Stitching Mopsey's Mandalas

Stitch by Stitch Larchmont interviewed Mopsey Designs and got a tip on how to stitch their mandala canvases.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CyY4vfKruHp/

Here is Mopsey's new Instagram mandala tutorial.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7pLQnovqk8/

Part Two of the tutorial.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C72Vhk6PgOR/

If you aren't familiar with the Mandala series by Mopsey, here they are.

https://mopseydesigns.com/collections/mandalas

As you can see, each quadrant of the canvas repeats.  Mopsey suggests you mentally divide each canvas into four equal corners, stitch the upper right corner, then rotate a quarter turn to stitch the new unstitched section that is now in the upper right corner position.  This will work with any canvas that has four corner repeats like these Mopsey mandalas.

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

A Tip for A Beaded Ornament

Donna entirely beaded this cute Halloween ornament and suggests if you bead 100 percent of something, add two tent stitches rows around the edge.

http://majtravaux.blogspot.com/2023/10/all-beads.html

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

NJNA Diagrams Chottie's Plaid UPDATED

The latest newsletter from the New Jersey Needle Artists Chapter of ANG starts out with a bang by diagramming Chottie's Plaid.  Then they do a quick review of new designs from the trade show last week.

https://blog.njneedleartists.org/2023/10/21/whats-happening-at-njna-10-21-23/

UPDATE:  Melita was at the meeting and is working her plaid.

https://melitastitches4fun.com/2023/11/01/chotties-plaid-with-ang-new-jersey-needle-artists-learning-about-dmc-color-card/

https://melitastitches4fun.com/2023/11/27/halfway-through-christmas-lights-garland-and-chotties-plaid/

If you aren't familiar with Chottie's Plaid, it is Chottie Alderson's way of creating a plaid.  Basically, you do skip tent in horizontal rows, then follow with tent stitches working the skipped canvas threads vertically.  

You can also do your horizontal rows, then turn the canvas a quarter turn and do more horizontal rows in reverse tent to fill in the skipped spaces.

You can work Chottie's Plaid in two colors as shown or mix it up with many different colors.  First, pick numbers that are meaningful to you, such as a birthday, street or apartment number, part of a phone number, etc.  Then assign a color to each number you choose.  If you pick four numbers, you need four colors, etc.

If you picked 2810 as your number and choose red, green, gold and navy as your colors, you would do two rows in red, then eight rows in green, followed by one row of gold and ten rows of navy.  (You can't do zero rows so most folks simply use 10 instead.). 

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© Copyright October 22, 2023 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Amy Bunger's Next Home Study: Rebecca Wood's Four Seasons Angels

Amy Bunger just announced her latest Home Study--Rebecca Wood's "The Four Seasons" angels. Each angel is 6 x 10 inches on 18 count and are painted with a domed top so they'll make either nice standups or look good framed.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0eadtTyS77UojUnovwUeKh99eR7e2BWwmuuqfrv2215RftBdMYygGETCHw8F4HL9al&id=100057451930024

This won't start for a while as the angels won't be available until the Spring of 2024 and Amy has to stitch them and write the guides but it doesn't hurt to ask your favorite shop to order the canvases for you now if you want to participate.

Amy's working on the Autumn and Spring angels.  Rebecca Wood will paint them without halos and wings if you want ladies instead of angels.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0ewx25fZ5tRXo4DZS8BvmP4k8ZgrDQL14KaTMGm9c3PhTRSdxaX9gegfjhAn9hCYol&id=100057451930024

Spring Angel is finished and she's beautiful.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=848334353758288&set=a.577550157503377

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© Copyright October 19, 2023 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Victoria Whitson's Stitch Card Deck No. One

Victoria Whitson Needlepoint's latest idea is the Stitch Card Deck.  There are 39 cards, each with a different stitch diagram, that come on a ring so you can remove a card to take with you.  

https://woolfloss.com/collections/autumn-needlepoint-reunion-2023/products/vw-stitch-card-deck

There's also a little stand and a carrying case.

https://ndlpt.com/collections/countdown-to-cupid/products/vw-stitch-card-deck?syclid=cn70r0j7v77s73b9ou60&utm_campaign=emailmarketing_132449861771&utm_medium=email&utm_source=shopify_email

This is Deck One, so hopefully there will be more.

https://www.victoriawhitsonneedlepoint.com/

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© Copyright October 18, 2023 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.