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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...
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...
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...
EBook & EProject Now Available
Two new products are available in the All about Needlepoint store. In the ebooks section, you will find the 2009 Stitch Annual and the Haida Feather Tote (pictured above). The Stitch Annual is much more than your usual Stitch of the Month offering, t...
Patchwork of Peace - Needlepoint Book Review
I know this book has been out awhile and is very popular. I’ve not looked at it because I didn’t want to stitch the project. But I looked at it recently and have to say that it’s a disappointment. In order to get enough out of the book to ...
Haida Feather Update
The needlepoint adaptation of the Pacific Northwest Indian art is coming along and will be available as my initial eProject August 1. While the color scheme is very restrained, there’s lots of texture here. The red uses a narrow version of By...
Bargello Ornament Book Now Available
My friend, Althea, has just released the ebook version of her Bargello Christmas Ornaments. That’s the cover above. The ornaments have been available singly for download, each for one week only, on her blog. They are witty original designs that...
Needlepoint Ebooks Premiere!
That’s on the cover of Celebrate! The ebook version of the Come Stitch with Me needlepoint sampler from 2008. It has been expanded with additional ideas for using the stitches and information on how to develop a color scheme This cover is from...
