors added to the new Paternayan. Sevral of their first round of colors have been restocked

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Just like a DJ I’m going to tell you “And the hits keep coming!” You’re sure to find some wonderful projects in these new designs. Jean Smith has a delightful 13″ square canvas called Spring Columbine. In blue, pinks, and lavenders, this design is totally feminine while being very colorful. It’s on 13-mesh and is also available in 8″ and 4″ sizes. Another lovely floral canvas is the iris from Trubey Designs. This 10″ square canvas is a close-up of a bearded iris. It’s on 14-mesh. Puppy Purses are a new series of canvases from Kamala. The canvases have either kittens or puppies in purses. 5″ square they are sized to become inserts on your tote or purse. A puppy purse on a purse! The canvases are distributed by JulieMar. Images Stitchery has split into two parts. Doodlin’ Around Designs is one of these companies. This company has a number

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Spare a thought for the terrible plight of needlepoint bloggers and shopowners. We see all the new products, sometimes even weeks before they are released anyplace else. But there is no way that we can stitch everything we see that we would like. New needlepoint products get me excited, so I want to share them with you. Elizabeth Bradley has some exciting news. First off she has a new series of small kits for kids. The colors are light and cheerful. They are 6″ square and come complete with canvas, threads, needle and chart card. They have also expanded their line of tapestry wool to include some brighter and more modern colors. THere are now 363 colors available in 10-yard cards and 60-yard hanks. DebBee’s Designs has added a Gold design to their popular Glitz & Glamour line. It’s laid out to look like stacked gold ingots. It uses Kreinik

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Originally posted 2010-08-29 07:27:45. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Liz Morrow has just come out with two delightful and innovative Four-way Bargello patterns. Butterflies, pictured above, has Ten Stitched animals with a wavy border in neutrals. Twelve Days of Christmas, pictured below, is bright and modern in holiday colors. Both are available to purchase as PDFs of hard copies directly from Liz’s site. Scroll down to find them

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I saw the vintage pincushion base from Sudberry House and I thought pincushion. Cheryl Schaeffer saw this same piece and thought “Chair!” The chair you see is just one of five delightful miniature needlepoint chairs she’s making. This one is the Beach Chair. There is also a Halloween Chair, a Pink & Blue Chair, Santa’s Chair, and, yet-to-be-completed, The Wild Chair. Each of the chairs uses Sudberry’s pincushion as the base and all can be used as pincushions. In the current issue of Needlepoint Now you can get the stitch guide for Santa’s Chair

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Cotton Petites is a new line of threads from Sulky. Although Sulky is best known as a maker of threads for machine sewing and embroidery, the size of this thread makes it an ideal candidate for hand embroidery, including needlepoint. The thread comes on 50-yard snap-end spools. It is 12 weight, which is about the thickness of two strands of floss. It’s easy to pull out the length you need and cut multiple lengths in order to strand up. Although I felt as if the thread was thinner than the equivalent number of floss strands, I could see no difference in how the thread performed. I can only attribute my feeling to air caught between the strands of floss, something which is compressed when stitching. I found this thread worked beautifully for decorative stitches. I used it for the gumballs in this Cat’s Cradle canvas. The many colors covered well

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In the past few months several new wools for needlepoint have come on the market. This has been after several years where it seemed that wool for needlepoint was an endangered species at best. Colonial Persian Yarn from Colonial Needle is one of these. As I wrote in a previous post, this yarn is spun by the same company that spun JCA’s Paternayan Persian. I tested this wool for the blue-violet on the tote pictured here. The canvas is 13-mesh and one strand was used. As you can see I got good coverage from the single strand. The canvas was painted turquoise so it’s easy to see how good the coverage is. In comparison with the new Paternayan Wool, I felt this thread was just a shade thinner. Clearly though, this doesn’t affect the stitching. The three strands are even in width and the colors are solid. It worked well

