Betsy at Fireside Stitchery shows off a Nutcracker Santa from Susan Roberts.
Betsy wrote the guide for this cutie for a customer at Fireside.
May 29, 2024
Large Nutcracker LL (Labors of Love with The Wool and The Floss)
Tenna's "Large Nutcracker" is from Labors of Love. The Wool and The Floss provided a guide for Tenna.
May 27, 2024
Girl's Stocking (Strictly Christmas and Tony Minieri)
The little girl's pink stocking that Dana stitched is a Strictly Christmas design, stitched using a guide by Tony Minieri.
May 25, 2024
Can We Go Out Now? (Strictly Christmas and Ruth Schmuff)
This charmer is a Strictly Christmas canvas that Christine stitched using a guide from Ruth Schmuff.
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Ruth talks about it more on her Bedecked and Beadazzled shop blog.
May 23, 2024
Twelve Days of Christ (Jude and Sandra Barre)
Sylvia is working on Jude's Twelve Days of Christ series using a guide from Sandra Barre.
The guides may be the ones you can buy from Jude. I'm not certain.
May 21, 2024
Large Nutcracker Standup (Labors of Love and Melissa Dru MacLeod)
Brenda is working away on her large nutcracker from Labors of Love using a guide from Melissa at The Wool and The Floss.
May 19, 2024
Fourth of July Gnomes (VNG and Laura Taylor)
Perri's three patriotic gnomes were stitched using a Laura Taylor guide. Design from Vallerie Needlepoint Gallery.
May 17, 2024
Melita Stitches Five Vases with Curly Bamboo
Years ago Melita took a class from the designer SharonG herself around Sharon Garmize's "Five Vases with Curly Bamboo" which you can see unstitched here.
Melita used SharonG's guide for this beauty. Sharon's a master of light coverage stitches as you can see with Vase One, the green one on the left with a feather design.
Some of Melita's chapter buddies are also stitching this. Some are using Sharon's guide, some guides by Amy Bunger or Tony Minieri. In this blog article Melita worked the ruby glass vase which has lots of beads.
For the teal blue vase with the dragonfly, Melita stuck to Sharon's light coverage although the guides by Amy and Tony have more solid stitching (and Tony has full coverage on all the vases apparently).
The yellow floral vase was stitched next, including the bamboo stalks in the vase.
Melita can't find the blog posting on the final vase, the cinnamon one, but this article talks about it briefly and also talks about the different ways the stitch guide writers approached this design.
Three versions of this design were submitted to ANG's Needle Pointers magazine so if you subscribe you may see more of this lovely design in the January-February 2021 issue.
May 15, 2024
Gardening Stitching Girl (Gayla Elliott and Paula Rae Schmidt)
Joanne's gardening Stitching Girl is done. This is a Gayla Elliott canvas, available from Alice Peterson. Joanne used a guide by Paula Rae Schmidt at Family Arts.
May 13, 2024
Kitchen Santa Dome (Mary Lake-Thompson and Chris Tirey)
Kara's Santa is stitched and made up now and he's wonderful. Design from Mary Lake-Thompson through Melissa Shirley with a stitch guide by Chris Tirey at Nimble Fingers.
May 11, 2024
Nativity (Tapestry Tent and Susan Portra)
Patty's Nativity set by Liz Goodrick-Dillion is magnificent! Patty used guides by Susan Portra and asked Rittenhouse to finish the set.
These Tapestry Tent designs are now owned by Victoria Whitson, so your favorite shop can order the set from her.
May 9, 2024
Broke Down in Denver (Dominic Bourbeau and Paula Rae Schmidt)
Pamela's "Broke Down in Denver" is finished and framed.
Pamela used a guide by Paula Rae Schmidt of 3 Kittens Needle Arts on this canvas distributed by Tapestry Fair.
May 7, 2024
Cactus Jim (Vicki Sawyer and Terri Dudley)
Sheren's woodpecker with his cactus plant is finished and it's adorable. Terri Dudley at The Tinsmith's Wife did the stitch guide.
May 5, 2024
Just Jellies (CBK and Laurie Owen)
Pat's finished her "Just Jellies," a design from CBK. She used a guide by Laurie Owen of the Enriched Stitch.
May 3, 2024
Christmas Filials (Raymond Crawford and Marina Perea)
Raymond Crawford shows off his stitched "Christmas Filials," which were worked using a stitch guide by Marina Perea.
May 1, 2024
Halloween Bench (Melissa Shirley and Amy Bunger)
Amy Bunger's stitch guide for Melissa Shirley's "Halloween Bench" is ready!
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