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This weekend I’m going to celebrate new products. There’s tons of great new stuff out there and I want to let you know about it all. Today I’ll do hand-painted canvas news, tomorrow charted canvas, and Sunday threads and everything else.

Ashley Dillon has a delightful new canvas, Christmas March, that shows Santa with a dog sled and snowman. It’s adorable and is distributed by Susan Roberts. Jean Smith has two amazing parrot tulips, one white and magenta and one yellow and red. Her simple but bold style really highlights the blossoms. Jean also has a Brown-eyed Susan Rug simply packed with flowers.

Eye Candy has two wonderful banners, spelling out “Christmas” or “Halloween” in her signature bright colors. Voila has six new holiday themed Fab Fob kits.

Melissa Prince has a lovely new canvas, Floral Whimsy, that comes on 13 mesh. The bright folk-art style flowers give you plenty of space to show off threads and stitches. Ruth Schmuff has a new series of three canvases, Flirty Girls.

There are also some delightful series of kits out from Wichelt & Kreinik you can make in time to give as gifts. High Heeled Holiday is from Wichelt and has four Debbie Mumm Designs on perforated paper. Kreinik has two series, Stitch a Pen has 4 holiday designs you wrap around a ballpoint pen that uses standard refills, Starlight Oranament features six different designed by Kathy Holicky. These ornaments include instructions for at home finishing.

Speaking of kits, Glorafilia has two new ones, a pillow of Morris-style Acanthis leaves and a lovely Arts & Crafts Floral on red. River Silks has a stunning ne entry in their Kits to Go series, Waterlily. It’s glorious with great stitches, including loops, and lots of texture.

Beginning November 1, 2011 Gail Hendrix’ two needlepoint lines, Squigee Designs and GCH Designs will be distributed by CBK Needlepoint Collections. They join the other great artists in this wide-ranging collection.

Anne Cram Designs now has a website at http://www.annecramdesigns.com.

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New Needlepoint Products – Hand-painted Canvas & Kits

Make Needlepoint Beads with Orna in her New Cyberclass

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

in Jewelry,Nuts About Needlepoint

dolci orna willis needlepoint bead cyberclass

Dolci is the name of Orna’s new cyberclass. Dolci also means “sweet” in Italian. As you can see from the picture, the needlepoint beads you make in this 10 week class are as sweet as their name.

Here’s what Orna has to say about it:

Join us for Dolci: a foray into the tiny, the delicate, the delectable! This 10 week class will guide you through the all of the steps needed to create these beautiful bead designs by Orna Willis. Learn how to stitch and assemble the first 8 beads in the new series from Adorn. Beginning with the needle, Orna will walk you through complicated combination stitches on congress cloth and show you tricks and tips for getting your technique perfect. Following the stitching segment she will continue with myriad ways to finish your beads, including wire wrapping techniques, how to use jewelry findings, and ideas on how to use your beads. At the end of class a PDF will be available for purchase with complete step-by-step instructions to create earrings or a necklace out of these tiny charmers.

There are four options for participation:

class only
class + metal kit (jewelry supplies, no thread)
class + thread kit (threads, no jewelry supplies
class + thread + metals (everything)

Registration for the class closes November 15, 2011.

Vintage Halloween from Squiggee

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in Halloween,Nuts About Needlepoint

I’m not much of a Halloween person but I just love the vintage Halloween decoration from the 20′s and 30′s. Gail Hendrix of Squiggee Designs has just introduced a flock of them (one of them is pictured here) to her wholesale line.

Pop over to her recent blog post to see pictures of several of them.

I could seriously get into this.

White in Metallics

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Lee Needle Arts needlepoint kimono using City Needlework Silk stitched by needlepoint expert Janet M. Perry

It used to be that if you wanted white in Kreinik metallics you used 032. That color, while white, has lots of translucent threads in it, so it tends to be rather sparkly and has flecks of other colors.

A better, more clear white is 100 or, even better, 100HL. 100 is more sparkly than 100HL which has served me well as a flat white until now.

Earlier this year Kreinik introduced 5760. It is even whiter than 100. It still has some metallic flash, but is a very pure white.

In the kimono pictured here 5760 is used for all the white except for half the stitches in the flower center. The remaining stitches there use 032. The difference is subtle, but there. 5760 is a very bright white with a solid look. It attracts attention. 032 is more subtle and more translucent, probably because it picks up some of the surrounding color.

Nimble Needle in a recent post shows you 032 and 5760 side-by-side so you can see the difference in whites.

If you have been looking for the perfect thread for snow, here it is.

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White in Metallics

New Products – Late August 2011

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A potpourri of new products for you today.