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Colonial Needle announced at TNNA last month their new line of Persian Wool. Called Colonial Persian Yarn, they have an exclusive agreement with JCA’s spinner to produce this yarn for 12 years. Colonial’s Persian is using the same manufacturing process as JCA’s to produce this 100% virgin wool yarn. It is a three-stranded two-ply yarn. Currently they have 68 colors in several color families, usually with three colors per family. Two blue families, Federal and Cobalt, have several more shades, making me think these families are complete. The TNNA color list has golds, but not yellow or orange. They are introducing about 20 new shades per month. The wool is sold in 1/4 pound hanks (about 172 yards). This means your shop will be skeining it, so yardage per unit will vary. Watch for a review of this wool next week

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Originally posted 2010-05-26 07:48:34. Republished by Blog Post Promoter You are probably a stitcher like while I often like the challenge of picking my own stitiches and threads, sometimes I want the relaxing pastime of stitching from a stitch guide. This propelled me into writing my own stitch guides and continues to keep me designing. On the one hand I do custom stitch guides (click here to get started with one) that are comprehensive and affordable. They are customized to you and even to the shop you use. No one offers a better guide at a lower price. I have long been thinking about a way to make the guides I’ve written available to a wider audience. I hear from many of you about your frustration with the lack of guides, your desire to have some help, and your love of the canvases you find. Today I’m preannouncing my new

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Originally posted 2010-06-16 07:35:01. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Finishing Items I am just crazy about this chic self-finishing clutch from Timeless Totes. This is their first self-finished item. It comes in four colors (red, burgundy, blue and black). Lee’s Needle Arts has added leather Kindle covers to their self-finishing line. There are also new photo boxes and albums. I’m excited about the albums, because, although sometimes you can find albums that have openings deep enough to hold needlepoint, most of the time the albums you find won’t work Threads Crescent Colors has added new shades to both their perle cottons and silks. Valdani has added pure silk perle to their line-up of threads. This is great because silk perle is a wonderful thread to use. Rainbow Gallery has new colors in Very Velvet, Silk Lamé, Fuzzy Stuff, and Wispers, along with new colors in some other threads. They have

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Paternayan is back and beautiful. For those of us who have been stitching for decades, you’ll be delighted at how much this wool recaptures the traditional look and feel of the original wool from the 1970′s. Happily it combines this lovely hand and luster with the even strand-width of the more recent JCA product, giving us the best of both worlds. I had forgotten how much I loved this thread when I started needlepointing in 1970. It all came rushing back when I tested this wool. I tested it thoroughly on canvases if different mesh sizes and with different stitches. Here is what I did: 14-mesh Test My first test used old and new Paternayan on 14-mesh in both Tent and textured stitches. Both worked with a single strand for coverage for all stitches. The new Paternayan was slightly thicker and covered better in textured stitches. This could be the

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In the Woods is a charming textured stitch piece that makes a different kind of sampler. It’s available with a stitch guide. I’m very fond of Paisleys in any form, but I just love the cool teals of Amanda Lawford’s new canvas. Speaking of Paisleys, Julie Pischke has some great small ones in bright colors. I’d love these are ornaments. Stitch-its also has a close-up paisley in orange and white. In addition to the lovely black & white stars I wrote about earlier, Kirk & Hamilton has a lovely new series of patterned round ornaments. Although the patterns aren’t sweet florals, the soft pastels remind me of Laura Ashley colors. Associated Talents has large (14″ square) pillow canvases in the same beachy themes and colors as their new ornaments. Shelly Tribbey has a mini sock and square of mid-century modern triangle trees. The colors in both remind me a new

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Sew Much Fun has a lovely lined Ultrasuede tote that holds an 8″ square canvas. It comes in red, teal, blue and green with coordinating linings. Amanda Lawford has a new box, available in six colors, that has a rectangular opening and a pretty scalloped edge. They also have a tote with space for a rectangular needlepoint in front. The folks at Little House of Canvas have a new book out, Ins & Outs. It will be released in 4-6 weeks. It covers stitches for interiors & exteriors. dede Ogden has her second book on Shadow Stitching out. It’s called That’s Not Needlepoint:  Shadow Stitches Accelerated Series 2. Since she pioneered this technique, I’m really looking forward to seeing it. Lantern Moon has expanded their selection of needlework accessories with a cupcake-shaped tool holder. The velvet top is shaped like a rose. You can insert tools such as scissors or

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