New Frogs, Chickens, Rabbits, and Designs

Needlenook of La Jolla has a Rebecca Wood trunk show going on, with pages and pages of new designs, including monthly frog canvases, hilarious Easter canvases of silly bunnies and an egg factory, a stocking showing Santa borrowing an old pickup for emergency delivery, and a mini Christmas tree skirt which will look quite good under a table top-sized tree.

http://www.needlenookoflajolla.com/storedir/products.php?cat=129

They have also uploaded new photos of canvases they've added since the Dallas Cash & Carry show. Look for the blue snowflake in front of the designer's name to see new painted canvases by Mindy, a wonderful elephant banner and seascape teapot from dede (that's the teapot above), and much more.

http://www.needlenookoflajolla.com/whatsnew/index.html

Lots of browsing fun is guaranteed among your old favorites, but don't forget to look at designers whose name you don't recognize. There is a lot of talent in the painted canvas area for needlepointers to admire.

Signed, Your Master Enabler
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Remember these?

If you have been reading Blog a while, you'll recognize these as projects I finished recently. But they are not made up yet, and that is the next thing I need to do. I don't really like finishing but it saves a lot of $$ to do it yourself. So I save up pieces that need finishing and do them all together since I need something stiff for inside, padding for inside, sewing thread, braid or trim for the edge and of course backing for the rear side. I assemble the materials I need and put them all together one right after the other.

In the photo above you see the three camels stocking (by Liz), the Blue Wizard Santa (my own design) and one of two of Pat Miller's Blue Heart that I stitched. Unseen is my nametag and the Maggie cat in a coat stocking which I am sending off to be professionally finished since it needs to be a real stocking with a lining and for something that small, I would prefer a professional handle the finishing. There wasn't room in the photo for everything so I omitted what I could.

I plan to explain as best I can what I did for finishing. Remember your promise not to laugh at the glue in my hair!

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