The Needler January 2012 Volume 21, Issue 1 Official Newsletter of the NJ Needle Artists Chapter of ANG

Carol also discussed our planned field Schedule of Events 2012 2011 Projects trip to Fireside Stitchery on a Saturday in March or April. Please e-mail Carol at January 18 Most members have finished their [email protected] if you would Intro to Quilt Designs like to go and please include what dates are Susan Reed of the Month February 15 no good for you. She’ll arrange for a date mystery. It has been a wonderful Transfer of Design, with as few conflicts as possible – which is opportunity to see how colors and Selection of Thread & tricky in a group like ours! Stitches provide a totally different result 

March 21 with the same design. Several Quilt Design continued members have had their pieces framed and it’s been interesting to see how News from National April 18 The 2012 ANG Seminar Brochure Quilt Design continued the framing enhances the finished piece even further. information has been sent to the publisher April 28 and should be mailed out by mid-February. NJ Needlefest The Web Brochure should be up and May 16 running by March 1. Stash Auction Please consider donating some of your June 20 excess canvases to ANG, for use in the Quilt Design continued Auction. Also if you have stitched a piece July 18 that you enjoyed stitching, but just don’t Quilt Design continued want to have it finished because you can’t August 15 figure out what to do with it, or you already Quilt Design continued have in every room and corner of your house, ANG would be delighted to September 19 Seminar & Quilt projects accept these pieces as well. They will finish continued these pieces into wonderful works of art for 2012 Projects the Auction. October 17 Seminar & Quilt projects Since many of us are planning to All donations are tax-deductible, and the attend Seminar in Philadelphia, we’ll proceeds of the auctions, are used for ANG November 21 educational activities. Please complete the Seminar & Quilt projects be doing a short part year project so that we can concentrate on stitching Auction Donation Form December 19 our seminar pieces at the end of the http://www.needlepoint.org/forms/AuctionD Election of Officers and onationForm.pdf or contact the Auction Holiday Party year. Our group project will be the creation and stitching of quilt squares Chair at [email protected] if you Meeting Place: using threads from our stashes. In need more information, or would like to Bernards Twp Library donate canvases to ANG. 32 South Maple Ave February, we will learn how to  Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 transfer the quilt designs to (908) 204-3031 needlepoint and how to choose colors.

In March, Kathy Marinovich will talk Be on the lookout for needles! Meeting Time: about the history of quilts. When we Since children use the rooms we use for our 7:00pm to 9:00pm are done, we will put together a meetings, please check around for needles,

chapter book with the designs and the tacks, etc. before leaving. stories about their creation.

