Making Bullions the Video Way

Have trouble making bullion knots? BeStitched has posted a video showing you how they are done.
http://bestitchedneedlepoint.com/another-knotty-needlepoint-tale-by-paula-schmidt/

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

Customizing Your Stitching

Needlepoint is a very personal art, even though we work from charts or painted designs.   We put so much of ourselves into our needle and thread that the outcomes can be very different, even if the design came from a class or stitch guide.  You'd think that people who took Ruth Schmuff's mystery class using the Eye Candy Garden Party Mod Heart Collage design would have very similar designs at the end.  No way!  The stitch might be the same but the finishing takes two designs in two very different directions.
http://www.notyourgrandmothersneedlepoint.com/2013/01/patterns-on-patterns-on-more-patterns.html

Now let's look at Robin King's stitch guide for Katt Z. Witch from Kelly Clark's Halloweenies series.  One of the customers for Ridgewood Needlepoint stitched this design using Robin's guide.  Look at the design very very carefully.
http://ridgewoodneedlepoint.blogspot.com/2013/01/witch-lovers-this-is-terrific-canvas.html

Now look at Robin's model. Study it.  What is different?  The Ridgewood stitcher turned the cat under the witch's arm into a dog and removed the cat at her feet entirely!  Now Katt Z. Witch is a dog lover!  LOL
http://needlepointstudyhall.blogspot.com/2010/02/katt-z-witch-stitch-guide-are-now.html

Each choice you make with your canvas turns what you are stitching from one of dozens into something totally unique and You.  We needlepointers are creating individuality by adding our personality into our stitching.

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