Recent Posts Tagged With 'hand-painted canvas'

• Mid-Century Modern Needlepoint

  Posted on Thursday July 9th, 2009 at 08:41 in design, hand painted canvas needlepoint, hand-painted canvas, inspiration, mid-century modern, mid-century modern needlepoint, needlepoint adaptation

  Earlier this week I got a query about finding hand painted canvas needlepoint for a mid-century modern house. That got me thinking. Often we want to do needlepoint that will work with the decor in our...

• News & Notes - Orna Willis, Leigh Designs, Thread a Needle Day

  Posted on Monday July 6th, 2009 at 08:38 in caron collection, Color, design, hand-painted canvas, orna willis, rhodes stitch, stitch dictionary, stitch in public day, symmetry, watercolours thread

  Orna Willis has added two new how-tos to her site. One is her new color experiment, using as it inspiration Bermuda Reef, pictured above. These kind of cool, analogous color schemes are just perfect ...

• New Products from TNNA Market

  Posted on Tuesday June 23rd, 2009 at 18:32 in betsy b, hand painted canvas needlepoint, hand-painted canvas, kelly clark, markets & exhibits, rainbow gallery, threads, tnna

  I’ve been posting on and off about the new products introduced at TNNA earlier this month, but I wanted to add just one more new post. Look for these great items at your local shop. Besides th...

• New & Wonderful Needlepoint Ornaments from Leigh Designs

  Posted on Friday June 19th, 2009 at 07:44 in hand painted canvas needlepoint, hand-painted canvas, leigh designs, leigh needlepoint, swedish folk art

  I am just crazy in love with the new Swedish Dynasty ornaments from Leigh Designs. They are so much fun! I wrote about them last month, but I took a look at the whole group and I just had to show them...

• Lee Needle Arts - Hand Painted Canvas Needlepoint & Accessories

  Posted on Tuesday June 16th, 2009 at 07:41 in accessories, bargello, beginners, finishing, hand-painted canvas, lee's needle arts, needlepoint finishing, needlepoint leather, oriental needlepoint

  The big news at TNNA is that Lee Needle Arts will be closing after, I think, 40 years in business. I wanted to alert you guys because this company is one of my favorites. not only for their lovely can...

• New Products for Needlepoint - May 2009

  Posted on Thursday May 28th, 2009 at 13:59 in charted needlepoint, hand-painted canvas, overdyed threads, shopping, threads, tnna preview

  First off, Squigee Designs, maker of simply wonderful painted canvases, as well as the popular cross stitch designer Shepherd’s Bush are now being distributed by Dream House Ventures. They have a wh...

• Jeweled Bugs & Needlepoint

  Posted on Friday April 17th, 2009 at 07:43 in amanda lawford, birds of a feather needlepoint, hand-painted canvas, inspiration, jp needlepoint, julia's needleworks, mika partridge, needlepoint beetle, needlepoint bug, needlepoint butterfly, needlepoint ladybug

  Earlier this week Judy Harper had a marvelous post on FREEBIES, Etc! about creating your own needlepoint jeweled insect. She shows you, step by step, how to create a beetle and a ladybug. I’m st...

• Scrap Bag Cats - Part 3

  Posted on Wednesday April 8th, 2009 at 08:23 in come stitch with me, hand-painted canvas, janet perry needlepoint, patt and lee designs, scrap bag needlepoint, stash

  Another three cats and the top row is complete and I’v begun the second row in this charming needlepoint. These three cats are a bit restful, having lots of Tent Stitch. Areas of Tent Stitch are...

• Designing Needlepoint

  Posted on Friday April 3rd, 2009 at 19:04 in barbara bergsten, design, design needlepoint, hand painted canvas needlepoint, hand-painted canvas

  Barbara Bergsten is a delightful needlepoint designer. Her canvases are fresh, bright, and really fun to stitch. But don’t you always wonder how a hand painted needlepoint canvas design is creat...

• What Would You Do with this Canvas?

  Posted on Friday April 3rd, 2009 at 08:53 in birdhouse, hand painted needlepoint canvas, hand-painted canvas

  Have you ever gotten and canvas you just love but have no idea how to stitch? I got this little birdhouse last weekend at my guild meeting. I loved the bright cheery colors. But now that I have it, I ...

• Wonderful Scrap Ornaments

  Posted on Saturday March 28th, 2009 at 07:27 in as ornament, christmas, hand-painted canvas, needlepoint christ, ornaments, patchwork, patt and lee designs, quilts, scrap bag needlepoint, stash

  My friend Patt, of Patt and Lee Designs, wrote me late Thursday about her newest pieces, scrap bag stars. I didn’t get to look at them until yesterday but I loved them so much I ordered all of t...

• Three Places to Find that Canvas

  Posted on Friday March 6th, 2009 at 09:14 in canvases be gone, hand painted canvas needlepoint, hand-painted canvas, needlepoint canvas resale, shopping, stitch in peace, stitching blog, susan portra

  If you’re like me all too often the canvas that shrieks “Buy Me!” in the store, looks like a terrible mistake once you get home. On the other hand, you regret, sometimes for years, ...

• Shading and Needleblending Tutorial

  Posted on Saturday February 21st, 2009 at 18:56 in abs designs, anne stradal, biloxi, biloxi lighthouse, hand-painted canvas, needleblending, needlepoint lighthouse, needlepoint shading, Technique

  Shading needlepoint often seems complex, and many stitchers shy away from blending threads. But it is what I call a “Big Bang” technique — one which isn’t hard to master and w...

• More New Canvases from TNNA

  Posted on Monday February 9th, 2009 at 14:41 in betsy b, dragno's tale needlepoint, hand-painted canvas, hp needlepoint, kathy schenkle, markets & exhibits, patt and lee designs

  Here’s some more lovely new canvas which premiered at TNNA last month. A new needlepoint company exhibiting at TNNA for the first time was Patt and Lee Designs. There a wonderful cat designs (so...

• SF Heart Update

  Posted on Thursday January 15th, 2009 at 10:31 in euro needlepoint, hand-painted canvas, san francisco heart, stitching blog, sunday stitching

  I haven’t given you an update on this in awhile. But it’s been good non-stress needlepoint, so I’ve been working on it and hope to finish it up this weekend. As you can see, I have g...

• A Different Shape of Christmas Ornament

  Posted on Tuesday December 23rd, 2008 at 20:11 in anne stradal, christmas, gallery, hand-painted canvas, needlepoint christmas ornament, needlepoint egg

  My friend, Anne Stradal, has posted some pictures of two of her delightful Eggs for All Seasons in Christmas colors on her blog, The Cape Stitcher. I wanted to share this eye candy with you. If you w...

• When the Canvas Isn’t Finished - 12 Days of Needlepoint Gifts

  Posted on Tuesday December 23rd, 2008 at 07:17 in gifts, hand-painted canvas, needlepoint gift

  Has this ever happened to you? The canvas for the perfect gift hasn’t come in yet. Or you are still stitching and the Christmas finishing deadline was back in the Fall. Not that this hasn’...