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The Coolest Way for a Guy to Wear Needlepoint

I started working on Yarmulka canvases. These are 6.5 inch skullcaps (that seems to be a popular size) and they can be enlarged to 7 inches or reduced to 6 inches, by request.
Here is the first one, a flowery sort of bluey thing:

Oh, and with a Star of David right in the center.
Here’s another one, [...]

New Tefillin Bag Designs

I recently uploaded 3 new Tefillin Bag designs to the site, and I wanted to call them out here on the blog.
The first of these is a tad on the traditional side, with all the flowery silvery flourishes and stuff:
Lots of room for a name on that one. I chose to depict it with the [...]

New Product From Pepita Needlepoint: Threadbands!

We’ve developed a new product that is picking up some momentum. It’s a needlepoint headband kit, which we’re calling “Threadbands”, and it contains everything you need to stitch and finish a headband.
Check out these beauties right here: Needlepoint Headband Kits. To buy them, ask your local needlepoint shop, or you can get them from Pointseller.com, [...]

More Needlepointed Book Covers

Remember those Jane Austin novels with awesome needlepointed book covers I covered a while back? Well, now take a look at these babies, and then you will have seen needlepointed awesomeness.

New Designs Released This Week

Hi there all, I’d like to share with you some of the new designs released this week. I had a bunch of unfinished projects that I finally finished and cleared out of my todo list.
From my collection of “Coloring Book” style of designs, I bring to you “Doggie and Soldier”:
The pair of playthings have joined [...]

The Wizard of Oz: 70th Anniversary Celebration

Just in time for the Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary celebration, Pepita Needlepoint released a slew of new canvases featuring various Oz-related designs. Check them out on Pointseller at the new Oz category.

Fastest Design-to-Dollars Ever

It usually takes a few weeks to see any money from a design I did. Usually months. Or years.
Imagine my surprise when a brand new design, Office Space, landed me a customer within a week of it being available at Pointseller.com.
Check out Office Space at my website. And to help out with the economy, visit [...]

Jane Austen Book Covers

Leigh-Anne Mullock, a designer, has a portfolio at her website where she showcases some of her more interesting stuff. Among these are book covers she designed for 2 Jane Austen novels: “Pride and Prejudice,” and “Mansfield Park”. In her words:
Hand stitched cover ilustrations feature imagery about their relationships the novel’s protagonists might have been inspired [...]

Needlepoint Graffiti

These are cool.

Backgammon Board Needlepoint

The stats I get from Google Analytics show that searchers frequently seek needlepoint patterns for Backgammon Boards. Pepita’s own Backgammon design ranks well with that query and appear on the first page of results.
Possibly the most famous needlepointed backgammon board is that of Rosey Grier. I got this picture from a wonderful Flickr photo-set taken from his [...]

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