I’ve been teasing you for days on Instagram with what the next mystery would be. Little by little the design has been revealed. How long did it take you to guess it was a kitty cat? LOL. This is from our newest artist Johanna Virtanen! Her art is certain to become a new favorite of […]
Archives for May 2019
A New Artist!
Please join me in welcoming Johanna Virtanen to our happy family of artists. Johanna is a fashion designer in Finland and wait until you see her work! Just for fun we started with 5 of her angels and darling little girls. There’s all kinds of things to follow. Birds, cats, fish, dogs, mice, fashion and […]
Just Because You Can
Doesn’t mean you should. LOL. That was the theme of the second lesson of our current mystery class Beep Beep! We started with a lesson about controlled random. Did that “controlled” word make it better? So many stitchers are intimidated by random stitching. You may know I love it. Seriously love it. These fun concentric […]
April Showers
Bring May Flowers! And this is the flower of all flowers! Love this canvas and it’s stitches. Designed by Kimberly complete with stitchguide as only she can do it. This is the eighth in her series of small squares. Each of her squares is jam packed with techniques. They are great learning pieces. You can […]
Marjorie is coming to teach!
Sound the trumpets! Our dear friend Marjorie Barnes is coming back to teach!! I can’t tell you how excited we are. She was here two years ago and it seems like forever. She is not only a talented designer but such a great teacher. We love her! You will too. These are definitely classes worth […]
Cover Girls
We’re so excited that Needlepoint Now has featured one of Mattye Hamilton‘s girls on the cover of the May June issue. How cool is that? My dear friend Ellen did the stitchguide and it is fabulous fun. Great threads, great stitches. There’s even a chance to use threads from your stash in this one. If […]
Wait until you see!
We had so many fun canvases in class this weekend. Wait until you see what we did. In our Embellishment Extravaganzas I write a complete stitchguide for each canvas and then we spend the weekend stitching together. Here’s the results! Tabby Time – Feather by Eleanor Grosch The Row by Purple Palm Designs Field of […]
Extravaganzas are the Best
This weekend is our Spring Embellishment Extravaganza. This is a super fun class where you can select any canvas you wish and I write a custom stitchguide. You join us for class where you find your canvas mounted on stretcher bars, a beautiful bag of threads and embellishments and a complete stitchguide with all the […]
