Rainbow Ribbons Pillow (Kam Wenzloff)

Melita and her Main Line Chapter of ANG stitched Kam Wenzloff's "Rainbow Ribbons" design as a chapter project.  Melita had hers finished into a pillow, which you can see here along with the other color ways ANG members came up with. Everyone used overdyes from Colour Complements (second link below).

https://melitastitches4fun.com/2025/02/11/rainbow-ribbons-pillow/

https://colourcomplements.com/

If you are tempted to try this, it was in the November/December 2019 issue of ANG's Needle Pointers magazine.  This is available to members only but you can often find copies for sale on eBay.

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© Copyright February 12, 2025 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Kam Wenzloff's Layers of Leaves as Christmas Ornaments

Clever Brian has taken Kam Wezloff's "Layers of Leaves" designs from Needlepoint Now magazine and turned them into round Christmas ornaments!  Is that smart or what?!

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=7872439369453646&set=gm.7365608550182906&idorvanity=108537025890131

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© Copyright April 7, 2024 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Another Cute Leaf Idea UPDATED

The Needlepoint Nook shows off a customer's idea for displaying her leaves from Kam Wenzloff's leaf wreath featured in Needlepoint Now magazine in 2023.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=949186606792428&set=a.475818260795934

For those without a Facebook account, the leaves were arranged to make a semicircular tree above a wooden trunk.

UPDATE:  One of EGA's members arranged the leaves into a water lily shape! Clever AND beautiful!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DWrA9zjAaEi/

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© Copyright March 8, 2024 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Gift Cards with Leaves

If you remember Kam Wenzloff's Leaf Wreath project featured in Needlepoint Now magazine, 

https://www.needlepointnow.com/needlepoint-now-stitch-club/

you might have decided that the finishing costs for each leaf were going to be too high to tackle this.  Colour Complements learned of a lady who had the idea of adding a background behind each leaf and using them as inserts in greeting cards.

https://colourcomplements.com/2024/01/highlighting-56-needlepoint-leaves-design.html

The blank cards come in various sizes so that the window opening can vary.  This website will give you some idea of what they are like.  Shop around as prices vary, although this place has several choices of window shapes and for card stock colors.  

https://www.stitchtastic.com/store/accessories-blank-cards

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© Copyright January 18, 2024 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

A Clever Use of Kam Wenzloff's Layers of Leaves

Have you noticed Kam Wenzloff's "Layers of Leaves" wreath design in Needlepoint Now magazine? You can see Kam's completed project on the back side of the January/February 2023 issue.

https://www.needlepointnow.com/product/jan-feb-2023-digital-edition/

Mari had a large Charley Harper painted canvas with tons of leaves on it, so she decided to use the leaf stitches Kam designed for her counted canvaswork wreath on the leaves Charley designed.  Here is how it turned out--

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=6424107834305591&set=gm.6625832427493859&idorvanity=108537025890131

Using stitches intended for counted canvaswork on a painted canvas project is genius!

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© Copyright September 27, 2023 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Finishing Leaves with a Wired Edge: The Movie

Kelly of Start Art Designs just posted a free video demonstrating how to finish leaves with a wired edge.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIqv9sizdUk

This is particularly interesting given how many folks are stitching the Kam Wenzloff leaf wreath from Needlepoint Now magazine.  It's a long video but shows everything you need to do if you want leaves you can bend into position.  By the way, the list of supplies Kelly mentions is on her website here.  Note that I think you want to use the thinner interfacing, not the extra firm interfacing.  This allows the leaf to be more bendable.

https://irp.cdn-website.com/b43f9d76/files/uploaded/Supply%20List%20Leaf%20Wreath.pdf

By the way, I couldn't find the finishing video Kelly says was posted on Needlepoint Now's website but there is a written tutorial here.

https://www.needlepointnow.com/layers-of-leaves-finishing-guide/

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© Copyright March 14, 2023 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Kam's Snowman

Kam Wenzloff shows off her snowman design which is in the brand new January/February 2022 Needlepoint Now magazine.

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=4518017281581332&set=pcb.4701938299883291

Use the right arrow to get another look and to also see the magazine cover.

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© Copyright January 6, 2022 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

The What a Hoot Charted Owl Club

What a Hoot is the monthly designer club coming from Colour Complements. This is a charted series with the chart by Kam Wenzloff .  There will be six colorful owls with a new chart of a new colorful owl starting April-September 2020.  The threads are all from Colour Complements.
https://colourcomplements.com/2020/04/what-a-hoot-needlepoint-colour-complements.html

I usually don't mention new monthly clubs in the main part of Blog, but since there are so few clubs for those who love counted canvaswork, I wanted to make sure no one missed this.  The first owl will be introduced today and then the first Friday of each of the next six months.
https://colourcomplements.com/2020/04/what-a-hoot-series-colour-complements.html

Here's #2:
https://colourcomplements.com/product/what-a-hoot-winky-needlepoint

And the third!
https://colourcomplements.com/product/what-a-hoot-theros

Number four--
https://colourcomplements.com/2020/07/what-a-hoot-athene-colour-complements-needlepoint.html

Number five —
https://colourcomplements.com/2020/08/what-a-hoot-screech-colour-complements-needlepoint.html

And here is the last owl--
https://colourcomplements.com/2020/09/owl-i-want-for-christmas-needlepoint-owls.html

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© Copyright April 1, 2020 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

A Short Profile of Kam Wenzloff

Those of you who subscribe to Needlepoint Now magazine will have already discovered "Rainbow Ribbons," the lovely counted project that Kam Wenzloff published in the magazine's November-December 2019 issue.  Kam used threads from Colour Complements so the thread manufacturer wanted to show off Kam's work and suggest other overdyed perle cottons you might want to use to personalize this piece for yourself.
https://colourcomplements.com/2019/11/rainbow-ribbons-colour-complements-needlepoint.html

Just click on the Color Complements website to have some fun color shopping.  Just remember you need five skeins of size 5 perle cotton and one skein of size 8, all in the same colors.  Will they be Fall Beauties, Pink/Orange Sherbet, or Teal and Purple?  You choose!
https://colourcomplements.com/hand-dyed-embroidery-threads

If you aren't a subscriber already, you can pick up this issue online until it sells out for $8.50.  Given all the designs and information you get, this is a bargain purchase.
https://www.needlepointnow.com/product/november-december-2019/

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© Copyright November 27, 2019 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.