Spring Beauties (Melissa Shirley and Laura Taylor)

Nancy's Melissa Shirley still life is finished and is beautiful.  She stitched it at a retreat led by Laura Taylor.  Contact Laura for the guide and your favorite shop for the canvas.

https://melitastitches4fun.com/2025/01/21/serendipty-days-11-15-of-25/

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.

https://www.amysgoldenstrand.com/store/p922/5_Vases_with_Curly_Bamboo.html

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.

https://melitastitches4fun.com/2017/03/15/vase-1-of-5-vases-by-sharon-g/

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.

https://melitastitches4fun.com/2017/03/15/vase-1-of-5-vases-by-sharon-g/

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).

https://melitastitches4fun.com/2020/06/08/vase-3-of-5-vases-by-sharon-g/

The yellow floral vase was stitched next, including the bamboo stalks in the vase.

https://melitastitches4fun.com/2020/07/12/vase-4-of-5-vases-by-sharon-g/

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.

https://melitastitches4fun.com/2024/04/22/sharon-g-canvas-vases/

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.

https://fliphtml5.com/bookcase/fmohu

Spring Beauties (Melissa Shirley and Laura Taylor)

Perri's bouquet is finished.  The design is from Melissa Shirley and the stitch guide by Laura Taylor.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10228163183679670&set=gm.6973725619371203&idorvanity=108537025890131

Oriental Urns (Colors of Praise and Tony Minieri)

Diversions Needlepoint shows off a customer's version of these five Colors of Praise vases, stitched using a Tony Minieri guide.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=635490925246593&set=a.469622551833432

Vases (Colors of Praise and Susan Portra)

These two magnificent Vases canvases from Colors of Praise were stitched by Sherren using guides by Susan Portra.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/NeedlepointNation/permalink/5629754963768282/

The design with the pink and white wallpaper is Vases MC307 and the one with the red wallpaper is called Chinese Paper Lanterns.  

Mum Cup (Melissa Shirley and Julie Sever Koonce)

Tami's "Mum Cup" is a Melissa Shirley design, stitched using a guide from Julie Sever Koonce.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10224331968719138&set=pcb.4982077168536068

Autumn (Penny MacLeod and Amy Bunger)

Harriet's Penny MacLeod piece with feathers in a vase looks fabulous.  Canvas available from The Collection Designs, stitch guide by Amy Bunger.  The amazing custom framing is from Deux Bijouix Bijouix.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/NeedlepointNation/permalink/4316986005045191/

Five Vases with Curly Bamboo (SharonG, Tony Minieri and Amy Bunger)

Amy was looking for a stitch guide for this beauty from the fertile mind of SharonG.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/NeedlepointNation/permalink/3641362035940928/

SharonG herself has a stitch guide for this as do Amy Bunger and Tony Minieri.  Melita talks about Amy's and Sharon's guides here.

https://melitastitches4fun.com/2024/04/22/sharon-g-canvas-vases/

Vases (Trubey and Tony Minieri)

Patricia's "Vases" was stitched using a Tony Minieri stitch guide.  The canvas is by Trubey, whose work is distributed by Fleur de Paris.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10214582203178662&set=gm.2750770141666793&type=3&theater&ifg=1

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10214800191028222&set=gm.2813626622047811&type=3&theater&ifg=1