Daphne Goodyear and Friends UPDATED

I've mentioned Daphne Goodyear's website before but she's updated it with stitching from her friends.  Friends like Lee Cox and Sonia who are wildly talented.  Give it a minute for each page to load.  Many have slide shows that take a bit to get downloaded and start playing.
http://needleartartistry.org/home.html

Daphne herself does absolutely incredible Melissa Shirley Wild Women portraits.  They are worth visiting again and again if you are stitching people, just for the ideas and creativity Daphne puts into her work.

This is a site to bookmark and visit on days when you want inspiration with your morning beverage.  It's terrific that Daphne and her friends allow us to gawk at their work.  And gawk I do--it is a wonderful "feast for the eyes."

UPDATE:  Sudu took my suggestion to visit Daphne's website and ran with it.  She turned up a book by Daphne and so much more!  Clever Sue....
http://sudukc.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/daphne’s-needlepoint/


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Gone Shopping, Part Two

Once I bought all the threads I could carry at Needlewoman East, I jumped in my car and drove another few miles to visit Waste Knot in Arlington.  It was pretty quiet when I first arrived so I was able to take lots of photos (with permission) of things for you to see.

I'll show you the last thing I bought first.  See the glass magnets on the upright display easel?  They are from Lee Cox. The pink-rose-gold oval on the right in the middle row lives in Chilly Hollow now.  I had a lot of fun browsing the books at Waste Knot and was seriously tempted by SuZy's Small Stitches from SuZy Murphy but I wanted that magnet more as it is so beautiful and in my favorite colors.   Priorities, priorities....

I saw some very interesting gadgets here.  I arranged a few on the counter for a photo so you could see them.  The tiny pink package is a miniature scissors set that has a loop to attach them to your key chain, your cell phone, etc.  They are small and sharp and easy to carry when you travel.  Lori (the owner of Waste Knot) has been on airplanes with hers without any problem.  Here's a better closeup than mine.  These come in assorted colors and have a nose guard to protect the tip of the blades.
http://www.newarkdress.com/ss208.html

The stack of trays are magnetic tool trays.  Inspired by similar trays in the hardware store, you can keep track of your needles, scissors and laying tools with these.  The last item is called a Knit Light.  It is a tiny penlight with a flexible neck that clips on your collar so you can see to stitch or read.   While I was there a visitor bought one to help read her Kindle in low light situations.
http://www.patternworks.com/productdetail/300460/---KNIT-LIGHT.htm

Speaking of Kindles, Waste Know carries the new Lee leather Kindle covers and also canvases that fit the opening.  The shop had both black and brown leather ones.  The black one rests on the box; the brown is open so you can see the inside.

Lori showed me her current project--a set of Christmas Nativity stars from Kathy Schenkel.  They are supposed to be strung on a garland with little angels separating the needlepoint stars.  These canvases come with stitch guides and there is a Halloween garland, too.  The Halloween sets are separated with bats. I'm sorry I can't find a photo of a stitched garland or even the angels or bats that separate the stitched pieces but I did find the Nativity stars set on Kathy's website.  The set continues on the next page but if you don't have enough room to stitch them all, you can just do part of the set.  I saw some of the stars stitched and they really look great.  I didn't think to take photos of them but I did take a photo of another great Kathy Schenkel idea--little Halloween cubes with matching beaded fobs.  Cute, huh?
http://www.kathyschenkel.com/new/45.html

I took lots of photos of the huge variety of painted canvases that Waste Knot carries.  Here are a few of them--

Maggie Jester Cats

Mindy Designs

Patt & Lee cats, etc.

Kathy Schenkel?  mini socks

Hope you enjoyed the show.  I have more to talk about tomorrow.

Tonight it's more Cha background for me.  I'm not going to attempt stitching with silk ribbons when the heat index is supposed to be 108 today!

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