Flying Club UPDATED

With the popularity of monthly clubs, many designers now design a series of smaller canvases around a them and then have them stitched so that a shop can buy both the canvas and the stitch guides from the designer directly.  Not all shops have the personnel to work up guides for a club themselves, so this really helps smaller shops have wonderful items for their customers.  Eye Candy is doing this with their Owl Club.  Ada Hayden both designed and stitched her cute owl canvases, adding special touches like a different beak on each owl and incorporating sequins, beads, wired threads and other embellishments in each owl's design so that each one is unique and different from its flying brethren.  She's started to post previews of the owls on her blog since they will be available starting in April.  The first one we see is the Winter Snowy Owl, done in frosty pastels.
http://www.eyecandyneedleart.com/EyeCandy_Needleart/Blog/Entries/2012/3/1_Owl_Club_Starts_Next_Month!.html

The second is Ada's Patriot Owl, who has touches of Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day all wrapped into his colorful feathers.
http://eyecandyneedleart.blogspot.com/2012/03/introducing-patriot-owl-from-hoot-owl.html

Ada's starting a new blog. I hope more of her owl club will appear as she writes about her designs and stitching.  UPDATE:  Yes!  The Spring Fever owl has shown up, right on time for spring.
http://eyecandyneedleart.blogspot.com/2012/03/welcome-season-with-spring-fever-owl.html

And now Halloween Owl (aka Count Von Hoot) has appeared!
http://eyecandyneedleart.blogspot.com/2012/03/boo-its-halloween-spooky-owl.html

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

Stars Update

Donna is almost done! I love her colors scheme, don't you?
http://majtravaux.blogspot.com/2012/03/celebrating.html


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

March/April 2012 Needlepoint Now In the Mail

The March/April Needlepoint Now is in the mail-today!  If you can't wait, Elizabeth the editor has posted the front and back covers on the NP Now blog.
http://nneditor.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/marchapril-issue/


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