Needlepoint Game Boards

It is not easy to find a needlepoint canvas that you can use to play checkers or chess or backgammon these days, but finding the boards is even harder. Not to worry. Tish at Needlepoint Tool Time has found a source for chess, tic tack toe, or checkers boards.
http://www.needlepointtooltime.com/category/22868497


Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com

The Monthly Stars Report

Liz and Jan have posted updates on their Stars for the New Millennium designs. They are working together but in very different colors, which makes for fascinating viewing. The colors they each choose make each Stars block different because the colors emphasize different parts of the pattern.  Here is Jan's Deborah Kerr block.
http://threadmedley.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/stars-of-the-new-millennium-deborah-kerr/


And here is Liz's finished Deborah Kerr.  I just noticed that they are not doing the tiny stars where the block sashing meet but are doing the borders as they work the blocks.  I did just the opposite--all my little sashing corner stars were done first thing but I'm not going to do the outside borders until last.  Everyone works differently, but I found the borders too confusing to work in a stop and start again fashion.  That threw my count off.
http://lizartblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/stars-for-new-millenium-progress-9.html


Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com