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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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Free Jody Designs Heart for St. Patrick’s Day

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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.

Muffin Cups: Crafts and More!

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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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Free Heart Needlepoint from Laura Perin

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Originally posted 2009-02-08 13:38:09. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

laura perin needlepoint pattern free of hearts for valentines days

Laura gave us a delightful Valentine’s Day treat on Friday (giving us time to stitch it).

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

February Twinchy Challenge — Happy Hearts

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Originally posted 2009-02-01 06:29:49. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

If you go into the stores these days, you are bombarded by Valentines. Every time I got shopping I’m glad I don’t have to find Valentines and candy for each of my kids for every person in each class. Talk about candy overload!

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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Think before You Stitch

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Originally posted 2009-02-16 06:01:54. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

I do have to admit that most of the time I don’t do this. I usually give little or no thought to how something will be finished when I start to stitch. This is not good.

You’ve followed the progress of my San Francisco heart I’ve been making for my daughter. When last I posted I decided to stitch a background making it square. You’d think I would have measured the finished size so I could frame it quickly.

But you’d be wrong.

I decided to finish it for her for Valentine’s Day and bought the only square frame I could find at Michael’s. It was 5″ square and I thought that looked right.

The piece was 4.5″ square and would have a not nice border of unstitched canvas if I finished it the way it was.

But there is so little canvas there I couldn’t add the stitching if I put it on a frame, so I added a little border in another color with the canvas in hand.

I like that now I have the effect of a mat without buying one and I think Maggie will love this reminder of home when she gets it (probably it will arrive tomorrow.

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Freebie Alert – New Needlepoint Designs

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Over the weekend Denise at Craft Gossip published a post of free needlepoint designs. You know I’m crazy about her round-ups of free projects, which she publishes often.

Usually needlepoint charts are listed among the other charts, so this is a rare opportunity to indulge in the wonderful talent and generosity out there.

There are also lots of whole stitch cross stitch charts (which can be stitched as is in needlepoint). I’m particularly fond of the mosaic motif in the previous post. But there are tons of great ideas in that post (A is for Apple, that great rooster) and in the Valentine’s motifs, she’s been posting all week.

If you’re in need of a little pick-me-up, especially in light of the recent snow storm, take a look and give yourself a present. In fact, I’m going off to print a bunch of my favorites right now.

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Calling Jody Adams

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amethyst, heart needlepoint pattern free by jody adams

free project by Jody Adams

Mary Lou, one of my regular readers wanted to know where she could find some canvases by Jody Adams. I know of Jody mostly because of the stitch, Jody Adams Sidewalk Stitch.Jody is probably best known as a teacher. According to her bio from Callaway School of Needle Arts (held each January_, “Jody Adams is an international teacher, designer, lecturer and judge and hold certification in canvaswork from the Valentine Museum, where she served as Director of Education and Director of Teacher Certification. Jody has been a faculty member of NAN, the Valentine Assembly, the Callaway Gardens School of Needle Arts and the Elsa Williams School of Needle Arts. She has taught at national seminars for ANG, EGA, the Council of Embroiderers, the Callaway Gardens School of Needle Arts, NAN’s Assembly for Embroiderers and at many regional and chapter seminars for ANG and EGA across the country. For thirty years she was the Director of the Callaway Gardens School of Needle Arts. In 1997 she was honored with NAN’s prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award .”

On the ANG site, you can see a picture of a lovely house needlepoint she did with Pat Van Cleve (scroll down, it’s one the right). She has had projects published in the past in Needlepoint Now and Needlepointers, so look in back issues of those for projects.

If you want to try one of her designs, NAN has a charming heart ornament, Amethyst, by her. It’s got lots of great textured stitches and is pictured above.

That’s what my Internet search turned up, but I’d love to learn more. If you’ve taken a class from Jody or know of some sources for projects, please add them to the comments.

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