Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The Beading Awl

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I just noticed Ruth of Bedecked and Beadazzled sells something called a beading awl.

It appears to have a fine sharp tip.  Beaders use it to move beads around and to help with knots in beading thread.  The beading awl has a comfortable grip and is made from Tulip which is known for their fine needles.  Just FYI.

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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Dale of Norway in Needlepoint

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Eleonore found a real treasure in Norway--a needlepoint of the Dale, Norway sweater factory.

Dale of Norway's sweaters are famous and worth every penny according to folks who own one.  

As Eleonore continued on her trip to Denmark, she found this fire screen stitched by Louis XIV's mistress. That's Louis the Sun King of France.

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Monday, January 13, 2025

Let's Talk Blackwork

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Sarah asked Lisa at BeStitched to talk about blackwork, especially for backgrounds.  Here is what Lisa says on the shop's Instagram page--

The threads used in the examples were all perle type threads such as Soy Luster from Dream House Ventures

Floche (DMC)

Elegance (Rainbow Gallery)

Tranquility (Treenway Silks)

Petite Silk Lame Braid (Rainbow Gallery)

size 4 Kreinik very fine braid (Rainbow Gallery)

However, you can use any thread type.  It's just easier to do blackwork with a non-strandable thread.

If you aren't familiar with "tuck stitches" you can read about them here.  I call them the locking L, the pin stitch, etc.  

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Sunday, January 12, 2025

Sea Shell Santa (Janet Zickler Casey)

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Brenda of Brenda's Needlepoint Studio is working another Janet Z. Casey Santa, this time the Sea Shell Santa.

By the way, the spools of YLI ribbon floss are the old packaging.  It's usually only available on the square frames now.  Metallic ribbon floss is a bit stiffer than the regular ribbon floss, so that may be part of the problem, or maybe this is just a really old spool of thread.

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Saturday, January 11, 2025

Coco Frank Visits the Shops

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Coco Frank has held several pop up events at various needlepoint shops in 2024.  

In this article she writes about visiting shops as a designer, using Waste Knot (my not-so-local shop) as an example.  I think all the photos were taken in this Arlington, Virginia store, which is certainly worth a visit.  I'm lucky it's a good hour drive one way or I'd be bankrupt!  (Lori does mail order very well, though.)

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