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Why December Is Like Needlework
Guest post by Jen Funk-Weber of Funk & Weber Designs Note: I loved this recent post in Jen’s email newsletter, I asked if I could share it all with you. It happens every year. For someone, December, a month of joy, celebration, family, fri...
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 ...
Internet & Browser Problems
My browser & internet connection are behaving badly, so posting will be delayed while I try to fix them. Social Bookmarking Related posts:Thread Reviews & New Product Articles Coming! I’ve got to take my son to the airport this...Bac...
Tutorial — Fabric Frame Weights
If you stitch your needlepoint on stretcher bars and don’t use a stand of some kind, you might want to consider using a frame weight. Frame weights work best with larger canvases, you stitch near a table and use the weight to counterbalance th...
A Short Break
I’m getting a tooth pulled this morning, so while I’m recovering I will not be posting regularly. I have posts to drip in every day, but may not be answering emails much until Monday. I’ll be back in action early next week. Social ...
Last Day for Needlework Show!
Today until midnight is your last chance to shop at the first Retail Needlework Show. I’m excited to have many of my ebooks, my new needlepoint club, custom projects and accessories available here. Here’s what their email about the show s...
Dollhouse Scale Christmas Stocking Kits
Maybe it’s because my eyes are not the best. I can’t stitch with my glasses on and I can’t see small with them off. Or maybe it’s because I’m fascinated by tiny things, but I have always been enamored of Janet Granger...
Needlepoint Boxes
One thing which has always intrigued me is the idea of making boxes out of needlepoint. I find the idea of using needlepoint for the sides of the box completely intriguing. There are several painted canvas designers who do too. Kathy Schenkel makes ...
Needlepoint Vacation
We all need vacations sometimes. But sometimes we can’t get away. Needlepoint gives you many of the benefits of a vacation — the calming effect of the stitching, the mental break, the stress relief. When needlepoint is your job as well as...
What Do You Want in Needlepoint?
There isn’t much in the world that can’t be improved, needlepoint included. Everyone has to balance scarce resources (time, money, space, skill) with our desires to find out what works for us. Even so there are things we’d like to s...
Needlepoint in the Fifties – A Look Back
Yesterday I had an occasion to look at the oldest needlepoint book I own, Needlepoint Made Easy, published in 1955. It gave me pause, because I was also looking at The Needlepoint Book, first published 21 years later. Since most of us started stitchi...
Baroque Silk Winner
The winner of the Baroque Silk is Betsy. Congratulations! Social Bookmarking Related posts:March Giveaway & Needlepoint Resolution Winner I want to thank all you loyal readers for...August Winner & Let’s Salute the Shops! The winner...
Lucinda Rice Post Fixed
I don’t know what I didn’t do, but the post on Lucinda’s lovely pieces got cut off before it had begun. It’s fixed now and you can see the whole post at: http://www.nuts-about-needlepoint.com/small-bargello-projects-from-lucin...
On the Road Again — Shop Memories While Traveling
One of the happiest things I know about traveling is visiting needlepoint stores. Today I want to salute a few stores that I visited for the wonderful things I found there. – In Ann Arbor, on a business trip, I saw Watercolours for the first t...
Count Twice, Stitch Once – Advice I Should Have Followed
You know that DIY advice about measuring twice and cutting once? Count twice, stitch once has to be the needlepoint equivalent. I didn’t and like the guy who cuts his shelves too short, I had a mess. But I’m adapting, largely because I...
Why Outline?
A few years ago, if you had asked me, I would have told you that outlining in needlepoint is not a good idea. And often it isn’t. You might think that if you outlined and area first making a line of Continental (one thread lines in needlepoint ...
Crewel World – Past LNS
When I moved to California in 1980, I was sort of lost for needlepoint. Yes, there were some stores in San Francisco, but I didn’t have time on my lunch hour to get to them. There was a knitting and needlepoint store on my way home from work, ...
Apologia
As readers of this blog know, I am in the middle of an intensive treatment for a chronic diseases I’ve had for over 50 years. What I haven’t said is that stress of any kind is extremely harmful to my treatment. This goes so far that IR...
Thread Stash Credits — A Great Idea
I’m figuring your stash is not nearly as out of control as mine. If it isn’t, here’s a wonderful idea on how to figure out if your thread stash is getting bigger or smaller. Jane, of Chilly Hollow, talked about it in her blog last...
Remember this Month’s Giveaway!
There’s still time to enter the August Giveaway to win five skeins of needlepoint thread. This month the theme is rugs, miniature or large, dream projects or real, finished or not. I want to hear about your experiences, tips, ideas, or dreams....
ALERT! This Blog Has Been Hacked!
Starting sometime yesterday (August 13) afternoon, my blog was hacked. I’m working to get to the bottom of the problem, and think I have found them all. We have restored the blog framework from as backup and I’m cleaning things out. I wil...
Patron Saint of Needlework
Yesterday (or today of you use the old Roman calendar) was the feast of St. Clare, who is the patron saint of needlework. There are patrons for many, many things, so you shouldn’t be surprised that needlework has its own patron. If you don̵...
What’s your (Needlepoint) Poison?
“What’s your poison?” It’s an old-fashioned way to ask what you’re drinking. Last night, we took my youngest and her boyfriend out to dinner to celebrate her 21st birthday. To a restaurant that serves mixed drinks (relat...
School Needlepoint
For many people the idea of stitching a needlepoint with your school logo is a compelling one. I made needlepoint ornaments for each of my kids for their high school graduations. I was disappointed I had to go with generic “graduate” pie...
Needlepoint Cruise with Janet Perry - Preliminary Information
I’m going to be teaching needlepoint on an Alaskan cruise in June 2010. It’s going to be more than your usual needlepoint cruise because we will focus on more than just the usual single project. There will be three projects, one a stitch sampler ...
Getting Needlepoint Done
Commenting on yesterday’s post, Mary Lou wrote ” My problem is not unfinished finished projected but all the unfinished projectes I have! I am trying not to start new ones but that is difficult. I have a lot of canvases not started in m...
What Do You Do with your Needlepoint?
Last week, Dee posted a comment which said, “Love all the different styles you do in needlepoint and mixing the stitches but what do you do with all of your needlepoint? ” That’s a great question and one which most of us stitchers f...
On-line Needlepoint Shop for Hard-to-find Tools & Books Now Open
One thing which has always frustrated me as a needlepointer is that it can be hard to find some of the easiest and most useful tools and best books. My solution for years has been to stockpile those things I find useful whenever I can find them. I h...
Interview about Needlepoint
I’m so delighted that my friend Sister Diane interviewed me for one of my favorite blogs, Craftypod. We talk about needlepoint, why it’s such a great craft, and how we can change how needlepoint is perceived. Check it out! Social Bookmar...
Needlepoint, Fancy Stitches, and “Too Much of a Good Thing Is . . .”
Yesterday on my friend Marianne’s blog wrote about fancy stitches and the tendency for people to go for ever more difficult stitches in needlepoint. She writes “I fear *we* , as a needlepoint community are losing touch with the simple bea...
