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Jane’s Border Advice
Nuts about Needlepoint | December 30th 2009 by Janet Perry
Earlier this week my friend Jane Wood (of Chilly Hollow) had some outstanding advice when encountering a signature or other painting when your want to add a border to a needlepoint canvas. This happens, I’m afraid, fairly often and puts many st read more
New Products in Needlepoint – Late November 2009
Nuts about Needlepoint | November 29th 2009 by Janet Perry
I have so much new product news to share with you, that I think it’s going to take up both today and tomorrow’s posts. This will have about half the great stuff I just learned. Remember that often manufacturer’s websites lag behind read more
Marie Buffington – Needlepoint Designer Profile
Nuts about Needlepoint | November 26th 2009 by Janet Perry
Marie Buffington is a new hand painted canvas needlepoint designer. Her work, as you can see from the pictures, takes a fresh approach to traditional designs. I recently asked her about how she got started. She told me: Long time ago, I took a tour read more
San Francisco Needlepoint
Nuts about Needlepoint | October 16th 2009 by Janet Perry
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 read more
School Needlepoint Finished
Nuts about Needlepoint | October 14th 2009 by Janet Perry
I recently finished my ornament from School Needlepoint of the main building from my DH’s (and my) alma mater, St. John’s College. I made some changes from the original ornament. I made the sky a lighter and more muted blue. I also left o read more
Stash Destashing
Nuts about Needlepoint | October 7th 2009 by Janet Perry
Last week I had a chance at long last to visit NCPat’s delightful new blog, Stash Destashing. It’s such a great idea and wonderful resource that I wanted to learn more about it and share it with all of you. Here’s an interview with Pat, so we c read more
New Needlepoint Projects – October 2009
Nuts about Needlepoint | October 6th 2009 by Janet Perry
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 read more
Don’t Forget my Customized Stitch Guide Service
Nuts about Needlepoint | October 3rd 2009 by Janet Perry
Do you have a canvas that confuses you, that you don’t know how to stitch? Or is it just an area that keeps you from finishing that piece you love? Helping you find the perfect stitch and thread for your canvas is both my passion and my special read more
Black Cats & Needlepoint
Nuts about Needlepoint | October 3rd 2009 by Janet Perry
Its no secret that I like black cats. I’ve owned three of them (that’s Dot in the picture above), and I have many black cat canvases stitched and unstitched. The nice thing about black cats and needlepoint is that since they are associate read more
Needlepoint Start on Halloween
Nuts about Needlepoint | October 2nd 2009 by Janet Perry
Last weekend at the St Charles Needlework Market, my friend Leigh introduced four witchy designs. Go take a look at the fives of them on her site. I think they are very cool because they have all the lovely shading and painting that make Leigh’ read more
Long & Short Stitch Sampler Update
Nuts about Needlepoint | September 29th 2009 by Janet Perry
The two most recent tutorials in Mary Corbet’s outstanding tutorial cover two kinds of items that often stump stitchers — flowers and leave which have turned tips. I probably get more questions about how to stitch flowers than any other t read more
Hawaiian Quilts in Needlepoint
Nuts about Needlepoint | August 30th 2009 by Janet Perry
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 read more
New Needlepoint Products – August 2009
Nuts about Needlepoint | August 28th 2009 by Janet Perry
I’ve come across some delightful new needlepoint products for you to look for at your local shop. Here’s a round-up of some of them. Painted Canvas CBK Needlepoint Collections has added a new artist, Designs by Karen. These designs featu read more
Lani Enterprises – Web Site Review
Nuts about Needlepoint | August 16th 2009 by Janet Perry
At TNNA, I can never wait to see what delights await at the Lani Enterprises booth. One year it was this amazing series of realistic, but so stitchable, train cars. Another year it was lovely pieces inspired by the paintings of Miro. Their inventive read more
Stitching Mary & Jesus in Needlepoint
Nuts about Needlepoint | August 14th 2009 by Janet Perry
Awhile ago a friend asked me about religious cross stitch. This got me thinking about religious needlepoint, more specifically the timeless image of Mary and Jesus, the Madonna and Child. So I went on an internet search for needlepoint Madonnas and read more
School Needlepoint
Nuts about Needlepoint | August 4th 2009 by Janet Perry
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 read more
Charley Harper Needlepoint
Nuts about Needlepoint | July 25th 2009 by Janet Perry
If you like the picture above, then you like Charley Harper. He’s the iconic artist who drew the picture and his work is wonderfully adaptable to needlepoint. This is a section of the cover he draw for The Golden Book of Biology, a book I got w read more
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