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Great Source for Free Needlepoint Charts
One of my regular blog stops is my friend Denise Felton’s Needlework News blog at Craft Gossip. I always find such cool things on her site, and not just needlepoint. One of the things Denise does best is her round-ups of free charts. She does...
Video Games and Needlepoint
Sprite Stitch is a completely delightful site working at the intersection of the video gaming world and needlework. The pixelated graphics of video games are perfectly suited to becoming the basis for needlepoint or cross stitch. In fact one of thei...
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...
Two Great Plastic Canvas Patterns
Free Patterns.com is a great resource for project ideas, especially for plastic canvas designs. Thanks to Denise, the Needlework Editor at CraftGossip for ferreting out these and tons of other great stuff. You may think of plastic canvas as something...
Black Cats & Needlepoint
Its no secret that I like black cats. I’ve owned three of them (that’s Dot in the picture above), and I have many black cat canvases stitched and unstitched. The nice thing about black cats and needlepoint is that since they are associate...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ̵...
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...
Bath Mosaic Needlepoint – Borders 2
The next two borders in the needlepoint reproduction of the Bath Mosaic combine Tent Stitch and Backstitch. Each will be shown as a straight border and then as the corner. The first border is made up of Backstitched squares with Tent Stitch squares ...
Bath Mosaic Needlepoint - Central Medallion & Borders 1
This week we’ll start stitching the Bath Mosaic. The chart for this week will cover the central medallion, the square around it and the first two borders. The chart is shown in parts, in a small size below. To get the full sized charts, click ...
Freebie Alert — Poodle Outline
Elle Decoration magazine has a delightful stencil of a poodle designed by Conrad Botes (from South Africa) available as a free download on their site. The link is at the top of the right column. So of it’s a stencil, why am I telling you about ...
Roman Mosaics in Britain
Wherever the Roman legions went, they left their mark on the area one way or another. You find Roman aqueducts in Spain, a Romance (i.e. Roman) language in Eastern Europe, and, in England, floor mosaics from the time Rome ruled the island. When I w...
Substitutions in the Abstract Needlepoint
If you want to make a Scrap Bag Needlepoint from your stash and want it to have a coordinated look, there’s nothing better than pulling out all your threads in a particular color scheme. That’s what I chose to do for my version of the del...
Abstract Needlepoint - Stitches
Needlepoint, when done in all Basketweave, looks dull to me. It’s too flat. While I want there to be flat places, so the eye can rest, I also want texture. This is even more important when the design is abstract, so your mind can’t R...
Preview of Bargello Needlepoint Ornaments
Althea has posted the previews of the next three free Bargello Christmas ornaments. There is a tree, a snowman, and an overall candle pattern. Remember the downloads of these patterns will be available for one week only. The tree will be up starting...
Christmas Gift in Bargello
It’s Friday, have you downloaded this week’s free Bargello Christmas ornament pattern from Bargello Needlepoint yet? It is the simply delightful gift-wrapped “package” above. Since it uses two shades of the same color for the...
Stash-busting Contest Update
Remember our stash-busting needlepoint challenge this month? I wanted to bring you up-to-date on my progress and plans. I decided I wanted it to look like stained glass, so I’m using one of my favorite colors of Kreinik, Gunmetal (025HL) for th...
A New Free Needlepoint Bug Design
Judy Harper from FREEBIES, Etc. has posted a design for a charming needlepoint spider. You can make it jeweled as she did, with a background slightly reminiscent of Halloween, or you could pad it slightly and use a white or light beige overdye to mak...
A Reason to Look Forward to Mondays (at least for awhile)
My friend Althea, who has the wonderful blog about Bargello needlepoint, has a special treat for us the next six Mondays. She has designed six Bargello Christmas theme ornaments which will appear on her blog for downloads. There is one ornament each ...
Great New Needlepoint Articles on Blogs
I’m getting caught up so I wanted to share with you some great needlepoint blogs posts with lots of good information. First off, Sharon B shares with us this lovely wide border. It uses Algerian Eye, Cross Stitch, and Straight Gobelin. I love h...
Pine Trees Mini-Sock
Christmas quilts are a fine tradition, warming children on that Night of Nights while they wait for the wonders of the morn. Pine tree quilts, such as the inspiration for this mini-sock, were a common kind of Christmas quilt. This pattern is designed...
A Great Free Pattern
This free ornament from The Caron Collection has got to be one of my favorite free needlepoint patterns of all time. I have made it all in a single Caron color, with a second color for the Tent Stitches and I love them all. On Caron’s redesigne...
Mod Sampler - Part 3
With these two blocks you have all the patterns you need to stitch the blocks for the mod Sampler. I didn’t have time today to stitch more than three blocks, but, as you can see, this completes two rows of the quilt. I’ll update you wit...
Saturday Stitching Treat
The chart above is a little treat for your stitching Saturday. It’s small, about 40 stitches by 50 stitches, so it’s small enough to make a charming pin or small ornament. The design is taken from a woodcut which is why it’s pretty...
Sunbonnet Sue Needlepoint Mini-sock
Isn’t she just too cute? She’s one of a series of needlepoint mini-socks based on quilt designs I did in 2001 for a friend’s children. Recently I was asked about her and so I wanted to share the directions with you. Sunbonnet Sue is...
