2015 ANG Seminar Exhibit Winners Posted to Facebook

Looks like the American Needlepoint Guild has started posting photographs of award winners from their 2015 Seminar Exhibit on their Facebook page.  Click See More to learn about each piece.
https://www.facebook.com/AmericanNeedlepointGuild/?fref=nf

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© Copyright March 23, 2016 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Faux Bullions the David Way UPDATED

UPDATE:
I've updated this article with photographs.

Faux bullions are something David McCaskill accidentally invented. I've never seen it in a book. The concept is easy--but you can only do it with a perle type thread such as DMC's or Anchor's perle cotton, Trebizond silk perle or Rainbow Gallery's Grandeur or Elegance.

Get yourself some perle cotton (doesn't matter what size or color) to practice with on some scrap canvas.

Cut a length of perle cotton about 4-5 inches long and tie a knot in one end. Thread it into a needle, whatever size works with the diameter of the perle cotton you are using to practice with.

Come up in your scrap canvas and remove the needle. Hold the free end in one hand and flick it with your fingers until the strands start to unwind a bit, like perle threads do.

Grab the unwinding strands in one hand, then slide one of them down to the canvas while holding the others steady. It'll bunch itself up into a bullion.

Then you have to rethread the strands into the needle and take them all to the back side to secure them. One strand of perle thread equals one bullion.

This is what you end up with--one faux bullion knot.

It takes some practice to get used to doing it AND not all the bullions are pretty AND you have to cut a new length of thread for each bullion, but it works nicely most of the time. I don't think I'd do it for something with a lot of bullions--the real things are quicker to do once you have some practice, plus faux bullions waste a lot of thread.  But if you only have a few, this is a quick and easy way to create bullions as long as you are happy making them out of a perle-type thread.

Thanks, David!
https://www.needlepointdavid.com

By the way, Gay Ann Rogers has her bullions booklet available again if you are serious about learning them.
http://www.gayannrogers.com/books.html 

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© Copyright October 9, 2015 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Piped Icing on a Gingerbread House

Kreinik posted another of their fun short videos on their Facebook page this week. This time they show off one of Danji's gingerbread houses with Jill Rigoli of Danji explaining how she created the piped icing on the front of the gingerbread house. Neat! 
https://www.facebook.com/Kreinik.Manufacturing.Company/videos/10153207320410940/?fref=nf

This thread is called Hot Wire and it comes in a nice range of colors.  Easy to work with, and great effects!
http://www.kreinik.com/shops/Hot-Wire.html

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© Copyright March 23, 2016 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

No More Knots!

Stitch By Stitch Larchmont has a nice short video in their latest e-newsletter about how to take thread from a skein of DMC cotton floss without causing knots. Enjoy! 
http://www.stitchbystitchneedlepoint.com/so/5LE1KU5f?cid=68bf7f60-0c49-4a61-b2cc-4a9944579072#/main

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© Copyright March 17, 2016 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

ANG's First Mid-Year Auction

ANG's Auction is going to be held twice this year for the first time.  This was in the recent ANG newsletter:

"Plan to join us for the first ever Mid Year Auction! Open to anyone with access to a computer. The Auction goes live for bidding on Monday, April 18th and closes on Sunday, April 24th. With 150 or more painted canvases plus a few stitching accessories, we know members and friends alike will be able to find something special to bid on!!! The Auction will be held on ang.afrogs.org.

We hope to have the items available for pre-Auction viewing in the week prior to the start of the Auction--check in after April 10th to see if we made our deadline!!! Then come back to bid!! Items will be mailed out to the winning bidders within two weeks of the close of the Auction."

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© Copyright April 5, 2016 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.