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Leigh Designs’ new series to be introduced at this weekend’s TNNA show is called Shogun. They are 12″ x 16″ on Sandstone 18 mesh mono.

There is a picture of one in the newest Needlepoint Now.

A stitched model of Yoritomo will be on display at the show.

You’ll be able to see them all soon on the Leigh site.

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A Sewing Weekend with Designer Heather Ross

by Carla Sinclair

in Announcements,Sewing

Lotta Jansdotter's Printing Workshop, Vera in the pool, Raven and Anna Maria Horner contemplate a zipper

I just signed up for Heather Ross's Sewing Workshop January 27-29 at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs - this means two glorious days of sewing labs, demonstrations, inspiration, and nothing but time to actually start and finish a sewing project. Heather Ross, artist and founder of the clothing line Munki Munki, will be running the weekend with guest teachers, including designer Anna Maria Horner, modern quilter Denyse Schmidt, and couture sewist Gretchen Hirsch. I'll be carpooling to Palm Springs with my new online friend, Rachel Faucett of Handmade Charlotte. I couldn't be more excited!

It looks like both Palm Springs weekends (the other happening January 20-22 with guest teachers Lotta Jansdotter and Liesl Gibson ) are now booked (sorry, I think I nabbed the last spot), but there is still time to register for Heather Ross's other upcoming amazing workshops.

Denyse Schmidt, Heather Ross, and Liesle Gibson, from a previous Blueberry Hill Weekend Sewing Workshop

Check out her two Weekend Sewing Workshops at Blueberry Hill in Vermont, which run June 29-July 1, and July 6-8, 2012.

Fabric design.jpg

Or if fabric designing is more your thing, she is holding two Fabric Design Workshops in New York, April 20-22 and April 26-28, 2012. Read about Heather's previous Fabric Design Workshop to learn more about it.

Stay tuned... I'll be covering the Palm Springs workshop in January and will let you know how it goes!

Clippings – Holiday Weekend Edition

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

in Nuts About Needlepoint

Considering we went to friends on Thursday, so I didn’t have to cook, and that we didn’t go shopping, I’ve been pooped since Friday afternoon. I’m figuring it’s been all the household chores and organizing my DH and I did all week.

So today I have a clippings post with an assortment of intriguing and useful blog posts I came across over the weekend.

Threadworx Journal was immensely popular in its on-line version. Happily, Threadworx has decided to make each issue of the magazine available in a printed version. You can buy them each here. Each issue is $11.99. They use PayPal for the sales.

Finding ornament patterns that work for boys can be tough. But the Cross Stitch design Kell Smuthwaite of Kincavel Krosses has an adorable whole stitch Little Samurai chart available free on her site. These would make such cute ornaments.

I saw these bottle top ornaments on Craft Gossip (thanks Denise!) and was thinking they were made on soda bottle tops, so they wouldn’t work well for needlepoint. But when I looked at the tutorial, I found they were made from milk or juice bottle tops.

The instructions talk about fabric. But you can easily adapt them to needlepoint by stitching on Congress Cloth or by doing needlepoint on evenweave fabric. I love the look of these little guys. They would make such great little gifts.

Finding great mats for your needlepoint can be a real challenge. Often it’s easier (and more interesting) to find a fabric that sets off the stitching perfectly. But fabric does not a mat make. Thanks to Denise at Craft Gossip I discovered this great tutorial on how to make fabric-covered mats. While she suggests cotton, any light-weight fabric will work.

If you follow my thrifty needlepoint idea of stitching in standard frame sizes, you should be able to find mats with openings that size that fit standard frame sizes. Buy a fat quarter of a great fabric, the mat, and a frame you like and you have the makings of a completely unique gift.

On the BeStitched blog there is the start of a series on beginning and ending threads. This post covers Basketweave.

Many of my friends have stitched Maggie Lane’s Kimono using the little book published that collected more than 90 stitches in one place. And it is stunning indeed. I have the book, but haven’t gotten to it. John Waddell has updated the piece from its restrained ecru colors to a bright and bold collection. He will be offering the class through the Shining Needle Society next year. You can read about it in this post and sign up on the SNS Home Room. This may be enough to get me working on it at last.

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Tutorial & Tips on Beading on Canvas

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

in Nuts About Needlepoint

With TNNA this weekend and thus tons of new things shown, Im reversing my usual habit. Today-Thursday will highlight great content from others. Friday-Monday will cover new products. Back to the usual schedule next week.

Beading on canvas is not one of my best things, but my friend Jane of Chilly Hollow is great at it. Recently she put on her blog a two-part tutorial on beading in needlepoint.

