Comments on: What Was your First Needlepoint Project? – June Giveaway

By: textiledreamer

textiledreamer — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:09:04 +0000

Great idea, I made a blog post about mine at http://textiledreamer.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/first-needlepoint-project/

By: First Needlepoint Project « textile dreams – fibery wake up

First Needlepoint Project « textile dreams – fibery wake up — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:06:58 +0000

[...] Over at Nuts about Needlepoint, Janet has been asking people to tell the story around their first needlepoint project, so here’s [...]

By: chris swan

chris swan — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:22:15 +0000

I think my first project was pillowcase edges. It was a long time ago.

By: Some of my Oldest Works « Tenar’s cave

Some of my Oldest Works « Tenar’s cave — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:58:03 +0000

[...] under embroidery, life Jocelynn posted her very first needlepoint project here in response to a challenge atnuts about needlepoint and encouraged everybody to do the [...]

By: tara

tara — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:32:06 +0000

my first project was a cat, I was 11.

By: Kathy D

Kathy D — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:20:07 +0000

I made little pillows for my mini doll house

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:08:46 +0000

My first needlepoint project was a picture of a woven basket of fruit. I was probably some where between 10 and 12, and I got it on one of the expeditions that my mother and I used to go on, to the big craft store (which eventually became a Lee Wards) that was about 45 minutes away. I stitched the design fairly quickly, but the background took a while, because I found it boring to just do tent stitch (that’s what I used) over and over again. Eventually, it became a rug for a doll house that my mother built. I still have the doll house and the rug, but the rug has a lot of moth holes in it. The funny thing that I remember about the project is that I did mostly while watching TV and for many years after I finished it, I could look at a particular section of the picture, and remember what TV episode I was watching at the time. I still associate the project with the Six Million Dollar Man!

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:02:16 +0000

My first needlepoint project was a majestic stag that my Dutch Grandma chose for me when I was visiting. I was about 10 at the time and she taught me the basics using sign language as I don’t speak Dutch and she had no English!
I still have it, but want to re-frame it and then display it with pride!

By: Tricia

Tricia — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:16:27 +0000

My first needlepoint was a kit, probably my mom gave it to me as a gift, and I was probably in high school. It shows a house with a garden and a rainbow in the sky. In my memory, it included all sorts of stitches, but I looked at it last night and noticed that there are only 3! (basketweave, long stitches, and some french knots) But even so, I quickly got disappointed with the kits available in my small town, because they were all solely basketweave. I moved on to other forms of needlework. Decades later, I still have a vague yearning for a kit with fancy stitches…

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:55:33 +0000

Mine was one of those cross stitch sets you can buy for children – I think the picture was of a yellow and red fish, and I gave it to my mum as a present!