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Orna has added the instructions for the second My Family block to her blog.

You can read all about it here.

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Free Project from Orna Willis

Digital Scrapbooking – Turning Your Photos Into Stories

If you find that you are starting to get a large selection of photos that you need to do something with, you may want to consider taking up digital scrapbooking. There are several websites that can offer you some help with creating and laying out your designs with several free templates.

Finishing Up at TNNA

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Some bits & bobs to end our coverage of the Summer Needlework Market and entice you to add to your stash.

Treglown Designs has introduced four new Charley Harper canvases. Some of them.

There are a couple of new designers out. Colors of Praise is designed by Marie Barber and has a wide variety of canvases, including two series of alphabets with decorative backgrounds. Kelly Clark is distributing canvases based on the artwork of Dan DiPaolo who has a delightfully whimsical style.

I’ve written about Leigh’s Fash-inserts and Leigh has teamed up with Colonial Needle to sell the bag/insert combination. Some of the canvases will only be available through Colonial Needle (Lee Needle Arts). Two of the ones available only from them are the butterflies and the lilies.

Leigh has all the new designs pictured on her site. I love them because they have all of Leigh’s wonderful detail and style, but they are small. They’d be great choices for a first Leigh canvas.

I wrote about the Staccato line earlier in the show, but what I didn’t tell you is that this series of designs is also available as coasters. Leigh’s coasters are big 6″ square, so they can also be framed with mats as pictures. Personally, I’d do this; they’re too lovely to put drinks on.

I also mentioned Maggie Co’s bar-themed canvases. In that same great Deco style, there are also some city scenes and coffee drink canvases. She also has some delightful mini buckets and a whole slew of great canvases adapted from the art of Rennie Britenbucher, that I just love. She also has great dressed up roosters, penguins and cats.

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Finishing Up at TNNA

Fun New Needlepoint Items!

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With the big needlepoint market in just a couple of weeks, there will be lots of new needlepoint items coming out. Here are just some of them (with more in Thursday’s post).

One of my favorite stitcher’s magnets had a thin ribbon connecting the two halves. Parking Lots (distributed by Bryson) do just that with stickers covering each half and a ribbon rose for decoration. I’m so glad someone is doing this.

Custom House has added two stitch books to their thread line (Gumnuts) and their delightful charted needlepoint. Quick Stitch Help and More Quick Stitch Help are small but have over 50 stitches and variations in each, all diagrammed and explained by Julie Sackett.

Anne Cram Designs has a glorious painted side table called Hampton Roses. The top is 17″ square and can hold a 14″square canvas. The sides and legs are beautifully painted.

The Elizabeth Turner Collection has some fun stocking toppers. The two I saw were either presents or ornaments in a contemporary style on black. They are a cool alternative to making a stocking. Sally Corey has a delightful welcome home needlepoint that can be personalized for any serving soldier.

Keep Your Pants On has 4″ round ornaments showing college sports logos on gold. There isn’t much college stuff out there so this is great. Lees Needle Arts has a whimsical series of animal canvases for kid’s rooms called BaZoopies. They include a lion, an elephant, and a zebra among others.

YLI has added a new color set to their line of Painter’s Threads, Kirchner, a dark blue. The also have Perle #12 added to this line.

Divine threads has added a new color, Autumn Splendor to their line of overdyed rayons. DMC has bought out a new sliding magnetic needle case with a decorated top.

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My Family – Free Designs from Orna Willis

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Several years ago Orna designed several pieces for Needlepoint Now. They were inspired by and named for members of her family.

She is now making them available as free PDFs. The first to be available is My Grandparents, pictured above.

You can also read her post about this design and about the series.

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My Family – Free Designs from Orna Willis

Easy Methods to Pep Up Your Scrapbook Pages

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Besides the designed backgrounds, flowered add-ons, buttons, stamps, and photographs that embellish your scrapbook pages, people usually get the desire to add a lot more zip to the designs plus more accessories to the patterns. And why don’t you? Your scrapbooks are the database of countless treasured memories, but are also canvases that we are able to demonstrate your imaginative and creative side. For that matter, most of us love scrapbooking simply because the activity enables us to experience the two.

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Easy Methods to Pep Up Your Scrapbook Pages

Sunday Needlepoint Eye Candy

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Originally posted 2009-07-26 07:08:20. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

The Needlepoint Group has posted pictures of new canvases in their needlepoint market gallery. These are canvases from last month’s market.

There’s lots of fun stuff here to see and roll over.

Perfect when you want to take a brake from stitching.

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Sunday Needlepoint Eye Candy

African Animals Link Corrected

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The proper link for the African Animals Sampler is: http://dmc-threads.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/AfricanAlphabet.pdf. The wrong thing got poasted

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African Animals Link Corrected

Scrapbook Templates That Suit Every Kind of Personality

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When you search the world wide web today, you would find a lot of resources made available for scrapbookers and this definitely includes the various scrapbook templates. You may be surprised and excited all at the same time to know that there are sites which even categorized the designs by the type of personality a scrapbooker has.

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Scrapbook Templates That Suit Every Kind of Personality

Delightful Free Chart

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Jan Fitzgerald of Thread Medley continues her exploration and adaptation of ethnic textiles. Currently she is working on adapting a piece from the Anatolia region of Turkey. Her adaptation of this motif is, unhappily, too large to fit in the project she is creating.

But her loss is our gain as she has made this delightful little design available as a free chart on her blog.

I have some canvas I am trying out and so I’m using this design, along with threads in my stash to make several small ornaments. Look for some of the results next week.

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