I never, ever, ever thought I would see this. Fendi has taken their classic baguette handbag originally created in 1925 and turned it into a needlepoint kit!!! Karl Lagerfeld is the creative director, I want to see what he does next. For $995 you can own this bag in its oh-so-cool little box with Fendi […]
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Bedecked and Beadazzled Bewitching Boo-tique
This is where all the fashionistas in the witchy world shop. A boo-tique so cool, a boo-tique so magical, a boo-tique so hip that everyone who is anyone shops there. Even a silly little black cat named felix put on his ghosty costume to sneak into the shop unnoticed. We are delighted to announce this […]
Experiments
If you read Jane of Chilly Hollow’s blog you may know that I have been experiencing some blog issues. I’m working on it. I’m still here blogging, it’s just that the links to me from other sites are now wacky. Most of them don’t work. I’ve rebuilt the blog and maybe that will help. You […]
new blog
Just a quick note. The blog address has been changed. If you are kind enough to follow my ramblings, and projects please bookmark www.notyourgrandmothersneedlepoint.com thanks ruth
The snow, oh the snow!
What’s a girl to do when it snows this much? For a state that doesn’t usually get snow we got a crazy amount of snow Friday into Saturday. 30+ inches!!!! What were the weather gods thinking. The shop has been closed since Thursday night! I’ve been working on the next lesson of the Heart Mystery […]
If you don’t love cute kitties come back in a few days
What can I say, sometimes the spirit just moves me to post kitty pictures. I try not to do it often but sometimes I just can’t resist. Here’s Richie, my youngest. Here’s the canvas we designed from one of his baby pictures. Tigger who was the dearest cat I ever met. Boy did he love […]
Bling in the New Year!
Happy New Year everyone! I’m a bling kind of girl so what better day to post about my favorite bling than on New Year’s Eve the blingiest of holidays. Okay, I’m seriously doing my part to add a little extra bling to Christmas. Halloween will be next, but New Years, what is it without bling! […]
Ready for Santa
Thanks to Mother Nature dropping 20 inches of snow on us yesterday I am semi-snowbound. Now, maybe if I had a 4 wheel drive car (santa are you listening?)or if I didn’t live at the bottom of a hill that is also a dead end I might have gotten out today. Maybe tomorrow. Good news […]
In the Limelight
A fellow blogger, Susan Elliott was in the shop on Saturday. She is Plays-with-needles listed in the right sidebar of the blog. I love her blog. It’s always so fresh and happy and filled with beautiful pictures. Speaking of beautiful pictures, check out the post she did on the shop. Susan, I am honored and […]
It’s Beginning to Feel a lot Like Christmas
It’s less than 2 weeks until Christmas and our Merry Christmas Mystery Class is really taking shape! Today was lesson 5. We accomplished more squares than usual, but some were repeats and others were super easy. The holly was our feature this afternoon. Well, really the holly berries where the feature. You know I love […]
Another signature for our wall
This is such a fun addition to the classroom. We have a large framed print of the bee from our logo and each time a teacher comes to inspire us or a designer comes to visit I ask them to autograph the board. As we look back we will remember all the fun we have […]
Light your fire
Well as you can guess today’s Merry Christmas Mystery lesson was the candle. Light your fire is the perfect name for the sparkling candle accented with sequins and beads. This week’s lesson really is a quick stitch. The candle is of course the star of the show. The candle flame is Water N’Ice in Long […]
Perfect Pears
Apparently I have a thing for needlepoint pears. Vintage Pears is a Melissa Shirley canvas that I just love. Beverly Churchfield did the stitchguide for it and it is amazing. The stitch selections and thread selections are so much fun they really take the canvas to the next level. I added pears to my line […]
What a Wonderful Weekend
You can not imagine how much fun we had last weekend. We had just unpacked the store and were open to welcome customers Tuesday morning. Thursday night Caela Conn Tyler came to teach 3 days of exceptional classes for us. Oh the fun! Friday we had a wonderful lecture/spontaneous painted canvas embellishment class and then […]
We’re Open!
The new store is unpacked and ready for primetime viewing. It really is a very cool space that I think you are going to enjoy. All the stuff that made the old store so me is still here along with lots of fun new things to explore. The walls are still my funky shade of […]
Merry Christmas — Ho Ho Ho
Well, where to begin. At the beginning of course… Today was the first day of our Merry Christmas Mystery Class. I know, you think I am crazy having class today when we move the store tomorrow, but it was important, so we did it. (Many of you who have ordered this class to be shipped […]
Not So Mellow Yellow
I just had to share. Sue has been taking my Mellow Yellow Mystery Class at the shop but made one major change….the background. We picked a different stitch and different threads so that the background could be changed from pink to black. I’ve included this option in the stitchguide so that others can change too. […]
Progress is being made
I promise, pictures are coming. The new space will be ready in a week. Can you believe it? Probably not, but I have a great contractor and he’s getting the job done. Ceiling is inLights aboundThere are holes cut in walls (I know, it sounds weird, but trust me this is a good thing)Paint is […]
Sometimes Life Throws You A Curve
So here we are happily hosting classes with teachers, Brenda Hart was just here and Caela Conn Tyler is coming in a few weeks, and running our very own Mystery Classes. All is right with my little part of the needlepoint world. We were a smidge cramped for space. Not terrible most class days, but […]
Another Great Weekend
This post is a little late but sometimes life just throws you some curves. More about that later. Brenda Hart teacher extraordinaire was here for 3.5 wonderful days of classes last weekend. We stitched, we brainstormed, we laughed and we stitched some more. Everyone had a different canvas and Brenda had great suggestions for each […]
Meet the girls
It’s time to unveil my latest club — The gifted ladies. Here’s one of the girls. And another And another Each of the girls in the series has a gift to give or a gift she has just received. Wouldn’t these be fun to stitch and give to your girl friends. I used […]
A New On-Line Community just for us!
I would like to introduce you to a new web community that I think you will enjoy-Stitcherie. There are lots of online communities, facebook, yahoo groups etc but I was thinking what fun it could be to have a community that is all about stitching. I was also thinking about the interface on these other […]
Barbie goes Needlepoint
I may be just about the only one who finds this so amusing but then again. I love Barbie. I don’t collect, but I still have great appreciation for the beautiful gowns and vast amount of pink that is Barbie. Johnathan Adler is now designing for Barbie! Johnathan Adler’s style is eye-poppingly “happy […]
Mellow Yellow continues to grow
Mystery Class – Mellow Yellow part 2 was so much fun! We added leaves and stems this week. The floral collage is developing into sort of a quilt-like design. I love the leaves, the polka dots on them are actually heshi shells! Perfect little flat white discs. The stems and leaves are stitched in River […]
