Elizabeth Bradley is introducing a line of pre-stitched floral pillows at North Carolina's High Point Furniture Market under the Elizabeth Bradley Home name. These sixteen inch square pillows are $580 each, are stitched in India with wool, and each take about 120 hours to stitch plus extra time to make the cording and assemble them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/garden/elizabeth-bradley-home-introduces-readymade-needlepoint-pillows.html
For comparison purposes, unstitched sixteen inch floral pillow kits are sold by Elizabeth Bradley for roughly $230. If I remember correctly, these kits are on 10 count stamped canvas with all the wool included.
http://www.elizabethbradley.com/theamericas/shop/kits-by-size/large-kits-16-inch
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
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© Copyright October 9, 2014 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.
Friday, October 10, 2014
Kathy's Home!
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Kathy Rees,
Needle Delights
Kathy Rees of Needle Delights Originals is back from ANG's Seminar and a trip to the St. Charles cross stitch trade show. She has a wonderful time and took lots of photographs of her finished pieces on display.
http://needledelightsoriginals.blogspot.com/2014/09/home-at-last.html
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
© Copyright September 1, 2014 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.
http://needledelightsoriginals.blogspot.com/2014/09/home-at-last.html
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
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and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
© Copyright September 1, 2014 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.
Free Needlework Books Online
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books,
free,
Mary Corbet,
online
Mary Corbet has written an interesting article about sources for free online needlework books.
http://www.needlenthread.com/2014/09/some-free-embroidery-needlework-books-online-sources.html
These are books whose copyright has expired (although the PDF copyright exits) so they are free to use within limits. I know from a colleague's experience digitizing old newsletters that optical scanning is not like xeroxing a page. The software that does the work doesn't reproduce everything well and often doesn't understand special characters like umlauts or other diacritical marks. Line drawings reproduce well but they can cause problems with the text nearby. A human has to edit and proof the finished scan to improve quality (some originals are very faint), find the problems, and then fix them manually. It is not a quick or cheap process when done well.
The moral is some of the PDF files you will find online are not great quality. It all depends on the resources of the entity that created the PDF files in the first place.
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
© Copyright September 23, 2014 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.
http://www.needlenthread.com/2014/09/some-free-embroidery-needlework-books-online-sources.html
These are books whose copyright has expired (although the PDF copyright exits) so they are free to use within limits. I know from a colleague's experience digitizing old newsletters that optical scanning is not like xeroxing a page. The software that does the work doesn't reproduce everything well and often doesn't understand special characters like umlauts or other diacritical marks. Line drawings reproduce well but they can cause problems with the text nearby. A human has to edit and proof the finished scan to improve quality (some originals are very faint), find the problems, and then fix them manually. It is not a quick or cheap process when done well.
The moral is some of the PDF files you will find online are not great quality. It all depends on the resources of the entity that created the PDF files in the first place.
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
© Copyright September 23, 2014 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.
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