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The President’s Message As always, if you have an idea for a handling the NJNA registration for program or would like to present individual spots. Please send a check for January 2012 something to the group that especially $25 to interests you, please feel free to contact Rosie Lunde Happy 2012 to all our New Jersey Carol or any of the board members. 34 Gunther Street Needle Artist members. The upcoming Everyone on the board would be Mendham, NJ 07945 year promises to be fun filled and happy to discuss your ideas and how to and indicate whether you want Turkey educational for all our members. present them to the group. and Provolone or Ham and Swiss for Your board has been very busy Here’s to a great year for the New your sandwich and coke, diet coke, or discussing, suggesting and finalizing a Jersey Needle Artists! water as your beverage. The lunch also great year of programs. We will be Happy Stitching, includes chips, cookie, and apple. NJNA addressing our next stitching project in a Susan will “eat” any unused spots.  new way that will allow more freedom for all our members. Make sure you come to our January meeting to get the Field Trip: Fireside “A hobby a day keeps the scoop on all the details. Stitchery doldrums away.” ― Phyllis McGinley As we all know this years ANG March or April seminar is in Philadelphia. The proximity is too great to not take Please e-mail Carol at advantage. As we near the August date Letter from the Editor [email protected] if you would like to join a field trip to Fireside we will begin to address details I hope everyone had a wonderful Stitchery on a Saturday in March or April pertaining to carpooling, rooming and holiday season. It’s amazing how and please include what dates are no whatever else needs to be discussed. If quickly the time goes and we’re into good for you. She’ll arrange for a date you are planning on going – great! I am another new year. It seems only with as few conflicts as possible! sure you will not be disappointed. If you yesterday we were worried about Y2K. do not have seminar on your calendar With a new year, many people like to you should consider attending. There are make resolutions or set goals for many great classes, the vendor expo, themselves. This year for the first time, I “The power of imagination makes us teacher showcase and other interesting set some stitching goals. I’m working on infinite.” ― John Muir meetings. If you have never gone before spending at least 15 minutes every day this is your opportunity to have the stitching as well as improving my laying ANG Correspondence seminar experience in the most cost skills. I’ve had a lot of practice with my Courses effective way possible. piano piece! Seminar will not be on the East coast Hopefully your goals for the year Thistle and Kilt: for a few years after 2012. Think about include attending our monthly meetings. and Plaid it! We each gain so much from seeing what and April 28, 2012 will bring the first others are doing and being able to gain Through the Tinsel annual New Jersey Needle Festival. The advice from other members. By Michael Roberts location will be Chester, NJ at the Michele Roberts’ designs, Thistle and Diane Church of the Messiah. It promises to be Kilt: Goldwork and Plaid and Through a great day where you can spend an hour, the Tinsel, are small intermediate level or the day, stitching//cross New Jersey Needle designs, with a varying amount of stitching/ with your friends goldwork. and fellow Festival For Through the Tinsel, the student NJNA members. There will also be Saturday April 28 has the option of purchasing Michele’s other ANG guilds there for you to talk original watercolor of Bethlehem at night with and meet. If you would like to sign- The New Jersey Needle Festival will computer-printed on the Congress cloth up to sit at the NJNA tables, please be held on Saturday, April 28 from 9:30 or choosing to print her/his own design contact Rosie Lunde for a registration to 4:30 in Chester, New Jersey. This following the discussion in the booklet. form. The entrance fee is $15 and lunch festival is being sponsored by Foxview The design area is 7" x 5" x ½". The is $10= $25/person. We do hope you are Needlepoint and is based on “Hook-ins” instruction booklet, includes full color able to make this new event and join the favored by rug hookers! There will be close-ups of the design, at each stage, as NJNA table. The current list of vendors vendors, door prizes and lots of fellow well as large numbered diagrams. For is: Foxview Needlepoint & Rug stitchers in attendance. NJNA has taken more information: Hooking, Dove Stitch, Swoon Fibers, two tables of six for a total of 12 spots. http://needlepoint.org/CorrClasses/classe Heart In Hand Rug Hooking and Mrs. The cost is $25 and includes lunch since s/through-the-tinsel.php . Stitches. For more information, please no outside food is allowed. Rosie is In Thistle and Kilt: Goldwork and visit www.needlefest.com . Plaid, Michele combines several symbols

