Originally posted 2010-07-13 07:53:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
You want to be more spontaneous in your needlepoint. You’d like to feel comfortable picking color schemes, mixing threads, and trying new ideas. But when it comes down to it, you seem always to pick the same colors and the same threads.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a way to venture out in exploring colors and threads that didn’t involve using an expensive hand painted canvas needlepoint from your stash?
Ideally it would be something easy and small to stitch. Something charted to save on costs, something that has lots of options, and something with more than one design.
I think I found it ins The Caron Collection’s chart pack, Tiny Treasures.
I bought it to stitch something to try out Sundberry’s mini box, and I was delighted to find that it is so much more. The chart pack has eight little designs, all geometrics, ranging in difficulty from something that could be a first project to ones with five different stitches. Even these could be done by a beginner.
The projects are small, under 2″ square, and use from 2 to 6 threads. None of them use much thread, so they are perfect for scrap bag or stash projects. Are you thinking about a color scheme for a larger project and wondering if it will work?
Try one of these projects. You can test it out by making something that only takes a few hours to stitch. And you’ll know if it works.
The instructions are clear, most only taking a page. The diagrams are large. There’s plenty of options for doing your own variations. I like it that the threads for all the projects are summarized on one page, but that such a variety of threads is used that I can feel good about making my own color and thread choices.
This is a great project pack, one that should be in your stash.
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Janet
I said great minds think alike. Bought Tiny Treasures and the treads t do ALL of them last summer. Want to put one by the sink and on my nightstand to hold my jewelry. They are in the rotation with my UNP! GULP!