It’s still sort of Christmastime. Decorations are still out. New Year’s Eve is tomorrow so it’s not really too late to unveil a new Christmas design. This is the latest collaboration between myself and EyeCandy Needlearts. You may remember the mystery class this summer – Harvest Colors Puzzle. It was so much fun that it […]
Archives for 2010
Happy Holidays
Where has this month gone??? Just days ago it feels like we started the holiday mystery and here we are at the last class already. I found great buttons that were perfect additions to the Noel and Jingle canvases and as you know with me, one thing leads to another and before you know it […]
Holiday Fruits
Well, not necessarily holiday fruits, but fruits non-the-less and fruits to be given as a holiday gift. So, in a round-about way, I guess they really are holiday fruits. I designed a series of fruitful canvases, Pears, Apples and Watermelons that can fit in various Stirling leather goods. Some are 8 x8 and some are […]
Trivia from your resident Needlepoint Geek
Did you know that you can gift an iapp? I didn’t, but how cool is that? For quite some time users have had the ability to gift albums and songs through iTunes, and of course users always have had the ability to purchase iTunes gift cards. Back in March, Apple came out with the ability […]
Love Letters?
Letters TO Santa? Letters from Santa?….. Letters on our Christmas mystery canvases of course. I love typography; it’s the graphic designer in me. It’s important that the lettering looks good and is the star of the show on this canvas. Today was lesson #2 in our holiday mystery at the shop so today we tackled […]
The Perfect Stocking Stuffer
I’m a bling girl. I know it; you know it; we all know it. If there’s a way to add beads or crystals to my needlepoint, I’m going to do it. I sometimes forget I can also add bling via my favorite tool, the hot fix crystal applicator. Yesterday, I happily added crystals to too […]
Magic Fairy Dust
She is magic. I had absolutely the best time ever stitching this canvas. The canvas is an adaptation of an illustration by Paper d’Art. Ruben’s illustrations are just so dear. They are magic by themselves. They have all these tiny details that I love. I am much more about tiny details and changing colors and […]
Noel/Jingle all the way
Thank you everyone who joined our Christmas Mystery class. Today was the first class of the 2010 holiday adventure; I had a great time and hope you did too! This year, our canvas was by Beth Gantz Designs. It’s a simple design but very cute — The word Noel or Jingle on a striped background. […]
Tis the season for PEACE
What a weekend! Could we have picked a better project to wrap up our Fall classes at the shop?? Peace! will take you back to Woodstock and make you think of the freedom and color of the 60’s. You know I love color and the more the merrier. This is part of a new series […]
Patterns and Color and Fabrics Oh My!
I can while away a ridiculous amount of time looking at pretty pictures on the web. I go from site to site making connections and finding my way from artist to artist. It’s interesting that the world isn’t really all that big and sometimes you keep coming back to the same familiar places but from […]
Harvest Colors Puzzle Mystery solved
If you’ve been following my blog, you know we are all about Mystery Classes at Bedecked and Beadazzled. You sign up for a class knowing only what the canvas will be. You then come to class every 2 weeks or so either in person or virtually and receive a new section of the stitch guide […]
Happy Halloween from our girl Hermina Batwings
Well, here’s how I looked for class today. Does it give you a clue how the day went? We were silly. Everyone said they had trouble taking me seriously. I don’t know why…. really, I’m a girl in a pink sweater, what’s the problem? TRICK OR TREAT! Hermina is out trick or treating. She’s very […]
Monet meets Caela Conn Tyler
We just finished another wonderful class with Caela Conn Tyler. This was Caela’s second visit to teach at the shop. If you follow my musings on the blog, you may remember she was here last year just days after we moved into the new location! This year in addition to the color theory class, she […]
Color Details with Caela Conn Tyler
Today at the shop we were fortunate to host a one day COLOR class with Caela Conn Tyler. Here’s how Caela describes the class….. Color Details: “Crossing the Wheel” explores direct complements in depth thus demystifying one aspect of color theory for students. Each student will select a preferred direct complement combination and explore the […]
It’s all about the eyes!
Well here we are, lesson #3 of totally silly needlepoint — Hermina Batwings the current mystery class at the shop! Our little girl Hermina’s costume is complete and she’s holding a wonderful purple gourd with a frog hanging onto it for dear life! There’s no other way to describe the look on his face. […]
Hermina’s Closet
Hermina is quite a fashionable little girl playing dress up as a witch for Halloween. Today in class we created her clothes. Her sweater is a bulky striped knit of Fuzzy Stuff and Ribbon. It’s a good solid knit that mom would approve of to keep her warm while Trick or Treating. Over the top […]
Just look at the frame!
Okay, look at the needlepoint, really look at the needlepoint…. I do love it when everything comes together. The framing on the Watering Can lady is wonderful. It’s everything I had in my mind and more. This was a mystery class that we ran several months ago at the shop — A Maggie canvas brought […]
The face is most important
I start a canvas with the parts that I know have to be a certain way. Sometimes its a certain color that sets a tone or a stitch or a patter that I see in my head. In this case it was her face. She had to look cute! She is a little girl playing […]
What fun we are having
Brenda Hart, Canvas Embellishment Guru has been here this weekend for her annual Fall trip. We have a great time. It’s a very informal class with lots of give and take of ideas. Brenda is really quite brilliant with her stitch choices. She looks at a canvas and knows what details to edit and what […]
Know a good thing when you see it……
Have you seen these needle threaders? If not, they are must haves for your stitching bag. These needle threaders are similar to the traditional wire needle threaders but much stronger. They even have a cutter in the end to snip your threads. Maybe this is the answer to the burning “What will TSA approve for […]
It’s an Atomic Christmas!
I can feel the swing of the 60’s calling me. These ornaments are super quick and oh so easy. The giant paillettes and fabulous crystals make them sparkle. We have once again teamed up with EyeCandy Needleart to bring you a fun and easy ornament club available exclusively at Bedecked and Beadazzled. Ada Haydon designed […]
Funny what a little color change will do….
I had this idea when I first decided to stitch the Harvest Colors Puzzle as a mystery class at Bedecked and Beadazzled that it would be a fun counted canvaswork design. As I stitched on the painted canvas I wrote the instructions a second time so that it could be done on blank canvas. Here’s […]
Now what to do with this?
The Harvest Colors Puzzle Mystery is complete! It really is pretty. The colors sort of glow, they are so bright and inviting. Normally I have an idea when I start a canvas, where it’s going, what it’s going to be etc… But this time I don’t have anything! Or maybe I have too many things. […]
Needleartworks
Needleartworks is a wonderful website started several years ago by the late Jennifer Ashley Taylor. Jennifer had a vision of a place on the web where talented designers could come together and sell their needlework designs. Each designer is still completely independent so it’s sort of like a needlepoint shopping mall filled with many little […]