Page 3 The Needler Volume 21 – Issue 1 of Scotland - a bejeweled goldwork event, there will be another very thistle and the Royal Stewart Hunting important event, a first of its kind, as IPhone / iPad / Droid Apps Tartan - in this 7-½" x 9-½"; x ¼ design leaders in the needleart community come Stitch Landscapes is now on #18 canvas. Using Chottie Alderson's together to form a three year venture available as an Apple App. plaid stitch, the background is created in meant to bring needleart to the attention Sandy Arthurs’ Shapes II is six shades of Caron Impressions silk and of a wider audience. It is aimed at artists, available for the iPhone; it is easy to wool. The instruction booklet, also art collectors, art enthusiasts, and understand and very useful! discusses how to create the background the general public. This venture begins Unfortunately their budget does not in your own heraldic tartan pattern. with an amazing exhibit at Traditional raised and dimensional the Philadelphia Art Alliance, (PAA), in allow them to include the Droid at English goldwork produces the thistle the beautiful Rittenhouse Square section this time. leaves and bulb, to which Swarovski of Philly. The exhibit will be an art SuZy's Portable Stitches II now bicone crystals are attached. For more exhibit, comprised of antique samplers runs as a native app on the iPad; there information: and of modern samplers. It will focus on is no longer a need to enlarge it. The http://needlepoint.org/CorrClasses/classe pieces from the far past, and move into graphs are super clear. s/thistle-and-kilt.php . highlighting the beautiful work, the To summarize the list of modern approach found in today's work. available iPhone/iPad apps: “Happiness is not a station you Orna Willis is chairing the committee in • Shapes of Needlepoint by Duo charge of this exhibit. In addition to the arrive at, but a manner of Designs, Inc exhibit there will be an auction of • Shapes of Needlepoint 2 by Duo traveling.” ― Margaret Lee Runbeck needlework that will take place on the Designs, Inc opening night of the exhibit. • Stitch landscape by Little Shoppe  Canvas Company • eBook: Needlepoint Encyclopedia

2012 Seminar by Procypher Software Co. Although, Seminar 2011 has come They always say time changes • SuZy’s Portable Stitches by SuZy’s and gone, it is time to begin planning for things, but you actually have to Stitches (great for iPhone) Seminar 2012 in Philadelphia. Our change them yourself. ― Andy Warhol • Suzy’s Portable Stitches II (designed National Coordinator, Barb Richardson, for iPad) has already begun the preparation for our • iStitches Volume One by Ruth 40th Anniversary. This will truly be a Schmuff walk down Memory Lane! Needlepoint Tips & Tricks • iStitches Volume Two by Ruth The Seminar Brochure will be in the Kreinik Needlepoint Schmuff mail before you know it (mid-February)! Thread Uses Although ANG is not offering Early Only SuZy Murphy’s book, Registration, you can now see candid By Susan Hoekstra, Foxview Needlepoint shots of the 2012 classes, on the Website, & Rug Hooking SuZy’s Portable Stitches, is available under Seminar 2011, Daily Photos on the Android.  (http://www.needlepoint.org/Seminar- • Very Fine (#4) Braid for light details 11/photos.php) - they are the ones on 18 to 30 count canvas labeled 1-Day Class, 2-Day Class, etc. • Fine (#8) Braid for light details on Happiness lies in the joy of rather than a date. Make note of the 18 to 30 count canvas achievement and the thrill of classes that interest you, and register as • (#12) Braid use on 18 to 30 creative effort. -- Franklin D. soon as you receive your brochure. count canvas Please plan to join all of ANG as we • Medium (#16) Braid use on 14 to 18 Roosevelt celebrate “Yesterday, Today, and count canvas Tomorrow” in 2012, in Philadelphia! • Canvas (#24) Braid use on 13 count canvas Future Trunk Shows • Heavy (#32) Braid use on 10 to 14 count canvas Mrs. Stitches has some wonderful • 1/8” Ribbon use on 10 to 14 count trunk shows coming up so mark your A Journey with Needleart canvas calendars accordingly. • 1/16” Ribbon use on 18 to 24 count • Susan Roberts Needlepoint Designs, A special event called "A JOURNEY canvas Inc. - April 2012 WITH NEEDLEART will be held in • Melissa Shirley Designs - November each of the ANG Seminar cities in 2012 - Susan Hoekstra 2012 2014. Foxview Needlepoint & Rug Hooking • Point Of It All - April 2013 Along with the yearly Seminar and www.foxview.com • Jean Smith Designs - October 2013 the celebrations associated with that 

