TNNA's trade show in Columbus, Ohio starts next week, so folks are beginning to post messages about the new things that will be available for shops to purchase then. Here is the class Barbara Bergsten will be teaching at the trade show. Barbara is a master at choosing stitching "sisters" so that the different parts of her designs are stitched differently but harmoniously. By the way, if you click on the "New, New, New!" title above this article, you'll go to links showing Barbara's catalogue of designs and her stitch guides. She's unique in that each canvas she designs comes with a free stitch guide that you download from her website if you want to use it. It's a great way of distributing guides to students who have computer access.
http://createneedlepoint.typepad.com/create_needlepoint/2010/06/needlepoint-class.html
Are you a fan of Mindy's painted canvases like me? Check these new designs out!
http://pocketfullofstitches.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-pieces-from-mindy.html
How about Julie Mar? Do you love her designs from nature? This shop has new designs in stock.
http://bristlythistle.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/new-julie-mar-needlepoint-at-the-bristly-thistle/
Janet Perry has written a summary of new products she's heard about on her blog.
http://www.nuts-about-needlepoint.com/new-in-needlepoint-june-2010
Ruth Schmuff has a stitched sample of one of her new canvases on her blog. I used it to illustrate this article. Isn't the Queen a scream?!
http://www.notyourgrandmothersneedlepoint.com/2010/05/queen-speaks.html
Finally, I have three thread reviews I thought you'd like to see, even if these threads aren't brand new on the market. They still may be new to stitchers and shops who haven't stocked them yet. Robin King shows off an original project she designed for a charity auction and explains how she used DMC's memory thread on it.
http://needlepointstudyhall.blogspot.com/2010/06/m-and-dmc-memory-thread.html
Want to try something not widely available here in the United States? Stef Francis' Silk Impressions is a lovely thread. If you want to buy some, there are links in the review to a shop in Massachusetts that sells it.
http://bargelloneedlepoint.com/thread-spotlight-silk-impressions-by-steph-francis/
Were you curious about the Silk Lame Braid I used on the little mermaid? Here's a brief review.
http://bristlythistle.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/new-needlepoint-thread-silk-lame/
Everyone who is going to the TNNA show, travel safe and have fun. Come home with great things for your shops for us, ok?
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com Archived Yahoo 360 postings at http://profiles.yahoo.com/chillyhollow
Thank you so much for the nice compliments! I've learned alot from reading your blog! Will you be at the show?
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome, Barbara. No. I won't be in Ohio. So you have to have double the fun for me!
ReplyDeleteT 7 and counting wants to know when we will see the rest of the next painted canvas here too! All the other goodies are also tempting!
ReplyDeletePat, I have to finish the Stars block and then make up the Nordic snowman into a stocking (plus I need to make a run to the LNS to pick up stretcher bars and some threads) so it will not be until the end of the next week probably. Sorry, but I really need to get all my stacked up finishing done. I hate doing it so it accumulates....
ReplyDeleteI hear that!
ReplyDeleteYes, you know all about finishing stacking up as you do so much of your own. Poor us! But we save tons of $$.
ReplyDeleteTrue! And, we look nice with glue in our hair too!
ReplyDeleteThank goodness about the glue in the hair thing. (And yes, I did get glue in my hair attaching the mermaid. Sigh)
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