Oct 11, 2016

Venice (Colors of Praise and David McCaskill)

Carol showed off her latest finish on Facebook--"Venice" from Colors of Praise, stitched mostly using David McCaskill's stitch guide.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/NeedlepointNation/permalink/1130164597060697/

Contact David via his Facebook page, Stitches on Wheels, to order the guide.  Your favorite shop can order the canvas for you.
https://www.facebook.com/Stitchesonwheels/


Oct 9, 2016

Santa on the Beach (Labors of Love and Mark Young)

Labors of Love's Mark Young has just finished the stitch guide for their beachy Santa stocking  This will be available at Destination Dallas 2016 in September.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10210900285729612&set=gm.1129397357137421&type=3&theater

Oct 8, 2016

Magnolias (Kirk and Hamilton with Pat Miller)

Pat Miller (also known as the Needleart Nut) has finished her gorgeous Kirk and Hamilton "Magnolias."  Isn't it lovely?!
https://needleartnut.blogspot.com/2016/10/magnolia-finish.html

https://needleartnut.blogspot.com/2016/11/magnolias-framed.html

The canvas is available from Kirk and Bradley (the new name for Kirk and Hamilton) and the stitch guide is available from Pat.  The link above tells you how to reach Pat to order the guide.  Here's the Kirk and Bradley website.  You can't order canvases from them yourself but your favorite shop can get it for you if they don't happen to have this in stock.
http://www.kirkandbradley.com/floral

Oct 7, 2016

Golden Pears (Melissa Shirley)

Melissa Shirley just announced a new stitch guide for her "Golden Pears" design--done by Melissa herself!  And she has posted all the pages of the guide on Facebook.  Use the side arrows to see what she did and where.
https://www.facebook.com/MelissaShirley.Needlepoint/photos/pcb.10154500775209252/10154500770449252/?type=3&theater

Melissa is very talented as a stitcher, as well as a designer.

Oct 5, 2016

Outside Owl (Eleanor Grosch and Ruth Schmuff)

I love this Eleanor Grosch owl design and the fact that Ruth Schmuff has written a guide for it just makes it more appealing.
http://www.notyourgrandmothersneedlepoint.com/2016/08/outside-owl-has-super-cool-sttichguide.html

Follow the link to order this from Ruth's shop.

Oct 3, 2016

Black Cat (Melissa Shirley and Robin King)

Lizette's just finished her Black Cat (design by Melissa Shirley) using a stitch guide from Robin King.  It's the perfect Halloween cat!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205292227180052&set=gm.1125667884177035&type=3&theater