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The cost for the class is $275.00, Needlepoint Tips & Tricks Needlepoint Tips & Tricks which includes the instructions booklet, Row or Thread-ending Laying Threads the congress cloth, all threads, beads and Stitches most importantly all pearls, shipping inside the U.S. , Shining Needle Society This involves laying threads neatly administrative fees and of course the Sometimes when following stitch when the stitch is a diagonal one. When class. diagrams, especially when moving to a you think about it, it is impossible for different row, ending a thread, etc., the multiple threads to lay side by side when pull of the last stitch is different from the they’re coming out of the corner of a others, and it shows. You can sometimes hole. They come out bunched up. You “It is better to ask some of the fix this by taking an additional tiny stitch have to get the threads to separate right questions than to know all of the in some hidden place before doing the there at the corner, and then they have to answers.” ― James Thurber stitch. Other options are to take the stay that way until you finish the stitch. longer route to the next row - think of the The laying tool helps, of course, but it doesn’t change the geometry, and then difference between tent stitch (very little Local Upcoming Events thread across the back) and continental you have to do the same thing when you

(much longer thread on the back). go back into a corner. New Jersey Needle Festival When ending threads at the end of a The solution is often to use a bigger • Sponsored by Foxview Needlepoint row you can bury the thread back into the needle that deforms the hole. The & The General Maxwell Chapter of same row (except for basketweave, of enlarged or deformed hole is easier to lay the DAR course, which should be secured in a threads from. • Sat., April 28, 2012 horizontal or vertical direction because • 9:30 am to 4:30 pm the diagonal direction forms ridges with Faith is taking the first step even • 50 State Road 24, Chester, NJ such a small stitch). However, when a • www.needlefest.com thread ends in the middle of a row, it when you don’t see the whole should be secured in the direction of the staircase. ― Martin Luther King, Jr next stitch to maintain the same tension. The new thread should come from Potomac Chapter 2012 behind. Local Classes and Stitch-Ins Because the area in front has not been Workshops There are several classes and stitch- filled yet, many people end the thread in Open to Ghosts ins scheduled at our local needlepoint the backing of the partially completed stores: row and start the new thread with a waste • Thursday Stitch-Ins at Mrs. Stitches The Potomac Chapter of ANG, knot. This often creates a noticeable gap. will be from 12 Noon to 5:00 pm located in the Northern Virginia area of I usually park the ending tail in a safe • Thursday Night’s Stitch and Chat at Washington, DC. is hosting two exciting place where it won't get pierced and Ridgewood Needlepoint from workshops in the spring of 2012: Bone secure it after the row is completed - an 7:00pm-9:00pm be sure to RSVP as Jangles with Janet Zickler Casey and extra step, but if you leave the needle on they need at least 3 people to hold Leaf with Terry Dryden. this thread, you won't lose much time. the gathering. You can anchor the new thread in the Stitching Bee in Chatham has BONE JANGLES (2 day workshop) backing of the completed part of the row o stitching/studio time on select Teacher: Janet Zickler Casey and lock the tail with a back stitch before Tuesdays from 1 pm to 3pm Dates: March 10-11, 2012. you take the first stitch. However, make  Bone Jangles is a ghoulishly sure this first stitch is not too loose or too charming three-dimensional "shelf-sitter" tight as this would be difficult to correct doll stitched on 18ct. white mono canvas later. Shining Needle Society in a delightful array of fun and funky  Cyberworkshop fibers and stitches. Threads included in

the kit are Splendor silk, Kreinik Elizabeth Class by Gay Ann Rogers Registration opens May 1 Metallics, Ribbon Floss, Soft Sheen Fyre Werks, Petite Very Velvet, and Silk Ribbon. Techniques included in this class Simple can be harder than The design for Elizabeth is available only as a part of the Shining Needle include ruched ribbon, padding, and a complex: You have to work hard Society Class. To see the design and find variety of textured stitches. to get your thinking clean to more information, go to The main body of Bone Jangles stands approximately 12 inches tall and make it simple.” ― Steve Jobs http://www.gayannrogers.com/site_2/Eliz abeth_Class.html. sits on a chair or shelf with his feet dangling over the edge. Discussions in class will include ways that the student

