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The San Bernadino Chapter of ANG is huge, welcoming members from both near (east of LA) and far. Several of my friends belong to this chapter as long-distance members. The chapter is wonderful at having many exiting projects and at making it is easy for members who aren’t close to participate.

They have recently put up a wonderful slide show of work from their members. You can view it on their site or on Picusa if you are a member there.

It’s full of wonderful stuff.

If you’ve never viewed this kind of slide show before, you may be wondering how to see more pictures. Under each picture there is a hidden navigation bar that pops up when you slide your cursor over it. If you don’t see it, slide your cursor down the picture.

For each lovely piece, you’ll see the stitched needlepoint and the names of both the stitcher and the designer.

Thanks and a big tip of the hat to Jane in Chilly Hollow, who let me know about this. And congrats to her for having a piece in the gallery!

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Needlepoint Eye Candy from ANG Chapter

Marble Waves – New Colors & Kit

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Originally posted 2008-09-17 06:47:06. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Su has a second post on Marble Waves up. It’s in a lovely soft colorway of green and eggplant. It also has a tiered border which sets off the piece nicely. This combination of colors will soon be available as kits from Su.

I was working on doing my own Marble Waves, but gave it up last night in total frustration. I don’t read charts very well (an eye problem makes it hard to count), I’m in a state of total exhaustion from getting the house ready (it went on the market yesterday, you can see it here) an I had had an immensely frustrating day, pretty much from start to finish. So when my corners wouldn’t match and I realized it was going to be a parallelogram instead of a square, I gave up.

But I love it so much I’m going to stitch it again and do it right this time.

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Marble Waves – New Colors & Kit

How to Make a Bargello Luggage Rack

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

in Nuts About Needlepoint

Luggage straps are an excellent idea for Bargello, and you may find patterns for them in older books.

But it’s also easy to adapt an existing pattern to making luggage straps.

Probably the best way to do this is to find your pattern first. The best luggage straps I’ve seen use ribbon style Bargello lines. These pretty much go only in one direction or fall in two directions from a center point. They don’t have the ups and downs typical of many Bargello lines. Here are some stitched examples of Bargello lines:
http://bargelloneedlepoint.com/day-162-gorgeous-diagonal-bargello-line-design/
http://bargelloneedlepoint.com/day-171-stair-step-bargello-needlepoint-design/
http://bargelloneedlepoint.com/day-240-long-diagonal-curve-bargello-needlepoint-design/

I also have a couple of line patterns in my book, Bargello Revisited which is available through Amazon or directly from me.

Once you’ve found some patterns you like, the next step is to figure out how wide you want the straps to be. That, of course is going to depend on the luggage rack and how many straps you want (usually it’s three). Once you know the width and the mesh you want to use, you can figure out how many mesh the straps will need to be. You’ll also be able to figure out the length, which should be long enough to have the areas that show when the straps are wrapped around covered in stitching.

With his knowledge you should be able to center your pattern and stitch the straps.

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How to Make a Bargello Luggage Rack

Decorate with Needlepoint in Unexpected Ways

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

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Today I’m spending the day decorating our main tree with my daughter (she got home last night and asked that we wait). The stockings are hung, the garlands and mini-socks are up, the small trees are up, and a box of ornaments has been sent to my youngest who is spending Christmas at her home Back East.

The picture here is last year’s tree but if you are like me, you have more ornaments than tree, so you need to look for other places to put them.

Here’s some ideas:

Do you have a collection of needlepoint that are stand-ups? Use a shelf, the top of a low bookshelf, or the top of a cabinet to display them. My small collection of needlepoint Christmas trees joins some bottle brush trees on our bar this year.

Do you have a pretty bowl or metal bucket? Nestle some needlepoint among pine cones or matching plain glass balls.

Any hook, drawer pull or door knob can hold an ornament. Make it even more special by grouping other seasonal items with it.

Another great idea is to use ornaments in place of (or in addition to) regular gift tags. it’s hard to see against this gaudy paper, but the dark violet ornament is the tag. The ribbon matches the ornament.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Charming Ornament or Picture from Northern Pine

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Linda Lachance’s designs from Northern Pine are a delightful blend of Bargello and canvas stitches that are unique in charted canvas.

I also love the way she uses colored canvas as an asset in her pieces.

