Christmas in July! What better way to celebrate our nation’s birthday then by celebrating Christmas. Hmmm, maybe I have my holidays confused 🙂 No, matter. The first lesson of our Holiday Mystery with a Twist has shipped!!! All those lovely Melissa Shirley Christmas Village canvases are on their way to your home. Here’s your first […]
melissa shirley
I love cupcakes!
I’ve always loved cupcakes the more frou frou the better. Give me coconut any day or peanut butter and chocolate or just all chocolate or yellow cake with chocolate icing, woo hoo! And of course if you add sprinkles or chocolate shavings I am even happier. Finally. we have cupcake stores. I know many of […]
It’s a Christmas Mystery with a Twist
What’s a girl to do? I love Christmas and there just isn’t enough time at Christmast to do all the stitching that’s on my mind. So many of you have said the same thing. You just don’t have time over Christmas to join in all the stitching games. So, I got to thinking (with the […]
It’s 5 o’clock somewhere
Will you join me in a toast? A toast to great threads and stitches and beautiful canvases – all the things we celebrate with each stitch we take. Check out this picnic basket designed by Mary Lake Thompson and brought to us by Melissa Shirley. We started pulling threads and stitches for this canvas and […]
Melissa Shirley has a stitching club!
Ten Beautiful Golden Christmas Crackers by Melissa Shirley with stitch guides by Robin King. Join us starting this August for an oh so sparkly golden needlepoint club. By joining the club you will receive one canvas and guide per month. On the 9th month you will receive an additional cracker absolutely FREE. Classically elegant […]
For the Bug Collectors
If an entire purse or pillow of beetles is a little much for you, check this out. I took this photo in Melissa Shirley’s booth at Columbus Market. The same beetles as on the purse, but each is individually framed in a shadow box just like a bug collector would. For the sake of […]
Be Still My Beating Heart
The Melissa Shirley heart pillow is back from the finisher. I love it! The finishing is simple. Well, sort of simple. We inset the needlepoint into the perfect shade of red orange silk and pleated the inset. A covered cord is then wrapped with 7mm ribbon in the same orange that we used for the […]
Tah Duh!
All of a sudden the heart sprang to life. It sparkles; it glitters; it’s magical. I really did enjoy stitching it and am very pleased with how it turned out. I hope you are too. The flowers in the heart are a wonderful Diagonal stitch worked in Vineyard Silk that leaves little spaces for metallic […]
It’s starting to look magical!
Here we go – today was class day. Lesson #3 of Melissa Shirley’s heart. It’s starting to take shape. There was a lot of ground work to do before we could really start seeing things happen. Background, borders etc. But now, I am quite pleased with it. The background of the heart is simply Basketweave […]
Happy Valentine’s Day
What better way to spend a holiday than with good friends. Today was our 2nd Mystery Class for Melissa Shirley’s Heart. We’re still building the foundation here so it’s all very subtle but you can see things are starting to blossom. Today we worked on the gold border. It’s one of my favorite stitches – […]
What a difference a color makes
Wow, what a difference. This summer a group of us stitched Melissa Shirley’s Mellow Yellow canvas as the very first Mystery Class at Bedecked and Beadazzled. It was so much fun, and I love my finished purse. But wow, what a difference a color change can make! A friend of mine stitched the background of […]
What a class
Today was the first day of our Melissa Shirley Mystery Class. I think I surprised a few people with the choices I made for how to stitch this canvas. Here’s the canvas after lesson #1’s stitching is complete. I hope you can see the subtle details, because it is really cool. Ultimately, I want this […]
New Year New Project
Woo Hoo I get to start a new project! You know that elation of the first stitches on a brand new canvas. Well, we have a new Mystery Class Starting at Bedecked and Beadazzled at the end of January and I finally get to start stitching on it. I’ve had to leave it in the […]
Now where are those Spring Flowers???
Woo Hoo! Mellow Yellow is back from the finisher and they did a great job. It’s gorgeous! Don’t you just love the handles? Hot pink leather, an orange lining and beautious beaded handles. Now where are my Spring Flowers so that I can carry it? Guess I’m going to have to wait a few months, […]
Mellow Yellow now complete!
It’s finished and I love it! I’m really quite pleased with how this Melissa Shirley canvas turned out. I’ve been stitching this canvas and teaching it at the shop as a Mystery Class. With each lesson, a new section of the canvas is revealed stitched. Each section was a challenge to make the flowers […]
Zinnias!
The zinnias are just amazing. The moment I saw this canvas I knew how I wanted to stitch the zinnias. I had to do my background first and a few other flowers but now the zinnias are in bloom!!!! Six colors of River Silks 7mm ribbon and a handful of swarovski crystals and we have […]
The flowers are blooming
OOOH! I’m really pleased with how our flowers are blooming. This week we added 2 flowers, the one on the right side of the canvas is the furthest in the distance. It needed a subtle pattern that wouldn’t compete with the background or the rest of the flowers. It also needed the pretty shading to […]
Mellow Yellow Class #1
This was the weekend — the first Mellow Yellow Class! Melissa Shirley designed this great purse canvas that we unveiled at our trunkshow in April. I am designing a stitch guide for it and teaching it sort of as a mystery class. Every few weeks we meet and I unveil the next section stitched. First […]
New, New, New — How Cool is this?
Last year as I was planning our second anniversary celebrations I asked Melissa Shirley what we could do that would be really special. She was to be one of our 3 featured trunkshows this month so what would it be? Melissa agreed to premiere a special piece at our shop. How cool is that? We […]
