Couture Needlepoint

Chris sent me the link to this fashion review of the latest fashions showing on the runway in London and Milan.  Once you get over the sweater that costs $33,000 USD, and actually look at the clothes, they are amazing.  Thanks, Chris!  I feel more fashionable already.
http://www.whowhatwear.com/website/full-article/microtrend-needlepoint/

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While Stitching to the Olympics....

...Your mind starts to wander and you ponder stitching as a sports metaphor.  The Summer Games are over but this is worth thinking on while watching baseball, football, gold, any sport you adore.
http://www.mrxstitch.com/2012/08/13/improving-your-stitch-new-world-record/

If you don't have anyone nearby to act as coach as described above, visit Joni Stevenson's blog and take her tips for better stitching to heart.
http://creative-stitch.blogspot.com

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A New Shop Is Opening.... UPDATED

...and it is only an hour from me!  This is indeed exciting news for those who live around Winchester, Virginia.  It looks to be a counted thread shop, judging from the report from the Loudoun Sampler Guild.  Sounds like it is close to the Route 11 potato chip factory, if you happen to be local.
http://loudounsamplerguild.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/new-local-needlework-store/

Of course an hour's trip one way isn't something I can make often but I know there are a lot of counted thread folks who live close to the new shop and this is very very good news for them.

UPDATE:  I found the website for Valley Needlework.  Sadly, it is catering to every needle art except needlepoint.
http://www.valleyneedleworks.com

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Kim is Evolving

Kimberly Designs has posted a brief overview of Kim's career as a counted canvaswork and now a painted canvas designer.  The best place to see the counted designs she did before relocating to Texas is the second link.
http://akimberlydesign.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-kimberly-design.html

http://www.stitchers-paradise.com/Canvas_Embroidery/CEKimberlyCrum.html

Here are some of her painted canvases (with a few charts and stitch guides thrown in).  You'll see that they are unique.  There is nothing else like Kimberly's designs!
http://theneedleworks.com/catalog/index.php?manufacturers_id=116

http://www.bedeckedandbeadazzled.com/productsearch.php

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I Learned Something New Today

I am not that interested in cross stitch (it's called that because keeping up with all those little Xs makes my eyes cross) but this How to Cross Stitch video is a Must See just for the new technique of stripping floss it demonstrates.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmndWGVUhvU&feature=player_embedded

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