The Queen of Hearts (Melissa Prince, Cynthia Thomas and Deux Bijoux Bijoux)

Melissa Prince shows off her new Queen of Hearts design, beautifully stitched by Cynthia Thomas—and yes, Cynthia has a guide—and displayed in a custom box from Deux Bijoux Bijoux.
https://www.facebook.com/341998565857547/photos/pcb.1720772894646767/1720772771313446/?type=3&theater

Use the side arrows to see all the photographs of this beauty!

Guides Available from Point2Pointe

The fairly new Point2Pointe design company has plenty of stitch guides available for canvases from many designers, from Associated Talents' "Let It Snow" to Painted Pony's "Equestrian Angel."
http://www.point2pointe.net/guides-available/

Jan will even do a custom guide. Contact her for more information if you need something special just for you.

Enriched Stitch Does Custom Guides

The Enriched Stitch will create custom stitch guides for you.  Here's how it all works.
http://astheneedleturns.com/new-stitch-guides/

Introducing Kristine

I just met Kristine Kingston of Baltimore Needleworks on Facebook.  Kristine is a finisher, a designer of painted canvases, and also writes custom stitch guides for Needles and Threads of Ruxton.  She can do it all!  If you need a custom stitch guide, you can contact Kristine via Baltimore Needleworks.  By the way, don't miss her new blog!
http://www.baltimoreneedleworks.com./custom-painting--stitch-guides.html

A Creative Consultation with June Mcknight UPDATED

UPDATE:  Stitches By the Bay has announced that it is closing, effective November 20 2010.  I don't know if the web links below will be active after that, so let me summarize what they say.  The first link says that "creative consultations" with June at the shop are $65/hour and are by appointment on Thursdays and Fridays.  The second link is a form to fill out if you need a consultation but don't live locally.  Besides your name and address, the form asks for a description of your project, how you plan to finish it, threads you like and dislike, decorative stitches you would like to avoid, and any special notes such as a deadline for finishing the project.  These long distance consultations are $60/hr. and the form says small projects usually only need 1-2 hours of June's time.  The contact information is the shop's, not June's.  Probably if you wish to contact June for consultations after November 20, you should use the information on her website, which is the third link below.  It looks like she will continue her creative consultations as before.
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Stitches By the Bay is June's former shop.  She still teaches here now that she is concentrating on teaching and writing, and of course you can buy her great little books from the shop.  But the reason I'm mentioning June and Stitches by the Bay is that she does what she calls Creative Consultations for those folks who can't take a local class with her through the shop.  This sounds a great deal like a custom stitch guide to me!
http://stitchesbythebay.com/services.html

Here is the direct link to the Creative Consultation form which you fill out to start the process.  The cost is $60 an hour, which means it'll cost $60-120 for a small project but at least double that for a complex, large design.
http://stitchesbythebay.com/ConsultationForm.html

June also has her own website, although her books are sold only through shops, not directly.  It's a great place to see her latest book and read a bit about it, though.  Her email address is june@junemcknight.com if you want to talk to June herself about a custom stitch guide via a consultation.
http://www.junemcknight.com/

Pepita Needlepoint and Stitch Guides

Many of Pepita Needlepoint's canvases have stitch guides which are available for an extra five dollars.  Canvases with guides are clearly marked on their website.

This is the Stitch Guide page.  It shows a sample page for their guides and states they will do custom guides for stitchers.  There is contact information as well as thumbnail photos of some of their canvases with guides.
http://www.pepitaneedlepoint.com/stitch-guides.aspx

David's Kindergarten Nativity (and Custom Guides)

Labors of Love has a new Nativity set out.  It features kids dressed up as characters in a Nativity pageant and all the canvases come with stitch guides by David McCaskill.  The link below shows the plain canvases which are adorable.   There's an ad in Needlepoint Now that shows these finished but it's not a good enough photo to tell much about how they are done.  However, David McCaskill is a dynamite stitcher and knows tons about threads, so I don't think you'll be disappointed.  Besides, the stitch guide comes with the canvases for free.  Here they are unstitched.
http://www.laborsofloveneedlepoint.com/gallery.php?category=66

David himself does custom stitch guides.  His website contains information (including general pricing) and examples of a page from one of his guides.  Don't miss clicking on More Examples to see, among other things, his fabulous guide for the Opera Singer which won all the major awards at the 2007 Baltimore ANG Seminar.
http://www.dbydstudio.com/stitch/index.html

Paid Custom Stitch Guides from Online Shops

Some online shops will design a custom guide for you whether you bought your painted canvas from them or not.  Here's a list, in alphabetical order.  Most of the shops listed don't give much detail so you will have to contact them and talk over what you need and how much it will cost. I will add to this list as I find more shops that offer this service.  Buyer beware!  I don't know how detailed or good any of these guides are.

NeedleHouse in Houston doesn't mention prices or any other details.
http://www.theneedlehouse.com/jm/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89&Itemid=91

Old World Designs (California)
http://www.oldworlddesigns.com/

Needlenook of La Jolla (California) - They might only do guides for canvases purchased from them, however.
http://store.needlenook.com/Custom-Stitch-Guide-Service-p36795.html

Rittenhouse (Pennsylvania)
http://rittenhouseneedlepoint.com/stitchguide

Quail Run (Arizona)
http://quailrunneedlework.com/services/stitch-guide-design