Today’s Eye For Colour will surely get you in the holiday mood – think festive Christmas reds! If you’re new to my Eye For Colour series you are in for a treat. My goal with this series is to provide customers with a similar experience to selecting a colour palette and thread choices as you…
It’s not quite December, but I thought it would be great to highlight this candy cane-inspired pattern in case you’d like to start stitching soon OR perhaps for next year! Late last year, I started to notice a variety of Christmas-themed ornaments featuring stitch options mimicking the striped candy cane pattern. I started experimenting…
Our video today highlights one of the colours from our fall 2022 collection – Colour #165. Bold, dark and vibrant are just some of the words I would use to describe it! I originally introduced this colour combination many years ago and despite discontinuing it at that time, I’ decided to re-introduce it last year….
How about some whimsy and a fun holiday tree pattern to celebrate the season? “Holly Jolly” is a whimsical tree pattern designed by Dawn Donnelly. The pattern is available in Needlepoint Now’s July/August 2022 issue. When I first saw this design, I wanted to experiment with some of my Colour Complements threads. My local stitch…
This month we are featuring a RED stitch sample video. Colour #187 is a beautiful blend of reds and orange/reds, ideal for your seasonal stitching. Throughout this month, we have been focusing on red and green in celebration of the holiday season. I dyed Colour #187 many years ago, and it has been popular ever…
This month, we are featuring a slightly different sample and bargello pattern in our bargello series. We decided to split the stitch area in three sections, very similar to the bargello mini sampler I stitched last year. This provides the opportunity to demonstrate how the same colour palette appears but stitched with different stitches. The…
Celebrating Christmas in July with our Christmas Sampler. I always like to offer seasonal samplers usually in November but this year I wanted to celebrate Christmas, YES, Christmas in July! We are some time away from celebrating the holiday season BUT never too early to start some Christmas stitching. More About Our Christmas Sampler Our…
Continuing in our Twelve Months Of Mittens series, today I’d like to share this oh-so cute, green mitten design! So why the colour green? Well, we are celebrating greens in my product line this month. I thought it would be appropriate to share a mitten stitched in the same colour scheme to fit the occasion. …
This vibrant Asian inspired needlepoint sample was inspired by patterns in the Central Asian Embroideries book by the DMC library. If you are not familiar with this book, I thought I would share a bit of history! The DMC Library was initiated by Thérèse de Dillmont in France over a century ago. Have you heard…
Happy Valentine’s Day! What better way to celebrate today than with a beautiful red heart needlepoint design. Hearts are the “universal” symbol for Valentine’s Day, so we decided to have a little fun with the design, creating this beautiful, bold textured stitch sample to celebrate the occasion. While the design may be different from your…
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