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The Perfect Weekend

Recently I attended a needlepoint retreat put on byOld Town Needlework. They are located inScottsdale, Arizona but the retreat was held at theOmni National Hotel, home of the PGA Tour®Champions Tucson Cologuard Classic golftournament in Tucson, Arizona. I’m not a golfer but Ido admit, golf courses are beautiful. Right outside myroom was the first hole of the 36-hole course. As aneedlepoint fanatic, it was fun watching another typeof fanatic get all jazzed up to do their thing as theycompeted in a small tournament the weekend wewere there. I would sit on my balcony and watch thefleet of golf carts zoom around, surprised that they

managed to avoid hitting each other when thetournament opened. They definitely beat outstitchers in the wardrobe department. I have neverseen so much matchy-matchy! The hat matched thegolf shirt that matched the golf glove that matchedthe socks. You would see couples dressed to match.I’m convinced that no matter how much we spend onneedlepoint, it’s nothing compared to what golfersspend on a day of golf.

Anyway, I digress. I had a lovely time at the retreat.Janice Doxie and her crew put on a fabulous eventthat included room, lunches and dinners, continuousrefreshments in the classroom, an opportunity tohave Jill Rigoli help you with your canvases, (Jill wrotethe stitch guide for "Floral Fun" that appears in ourMay/June issue), an optional class on a charted designby West End Embroidery out of the UK, cute gifts likeneedle minders, a coffee mug with stitch motifs on itand even a chair massage to keep our necks fromlocking up from hours of uninterrupted stitching. 

Everyone brought their current works in progress tostitch. There were no restrictions, you could bringanything you wanted to stitch or to make yourselfcomfortable. I thought I was being restrained becauseI only brought five pieces. Did I work on all fivepieces? No but I worked on three. Note to self: Don’tbring so much needlework when the retreat is only threedays. Honestly, two pieces would have been enough.Some of the local people even brought furniture! Isaw several comfy chairs being hauled into thestitching room.

The best part was that I met several needleworkersthat I had never met before, so now I have severalnew friends. One thing a stitcher is never low on, andthat’s friends. Everyone was chatting with everyonewhether they knew them or not. Yes, the room couldget a little loud and boisterous, but I really enjoyed

getting to know new people and I laughed a lot oversome of the stories that were told around the table.

I’ve said it before; I can’t recommend stitching retreatshighly enough. What a great way to share ourknowledge, meet new people and get some of ourUFOs out of the closets and onto our needleworkstands.  

Elizabeth

 

 

Coming in May/June 2019

Knitting Girl Canvas by Mattye Hamilton, Stitch Guide by Ellen Lerner

Mattye Hamilton is a painter and printmaker living in

Baltimore, Maryland, and is known for her unexpectedcombinations of color, pattern and line.

 

Miss Opal

Canvas by the Meredith Collection, Stitch Guide by Peggy Orlando of

Newport Needlepoint,

With hot pink lips and a background to match, Miss Opal by the Meredith

Collection is a lighthearted 8"×8" design. Peggy, who’s been stitching for

more than 40 years, decided that stitches would be too flat and ordinary

for such a whimsical frog. Instead, the stitch guide she wrote adds sparkle

and dimension with beads. Stitched By Carolyn Rutter.

 

Patches

By Brian Shaw

“I just keep pulling it out and people love it,” said needlepoint designer and

teacher Brian Shaw about his counted design, Patches. He’s been teaching

classes with the design more than once a year since 1994—and it never fails

to delight his students.

All of the 35 stitches in the piece are drawn from Jo Ippolito Christensen’s

The Needlepoint Book. Brian chose a variety of stitches, including his

favorites and basketweave.

 

Floral Fun

Canvas by Danji Designs

Stitch Guide by Jill Rigoli

Over her 40-year career, Laurel Burch became an internationally known

artist with an instantly recognizable style that is imbued with brilliant color,

bold lines, and mythical figures.

Danji Designs is the distributor of Laurel Burch needlepoint canvases. Floral

Fun is the first of three in a series of floral designs by Laurel Burch, with a

stitch guide by Jill Rigoli.

 

Blue Star

By Timmy Schulzt

Personal Perpetual Calendar

By Love You More

 

 

Elizabeth's Musings

Squared Away,

with Marnie Ritter

By June Russell-Chamberlain

From the Judge's Corner

By Connie Lynn Borserine

Making It Simple

By Anne Stradal

Simply Stitches

By Mary Legallet

Stitching with Confidence

By Ellen Johnson

What's New? What's Hot

Bookshelf

By Elizabeth Bozievich

Rainbow Black: Blackwork With Many Colors by Finger Step Designs

My Favorite Things

By Timmy Schultz

Hodge Podge stitch and Amish Friendship Bread

Using Common Stitches In Uncommon Ways

By Ann Strite-Kurz

 

 

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Spring has finally sprung!  We've been enjoying thelonger, sunnier days, but it's still cool enough in theevening that a cup of chamomile tea is just the thingto wind down with as I stitch and think aboutsummer. Last time, I mentioned keeping my eyesaway from the seed catalogs. I'm happy to be able tosay I was successful and only added a couple of newseed packets to the mix: some borage to grow for thebees, and a really pretty kind of nasturtium I hadn'tseen before, one that works well in containers.

Here's the final coaster from the series I designed tofit in Planet Earth Fiber's self-finishing leathercoasters and stitched with their vibrant 100% MerinoWool thread. I was inspired by crisp, modernScandinavian designs. The first three designsappeared in previous newsletters. If you were inspiredto stitch a set yourself, I'd love to see your pictures.Please send them to graphics@needlepointnow.com.Thanks and happy stitching!

Cross Stitch

Tent  Stitch

Instructions

Stitch the background in tent stitch using Planet EarthWool 097 Cloud. Work the zig-zag pattern in crossstitch with Planet Earth Wool 008 Sizzle. Cut thefinished piece along the cut line as shown, leaving

 

 

two threads between the edge of your stitching andthe cut. 

Follow Planet Earth Fiber's instructions to attach thestitched piece in the coaster as shown here. 

 

Materials

14 Count Mono Canvas

Planet Earth Wool - 100% Merino Wool Cloud 097 - 100% Merino Wool Sizzle 008 - 100% Merino Wool Shrub 058*

Planet Earth Fibers Self-Finishing Leather Coasters

One skein of each of the three colors is enough to finish the setof coasters, and you'll have a good amount left over in bothSizzle and Shrub. 

 

  

Join us on tour in 2019!

We're going to the United Kingdom in October to seemore sights, more museums, and to stitch moreexclusive projects than ever before. And then we'll beback in the States, for our Rolling Stitch Tour andShop Crawl of the South in November - take in ashow at the Grand Ole Opry, visit Graceland with us,and so much more!

Please visit our website for more information.

 

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