More Needlepoint News

Holiday Handbags Club at Chandail Needlework features Raymond Crawford canvases and Emily Pannier's special touch with embellished painted canvases. Six of the canvases are stitched. Click on "Larger Size" to see all the amazing details.
http://www.chandailneedlework.com/series/Holiday%20Handbags.php

Ruth Schmuff has announced her next stitch-a-mystery-canvas piece, a Valentine heart from Melissa Shirley. This won't start until the current mystery piece, a Raymond Crawford Christmas piece, is finished. The way Ruth runs her mystery canvas class is that her students (including mail order ones) know the canvas they will stitch but have no idea what the end product looks like. Each month Ruth does another section for them.
http://www.bedeckedandbeadazzled.com/classesEvents.php#mysteryclasses

If you are curious about how Ruth's classes work, check out progress photos of her second lesson of the current class, the Merry Christmas canvas.
http://www.tistheseason.org/blog/2009/11/merry-christmas-lesson-2.html

By the way, Ruth announced a Leigh Designs truck show (with 20% off the retail price) in her shop in November.
http://www.bedeckedandbeadazzled.com/products.php?catid=180

Are you intrigued by silk gauze?  Do you need a Christmas stocking that is almost an inch and a half high?  Janet Granger has new miniature stitching kits available that are darling.
http://needlework.craftgossip.com/new-patterns-tiny-needlepoint-stockings/2009/10/22/


Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
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Back to the Cameo Ornament

The cameo ornament I'm stitching is working up very quickly.  This photo shows the front (left) and back.  I have changed the thread used on the front slightly.  The outside borders should be perle cotton on the outside, metallic, and the perle cotton again but I wanted a bit more Bling so I used Kreinik where the instructions said perle cotton.

In this photo you see that I've cut out the front flap after attaching the cameo bead.  (It has shifted to the side a bit in the scanning but is straight in person.)  You can see in this photo that the front (on the right this time) has the foundations for the ribbon roses in all around the perimeter.  The back (on the left) also has the foundations in.  I discovered after taking this photo I needed to trim the small flap a bit closer to the stitching and did that this morning once it was bright enough to clearly see where the threads were to avoid cutting them.

I have one ribbon rose done but have put this aside for a bit until the ecru silk ribbon I need arrives.  The original model used an ecru overdyed ribbon with hints of pink.  I'm going to mix ecru ribbon with the pink shades I have here.  I should get more done on this tomorrow night.  I have cut out the boards for stiffening inside and could make my twisted cord and tassels for finishing but I ran out of time and energy to get that done today.

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