Thursday, May 6, 2010
Preparing for More
Today I checked over the Stuart Plaid Lion piece, looking for missed stitches, loose beads, or any furry spot that needs a few more stem stitches. He will head off to Leigh Designs the end of the week to be made up into an ornament that will be one of the Dynasty ornament models eventually. If you go to the trade shows, say hello to Leigh and the royal lion for me!
I'm going to start on the next Stars block tonight. It's called Marlon Brando and is the first block in the second row. I've also put my next two painted canvas projects on stretcher bars. I'll start the smaller one of these once Brando is finished. While I am getting organized, there is plenty of stuff for you to see elsewhere.
Pocket Full of Stitches' blog is full of new products and a new summer project canvas. Read the May 4 and May 5 entries to catch up what the new owners have been up to and check out Lena the Ballerina.
http://pocketfullofstitches.blogspot.com/
Needle Works has posted their May newsletter and it is full of new and wonderful canvases. Don't miss the Floozies. Sloe Gin Sadie is my favorite but your tastes may run more to champagne or bourbon or ale.
http://www.theneedleworks.com/newsletter/201005newsletter.pdf
Finally, Amy Bunger is encouraging her students to run wild with glitter glue. I advise staying inside and hiding under your beds until Peggy puts her pen away!
http://needlepointstudyhall.blogspot.com/
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I LUV the Leigh Floozies!
For anyone who wants to put a little sparkle/glitter on the canvas - as I just told Peggy, I've been using, as has Janet Burnet (ACOD) for 12 or 13 years, the t-shirt paint, which thins beautifully with water for brushing on, and comes in zillions of colors - it has a more subtle sparkle. The Liquigems by Liquitex is the highest quality, but hasn't the variety of colors as the others. There is also an opalescent finish paint. It's also referred to as "puff paint" - as people used to squeeze it right out of the tube on the bottle onto t-shirts.
Thanks for the tip on sparkle paint, Judy. It's nice to know that the stuff used on t-shirts works well and which brand is the highest quality. I am famiilar with the puff paint as we used it to customize t-shirts years ago. Fun stuff but I never would have thought to use it on NP canvas.
Thanks again. Bet a lot of folk will be trying this.
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