Summer TNNA Photo Shoot

I just discovered a slide show of new designs from the TNNA show this summer. What fun!

http://www.tnna.org/MemberBenefits/MemberSectionsGroups/NeedlepointGroupGalleriasummer2008/tabid/176/Default.aspx

Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow

More Progess in CH, No Photos

I stitched off and on all weekend and finished the rows of tent stitch all around the outside edge of Joan Thomasson's wizard. I also have the project I can't show you 2/3 done. This week after work each night I hope to work on the mystery project so that it will be finished by next weekend when I hope to turn the wizard into a standup. I'm going to shop for edge trim or braid and aquarium gravel this week. I have everything else I need to finish the wizard. Wish me luck!

Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow

Vicky DeAngelis Does Christmas

A while back I wrote this about the ANG Seminar exhibit, "By the way, the blue ribbon for painted canvas without a stitch guide (professional) *and* the first Nina Goerres ribbon for Christmas projects went to Vicky DeAngelis who stitched Kelly Clark's Twelve Months of Santas. I think these are Vicky's pieces which served as the models for the stitch guides."

http://www.needlenookoflajolla.com/events/kellyclark/index.html

I have managed to wrangle a good photo of all Vicky's Santas together which you can see and drool over above. These were stitched in Vicky's role of part owner of Needle Nook of La Jolla and they are available as kits from the shop for those who saw them on display at the Indian Wells Seminar and despaired of ever doing anything as wonderful themselves. But this isn't the only example of Vicky's fabulous stitching for you to see. I've managed to accumulate lots of links to Vicky's work for your viewing pleasure. Most of these have won awards, too.

Tapestry Tent cat
http://www.needlepoint.org/WhatIs/2001/lazy_cat.php

Terry Enfield kimono

http://www.needlepoint.org/WhatIs/1998/DeAngelisKimono.php

Christmas ornament

http://www.needlenookoflajolla.com/stitchers_corner/images/deangelis_orn.jpg

Gay Ann Rogers? Christmas ornament

http://www.needlenookoflajolla.com/stitchers_corner/images/deangelis_orn2.jpg

Geisha by Sandra Gilmore (Once in a Blue Moon)

http://www.needlepoint.org/WhatIs/2002/midori.php

Lee's Needlearts black and white geisha

http://www.needlepoint.org/WhatIs/2007/images/4003-22.jpg

I just wish I could charm Vicky into revealing her stitching secrets! How did she get to be so good? Is there hope for us all?!

Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow

Fairy Tales for Dark Days

If you have been watching the world-wide economic meltdown with trepidation the last week or so, you might find a bit of comfort in the posting our fellow NP blogger John Young made. I'm old enough to remember several economic disasters (the 1973 Oil Embargo, anyone?) and to be able to put them into perspective. Sometimes you have to look to the past to remember the present isn't forever.

http://www.tikaro.com/2008/10/from-fdrs-first-inaugural-addr.html

This is a good time to escape for a bit and relax, which is probably why needlepoint was invented. My favorite escape from the pressures of first through third grade when I was learning to read was a good fairy tale and I still love them. No one does lovelier fairy tale canvases than Edie and Ginger. Above is Sleeping Beauty. If you look out through the window you'll see the entrance with vines beginning to grow to block access to the enchanted castle with the princess deep in slumber inside.


This canvas is the Little Mermaid. Don't you love the swirl of the waters? It's a sad tale of love in the original but here you only see the beauty of the sea and the mermaid and her friends.

Edie and Ginger canvases are distributed by CBK Needle Collections. You can look for your favorite fairy tale here. Don't forget there are two pages of escapism just waiting for your needle!

http://cbkneedlepointcollections.com/ProdList.php?page=1&scId=9&cpId=6

Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog with two more designs showcased at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow

Free Alphabet Generators

Whether you are stitching a name on top of a Christmas stocking, or looking for a nice mongram to sign your work, you will have fun playing with these two free online alphabet generators.

http://www.stitchpoint.com/eng/tool/alph/_alphabet_generator.php

http://www.celticxstitch.ie/cgi-bin/stitches.cgi

Jane
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow