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Make your own Needlepoint Nativity
I have a large collection of nativities. My family knows this and indulges this collection in a way they don’t for other things, say, my collection of needlepoint canvases. And among the folk art nativities, I also look for needlepoint nativit...
Needlepoint Collage
Most of the things on my needlepoint bucket list are really huge projects, I probably never will end up doing. But some are small enough I might actually achieve them someday. Right near the top of that list is learning how to do canvas collage. Thi...
Mosaic Inspirations
Baked Earth, in the form of tiles, is one of man’s earliest forms of decoration. But tile are fragile and break easily. So, in an ultimate case of making lemonade from lemons, mosaics take those bits of broken tile, porcelain, or glass, and tu...
Needlepoint and Mosaics – ANG’s 2010 Quest Challenge
Each year at the ANG Seminar there is a theme challenge, called Quest, that can be done and submitted by any ANG member for the exhibit. This year’s theme has just been announced, Manipulated Mosaics, and I’m really excited about it. I c...
Needlepointing Houses – Come Stitch with Me
Colonial houses, especially the ones of Colonial Williamsburg, are one of my favorite things. I grew up in a neo-colonial house (it looked like Mt. Vernon). I loved Williamsburg when I went there when I was 10. One of the things I love about Annapol...
Amazing Needlepointer – Raymond Dockstader
He died in earlier this year, but Raymond Dockstader was a phenominal needlepointer whose work graced many needlework exhibits at Woodlawn Plantation in the DC area. I became more aware of his work through a recent blog post. His specialty was 3 inch...
Mixed Media Needlepoint
Awhile ago, Fionna Kazanow sent me some pictures of the delightful use she is making of completed needlepoint from her stash in her mixed media work. If you are like me, most of your stitched stuff sits in boxes (mine are in the garage), so I was so...
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...
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...
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,...
Hawaiian Quilts in Needlepoint
Hawaii has developed a distinctive quilt style, characterized by complex, symmetrical appliques, most often of native Hawaiian plants and flowers. I just love them because the designs are complex, but done in only a few colors. In other words perfec...
Hand-dyeing Threads
If you love threads and needlepoint, you have probably used and loved one or another kind of hand-dyed thread. I was crazy for the process of dying threads not too many years after I learned how to needlepoint and have made many forays into dyeing th...
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...
More Native American-inspired Needlepoint – Medicine Bear
Yesterday I started work on the second Native American-inspired needlepoint designs. This one I’m calling my health needlepoint. It’s focal point is the Zuni fetish of a Medicine Bear (pictured above), my favorite. The Medicine Bear repre...
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...
Mid-Century Modern Needlepoint
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 home. That’s easy enough if your furniture ...
Fractal Needlepoint - A Great Idea!
Yesterday Liz Morrow had a great post on her blog LizArt, about a piece she made that was an adaptation of a fractal she had seen in a picture. I found it tremendously inspiring and this is a rick source of ideas for your own needlepoint. Let’...
Free Clipart Alert - Resources to Design your Own Needlepoint
Dover Book are, hands down, my favorite sources for line drawings and ideas for my needlepoint. In fact they take up about 2 shelves of space (out of five) in my inspiration book shelf. Virtually all their clipart is royalty free so you can use it fo...
Quilt Barns — a Computer Chair Visit
You may be stuck at home, in front of the computer. It may be rainy or cold. Or you may have worked hard on the yard or house all day and are in need of a little vacation. Whatever the reason, I’m here to help with a little tour of a completely...
Inspiring Ideas - Indian Folk Art
Are you looking for some lovely designs as a jumping off point for your work? The new blog, Indian Folk Designs, has lovely free drawings of all kinds of Indian art. They are classified by area and can be used as drawings to trace of as inspiration. ...
Kokeshi — An Idea for a Needlepoint
Kokeshi are simple wooden Japanese dolls. They have asimple trunk and a rounded head with painted features, so they are a design which can be adapted easily to needlepoint. This shopping site has about the best explanation of them I have found. Stick...
Inspiring Bargello Photos
Take a look at Kim’s photostream on Flickr of her house renovation and see her wonderful use of Bargello pillows. It’s the second option on the side. My DD would love to have a couch like one of these and so would I! addthis_url = '...
