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Wonderful Resource for Free Patterns – About.com
Earlier this week I spent a happy morning poking around Cheryl Fall’s Needlepoint site at About.com. One of the things I love about the site is that, as a professional designer, Cheryl has a wealth of patterns she is sharing with us, for free. ...
Colonial Brick House – Part 2
Yesterday we began to stitch the colonial brick house and talked about the windows and brick. Today we’ll discuss the door and put the whole thing together. The door is the focal point of these simple houses. In brick houses it is usually pai...
Colonial Brick House in Needlepoint – Part 1
The first house is a brick house. This one has two stories, two chimneys, and a shallow roof. In addition to the threads in the last column, you will need dark gray Tapestry (#12) metallic for the windows and a black #5 perke cotton for the door. Th...
New Products in Needlepoint – Late November 2009
I have so much new product news to share with you, that I think it’s going to take up both today and tomorrow’s posts. This will have about half the great stuff I just learned. Remember that often manufacturer’s websites lag behind ...
New Free Pattern on About.com
I’m excited about this designer profile on About.com. You will be too when you see the fun mini-sock pattern based on a popular quilt block that’s part of it. Social Bookmarking Related posts:Sunburst Mosaic Ornament — Free Needlep...
Sunburst Mosaic Ornament — Free Needlepoint Pattern
This ornament, is based on a variation of the Log Cabin quilt block. It has a “scrappy” look, using different threads from my stash for each bar. The design is easy to vary. If you make it from all Scotch Stitches instead, the ornament ...
A Tartan Christmas
Plaids, whether they are tartans or personal plaids are so fun to stitch. It’s wonderful to make one as a gift for someone. But why not get a custom plaid for cross stitch or needlepoint for your favorite stitcher? It’s an unusual gift a...
Christmas Lights – 2010 Needlepoint Club
Christmas Lights is now open for subscriptions for this delightful twelve-month series of needlepoint ornaments. Based on old-fashioned Christmas Lights, each ornament has one mixed thread stitch for the bulb and a second stitch for the base. They a...
Blackwork, Bargello and Needlepoint ebooks by Janet Perry
Three wonderful eProjects are available for you to purchase today here and from the ebook store on All about Needlepoint. Maple Leaf Rag, pictured above, is a complete introduction to Bargello in sampler format. Beginning with a simple zig-zag, you ...
Beginner Needlepoint Project Book Out this Weekend!
One of the harder things I’ve done in needlepoint is advance from doing Tent Stitch to feeling confident in making different stitches, using different threads, and trying new color combinations. That’s why I’ve designed this new se...
Vintage Needlepoint – Anne Orr Maple Leaf
This is a simple maple leaf from Anne Orr. Isn’t it great? It’s so simple that it could be a beginning project if you wanted to try counted needlepoint. I’m also thinking it would be great for other techniques using charts like bea...
Twelve Months of Bargello – Small Bargello Projects from Lucinda Gregory Rice
Lucinda Gregory Rice has just come out with a series of twelve one page Bargello needlepoint projects, available directly from her. The series has a different Bargello design for each month. They are all shaped. Some, like February’s heart or...
Two Needlepoints and a Quilt
Talk about cross pollination, the idea for CyberPointers new book (now available to order as a download or CD) was to make needlepoint ornaments inspired by classic quilt blocks. This needlepoint quilt block inspired a quilt! Peg Dunayer designed th...
Needlepoint Bargello from your Stash
Betsy used my adaptation of an Anne Orr design to stitch this charming little piece. She said ” I love all bargello and wanted to try it out. . . . Most of it was done from leftover Watercolors but the picture doesn’t really do the colors jus...
Plastic Canvas Gift to Make for Knitters
I am of the opinion that it is never too early to be making Christmas gifts. I am also of the opinion that no one appreciates a handmade gift as much as someone who also makes things. So finding something you can make (and finish) that uses your stas...
