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A Difficult Needlepoint Problem
It is a lovely canvas. Someone has givewn it to you, or you’ve found it at an unbelievable price. There’s only one problem. It’s partially stitched, but hasn’t got the threads with it. A reader wrote to me recently with this p...
New Needlepoint Projects – October 2009
With the On-line Needlework Show opening tomorrow, there will be another post with more great needlepoint on Thursday, but I wanted to share with you the many wonderful new threads, projects, finishing items, and canvases I’ve come across latel...
Leethal.net – Thread Review
Leethal.net’s yarns are all wool and hand-dyed, coming from recycled sweaters. Depending on the source yarn, they can be stranded or single strand. If you want a different look in wool threads, these threads are an outstanding choice. I tried o...
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...
Needlepoint Rugs — Threads
That picture is the daybed in my studio with many of the threads I’ve picked for my rug spread out on it. The rug uses motif’s from Owen Jones’ Grammar of Ornament and so that is there as well. Obviously I have lots of stash. Havi...
New Products from TNNA Market
I’ve been posting on and off about the new products introduced at TNNA earlier this month, but I wanted to add just one more new post. Look for these great items at your local shop. Besides the Swedish Dynasty ornaments I wrote about last wee...
Embroidery Floss Basics
Over at Needlework Tips & Techniques, there is a wonderful page of information about embroidery floss. It is designed for Cross Stitchers, but there’s lots of advice that works for needlepointers too. There is a video on how to separate pl...
Knitting Yarns for Needlepoint - Reuse America Part 2
One of my favorite parts of the TNNA show is the “Great Wall of Thread” which previews knitting yarns for the upcoming season. Why? Stitching with knitting yarns is one of my favorite things. The variety of knitting yarns is incredible an...
New Products for Needlepoint - May 2009
First off, Squigee Designs, maker of simply wonderful painted canvases, as well as the popular cross stitch designer Shepherd’s Bush are now being distributed by Dream House Ventures. They have a whole new range of small whimsical canvases which wi...
Vineyard Merino - Thread Review
The wonderful folk who make Vineyard Silk introduced a new thread earlier this year. The thread is 100% Merino Wool and is one of the nicest threads I’ve ever used. Merino is one of the finest wools, soft and smooth and the quality shows through. T...
Planet Earth Fibers - Thread Review
Planet Earth Fibers is a maker of silk knitting yarns who is now packaging two of their yarns for needlepoint. Both of these threads are lovely for stitching and I enjoyed using them both. The silk is a fat single strand silk thread, similar to Vin...
Great Thread - Sassa Lynne
Want to try several hand-dyed threads in unusual colors, perfect for stitching? Want to be sure you have enough of them to do more than a patch? Look no further than Sassa Lynne’s marvelous website and her Etsy shop. And especially look for he...
