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Beginning Kits for Miniature Embroidery – Janet Granger
Nuts about Needlepoint | December 11th 2009 by Janet Perry
One of your needlepoint resolutions is to learn 1/12 scale needlepoint. Or maybe you are a dollhouse or miniature lover and you’ve seen exquisite needlepoint and you think “I can do that!” Janet Granger of the UK is the designer to read more
Make your own Needlepoint Nativity
Nuts about Needlepoint | December 9th 2009 by Janet Perry
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 read more
Dimensions Needlepoint Bracelets – Product Review
Nuts about Needlepoint | December 5th 2009 by Janet Perry
Recently I made a bracelet from one of Dimensions Savvy Stitches kits. Although the stitching was incredibly easy, the finishing was not and I can only recommend them to people who feel comfortable with hand sewing. Unlike many kits, this project is read more
Colonial Brick House in Needlepoint – Part 1
Nuts about Needlepoint | December 2nd 2009 by Janet Perry
The first house is a brick house. This one has two stories, two chimneys, and a shallow roof. In addition to the threads in the last column, you will need dark gray Tapestry (#12) metallic for the windows and a black #5 perke cotton for the door. Th read more
F Factory
I Heart Miami | November 30th 2009 by Caroline
From Daily Candy:Factory WorkerF Factory Pop-Up Shop OpensThere’s nothing wrong with dropping the occasional F bomb.Especially in the case of F Factory, the multibrand pop-up shop opening today in the Design District.Inside the Moore Building, high read more
More New Products in Needlepoint – Late November 2009
Nuts about Needlepoint | November 30th 2009 by Janet Perry
Here’s the second half of the lovely new products just out for needlepoint. Remember that often manufacturer’s websites lag behind announcements, so the products I talk about may not be on the linked sites. Canvas Be still my heart! Zweig 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
Rittenhouse Needlepoint
A Planet Named Janet | November 24th 2009 by A Planet Named Janet
I had the chance to be in Philadelphia last week. While there I decided to check out Rittenhouse Needlepoint to see if they carried any Maggie Co handpainted needlepoint canvases and potentially some of my geishas.It was located right on the corner a read more
Sunburst Mosaic Ornament — Free Needlepoint Pattern
Nuts about Needlepoint | November 24th 2009 by Janet Perry
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 read more
Getting Ready to Give Needlepoint Gifts
Nuts about Needlepoint | November 23rd 2009 by Janet Perry
About a month before Christmas is not the best time to start thinking about making Christmas gifts. But, judging from my email, many of you are procrastinators, just like me. I went into my usual panic (even though I’m in remarkably good shape read more
Needlepoint Collage
Nuts about Needlepoint | November 22nd 2009 by Janet Perry
Most of the things on my needlepoint bucket list are really huge projects, I probably never will end up doing. But some are small enough I might actually achieve them someday. Right near the top of that list is learning how to do canvas collage. Thi read more
A Background Stitch Reference Book — Book Review
Nuts about Needlepoint | November 21st 2009 by Janet Perry
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, read more
Replacing the Old Needlepoint on a Footstool
Nuts about Needlepoint | November 20th 2009 by Janet Perry
I recently got asked about how to replace the covering on a footstool. It isn’t a hard process and this makes for some lovely needlepoint. Here’s how to do it: There are three steps to this process, neither particularly hard. The first s read more
Needlepoint Christmas Decorations
Happy Threads | November 18th 2009 by Charlie
Spring Garden 19 November 2009 Another beautiful but hot day beginning. My cat with his really long fur is so hot and the rabbit is not moving much. It’s going to be a scorcher of a summer without much rain in sight. One match and the lan read more
Rittenhouse Needlepoint
Pin Tangle | November 16th 2009 by Sharon
I have discovered a new blog for anyone interested in canvaswork. Rittenhouse Needlepoint regularly features instructions on how to work various canvas work stitches. The stitches are clearly described and photographed. Not only is there a read more
For the Love of Stitching Sampler - Band 153
Pin Tangle | November 14th 2009 by Sharon
This first band of stitching on section 11 is quite boring! My name is created using back stitch, which is then surrounded with cross stitch. On either side I worked a pattern of diagonal straight stitches in blocks. This stitch is read more
Give the Gift of Needlepoint
Nuts about Needlepoint | November 14th 2009 by Janet Perry
One of the nicest things you can do for someone is to share something you love, by teaching them. We love needlepoint, but all too often beginners are intimidated or the cost of classes (in time or money is too high). But still we want to share the read more
Tutorial — Fabric Frame Weights
Nuts about Needlepoint | November 13th 2009 by Janet Perry
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 read more
Great Background – Alternating Cashmere Pairs
Nuts about Needlepoint | November 12th 2009 by Janet Perry
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 read more
A Difficult Needlepoint Problem
Nuts about Needlepoint | November 10th 2009 by Janet Perry
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 read more
Whipped Backstitch Tutorial
Nuts about Needlepoint | November 9th 2009 by Janet Perry
Whipped Backstitch is one of my favorite stitches. It’s easy to do and it makes smooth rounded shapes. Not many stitches in needlepoint can do that. You can use it to outline round shapes (like the bubbles in Wicked, above). But where it real read more
Needlepoint Boxes
Nuts about Needlepoint | November 5th 2009 by Janet Perry
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 read more
Extraordinary vintage Patricia Smith Moon Bags
I Love All Purse | November 4th 2009 by kanjana
Patricia is a renowned artist. Patricia designed the artwork on the lacquered panels herself. Her business, Moon Bags Inc, Milwaukee, WI was in business from the late 1970's through 1997. All the lacquered flap Moon Bags have a Velcro strip so the pa read more
Great Source for Free Needlepoint Charts
Nuts about Needlepoint | November 2nd 2009 by Janet Perry
One of my regular blog stops is my friend Denise Felton’s Needlework News blog at Craft Gossip. I always find such cool things on her site, and not just needlepoint. One of the things Denise does best is her round-ups of free charts. She does read more
Amazing Needlepointer – Raymond Dockstader
Nuts about Needlepoint | October 31st 2009 by Janet Perry
He died in earlier this year, but Raymond Dockstader was a phenominal needlepointer whose work graced many needlework exhibits at Woodlawn Plantation in the DC area. I became more aware of his work through a recent blog post. His specialty was 3 inch read more
Beginner Needlepoint Project Book Out this Weekend!
Nuts about Needlepoint | October 28th 2009 by Janet Perry
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 read more
Vintage Needlepoint – Anne Orr Maple Leaf
Nuts about Needlepoint | October 26th 2009 by Janet Perry
This is a simple maple leaf from Anne Orr. Isn’t it great? It’s so simple that it could be a beginning project if you wanted to try counted needlepoint. I’m also thinking it would be great for other techniques using charts like bea read more
Gold Leafing on Canvas – Try a New Technique
Nuts about Needlepoint | October 23rd 2009 by Janet Perry
Thanks to ANG and Judy Souliotis for providing an article from the archives of their magazine. The article goes through how to do gold leafing on needlepoint canvas. I’ve used metallic markers and stencils to color canvas in the past, and ther read more
Delicious Cupcake
Happy Threads | October 20th 2009 by Charlie
Spring buds Wednesday 21 October 2009 In this beautiful part of the world we are experiencing all the wonders of a new spring. The spring buds are everywhere in my front garden as are the birds nesting. It is a great time of the year. Today’ read more
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