The last bit of news from the Leigh Designs e-newsletter deserves a posting of its own. A closeup photo of the new tweed canvas that Leigh used for her Ray's Moppet canvases was included. I grabbed it for you to see above. The holes sort of disappear unless the canvas is painted. That makes it easy to see how to stitch a Moppet in her bathing dress and makes it easy for the unpainted tweed background to appear solid. No background stitching! As someone with endless background around my Baroque Fish to stitch, I really do appreciate this.
You can see Ray's Moppets here on Leigh's website. Note how the background looks like fine wool tweed from a distance.
http://www.leighdesigns.com/Grp503x.html
The story behind Ray's Moppets is a great one. Dr. Ray Endicott is a long-time customer of Leigh's and the idea came from him. He has stitched many a Leigh canvas and knows exactly what we needlepointers want when it comes to canvases. Many thanks to Dr. Ray for his inspiration!
You can read more about Dr. Endicott's needlepoint and see lovely photos here.
http://www.caron-net.com/03janfiles/jan03fea.html
Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow
1 comment:
This is very interesting!
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