The Caron Collection has come out with several additions to their Wildflowers: Easter Egg, Wasabe, Summer Blond, Mint, and Blonde. Wildflowers is a fine matte cotton, similar in weight to Danish Flower Thread. They have also added colors to Watercolours and Waterlilies. And they have also added six new shades of snow: Pistachio, Dark Gold, Brass,Violet, Deep Sea, and Shadow. There are now 28 colors in this thread.

Crescent Colours has six new colors of floss out: Eggshell, Wilderness, Honeycomb, Brown Hen, Pebble Beach, and Polliwog.

Handblessings has added Americana to their counted canvas Ort Box collection.The project pack includes the papier mache box so you can finish it yourself. Voila has a new style of belt finishing, grommet belts. They use a buckle, tip and keeper in metal for a clean, less traditional but still elegant finish. Both the hardware & the finishing is available from them.

Mill Hill has the three Wise Men available in kits stitched on perforated paper. Nel Whatmore, a British designer has a kit of a blossom (it looks like a magnolia) on a fuchsia background. In style the blossom is similar to Elizabeth Bradley, but the colors make it very modern.

The Point of It All Designs has a cool painted canvas of a Patron tequila bottle, complete with stopper. Jane Nichols has a new series, Accesoreez available on 13 or 18 mesh. They portray one type of accessory (such as ties, belts, or necklaces) in great graphic combinations. The Artists Collection has added some painted canvases for stitcher’s accessories, including frame weights, scissors cases, and laying tool cases.

If you want to do some politically inclined needlepoint for the upcoming election year, CanvasWorks has a patriotic donkey or elephant for you.

Val’s Stuff has this totally cool painted wooden base to hold a small tree branch (provided and painted by you) to make a spooky tree to hold Halloween ornaments. It includes what looks like a whole stitch cross stitch chart and retails under $30. Sudberry HOuse has a lovely new jewelry box that has parquet around the top. It would really set off a lovely piece of stitching.

Sullivan’s (a maker of embroidery floss and other threads) has added needles to their line, including tapestry and chenille needles.

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New Products – Late August 2011

Spiff up Your iPhone

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in accessories,Nuts About Needlepoint

DIY iPhone cover

Isn’t this too cute?

Leesedesign is making a DIY iPhone cover. It fits the iPhone 4G and has holes drilled in it so you can stitch a cover. It’s being sold through a company in Korea.

The kit comes with the cover, three shades of floss, and some charts. The cover is woven, like mono canvas, but is, I think, vinyl. It comes in six colors (white, black, pink, orange, lime, and blue). There is a great description with tons of photos on-line. You’ll see the colors about halfway down and below that are nine charts you can use to stitch it. The size of the cover is 36�69.

It’s so adorable, I ordered it immediately and then realized I have an iPod Touch 4G, not an iPhone. I hope it will fit anyway.

The cost is $18 with $4 for shipping to the US and you can order it on the product description page.

Thanks and a tip of the hat to Denise from Craft Gossip.

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New My Family Design from Orna Willis

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Orna has been providing new designs from her My Family series that ran in Needlepoint Now several years ago. She has added this design to the collection available online.

It’s named for her husband Reid. You’ll love reading her blog post about how they met . And you’ll love stitching this vibrant piece.

She also has a materials pack available.

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New My Family Design from Orna Willis

DMC Announces a New Kind of Waste Canvas

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When you want to stitch any form of counted needlework (needlepoint or cross stitch) on fabric, you use waste canvas.

Made like mono canvas, you baste on the waste canvas with wide margins and use an embroidery hoop to keep the fabric taut.

It’s lots of fun to do and gives great results. The not fun part happens when you need to remove the waste canvas. Until now, you did that thread by thread, pulling out each thread.

It’s lots of work.

Earlier this month DMC introduced an innovative product — water soluble waste canvas. To remove it, take out your basting and soak it in a bowl of hot, soapy water for 10-15 minutes.

For needlepoint, you will have to be sure to use threads that are washable in hot water. This limits what you can use. But it’s a terrific idea.

It comes only in 14 count and is sold by the 8 x 8.5 inch piece.

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DMC Announces a New Kind of Waste Canvas

New Self-finishing from Lee Needle Arts

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in accessories,Nuts About Needlepoint

Colonial Needle has released four new products in their line of Lee Needle Arts self-finishing items.

They include an iPad Cover in black or red. It has a large area for needlework and uses the same elastic corners their ebook reader uses (my reviews of this product is tomorrow).

It comes in black and red.

Next is the same additional insert for their bags. It looks as if it’s the one used for Leigh’s popular Fash-Inserts.

There is a great alligator belt in white, red and black that uses the popular 3″ round/

Possibly my favorite is the two-insert nylon tote. It’s navy, a great color, and not only does it have places for two pieces of needlepoint, it opens wider than their other totes. It comes with two inserts so that you can change the look. It comes in black, brown, red & navy. One is on it’s way to me.

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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

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