Needlepoint Now 2010/3 May Jun

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Needlepoint Now - May June 2010
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Garden Magic Chatelaine
by Sandra S. Arthur

On a country road in Kentucky, a weathered metal mailbox glints dully in the sun, marking the gravel driveway leading to Sandy Arthur’s rambling cedar shingled house. The droning of bees fills the surrounding gardens. Bright orange and black viceroy butterflies visit the garden, and ladybugs call it home.
Sandy calls it inspiration. “I live in the country, and I love everything to do with nature. When I see things that fascinate me, I try to interpret those into some kind of design,” she said. A teacher first and foremost, Sandy designs needlepoint pieces for her students. Garden Magic Chatelaine, a collection of four pieces, is designed to teach a variety of techniques, stitches and threads.

Back Cover
Floating Hearts Designed
by Ada Haydon of EyeCandy Needleart

“Working in a needlework store can cause you to go into a full-on addiction,” Ada Haydon said about her three-year stint as manager of Needle in a Haystack, a needlework shop in Alameda, California, “I bought so much stuff, I’m still working out of my stash from then!” But that doesn’t stop Ada from painting and stitching her own designs, or buying more from her favorite designers. She painted her first canvas for a class with Amy Bunger on canvas development while living in California, just before moving to Rhode Island to join her husband. “Having worked at a needlepoint store, I was so spoiled for choices of canvas that I just couldn’t decide on anything,” Ada explained. “So I decided to paint my own canvas based on a greeting card I had. My husband had already been transferred to the East Coast, and I was staying with my parents-in-law. I painted the canvas in their guest room”

Table of Contents
Garden Magic Chatelaine by Sandra S. Arthur
Floating Hearts by Ada Haydon
Tapestry I by Marnie Ritter
Violets: Playing with Borders by Laura J. Perin
Blue Bonnet Studio LLC by Mary Alice Sinton
Ding Dong, Needlepoint Calling by June Russell-Chamberlin
Departments
Basics by Jean Rubel and Elizabeth Bozievich
Joy of the Painted Canvas by Rosalyn Cherry-Soleil '
Possibilities by Judy Harper
Jody’s Needlepoint Network by Jody Williamson-Valentine
From the Bookshelf by Elizabeth Bozievich
What’s New? What’s Hot? by Kathy Paterson
Using Common Stitches in Uncommon Ways by Ann Strite-Kurz
Down the Rabbit Hole by Coni Rich
The “TaDa” Moment
Resources
Marketplace

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