Who says winter has to be white? Certainly not RomantzArt! And definitely not our newest Mystery Class star, Wild North Nanuuk. Meet a polar bear with an entirely different idea of winter. Surrounded by oversized flowers, fanciful foliage, and glorious color, Nanuuk is anything but your ordinary Arctic explorer. From his fabulous flower crown to […]

You know I can’t resist a canvas that’s a little different. Or a lot different. And these four new designs from RomantzArt certainly qualify. You may remember RomantzArt from Crazy Smart and Vibrant Beauty Well, we have four more designs from this wonderfully imaginative artist, and they’re quite a collection. First, meet Diego and Noe, […]

Three blue dogs. Five little birds. And a whole lot of personality! Meet Three Blue Dogs by Lane Tree Lily, the fourth and final brand-new stitch guide debuting at this weekend’s Zoom-bellishment! These three fabulous pups have apparently attracted quite a following. Little blue birds are perched on their heads and tails, while the dogs […]

Just when you thought Christmas Eve couldn’t get any crazier… Along come the aliens! Meet Christmas Eve Encounters by Rebecca Wood, our next brand-new stitch guide debuting at this weekend’s Zoom-bellishment. Santa and his reindeer are making their rounds over a charming snow-covered village when a flying saucer full of curious extraterrestrials appears in the […]

Some birds are content to blend into the scenery. Not this one! Meet Quail at Sunrise by Dominic Bourbeau, the second of our four brand-new stitch guides debuting at this weekend’s Zoom-bellishment. And what a fabulous canvas it is! Our rather fashionable quail is standing tall in a landscape of rolling hills, swirling patterns, and […]

It’s time for the first of four brand-new stitch guides debuting in this weekend’s Zoom-bellishment class! Meet Crazy Smart, a Romantzart canvas with a whole lot going on. And I mean a WHOLE lot! At 10″ x 13″ on 18 count, it’s packed with fabulous colors, wonderful details, and more opportunities to play with stitches, […]

Some canvases just make you smile. Snow Folks by Margaret King is definitely one of them! Three wonderfully whimsical snowmen, two skiing puppy dogs, colorful hats and scarves, and enough wintertime shenanigans to make you wish for a snow day. Sue stitched this one, and it’s back from the finisher looking absolutely adorable! From the […]

We’re getting ready for another weekend of Zoom-bellishment, and that means lots of wonderful needlepoint, new stitch guides, and a few returning favorites! Our October class is all set, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get in on the stitching fun. Kits are available to order and pre-order, so you can choose your next project […]

A stitch isn’t just a stitch. It has direction. And that direction matters. When I’m choosing a stitch for an area of a canvas, one of the first things I look at is which way the area is moving. Think about a bird’s wing. The feathers have a natural direction. The wing has a shape […]

Thanksgiving is coming, which means it’s time for one of my favorite traditions — Friends-Giving! What started years ago as a “well, let’s see who shows up” kind of idea has become something I look forward to. Every year over Thanksgiving weekend, we carve out a little time before the season gets too crazy to […]

Much of the needlepoint world is at market right now, looking for what’s new. I’m here looking at what we already have — and remembering just how fabulous some of it is. New is fun. You know I love new. But sometimes the perfect next project is already sitting right in front of us. Case […]

First we made it easier to choose a project. Then we gathered the techniques, videos and conversion charts you may need once the stitching begins. There is one more useful thing hiding in plain sight: inspiration. Sometimes you are not looking for instructions. You simply want to see what happened to a painted canvas once […]

  On Friday, I showed you some of the ways the new website makes it easier to choose a project and understand exactly what is included. But finding the right project is only the beginning. At some point, you are going to wonder how to work a particular stitch, where to find that video you […]

   We took a little detour for Halloween Trees and Pumpkin Harlequin, but I’m not finished showing you around the new website. A website can be beautiful – and I certainly wanted this one to be beautiful – but if you still have to hunt for the useful things, we have missed the point. After […]

One of the things I wanted the new website to do was make it easier to wander. Because sometimes you know exactly what you’re looking for. And sometimes you absolutely do not. So when you wander into Needlepoint on the new site, you have choices. You can Shop All, which is exactly what it sounds […]

We introduced our Halloween Trees Club last year, but really—look at these. They deserve another moment. Zecca’s Halloween Trees are weird, wonderful, slightly spooky and completely over the top in exactly the right way. Three wonderfully wonky trees plus six little ornaments, all loaded with opportunities for fabulous threads, embellishments and stitches. Oh my. There’s […]

Okay, now that you’ve had a couple of days to wander around the new website, let me show you one of my favorite parts. Color Dreams has a home. A real one. For the first time, every current Color Dreams thread line—and every current color—is online. You already know and love Floche. It’s been part […]

Twenty-five years ago today, Bedecked & Beadazzled went online. And today, we get to do it all over again. Welcome to the new Bedecked & Beadazzled. The world has changed rather dramatically since September 10, 2000. So has Bedecked & Beadazzled. We’ve been online. We’ve been a brick-and-mortar shop. We’ve been a much bigger brick-and-mortar […]

Twenty-five years. I’m not entirely sure how that happened. On September 10, Bedecked & Beadazzled celebrates 25 years online. Twenty-five years of canvases and threads and beads and classes and stitch guides and ideas. Twenty-five years of looking at things and wondering, “What if we did this?” There have been a few Jessicas along the […]

I have learned an astonishing number of things in 25 years that I had absolutely no intention of learning when I decided to sell needlepoint. I opened a needlepoint shop because I knew needlepoint. I knew color. I knew stitches. I knew canvases and threads and designers. I knew how to help someone turn a […]

Today we’re getting a little witchy with My Cauldron by Barbara Basso. This fabulous piece is back from the framer, and she’s absolutely magical. Pun completely intended. Kathy stitched this one in a zoom-bellishment class and finished it in no time flat. Even better, she kept telling me how much fun she was having while […]

Well, that was certainly not how I planned to spend the last couple of days. The Bedecked & Beadazzled website experienced an unexpected security issue that took us offline while everything was investigated, cleaned up, and made safe again. I’m very sorry for the downtime — and especially for anyone who was trying to shop, […]