Make a Quick Bracelet from Stash Threads & Plastic Canvas
Looking for a fast project that’s suitable for kids, makes something cool and uses materials in your stash? Look no further than these wrist wraps, a free pattern from Coats & Clark. Using plastic canvas with stitching modeled on friendsh...
Count Twice, Stitch Once – Advice I Should Have Followed
You know that DIY advice about measuring twice and cutting once? Count twice, stitch once has to be the needlepoint equivalent. I didn’t and like the guy who cuts his shelves too short, I had a mess. But I’m adapting, largely because I...
Hurray for Hearts – Needlepoint Stitch Sampler eBook Now Available!
Looking for a way to learn some new stitches and to use up threads from your stash? My new ebook, Heart Sampler, is now available here and in my ebook store. Throughout the article you will see three of the hearts I’ve stitched using this plan....
Vintage Needlepoint – Anne Orr’s Pomegranate Border
This week’s vintage design is another Anne Orr needlepoint pattern. Then central motif is a series of pomegranates. On one side of it is a border of Tent Stitches in three shades of the same color. Looking at the picture in my magazine, the pom...
Fall Needlepoint – Leaves Three Ways
Even if you live in a part of the world where the leaves don’t change much (like the SF Bay Area), fall always makes me think of brilliantly colored leaves. And since I can’t have them for real, I want to stitch them. To stitch your own l...
A Different Sort of Needlepoint Bargello – Patterned Satin Stitch
This week’s classic needlepoint pattern is adapted more than the others. I took an Anne Orr patter, done in Tent Stitch and adapted it to Bargello Needlepoint stitches. It’s Bargello, but with an important difference. Click on the picture...
Embroidery Traditions – Palestine
One of the things I love best about embroidery is that it is done in so many cultures and is so adaptable to many uses. Recently, I was looking through my books of charts and found Dover books of charted folk embroidery from Hungary, Baroque Germany,...
Anne Orr’s Brocade
This is the main motif in Anne’s design called “A Brocade Effect.” In her instructions for the design she suggest using two tones of a color, creating what I call “needlepoint damask.” This is a large pattern, so it is ...
Kilim Designs in Needlepoint – Book Review
Dorothy Wood, (Ward Lock,London), 1998 out of print I didn’t buy this book when it came out, since Kilims aren’t my favorite type of rugs. I found it at the library a couple of weeks ago, and now I regret my initial decision. This is a lo...
Anne Orr Bargello
This week’s classic needlepoint pattern is another on recharted from my classic Anne Orr booklet. It’s a Bargello pattern. It combines a shallow scallop with two zigzags. Click on the picture to get the full-size chart. The stitches are a...
Introducing Happy Threads
There is a phenominal new resource availble on the Internet for people who like to stitch from charts. Happy Stitch is from Australia and the designs are all original, contemporary in style, and free. In the free needlepoint charts,there is “Ba...
Bath Mosaic — Borders 3
The last two borders in the needlepoint reproduction of the Bath Mosaic are mainly Tent Stitch. Each will be shown as a straight border and then as the corner. The first border is all Tent Stitches in all three colors. Remember: blue squares ̵...
Stitching Inside the Box — Book Review
This delightful book from Finger Step Designs (distributed by Custom House) is such as treasure. The idea behind the book, and the samplers you create from it, is to make a diamond-shaped box, and through the borders and stitches you choose, create ...
Classic Needlepoint Recharted – Monday Series
For the next several Mondays (more or less), I’m going to have a series of classic needlepoint designs recharted for you all. The designs are taken from a 1938 magazine packed full of stitched needlepoint designed by Anne Orr. You might be wond...
Geek Stitching – ASCII Table Cross Stitch
You may not need to know ASCII to program a computer anymore, but this ASCII table done in cross stitch is a delightful modern take on a sampler. I just love it and it would make a great needlepoint piece. First find graphic of an ASCII table, then...
