There are several forms of old-fashioned stitching machines available during this modern time. These machines are especially created to help people accomplish their task with a very short span of time. Although the advancement of technology has made several changes in the manufacturing of sewing instruments, old stitching machines are still in demand during this modern time.
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What is a scrapbook? A scrapbook is actually like a photo album, the only difference is that scrapbooking is a journal of your photos that contains different designs and have lots of captions. Scrapbooking is one of the trendiest craft of the modern day. Communities are using scrapbooking as a hobby, others are using it for their businesses and source of living.
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Share Your Memories With the World
pattern from 2010 Bargello Challenge
Bargello Needlepoint has just undergone a major redesign to make it easier to find patterns and to learn about both Bargello & needlepoint. It’s a great site and you should spend plenty of time there.
This year Althea, the site’s owner, has been trying to stitch a new Bargello pattern everyday in the 2010 Bargello Challenge. With half the year gone, she has an impressive array of patterns stitched. These she has classified in useful pages, like the Bargello Diamond Designs that give a brief descrption of this type of design and then show all of the designs in this category in clickable thumbnails. Click on one and you’ll find a page with a bigger picture, information about the source and some other information about the design.
Besides this amazing resource and record of her project, there is also a store with her ebook of ornaments, links to buy printed books, fun merchandise, and several free downloads.
Two other areas of reference information classified by subject provide a comprehensive index to her blog material. They are Bargello Boot Camp and Needlepoint How-to. Both are great places for exploration.
This is one of the cleanest designed and useful needlepoint sites I’ve seen in a very long time.
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Redesigned & Updated Bargello Site
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! Zweigart has just come out with canvas in 35 over-dyed colors. This deluxe mono canvas is available in 10-12-13-14-16 and 18 mesh. Some of the colors include fuchsia, orange, light and dark olive, pink, lilac, violet, and several blues. It looks to be about 50% more than regular canvas.
I’ll be getting some to try and will tell you about it.
Painted Canvas
Several lines of hand painted canvas needlepoint have come out with great new designs.
One of my favorites, Dream House Ventures, has added to their vintage trade blanket series. The Pueblo blanket is mainly gray, red, white, and black. The Navajo Blanket is a geometric in bright colors and will fit into Sirling’s big tote. From Gail Hendrix also available from Dream House, is a wonderful complex paisley on 13 mesh. I’m itching to stitch that one right now. If you are looking for a smaller project, they have a series of chocolate “kisses,” one for every holiday.
My friend Leigh just keeps on coming up with stunners. In her Starlets line of eight designs, she has Rita, a redhead with a peacock feather in her hat. In the Fripperies collection, she has a vase in blue and white with two striking koi. It’s called Kutani. She also reminds us about her Dynasty series of rounds. There are 56 of them, arranged in collections and make wonderful coasters or ornaments.
Trubey Designs has a wonderful tree made up of ornaments on 18 mesh. There is also a new series of 12 new Christmas ornaments.
MAP Designs has two adorable (and not cutesy) birth samplers. One with a penguin and one with a chimp. Deux Amis Needlepoint has a set of six oval ornaments, showing the nativity in contemporary stained glass style.
Charts
From Nancy’s Needle has a set of two gingerbread houses in her small monthly quilts series. The chartpack includes buttons for embellishment. Laura Perin has a new entry in her floral collage series, a Magnolia. The piece is in greens, golds, and white.
If you like Blackwork, you’ll love the modern look of Stitchin’spiration’s Year of Blackwork series. This seasonal sampler is amazing on black linen and is stitched with silk thread.
Accessories & Finishing
Daylight has an interesting floor stand out. It’s metal and has a swivel top. It looks considerably lighter than other metal stands and the legs fold up for easy storage. There is a new LED light out from Reliable Corporation of Canada. Called the UberLight LED it has 28 LED’s and a honeycomb lens. It has a flexible shaft and comes in both table and clamp versions.
If you’ve been missing those stands for displaying your needlepoint kimono, search no more. These stands, based on traditional Japanese displays, come in two sizes and are available from a new company, Deborah Nader of RNE.
If you haven’t found at least one thing you want in these last two posts, you aren’t paying attention.
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More New Products in Needlepoint – Late November 2009
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 square Tent Stitched pieces that were stitched and either finished as “paperweights” or assembled into larger pieces. The Washington Post, in his obituary, described the work he had in his apartment as “abstract works, usually in riotous colors; floral designs; and needlepoint that resembles poster art.” He had a clear acrylic box with 25 of the 3×3 paperweights displayed. This was shown at Woodlawn one year.
These small squares weren’t drawn out but stitched on plain canvas. The geometric and abstract floral designs often have small color changes that add life to the designs. Threads and colors were picked from his stash. He gave many of them away.
Mr. Dockstader said of his needlepoint “My interest in needlepoint is an extension of my interest in other artistic techniques, principally watercolor and oil painting,” he once explained. “I begin with a canvas, the smaller the count the better. Designs are spontaneous with no advance drafting. I prefer abstract and impressionistic designs. I am never sure what a piece will look like when finished.”
Maggie Smocks was able to buy five of the paperweights at an estate sale and has a blog post about them with wonderful pictures.
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Amazing Needlepointer – Raymond Dockstader
