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canary sapphire heart needlepoint stitch sampler, designed by Janet Perry

just one of five new samplers in my new ebook

This cheerful yellow sapphire heart is the canary sapphire sampler from my new st itch sampler ebook, premiering today. The sapphires has over 80 stitches to mix and match to make unique needlepoint hearts.

Collected and newly charted, you’ll find stitches from older designers such as Genny Morrow and Chottie Anderson as well as ones designed by today’s top teachers such as Brenda Hart and Tony Minieri. The hearts are a perfect little canvas for you to try out color schemes, threads, and stitches. This book helps you every step of the way.

You’ll learn about threads, find three ways to create a color scheme for your heart and will be able to discover any stitch used in any of the samplers and get it’s chart easily. I designed it in a two column format with a minimum of text so that it is compact and easy to use. It’s a great reference for any stitcher.

The book, with color pictures of all five hearts is available now as a ebook in PDF format. Click the button to buy it via PayPal. If you want the book, but prefer not to use PayPal, please email me.

As a special introductory offer you can get both The Sapphires and Heart Sampler at a for just $1 more. Click the button below to purchase

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needlepoint mini patchwork star on black and white zweigart canvas, designed by janet perry

black & white canvas in action

As I stitched this little quilt block on Zweigart’s black and white canvas one word kept coming to mind — hard.

This canvas is tweeded. One direction has black threads, the other white. While the individual threads are the same as mono canvas, the woven effect is not and therein lies the problem. As you an see from the picture the white threads are more prominent.

While that is not a bad thing for the finished effect it makes stitching and counting extremely difficult. I felt as if the holes in the canvas “melted” into the white threads. And, although I counted threads and the stitches are correct, much of the time I felt as if my stitches were not true.

Add to this the problem that you can’t put a dark cloth or a light cloth under it to see and you have a canvas not for the faint of heart.

Even so, the finished effect is wonderful, so I would seek out painted canvases thaat use it as the background.

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