Wednesday, February 3, 2010

New Website, New Cyberclass, New Book, New Goodies





Bargello lovers are cheering Liz Morrow's new website.  It has just opened with three of her incredible patterns available for sale and with a free pattern, too.  I greatly admire Liz's designs and loved her series about four way bargello in Needlepoint Now last year.  It actually made this complicated bargello technique comprehensible to me!  Congratulations, Liz.  I can't wait to see more patterns available on your site.  Oh, the design above is her Happy New Year.
http://www.lizartneedlepoint.com/

Bedecked and Beaddazzled has just announced a cyberclass with Anna-Marie Winter starting this June.  Mark your calendars!  If you haven't visited Anna-Marie's website, particularly the tips and tricks page, go to the second link below.  She's planning to add an article about hot transfer of photos to needlepoint canvas shortly.  Personally I can't wait!
http://www.bedeckedandbeadazzled.com/cyberClasses.php?cid=89&name=Cyberclasses

http://www.annamariewinter.com/tips.htm

Are you a book fiend who has to have all the stitch dictionaries available?  Then you'll be thrilled to hear that Summer Louise Truswell has a new book out just for you!  It's called The Stitch Starts Here.  It's a collection of her favorite stitches for canvaswork, for samplers and for embroidery with a few stitching tips thrown in.  I haven't seen the book myself but I loved Summer's earlier book about finishing and I suspect this will be wonderful as well.  The book is available for your Kindle, as a download and in hard copy.  Details here.
http://www.summerlouise.com/2010/01/new-book-stitch-starts-here.html

I also have collected reports by various shops of goodies they are receiving from the TNNA show.  Amy Bunger's shop has the new Sundance Bead Explosion kit that is an introduction project to various beads and beading techniques.
http://www.amybunger.com/catalog/item/6331829/7674100.htm

Nimble Needle has new threads in stock.
http://thenimbleneedle.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-threads-for-2010.html

The Point of It All is beginning to receive their painted canvas orders and posted photos of a few on their blog.
http://blog.thepointofitallonline.com/2010/01/new-canvases-galore.html

Ridgewood Needlepoint has thread zappers in stock.  They have one in the shop to play with in case you live close by and have an irresistible urge to go zap some Flair.
http://ridgewoodneedlepoint.blogspot.com/2010/01/thread-zap-tool.html

Aren't we lucky to be living in the 21st Century when there are so many wonderful things to buy to help our stitching?!

Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
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2 comments:

Tara said...

I just downloaded the stitch guide to my PC. I'm then going to upload it to my Palm. I'm glad one is available in Adobe now. Now I really will have a portable stitch guide with me (I carry my Palm in my purse with me everywhere). As portable SuZy's guides may be, I rarely, if ever see anyone bring one to a guild or social (EGA or ANG) meeting. I hope other teachers will consider this format. (And I hope LNS can get into offering this as a go-between at some point too. A number of them do have web pages.)

The Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventure said...

Morning, Tara. I think that folks probably travel with a small book instead of lugging them to a guild meeting. Could be wrong. I never go anywhere so I don't know. It's a great idea, however. I'm sure with the spread of Kindles and of the new iPad from Apple that this option will be more widely available.