Originally posted 2010-06-28 07:23:15. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
pattern from 2010 Bargello Challenge
Bargello Needlepoint has just undergone a major redesign to make it easier to find patterns and to learn about both Bargello & needlepoint. It’s a great site and you should spend plenty of time there.
This year Althea, the site’s owner, has been trying to stitch a new Bargello pattern everyday in the 2010 Bargello Challenge. With half the year gone, she has an impressive array of patterns stitched. These she has classified in useful pages, like the Bargello Diamond Designs that give a brief descrption of this type of design and then show all of the designs in this category in clickable thumbnails. Click on one and you’ll find a page with a bigger picture, information about the source and some other information about the design.
Besides this amazing resource and record of her project, there is also a store with her ebook of ornaments, links to buy printed books, fun merchandise, and several free downloads.
Two other areas of reference information classified by subject provide a comprehensive index to her blog material. They are Bargello Boot Camp and Needlepoint How-to. Both are great places for exploration.
This is one of the cleanest designed and useful needlepoint sites I’ve seen in a very long time.
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Thanks so much Janet for the “link love” and kind comments about the new look at bargelloneedlepoint.com!
Althea
http://bargelloneedlepoint.com