Stitching Skies, Pugs and Fancy Stitches (with Common Threads)

The tips from professional needlepointers on their blogs keep coming--in alphabetical order we have:

ABS Designs' Anne Stradal explains how she stitches skies with needle blended colors and simple stitches.
http://thecapestitcher.blogspot.com/2009/01/needle-blending-sky.html

Gail Hendrix of Squiggee Designs demonstrates that you can do wonderful things on 10 count as well as 18 count NP canvas. Folks with bad vision all over the world rejoice!
http://squiggeedesigns.blogspot.com/2009/01/pug-anyone.html

This is after Gail shows us how to use commonly available threads to great effect on her newest canvas, an iris circle.
http://squiggeedesigns.blogspot.com/2009/01/squiggee-is-stitchingthe-moon-is-green.html

Judy Harper also discusses this topic in her dissertation on cotton threads.
http://fairy-crafts.blogspot.com/2009/01/tutorial-for-cotton-thread-bargello-egg.html

Finally Orna Willis has added an explanation of Jessicas with a great diagram to her website's collection of instructional PDFs. I found out about this on her blog that had the link to here--
http://www.ornadesign.com/how-to

The above proves once again that stitchers are wonderfully sharing folks!

Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow