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Needlepoint Bargello Ornament and Free Stitch Guide
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...
Quaker Samplers Adapted for Needlepoint
I don’t do the whole shopping thing today, so I thought I would share with you a delightful type of Cross Stitch that can easily be adapted to needlepoint. It’s called Quaker Stitch and has whole stitches, delightful motifs, often from t...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
San Francisco Needlepoint
I often pat myself on the back when I consider how lucky I am to live ion San Francisco. It took me about 30 seconds of seeing the skyline late at night on my first trip here to fall in love with it and that hasn’t faltered in more than 30 year...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
