If You Always Wanted to Be a Pilot Stitcher,

then Terry Dryden wants to talk to you.

Pilot stitchers are people who test drive class instructions. Normally teachers look for a guild willing to try out a class project in order to find problems and areas that need more explanation in their instructions. Terry talks about the process on her blog and is also recruiting pilot stitchers.
http://www.terrydryden.com/-blog/2009/1/23/writing-instruction-books.html

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

More New Stuff

New painted canvases from DJ Designs.
http://www.designsdj.com/preview2009.html

MAP Designs.
http://www.mapdesignsneedleworks.com/mapdesignhandpaintneedlepointnew.html

Raymond Crawford
http://www.raymondcrawford.com/designs/whatsnew/index.html

Kathy Schenkel
http://www.kathyschenkel.com/new/0.html

I'll post more as I find out about more new things on display.

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

Callaway Classes and TNNA's New Website

Gay Ann Rogers has kindly posted photos of some of the 2010 class projects at Calloway next January on her website. Click on More Callaway at the top of the page in the yellow navigation bars and look at three pages' worth of pictures.

http://www.gayannrogers.com/

TNNA has a new website to promote needle arts and tell us about all the new things available. It's a work in progress so not all the designer links are ready. Try Market Buzz for a slide show from last summer, but the real fun is trying out the shop/designer/blog/stitch finders on the right side of the page.

http://www.worldofneedlepoint.com/

Thanks for the treats, Gay Ann! And a big thank you to TNNA for bringing news to us the needlepoint comsumer.

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

Ray's Moppets on Tweed Canvas

Here are Leigh Designs' new 1920s Bathing Beauties on the new tweed canvas SharonG described for us yesterday.
http://www.leighdesigns.com/Grp503x.html

Note that Leigh also has a new set of Dynasty ornaments, this time based on Swedish motifs and on a green canvas. Some are elegant (the various squashes) and some just fun (the stacks of farm animals)
http://www.leighdesigns.com/Grp826x.html

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

Twiggs

I meant to have this ready early this morning but the cat threw up and my morning went downhill from there.

This link shows beautiful finishing done by Twiggs of Savannah. Check out that chair! Those stairs! Those darling kids with their stockings and then the dog canvases! Lovely eye candy finished beautifully. As I am about to finish up the Three Women and a Peach Canvas, I really appreciate good finishing.

http://twiggsofsavannah.com/display.cfm/page/BragPage.html

Tonight I hope to have time to post the photo of ice on the Shenandoah River that I intended to illustrate this blog entry. The picture was taken last Saturday about a half mile from my house in Chilly Hollow.

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