In the current issue of The Caron Collection’s on-line magazine, find directions for the delightful little piece pictured above. It has many of the characteristic elements of Linda’s designs: Hilton stitches, colored canvas, and clever use of Bargello.

You can also read their profile of Linda. If you want to see more Northern Pine Designs, including another free project, visit their site.

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Charming Ornament or Picture from Northern Pine

Happy Holidays from Kreinik

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Kreinik has added new free projects for the holidays to their website.

There are eight days of Hanukkah projects, with four needlepoint porjects currently, and four CRoss Stitch projects coming next week.

Throughout the month, they will be adding 25 free Christmas projects using a variety of techniques and Kreinik products. The link takes you to a calender that has thumbnails of them all.

Tomorrow a new free ornament pattern by me, I’m charting it today.

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Happy Holidays from Kreinik

Moonlight & Gold Bargello Jewel Box

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Originally posted 2008-02-13 06:51:47. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

I just finished this project for the Bargello book. It’s going to be the top of a cobalt blue Silk Dupionni jewel box from Needlepoint of Back Bay.

It’s a variation of one of my favorite techniques, single color Bargello. These are easy to do, you just use threads of varying textures in the same color. The end results are very subtle, but wonderful.The change in this one was to add accents in the bright gold. I thought that would look nicer with the cobalt of the box.

It is also, as you can see, a very small pattern. The stitches in it go over two threads instead of the usual four and the step is one thread instead of the usual two.You can do this with any Bargello pattern which has stitches the same length. Make them smaller for a pattern which is the same width (number of stitches across) but half the height (up and down). It will look so delicate.

If you want a bolder, elongated pattern, try doubling the length of the stitches and the step. Or even changing them to a six thread length with a three thread step.

Isn’t Bargello so fun? With one stitch and a simple pattern, you can get so many different looks.

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Moonlight & Gold Bargello Jewel Box

Needlepoint Eye Candy Bonanza

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Daphne Goodyear is both an amazing and prolific needlepointer. Far better than lazy and cheap people like me who have most of our stitching sitting in boxes waiting to be finished.

I just spent a long time on her wonderful site, Needle Artistry exploring her work, reading her story, and admiring the work of other stitchers there.

I easily could have spent the whole day lost in looking at her lovely work. It’s like a needlepoint only museum.

The site is, by far, the best organized showcase for needlepoint I’ve ever seen. I’m not going to give away anything by showing you her work, just trust me and go. It will fire up your needlepoint, I know it did for me.

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Needlepoint Eye Candy Bonanza

DIY Needlepoint – Adler-inspired Bargello

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in accessories,Nuts About Needlepoint

When I saw these charming Jonathon-Adler needlepointed flask in the December Allure, I know I had to use it as the basis of Bargello. Not only do I love the colors and it’s masculine feel, but I can’t afford the $98 price tag.

So bargello it is, and I’ve put the pattern below (click picture for full-size chart).

On to the colors. Depending on how you’ll be finishing it, go for a single type of thread in these colors: grey, brown, navy, light blue, white, aqua, olive, and yellow. If you like the rose one better, get rid of grey, aqua, and olive, and add taupe, light pink, pink, hot pink, and red. Follow the sequence of colors in the original.

I’m planning mine from wool and putting it into my new Lee’s tote. And, of course, I’m using the pink version using threads from my stash including High Cotton, Vineyard Merino, and three kinds of Ty-Di threads. All of these should wear well. I’m stitching it up right now and it will go into my Lee Needle Arts tote that has a removable area for needlepoint.

If you are looking for more Bargello (and Bargello-ish) inspiration, check out this post on Style Beat (the flask picture came from there).

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DIY Needlepoint – Adler-inspired Bargello

My Life in Bargello — Virtual Book Tour Stop

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in Books,Nuts About Needlepoint

Originally posted 2008-06-06 07:23:03. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Pierrette has put up the article for my visit to her blog, Love to Stitch. It’s about My Life in Bargello.

It has pictures of some of my earlier Bargello pieces and includes my newest piece, the Swag mini-sock along with a free pattern for it.

Pierrette did a fantastic job on the article in terrible heat and I really want to thank her for it. I meant to have this post up last night, but my server wasn’t cooperating, so I watched BSG on on-demand instead.

Next stop on Tuesday. Have a great weekend!

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My Life in Bargello — Virtual Book Tour Stop

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