Page 5 The Needler Volume 21 – Issue 1 can use some of their own beads buttons This is easy to do, on the Web or by Scarlet Thread has created an ANG and findings to complete the legs and to email. On the Web, go to the ANG page 2012 Stitch of the Month kit of the fibers, personalize the design. (http://needlepoint.org/ChangeMember.p beads, and canvas and it is available from Design size: 7X12 hp) and fill in the blanks. Then click the their web site Kit fee: $95.00 "Submit Changes" button. (http://stores.intuitwebsites.com/ScarletT Ghosts are allowed hread/StoreFront.bok).  Remember, the first installment of LEAF COLLAGE (3 day workshop) this charted needlepoint mystery will be Teacher: Terry Dryden posted on the ANG Web site on or Dates: April 14-26, 2012 People will forget what you said, around January 1, 2012. It is the only You will learn how to transfer way to get the pattern. patterns to canvas using the new Transfer people will forget what you did, Artist and then how to interpret the but people will never forget how Unless your LNS (or the ones listed leaf sketches of Leaf Collage using a you made them feel. ― Maya as carrying all the supplies for the 2012 sketch technique. Have fun Angelou SOTM design) already has the 9mm SJ coloring the exposed canvas with a multi- Designs hearts in stock, you will not be layer marker technique using transparent able to get them. Copic markers. Many different SJ Designs posted on their websiste decorative stitch patterns will be used to 2012 ANG Stitch of the on Nov 15 that the 9mm hearts are out of interpret the collage patterns as well as Month stock and are no longer being made. the five frames which surround the leaf Beth Robertson and Suzanne However, they will carry 8mm ones patterns. The canvas you receive will instead. This should not make a big Howren were asked to design and have the leaf transfers already in place. coordinate the 2012 SOTM to honor difference in the design. Design Size: 10-1/2" x 12-1/2" ANG's 40th anniversary. They selected More than anything, this is just an Kit fee: 165.00 ruby red, the gemstone for that FYI. Ghosts are allowed. anniversary year, as the basis for the  monochromatic color scheme. The Potomac chapter is paying the They also decided to invite past teaching fee*. Since the chapter is seminar teachers (their families if they've Any activity becomes creative paying the teaching fees, you must be a passed on) to contribute to the design, member of Potomac ANG (chapter dues when the doer cares about doing and apparently the list is enough that this are $12/year) which requires membership is going to be a stimulating stitching it right or better." - John Updike in ANG experience. Among the designers are: http://www.needlepoint.org/member_at_l Chottie Alderson, Ann Caswell, Mary arge/mal_join_or_renew.php . Clubb, Jean Hilton, Joyce Lukomski,

Tony Minieri, Kaye Neufeld, Shay Correction: November For pictures, more information Pendray, Jean Taggart, and Anna-Marie about the workshops and registration Winter. NeedlePointers information, please go to The design is monochromatic and There is a small mistake in the http://potomacang.shutterfly.com/ done in shades of red. The selection of November issue of "Needle Pointers." A threads promises a rich, textured correction will be in the March issue If you have any questions, please contact needlepoint piece: Kreinik metallics in a since the January had already gone to the [email protected] variety of weights; silk Grandeur, publisher. The materials list for Victoria Splendor, Trebizond, and Waterlilies; Nessels' Pinwheel Ornament should read: When people keep telling you Panache; Soy Luster; and cotton that you can’t do a thing, you ThreadworX Overdyed Floss and --1 spool Kreinik #8 Metallic Braid Wildflowers. It's embellished with Mill (#152V vintage sienna; Trebizond ― Margaret kind of like to try it. Hill seed beads and SJ Designs pearl Silk #401, red) Chase Smith hearts. --1 spool #12 Kreinik Metallic Braid The fibers are beautiful, as you can (#051 HL sapphire; Trebizond Silk see from the photo of most of the fibers #401 red) at http://stitchything.blogspot.com/. The --In the Christmas colorway, Kreinik #12 Metallic Braid #008 green is ANG Contact Information list of fibers and color options are available on the ANG Web site used in the woven cross in place of the Please contact ANG if you have (http://www.needlepoint.org/newsletter.p Kreinik #12 Metallic Braid #051 moved or changed your address, or you hp) including suggestions on different HL sapphire. need to update ANG’s database with colors and/or fibers. your email address.

