Martha Stewart, Queen of all Crafts, blows us away daily and today is no exception. She had the one and only Joan Rivers on The Martha Stewart Show today and the two ladies were made these lovely gold ribbon hearts with arrows. They are so sweet to give someone special for Valentine's Day or to hang in a little girl's room.
Dana of made shares how she made a sweet heart doily print t-shirt for her daughter for Valentine's Day. You could use the same method to create a heart doily applique for a Valentine tote bag for all the class cards that come home, too!
I am always so happy at TNNA to go to Kathy Schenkel’s and Melissa Shirley’s booths. They are always full to bursting with great new ideas and canvases I just drool over.
I love Kathy’s bone-shaped ornaments for dogs and this year she has a delightful new set. These are “Things Dogs Do,” all done in a clever, easy-to-stitch style.
She also has mini-socks and ornament rounds for a number of different colleges and universities that aren’t just the usual logo style, often they have iconic buildings or other symbols of the campus.
She also has new dog and people tote bags and new North Woods designs. There are two new Christmas series, a nativity and a stars of Christmas, people associated with Christmas in stars.
A very clever idea is her animal alphabet, available both as a panel and as individual letters. The animals are creatively posed in and around the letters. An unusual ornament series would be to do a name or initials this way.
As always Melissa Shirley has tons of new stuff, so I’ll only hit the highlights.
If you like her pears, but have been wishing for designs that were less geometric, you’ll love her new series that has a different fruit in each pear. With gold backgrounds and fruits and blossoms vining up each shape, they are both elegant and timeless. There are 10 in the series.
She has expanded the selection of her popular crackers with a Thanksgiving series, a new Halloween series that features some of her vintage Halloween characters, pink or gold Christmas crackers, and a set of Christmas toy crackers. There is also a new series of candy canes, mostly stripes, in a modern palette of red, white, green, and light green.
Her newest series is 3-D needlepoint cupcakes. Each design is in two parts, a top and the sides. There are designs for Christmas and Valentine’s.
If you have been collecting Christmas canvases in particular colors, there are conical CHristmas trees in fabric-like patterns in both green and gold. Her acorns have been very popular and a set of Christmas acorns has been added. Her banners have been expanded with a series of pumpkins for Halloween.
There is lots of new stuff from her licensed designers. My favorite of these was Debbie Mumm’s “Trick or Treaters,” a haunted house background with twelve Halloween figures. Three of these are animals,a cat, a raccoon, and some mice, dressed up for Halloween.
There are lots more new canvases including some great seashore and insect pillow designs, and lots of new Christmas stockings. THere’s plenty to love and stitch here.
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New Canvases from Kathy Schenkel and Melissa Shirley
Thank someone special for being a friend with Golden Girls valentines. These are fantastic! Found via Pinterest on Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century. You can print and cut them out and give them to your suitor. Do you have as many as Blanche would?
The Etsy store for A Dragon’s Tale opened earlier this week. In it you’ll find canvases classified by subject.
Next to the list of subjects you’ll find the number of items available. Click on the subject and you’ll get a list with thumbnails, names, and prices. Click on any of the to get an item detail screen with bigger pictures and a longer description.
In order to buy from Etsy you need to register (it’s free) and you can checkout with PayPal.
A DRagon’s Tale joins Jody Valentine (Jody Direct), Orna Willis, Dakota Rogers, Vera (Needlepoint by Vera), Mandy’s Needlepoint (belt canvases), Lucinda Gregory Rice, Canvas & Ceramic Colors, and others.
While Etsy can be frustrating to search, seek out these wonderful designers to find some great needlepoint!
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Etsy Store for A Dragon’s Tale Now Open
Last week Jody Valentine had a wonderful post, just full of great color resources.
These include a site with color wheels, a couple of sites to explore color palettes and color schemes, a site with seamless patterns, and an on-line color museum.
One note, the link for patternwall.com on the post didn’t work for me. Use patternwall.com instead.
Go check it out on her blog post!
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Color Resources, thanks to Jody
Jody Valentine has given us a bright and colorful present to stitch in time for St. Patrick’s Day. Her charming St. Patrick’s Day heart ornament is available as a free downloadable chart from her blog.
On it there are shamrocks in two sizes, green backgrounds, and a rainbow. It’s simply delightful.
The design is also available as a hand-painted canvas.
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Muffin cups are an inexpensive item that every classroom should utilize. The cups can be used to serve snacks and are the perfect size for little hands. Before serving snacks, place several muffin cups on the table. Fill each cup with one serving of the snack item. Serve one cup per child. Muffin cups can be used to make a beautiful flower arrangement and are great for the kids to take home on Valentine’s or Mother’s day. They can also be used to turn old broken crayons into new ones.
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Muffin Cups: Crafts and More!
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It’s thie charming heart pattern.
I’ve been in a real pink, red, and white Valentine’s Day mood lately (it could be a reaction to looking at all those white walls). So I’m thinking that I’ll be stitching this tomorrow.
To get your copy go to the Free Patterns section on her website.
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Free Heart Needlepoint from Laura Perin
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But I also bought an adorable set of stickers recently which had 42 hearts, each different, in bright, cheery colors. The patterns were simple geometrics, with stripes, squiggles, polka dots, and squares.
But they just looked happy and I couldn’t resist them.
They have also inspired this month’s Twinchy challenge. Just trace a heart outline (I’ll be giving you four) into the 2″ square, find colors and patterns which make you happy and stitch away.
The heart pictured above uses one of the very first Watercolours, Sunset. Sunset then had undyed parts, sunset now does not. I love this set of colors as I like the way the undyed thread tempers the intense, somewhat clashing colors.
The zigzag pattern is modified from a Kaffe Fassett knitting pattern and made smaller. Then one stripe is done in the Watercolours and the others in solid threads in colors taken from this Watercolour. I used orange Kreinik from the gourmet collection a pink velour thread and blue-violet Elegance. The background uses Dinky-Dyes in a more intense version of the red-violet in the overdye.
One note of caution, if you are going to pick a color similar to the overdye for the background, be sure to pick one which does not appear on the edges of the foreground. My first two ideas for backgrounds, cream and dark green were discarded because of this. Against one of these colors parts of the heart will “melt” into the background.
I’m also doing as a sampler. It has eight hearts and each will be different. I’m hoping to have the whole thing done and in the Twinchy Gallery at the end of the month.
Tuesday I’ll post all four outlines and give you some details about the Twinchy Hearts Sampler on Tuesday.
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February Twinchy Challenge — Happy Hearts
