Like many of you, I’m mostly self-taught in needlepoint. Shortly before I turned 14 I saw kit in a magazine. My parents took me to the local shop and bought it for me. My grandmother, who had started but never finished one pre-worked piece, showed me how to do the basic stitch.
From the beginning, I found that, just like the saying. “I love needlepoint.”
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Hi Janet – The photo you posted was originally painted by Judy Hunt, who passed away many years ago. She did some designing for Tapestry Fair in the 80′s, and painted for some of our local shops, but was best known for these “I hearts”. Luckily she gave me her lettering charts for the font she used most, and after all these years I still use it.
It’s a great font. That reminds me to remind you all that this and the other “I heart” canvases are available from Cat’s Cradle Needlepoint and that I did a stitch guide for this one that is available as a PDF from me.
Keep Stitching,
Janet
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