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After Vickie provided her original you to stitch. You can make one Match the Fiber and Durability Pinwheel Ornament colorway, she very using old ace bandages. to the Project’s Intended Use graciously agreed to also share with us  Needlepoint are made from a her Christmas colorway. In her haste to number of different fibers, including get it all to me so that you could have it wool, cotton, silk, acrylic, rayon, and in time to stitch for the holidays, there The secret to success is to do the metallic. Wool is the traditional favorite was a small up. Vickie sends her common things uncommonly because it is naturally strong and comes apologies. in a rich variety of colors. Needlepoint Since most will be using our stash well. ― John D. Rockefeller Jr. wool yarn can last for centuries with for our Pinwheel Ornaments, it's likely proper treatment. Its natural durability that most didn't even notice this small makes it a good choice for projects that mistake. Vickie is one of our newer Interesting Web Sites will get heavy use, such as chair seats or needlepoint designers. Expect to be sofa cushions. Knitting yarn is not seeing a lot more of her exciting • Destashing Blog recommended for those projects, because creations. http://stitchingdestashing.blogspot.com/ they are spun with shorter and softer fibers than needlepoint wool yarns, Sandy Rodgers • Stitchers UFO Challenge: which makes them less durable. ANG Needle Pointers Editor http://stitchersufochallenge.blogspot.com Less sturdy options like rayon and metallic threads can work for projects that won’t be handled regularly, such as Needlepoint Tips and Tricks wall hangings or Christmas ornaments. Finding a neutral grey fiber Needlepoint Tips and Tricks Some yarns can be separated into Choose the Right smaller strands to make a thinner yarn Many greys aren't neutral grays but Needlepoint Yarn for any when needed. Persian needlepoint yarn are either warm (yellow or red) or cool Project has three strands, and floss has multiple strands, the exact number (blue, green, or violet). There are a Needlepoint yarns and threads come depending on what fiber the floss was couple of light Threadworx that are in a wide variety of fibers, colors, spun from. neutral and Caron has one shade, Salt & textures, and weights. This basic guide

