Freshen Your Seat

Rittenhouse has just posted a reminder of their custom chair seat services.   If you want to take a break from that fancy pillow or picture stitching to create a lasting heirloom for your dining or living room, this is the place.
http://rittenhouseneedlepoint.blogspot.com/2013/01/dress-up-your-chairs.html

If you don't subscribe to Needle Pointers, ANG's magazine which comes as part of your ANG membership, you won't have seen the chair that won all the awards at Seminar 2012.  Magnificent!
http://www.needlepoint.org/index.php

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

Gossip Central Reappears

There was so much news yesterday that I decided to break this article in half and post about products, clubs and classes separately.  Orna Willis has created a fabulous video about the class she is teaching at ANG's Seminar in Philadelphia this year.  Her students will recreate the skyline of her city, Philly.
http://ornadesign.blogspot.com/2012/05/my-philadelphia.html

Nimble Needle is going to offer Melissa Shirley's Golden Christmas Crackers club this year.  The stitch guides are by the amazing Robin King.  You can see more here.  By the way, there is a stitch guide for the similar Golden Candy Cane series if you want more than just the cracker set (second link).
http://thenimbleneedle.blogspot.com/2012/05/melissa-shirley-christmas-cracker-club.html

http://melissashirleydesigns.com/galcol/index.cgi?index=1314383594_16695&col=160

Interested in stitching Little Shoppe Canvas Company's flip flop designs that make up into key fobs?  Diane has stitched several of these to use a gifts and highly recommends them.
http://dianestakingtimeouttoneedlepoint.blogspot.com/2012/05/flip-flop-key-fobs.html

Need a new purse to keep that key fob in?  Diane has one of those, too!  She just got her new red nylon tote bag from Lee/Colonial.  I have the exact same bag in black and I just love it.  I've carried nothing else for almost two years, even though I've never managed to find the time to stitch a canvas to insert in it.  (Bad Jane!)
http://dianestakingtimeouttoneedlepoint.blogspot.com/2012/05/stash-enhancement-from-regal-rabbit.html

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

Are You Going to Santa Fe?

The Embroider's Guide of America has their annual Seminar in late October-early November this fall in Santa Fe. If you have a little time to browse the class photos, you are going to be astounded at the technical skill of those teaching classes there.
http://www.egausa.org/html/seminar.html

Pull up a chair, get your favorite beverage, and then click on Class Photos.


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

Atlantis Rising Spectacular

Liz Morrow has been pilot stitching one of the ANG Seminar pieces for 2012--Ro Pace's Atlantis Rising. It is an amazing mix of bargello and the "string art" style of stitching that Jean Hilton created.  Do click on the small photo for a better look.

http://lizartblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/atlantis-rising-finished.html

The classes ANG will offer for this fall's Seminar can be browsed here.  Atlantis Rising is one of the four day classes if you want more details on this amazing design and compare Ro's original to the changes Liz made in hers.
http://www.needlepoint.org/Seminar-12/classes.php


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