YUM!!!! They look good enough to eat. Mom stitched this piece with the help of Brenda Hart’s talented stitch and thread selections. Brenda is part of our teaching faculty and comes to the shop as often as she can, to hold canvas embellishment classes with us. We have a small group each time. Each stitcher […]

Talk about knock out finishing! This takes the cake. You know I loved my Santa with Dots when I finished him. Now he is back from the finisher and OMG is he just the coolest santa ever. Don’t you just love the bow and all the fabulous sequins. Kudos to a very talented finisher.

I’m trying to be better about posting more often and sending newsletters for the shop more often. We’ll see how these plans go. Today I finally finished part I of Gay Ann Rogers Mystery in a Corner. For those of you who don’t know, Gay Ann periodically designs mystery projects. She sends out a list […]

It’s finished!!!! I just put the last rose on this canvas and had to share before sending it off to the finisher tomorrow. It truly is all about the roses. This is Shelly Tribbey canvas and it’s really kind of simple. I picked a few cool stitches and wonderful threads as a background to the […]

Okay, I couldn’t resist. I don’t usually post pics of my boys but I just had to. I had to share this photo. Karl took this photo today of Harold and I love it! The lighting is amazing and Harold looks just too cool. (Yes, these really are the colors of my house when the […]

It really is amazing when you look at our tradeshow booth how much stuff we have designed and developed over the past 5 years. The painted canvas line started in 2003, so it really hasn’t been that long that I have been working with great artists to bring their illustrations to needlepoint. Of course for […]

Here she is, finally finished. The new Christmas Fairy stocking. You may recognize the fairy as she has been in the line for awhile. Thanks to the recomendation of a customer she is now available on a stocking! (Okay, sometimes I miss the obvious and its up to you guys to point it out.) Christmas […]

What a great class. Last Wednesday Jean and Paul Krynicki of River Silks came to the shop to teach a mini how to. What fun we had! They started at the beginning, and taught us how to thread a needle, how to anchor your ribbon to the canvas for stitching and how to do all […]

How much fun would it be to have a pink feather tree for Christmas? Or a pink feather tree for all year round? Well, being a pink kind of girl I had to find out. I have recently collaborated with fellow designer Ada Haydon of EyeCandy Needleart to design a series of oh so fun […]

Got to love little projects with big impact! Who says instant gratification is a bad thing? This wristlet uses a 2″ square canvas with a single initial as the starting point. Stitch it up double quick in your favorite threads. Add a little bling, just because. The finisher does the rest adding a twist, appliqueing […]

It’s been a year since we opened the store. I can’t believe how fast its gone. Twenty years from now I’ll be looking back saying the same thing (I hope). Yes, I love the store. Yes, I love all the wonderful people that are involved with it from my customers, to my staff to all […]

Another project stitched and off to the finisher. This is the large version of my santa with stars ornament. I knew I wanted him to be a stand up Christmas present type of box but that’s really all I knew. I also knew I wanted to stitch him differently than the ornament. So, after months […]

If you can dream it, we can probably build it. 🙂 Michael Stoebner is one of the artists that I represent. His designs are positively enchanting. I want to stitch them all! The beauty of the plan is that there is usually someone you can team up with and make the magic happen. I started […]

A few weeks ago I mentioned that I had been working on Strictly Christmas’s Squatty Santa with Cats. At first I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with him to make him special. Ultimately I did decide what to do and it all worked. He is darling! I started with the basics. Santa’s face, […]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Really great finishing takes the cake! There is nothing more exciting than receiving a box from a finisher and opening it to see your beautiful needlework transformed. It is now neat and pressed and blocked and trimmed and embellished and GORGEOUS! You love it all over […]

Talk about a treasure box! Raymond Crawford designed this happy canvas for all of us stitching fiends. It was great fun to stitch in all of it’s Lily Pulitzer colors – pinks, yellows, lime and just a touch of purple. I went to town using a variety of different stitches and threads. There’s a bone […]

Last year when the issue of Needlepointers came out that featured all the award winners from seminar I fell in love with a piece designed and stitched by Rosalyn Cherry-Soleil. Flight of Fancy. Not only is this piece gorgeous, but it is a tour de force of stitching techniques and innovative ideas. I offered it […]

I love chocolate. All kinds of chocolate. Chocolate cake being my favorite. So, what better time of year to design a chocolate series than just before Valentine’s Day. The finishing on this box really brings it to life. I wanted something soft and sort of squishy but still a box that could be filled with […]

Anyone who knows me, knows I have a thing for shoes. Now around the house I never wear shoes but if I’m going out, I love cute shoes. if you want to see my favorites, go to www.bettyemuller.com. Way too cool! But I digress. When we were planning the American Needlepoint Guild festivities for last […]

I know, I know, I’ve been promising the stitching santa photos and stitch guide for way too long. This was just a canvas that i really, really wanted to stitch myself. Which means we were all at the mercy of the rest of my life. He really is finished and at the finisher’s now. I’ll […]