Pepper, that is neutral. describes the different options and when Most Popular Needlepoint Yarns and There is an easy way to shop for to use them. Threads neutral grays in the store. Go with a skein The vast assortment of different yarns Persian Yarn. An all-purpose, 3- of red thread and with a skein of blue and threads available today can be strand wool yarn spun specifically for thread. Put one next to a possible gray confusing. Which ones work best for needlepoint in wool and acrylic. The thread. Then do the same with the other needlepoint? How should a needle strands can easily be separated to make thread. If it is a neutral gray, it will look pointer choose the right yarn or thread thinner yarn. It’s also possible to add warm next to the blue thread and cool for a particular project? more strands to make a thicker yarn. next to the red thread. If it doesn't do Tapestry Yarn. This single-strand both, it isn't a neutral grey.  It’s actually easier than it looks to yarn spun in either wool or acrylic is choose the right needlepoint yarn. Start slightly finer than Persian yarn. It’s by considering what gauge canvas will be Needlepoint Tips and Tricks difficult to separate tapestry yarn into used for the project, and how the project thinner strands. will be used. Crewel Yarn. A fine single-strand Finishing Canvas Edges yarn spun from either wool or acrylic, In order to avoid catching threads on Match the Yarn’s Weight and crewel yarn is much finer than Persian the raw canvas edges, there are several Thickness to the Needlepoint Canvas yarn. It is usually used for crewel ways to finish them before you begin The yarn should be thin enough to embroidery, but can also be used as a stitching. slip easily through the holes in the needlepoint yarn. • Masking tape - it does not stick or needlepoint canvas you are using without Embroidery Floss. This multiple- leave residue when removed. Easy to catching or fraying, and thick enough strand thread is available in cotton, stick tacks through. that the canvas threads won’t show rayon, or silk. The strands can easily be • Grosgrain or smooth ribbon - fold through the design. As a general rule, the separated to produce the proper thickness the ribbon over the edge and zigzag lower the canvas gauge number, the for a particular project. stitch it; it holds the tacks well and heavier and thicker the yarn should be. Pearl Cotton. A lustrous, single- makes the canvas easier to stretch on Gauge 3 rug canvas calls for a very thick strand cotton thread used for embroidery. the bars. Think of all the fabulous yarn, while gauge 26 silk gauze canvas It can’t be separated into thinner strands. patterns and colors you can use to needs ultra-fine silk thread. Pearl cotton is available in three weights: add some zing to your canvas. • Frame cover – fabric cover that fits fine (#8), medium (#5) and heavy (#3). over your frame while still allowing

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Matte Embroidery Cotton. A soft, Au Ver A Soie Spreadsheet: onversioncharts/Floss_Conversion_C single-strand cotton thread with a dull which has Soie Perlee and Soie 100/3 harts.htm finish. Thread Gatherer spreadsheet: ThreadWorx conversions: Metallic Thread. Available in a only includes Silk 'n Colors overdyed (http://www.lkreinmiller.com/thread- variety of weights, colors, and textures. silk floss. If the thread color is conversion-links.html) This is mainly used to highlight small areas, because it doesn’t wear well. highlighted in light grey that means Needle Artworks While the yarns and threads listed the color has existed at some point (www.needleartworks.com ) also has here are the ones most commonly used but may be discontinued. Any color a several thread inventory lists that for needlepoint, they certainly aren’t the not highlighted was found on some can be printed or exported to Excel. only choices. Almost any fiber that can sort of current list - either the order be threaded through a tapestry needle and form, the downloadable color list, or  will fit through the openings in the the individual pages on the web site. needlepoint canvas can be used for At the end of the list are the families needlepoint. It might be fun to try some of colors TG has designated Happiness lies in the joy of of the gorgeous decorative knitting wools Tints, Tones, Shades, divided by available today, ribbon, or even strips of achievement and the thrill of torn fabric for projects that won’t get lines to indicate color families. creative effort. - Franklin D. heavy wear. Roosevelt  Linda has also added a link to as

