Thursday, September 7, 2023

How to Finish Passport Covers: The Movie

Planet Earth shares how to insert a stitched canvas into their passport covers, using nail clippers to shove the corners into position.

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© Copyright August 26, 2023 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

The Medusa Sea Jelly Fund Raiser Class

Melita is at the EGA Seminar where she ran into Kim of ANG's Needle Artists by the Sea chapter.  They are selling kits for this charming design to help pay for the exhibit they hold every other year.

Melita has the outline done after she picked threads.

She is working the jelly's body and has finished the background.

Now for the jelly and it's dangling arms!

You can read about the class and order the kit on the Needle Artists by the Sea website.

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© Copyright September 5, 2023 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Two JP Needlepoint Ornament Holiday Designs from Ridgewood Needlepoint

Stephanie and Adrienne at Ridgewood Needlepoint are tackling two JP Needlepoint ornament canvases and posting their stitches each Monday.  One ornament canvas is for Christmas and the other for Hanukkah.  It will be fun to see how these two designs come to life and educational if you have holiday ornaments of your own to stitch.

The first posting is Stephanie talking about the Hanukkah canvas and how the first two ornaments were stitched.  She reminds us that many canvases don't have enough space for fancy stitches, so they will emphasize using a variety of threads and embellishments as well as stitches on these pieces.

The second week's posting talks about the Christmas canvas and how ornaments 1 and 2 are stitched.  The threads list for six of the ornaments is included.

The third week's post covers ornaments three and four on the Hanukkah design.

Week four covers ornament three and four for the Christmas design.

Week five covers ornaments five and six on the Hanukkah design.

Week six is back to Adrienne's Christmas ornaments five and six.

Week seven is about the Hanukkah design's ornaments seven and eight.

Week eight covers the Christmas ornaments seven and eight.

Ornaments 9-12 for the Hanukkah design.

Ornaments 9-12 for the Christmas design.

Ornament 13 and the background are all that is left on the Hanukkah piece.

Here are ornaments 13-16 on the Christmas one.

The final four Christmas ornaments are described here.

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© Copyright August 23, 2023 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Monday, September 4, 2023

Julie Pischke Designs is Reborn UPDATE

One of the fun things about visiting family in the Florida Keys was a stop at Julie Pischke's shop Island Needlework in Key West. 

The shop has closed and Julie is retired but Julie Pischke Designs is being reborn.  The tropical flowers and foliage, the sea creatures, the colors, the fun conch houses--everything's still there, even those fabulous carpet bags.

Have fun browsing!  

UPDATE:  Needlepoint Junction is one of the few shops carrying Julie's designs right now.

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© Copyright August 24, 2023 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Sunday, September 3, 2023

The Long Bat Mystery

Ruth at Bedecked and Beadazzled has announced her Halloween mystery class:  it is Zecca's "Long Bat."  

As is my usual practice, I'll update this article with Ruth's progress reports from her October classes.  

Ruth did something totally different and stitched the bat's face and one wing first instead of doing the background.

The bat's chubby little body looks fabulous. Apparently the wings are all sparkly and the fingers beaded.  I hope Ruth shows off the background stitch using a Stef Francis overdye (this is a UK Company).

Stef Francis dyes fabrics and threads of all sorts.  This is her silk section but explore a bit to see the cotton. linen, and rayon threads and much, much more.

And finally, here is Long Bat, finished two ways.

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© Copyright August 24, 2023 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.