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Blue watercolor dollar sign on a white background

How Much Does Needlepoint Finishing Cost? (and ...

Ornaments, pillows and stockings, priced from real finisher pages, plus the questions to ask before you send a canvas anywhere.

How Much Does Needlepoint Finishing Cost? (and ...

Ornaments, pillows and stockings, priced from real finisher pages, plus the questions to ask before you send a canvas anywhere.

Blue and white watercolor mantel clock with Roman numerals

How Long Does a Needlepoint Canvas Take to Stitch?

Nobody agrees on a stitching speed. Here is the math that gets you a real estimate for your canvas, and how far off the published numbers are from each other.

How Long Does a Needlepoint Canvas Take to Stitch?

Nobody agrees on a stitching speed. Here is the math that gets you a real estimate for your canvas, and how far off the published numbers are from each other.

Watercolor chicken, seam ripper and frog on a white background

Mayday: White Is Not Always White

My best friend sent me a photo and one word: Mayday. What a dye lot is, what thread chicken means, why the tag stays in the bag, and how to...

Mayday: White Is Not Always White

My best friend sent me a photo and one word: Mayday. What a dye lot is, what thread chicken means, why the tag stays in the bag, and how to...

Watercolor pumpkin pincushion with a needle, green thread and pins

What Is the Autumn Needlepoint Reunion?

I wasn't at Fall Market, so I followed it the way most stitchers do. What a needlepoint market is, and what I saw come out of this one.

What Is the Autumn Needlepoint Reunion?

I wasn't at Fall Market, so I followed it the way most stitchers do. What a needlepoint market is, and what I saw come out of this one.

Watercolor of a January desk calendar on a gold bamboo stand, the 17th circled, with blue hydrangeas at its base

Why I Made a Needlepoint Retreat Calendar

I have never been on a needlepoint retreat, and when I go looking for one, it is almost always sold out. So I put the retreats coming up in 2026...

Why I Made a Needlepoint Retreat Calendar

I have never been on a needlepoint retreat, and when I go looking for one, it is almost always sold out. So I put the retreats coming up in 2026...

The Disco Perfume needlepoint chart, a disco-ball perfume bottle with a tasseled atomizer in blues and greys, with its nine paint colors, made in Chart Studio

Disco Perfume: A Free Needlepoint Chart, Made i...

Freebie Friday. A disco ball on a perfume bottle, charted in Chart Studio: 18 mesh, 90 by 91 stitches, nine colors, free to download.

Disco Perfume: A Free Needlepoint Chart, Made i...

Freebie Friday. A disco ball on a perfume bottle, charted in Chart Studio: 18 mesh, 90 by 91 stitches, nine colors, free to download.