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A Background Stitch Reference Book — Book Review
Golden Gate Canvas Workers ANG, self-published, $25 Twenty years ago, a suburban San Francisco chapter of ANG decided to turn the results of their study of background stitches into a book. The book was revised in 2000, changing the charts to clearer,...
Great Background – Alternating Cashmere Pairs
I love that Jane in Chilly Hollow has been talking about scale in backgrounds on her blog. And I just adore the Noh mask she’s blog stitching. She picked a great background, from Needlepoint Now. When I was reading about it, I was hoping she...
Two Great Stitches from Rittenhouse Needlepoint
The two stitches featured this week on Rittenhouse Needlepoint’s blog are outstanding stitches, not only for backgrounds, but as accents as well. Cushion Stitch, or Framed Scotch Stitch puts Scotch Stitches into Tent Stitch frames. Done all in ...
Simple Trick for Stitching Needlepoint
When faced with a stitch such as Four-way Continental (diagram above), I don’t do well. Call me a dummy, but keeping on track with this stitch has been close to an impossibility in needlepoint for me. And the problem is that so many canvases h...
Kennan Stitch Tutorial
There aren’t many stitches that baffle me, but Kennan Stitch is one. That’s why I’m so grateful for this needlepoint stitch of the week tutorial by Rittenhouse Needlepoint I found while catching up on blog reading. I particularly li...
Twinkle Stitch
My apologies, I left out the Twinkle Stitch diagram on Thursday’s post about color clouds. It’s there now and also pictured above. Social Bookmarking Related posts:Controlling the Overdyed Thread – Color Clouds Sometimes I’m...
Needlepoint Notecards from Sandy Grossman-Morris
Sandy Grossman-Morris has come out with a delightful line of needlepoint notecards, one of which is pictured above. Each one has a stitch done on canvas with a needle on the front. The directions for the stitch are on the back, along with some stitch...
Hexagonal Stitches
I was asked recently if I knew some stitches which were hexagonal that could work for a background. Three and six-sided shapes are among the most challenging to make in needlepoint because the square grid of needlepoint canvas doesn’t map well ...
Needlepoint Rugs - Stitches
When you are making a needlepoint rug, such as this one (a current project). You need to think before you stitch. Will it be hanging on the wall or be underfoot. This has implications not only for the thread (yesterday’s post), but also for th...
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...
The Graph Paper Problem
I’m confessing it, I simply love graph paper, and you probably do too. After all as needlepointers, our stitching lives are taken up by The Grid. My love of graph paper is much older than my love of needlepoint. My doodles as a child were hou...
Pinwheels in Needlepoint
Spinning pinwheels are such a traditional idea to celebrate the Fourth of July and other summer holidays. Seeing them always makes me think of happy summer times when I was little The picture above, from Scrap Bag Needlepoint is of a project using a ...
Quick Needlepoint Stitch Help Service Now Available
You are probably like I’ve been most of my needlepointing life, your stash as well as your pile of unfinished needlepoint projects has pieces which befuddle you. You just don’t know what stitch to put in an area. Or the stitch you picked...
Diamonds and Needlepoint
No! I’m not talking about that honking huge stone in the ring on your finger. Nor am I talking about the diamond as big as the Ritz (although it’s a great story by F Scott Fitzgerald). I am talking about diamond shapes in your hand painte...
