Showing posts with label Nancy Reeves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nancy Reeves. Show all posts

Jul 24, 2011

Melissa Shirley Stitch Guides

Please note this article was written in 2011.  For the latest information on guides for Melissa Shirley's designs (and those of artists she represents), check her website.

Melissa Shirley makes it easy to see if a stitch guide is available for her canvases by listing them all on her website.  There is a brand new section for guides from shops, as well as a brief bio of many of the folks who write stitch guides for Melissa Shirley Designs. (To read the bios, click on the thumbnail photos, not the name under them.)  If you have a Facebook account, Melissa often adds new guide photos to her Melissa Shirley Designs FB page before they make it to her website.
http://melissashirleydesigns.com/galcol/?col=123

Melissa Shirley also has photo albums for her stitch guides on her Melissa Shirley Designs Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=np.83209418.1277706333&type=1

Please note that there are free stitch guides for her Shimmery Snowy Angel and the Yellow Apple Purse on this page.
http://www.melissashirleydesigns.com/galcol/?col=123

Melissa Shirley herself explains how she stitched her Brown Tiger Butterfly purse (1363-A for 18 count and 1363-2A for 13 count) on my blog.  Here's the direct link.
http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com/2010/02/february-canvas-of-month-melissa.html

Melissa Shirley guides are available from the following stitch guide writers:
Amy Bunger
Carolyn Hedge Baird
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=np.88299826.1277706333&type=1
Beverly Churchfield (Aristeia)
http://www.aristeianeedlepoint.com/SGuides.html

Wendy Harwood (Aristeia)
http://www.aristeianeedlepoint.com/SGuides.html

Gina Liuzzi (A Stitch in Time)
Tony Minieri and Cynthia Thomas
Janet Perry and Holly McGuinnes
    (Napa Needlepoint and Golden Touch Crafts)
Nancy Reeves (Old World Designs)*
     *Two of Nancy Reeves' guides are on DVD, not printed out in hardcover.
Needle Orts Inc. (Debbie Bowers and Dennis Masellis)
River Silks
Ruth Schmuff
Lynne Segill (Wellesley Needlepoint)
Laurie Weldon (Chandail) - Pink Ribbon Candy
Terry Christopher (2 the Point Needlepoint)
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/fbx/?set=a.10150231516604252.362281.370199729251

Laura Taylor (Aristeia)
http://www.aristeianeedlepoint.com/SGuides.html

http://needlepointwithlaurataylor.com

Cynthia Thomas (Needle Artisan)
http://www.sandygrossman-morris.com/index_files/StitchersFinishers.htm

Many of the stitch guide writers or shops listed above have websites. I'll write separate articles about each as time permits.

Needle Orts (owned by Debbie Bowers and visited often by Dennis Masellis) is in Florida.  Here's the website.
http://www.needleorts.com/

Apr 24, 2010

Petei Stitch Guides UPDATED

Petei's stable of little people is very popular with stitchers and also with shops, many of which have offered some of her Santas as monthly clubs. Monthly Clubs mean you sign up for a series of designs at a shop (some places let you just buy one canvas) that are mailed to you periodically in kit form--canvas, stitch guide and all the threads needed.  Often once the monthly club series is over, you can still buy a canvas with everything needed from the shop.  But often you can't.  It depends on whether the original canvases are still available and whether the shop wants to bother to kit out a canvas just for one buyer.

Here are Petei's canvases on her website, many of which are sets of familiar fictional characters like Peter Pan, Wendy, and the crocodile, or single historical figures like Sir Walter Raleigh and Henry VIII and his Wives, or Cleopatra or Carmen Miranda.  NOTE:  Painted Pony has bought the line so the old Petei website doesn't have photos linked from the home page any more.  These links still work as of early Sept. 2013.
http://www.petei.com/line_list/line_contents.htm

The very newest Petei canvases have their own page.
http://www.petei.com/new_designs.htm

I know that Diana Bosworth has designed a great many Santa canvases for French Knot in Fort Worth, Texas.  Here's an interview about Diana that I republished on my other Blog, the Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventure.
http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com/2010/04/introducing-diana-bosworth.html

Here are the Petei Santas she has done for the French Knot.  Some are still available as single kits.
http://www.thefrenchknot.com/models/petei.html

Old World Designs has also done some Petei canvases as monthly clubs.  I believe all of these are still available as a single kit.  They were designed by Nancy Reeves.  Here are the 2006 Global Gals,
http://www.oldworlddesigns.com/womenpp06.html

UPDATE:  Old World Designs just announced they are going to re-release the guides for the newly revived Petei line.
http://www.oldworlddesigns.com/womenpp.html

John Waddell has done stitch guides for the Petei Nativity set and quite a few of the Santas.  They are $10 each.  The bottom of the page has non-Petei stitch guides.  I've feature John's work in a separate blog article.  Search using John Waddell to see it.
http://johnwaddellneedlepoint.com/stitchguide.html

These kits are not exactly stitch guides since they include a guide as well as the canvas and threads needed but it is a great place to pick up a stitch guide if you are a big Petei fan.

Feb 25, 2010

Old World Designs' Ready-To-Go Projects

Old World Designs in California offers canvas and stitch guide sets, all of which are listed on this page.  Threads cost extra.  I think if there is no price,  this piece is no longer offered, but you'll have to ask Old World Designs to make sure.  The stitch guides are written by Claire Haldan, Laura Rich and Nancy Reeves.  Note that Nancy's stitch guide is on a DVD and that Claire also has a DVD stitch guide as well as technique DVDs (one for beginners and one teaching hair and fur techniques).
http://www.oldworlddesigns.com/classprojects.html

Designers whose canvases are available here as a Ready-to-Go project are Melissa Shirley, Mile High Princess, Rebecca Wood, Artists Collection, Shelly Tribbey, Renaissance Designs, Zecca, Petei and Gimmies.

UPDATE:  With the revival of the Petei line by Painted Pony Designs, Old World Designs is going to have their Petei guides available again.