well as a link between the thread inventory page and the thread New Designer Thread Inventory conversion page so you don't have to Canvas Art by Barbi is a new go out to the main page to get to Spreadsheets company AND designer. She has them. Linda Reinmiller continues to interesting letter designs as well as The following Thread Color update her Thread Inventory heart designs. Her website is Charts and Conversion Charts are Spreadsheets . The links to the http://www.canvasartbybarbi.com if available: spreadsheets are found at  Needlepoint Threads: you want to check it out. http://www.lkreinmiller.com/thread- http://www.needlepointers.com/Show inventories.html . Presencia Spreadsheet: Includes Articles.aspx?NavID=1547 solid and variegated floss and solid Thread, floss & fibers New Threads conversion charts: and variegated perle coton except Gloriana has developed a new size 3, which is very limited color- http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitch picturelibrary/conversiontablescharts. hand-dyed thread, Duchess Silk. wise. The color names are from the Colors blend with other threads/yarns DMC conversion chart as she htm Floss Conversion Charts: by Gloriana. All of the colors are couldn't find a list of Presencia with http://www.cyberstitchers.com/stitchi tone-on-tone (subtle) hand-dyed the color names. If anyone has a ngtools/conversionchart.asp twisted silk. The colors are subtle to complete list please send it along and Needlepoint, Inc. Silk to DMC make them more "needlepoint I'll put those into the spreadsheet. Floss Conversion: friendly" with a gentle color change. Kreinik Spreadsheet: includes http://drawnthread.com/Resources/Co Duchess Silk comes in a 24 yard blending filament, size 4-16 nversion%20PDF/needlepointsil_to_ skein. Use single strand on #18 mesh. metallics, and specialty threads as DMC.pdf There are 15 Colors "so far". well as #24 and #32 braid, 1/8" and  1/16" ribbon. DMC Floss to Needlepoint Silk: Mill Hill Spreadsheet (not http://www.stitchesnthings.com/DM CtoNeedlepointSilk.html threads but definitely stash): includes seed beads, petite beads, Magnificas, An interesting approach to conversions: http://threadchart.info/ What’s New bugle, Pebble/Pony beads (sizes 3, 6, 8), and Treasures. Fabric Calculator, Thread Checklists, and Thread conversions: ThreadWorx Spreadsheet: Hyla’s High Cotton has http://www.findstitch.com/resources/ includes floss and #5 and #8 perle announced 21 new colors. Included in Floss conversion charts: cotton. them are a great set of hot pinks, a http://crossstitch.about.com/od/flossc family of Christmas reds as well as some other great colors.

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Sullivan’s has some neat packs soldier. Not only does the soldier receive of their threads. They have 12 colors a pillow, so does the family. The soldier in each in 15 yard skeins. These are kisses a pillow for each family member good combinations and they have to hold onto until the safe return from war. It is a comfort for the entire family clever names such as Fruit Fun and during the lonely times for the soldiers Floral Fest. They have also brought and for the families left behind. out project cards that will hold up to CyberPointers ANG has the directions 20 colors. and charts for stitching and finishing Kelly Clark has added some these pillows in .pdf form on the Yahoo Christmas pieces to her Dan DiPaolo group.  collection. Kelly also has a new monthly series that will start in March called Tremendous Trees, offered through shops. She also has NJNA Board Members some new peppermint sticks. Co-Presidents Brenda E. Kocher’s new Sue Hoekstra Tootsiebulbbles design, Rachel’s [email protected] Ribbons could be made into an Robin Marion unusual birth or embellished [email protected] with a charm. VP Membership Melissa Prince has a great Rosie Lunde collection of “everyday” purses that [email protected] come with handles. There are some VP Programs lovely geometric and other designs. Carol King-Barrow They also have simple backs, great [email protected] for showing off fancy stitches. Kathy Marinovich DebBee’s Designs has just come [email protected] out with Rice Pudding, a design Secretary composed only of Rice Stitches. It’s Sue Chadwick easy enough for beginners, but it’s [email protected] great style will attract many others. Treasurer Lee Needle Art has introduced Heidi Kelleher some exquisite Judaic designs by [email protected] Rebecca Shore. These include Tallis Newsletter Bags as well as coordinated sets of Diane Burgess yamulkes, tfillins (Torah scroll [email protected] boxes), attorahs, and tallis bags in three designs. JulieMar has a great custom snowman that can be personalized in one of seven sweater colors and a needle·point (-po̵int′) noun school or team name.  1. embroidery done with wool thread on canvas, used for upholstery, decorative hangings, pillow covers, etc. Kissing Pillows 2. a kind of made on a paper pattern, with a needle instead If you would like to use your of a bobbin stitching for a good cause, consider in full needlepoint lace stitching a “Kissing Pillow”, which are Webster's New World College small keepsakes for children and loved http://www.yourdictionary.com/needlepoint ones of deploying soldiers and also for the departing soldiers. The idea is beautiful. The loved ones kisses the pillow and gives it to the departing