Mod Ornaments Mystery Class (Sandy Arthur)

Sandy Arthur has announced her next mystery cyberclass--Mod Ornaments.  This class is based on Eye Candy's Mod Ornaments Christmas piece.  All the details are here but don't dawdle.  The deadline for signing up for the first of six lessons is September 15th.
http://sandyarthur.blogspot.com/2014/07/new-mystery-cyber-class-coming-soon-i.html

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© Copyright July 15, 2014 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Serendipity Needleworks: The Beginning

Serendipity Needleworks is over eleven years old and to celebrate, they are looking back at how the shop was born and are looking forward to blogging about the shop adventures.
http://blog.serendipityneedleworks.com/2014/07/07/how-it-all-began/

Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
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and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
© Copyright July 7, 2014 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Color Study

Michelle of Little Bird Designs has been experimenting with unusual color combinations.  I really like how her coral and purple stripes turned out when stitched! 
http://www.needlepointofnoreturn.com/the-first-canvases-in-my-color-studies-series/

If you love Michelle's color experiments, you can do a little browsing here...
http://www.needlepointofnoreturn.com/product-category/3-5-x-7-canvases/

...and you can do a little shopping here or you can email Michelle and Rosanne at littlebirddesignsllc@gmail.com for more information.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/LittleBirdDesignsArt

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© Copyright July 1, 2014 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Not Your Grandmother's Needle Art Exhibit in Montana

The Bigfork Museum of Art and History in Montana will open an exhibit of needlework that includes needlepoint and quilting August 10th.  It's called "Not Your Grandmother's Needle Art" and I hope folks who are going to be in Bigfork late this summer get to visit it.
http://bigforkmuseum.org/exhibitions-mainmenu-63/archived-exhibitions-mainmenu-77/94-not-your-grandmothers-needle-art.html

Many thanks to the sharp eyes of Deborah who spotted this and posted about it on Facebook.

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© Copyright July 6, 2014 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

How to Start Threads

The cross stitch site Funk and Weber is running a series of tutorials on how to start threads.  These things will work on any ground fabric, so I thought I'd mention them on Blog.  The first posting is about starting threads with waste knots.
http://www.funkandweber.com/starting-threads-with-waste-knots/

Next is how to start threads with a loop.
http://www.funkandweber.com/starting-threads-with-a-loop/

The next tutorial talks about starting threads by piercing them.
http://www.funkandweber.com/starting-threads-by-piercing/

Note that some of these techniques can also be used to end off threads.

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© Copyright July 1, 2014 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.