Not only does she tell you everything you need to know, she also includes lots of links to products and even more information.

In the first part, she takes you through the types of beads (including the right size to use), needles, thread, and tools for beading.

In the second part, she covers several different methods for attaching beads and has lots of links to tips and more tutorials.

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Winter Wreath Finished

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

in Nuts About Needlepoint

Originally posted 2008-03-03 06:11:58. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Just a quick post to let you know that I finished the lovely Winter Wreath (Poinsettias) from Happy Heart over the weekend.

I’d show you a picture but it’s too big to fit on my scanner and is all packed ready to go.

The stitch guide for it will be available from your local shop soon.

This makes another President’s Challenge piece finished (four so far).

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Winter Wreath Finished

SharonG Tells Us about her Book

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

in Books,Nuts About Needlepoint

SharonG has new book that premieres at TNNA this weekend. nicknamed SharonG’s SENSE, it’s 5�8 and spiral bound, small enough to tote in your project bag and sturdy enough to hold up.

She says in her Introduction:

Through my years of teaching needlepoint, I find there are certain stitches that we use repeatedly because they are the most versatile. It might be because they adapt to many weights of threads, might be fun to do, or they fit the need perfectly. This book is a collection of those “Simply Essential Needlepoint Stitch Explanations.” It belongs in every needlepoint tote bag. I hope it will become known as SharonG’s Needlepoint Sense.

On her blog. Sharon talks about the book and reprints part of the Introduction. I just loved the information here. It’s full of incredibly wise advice about picking stitches for needlepoint.

It just made me all the more excited about the book. Read it and you’ll be clamoring for it as well.

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Warm Up with Needlepoint

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

in Nuts About Needlepoint

latte free needlepoint chart from DMC

Check out this free Latte design from DMC.

A charted piece you can stitch it up in needlepoint or cross stitch. Use you stash to make the cup your favorite color. Different shades of brown can add more or less “milk.”

A good way to have fun during parades and football games this weekend.

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Ooska – a Great Old Thread

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

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Originally posted 2006-05-25 17:38:12. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

I was visiting a friend yesterday and was borrowing some white thread from her for a small nautilus shell by Julie Pishke.

She lent me some of a great old thread which hasn’t been around for awhile.

Ooska.

If you ever come across any buy it, especially if you like 14 mesh canvas. You most likely will find it on eBay, estate sales, or thrift shops.

Ooska is a rayon pearl from Scandinavia. Because it’s rayon it has some shine, because it’s a pearl it is MUCH easier to use than stranded rayons. But unlike #3 pearl cotton, the “pearliness” (I can’t think of another word for the texture) is not so obvious or as hard.

I’m using it in conjunction with Silk & Ivory, Spring II and some silk pearl.

Cool stuff, I’ll post a picture over the weekend once I have some of it in.

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Dying Computer

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

in Nuts About Needlepoint

Just a word of warning. my computer is not well. Yesterday afternoon it decided to quit working. Now it won’t even boot.

It being the weekend, I’m going to add some book reviews to drip over the next week or so.

But until things are fixed, (pray that it is both quick and cheap) posts will be without pictures and emails will take longer to answer.

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Dying Computer

The Joys of Starting a New Project

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

in Nuts About Needlepoint

Originally posted 2009-06-06 06:20:20. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

In the past ten days or so, I have been prepping or starting lots of new needlepoint projects.

I have to say, and you might be like this too, that much of the fun of needlepoint is in the beginnings. I’m not too good with endings and often I get bored with the piece long before I’m done stitching it.

But starting is always a measure of hope. There are all the possibilities of threads and stitches which are part of every project. There is the endless potential that the blank canvas holds. And, sometimes, there is the probability of learning something new.

For Maker Faire I put together lots of Bargello projects, tracing outlines, charting patterns, and pulling threads. I worked on 4 of them (and have finished two so far). But I was getting two others ready a couple of days ago and I was so happy.

One will be the abstract challenge, I blogged about earlier this week. I’m debating over using metallic or pearl cotton for the outline, I have to check the stash. And then all odds and ends for the colored areas. I keep looking at the chart and dreaming of stitches.

The other piece will be a real challenge. I have a Stirling tote bag in the new smaller size. I’m going to make a crazy quilt Bargello using Persian Wool. I picked Rcky’s (thanks!) brain, her booth was next to mine, at Maker Faire and now I know how to proceed.

I just wish my time, and deadlines, and stitching speed matched my ambitions.

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