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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, under the Wearables section.
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.
Here’s an email recently received by the folks at Pointseller.com:
I would like to know why you think your printed canvas is superior to handpainted. It has been my experience that the printed canvas does not have the life of a handpainted canvas. Tapestries from the 1400’s have lasted 600 years. Will yours? Doubtful.!!!
Here was my response:
To quote “from experience” that printed needlepoint canvas doesn’t last 600 years, is quite an interesting claim. To my knowledge, printed canvas is only around for a few years, so it isn’t possible to have conducted this type of experiment.
In fact, I had some of my designs handpainted by an offshore shop, and compared them to my printed versions. I couldn’t find any appreciable difference.
Indeed, my printed canvases have proven themselves durable and up to the task. The cost of a printed canvas compared to handpainted, inch per inch, is far more economical and much faster to produce. And in the end, both printed and painted designs will be covered with stitching. The quality of the design is the most important factor in choosing a canvas, not the method with which the ink was applied.
One of these days I will need to post a longer article on the pros and cons of printed vs. handpainted needlepoint. But the email I quoted above does cover the main points.
Check out Appraisal Day Offered at the Daily Tribune of Oakland County, where another needlepoint canvas was appraised by experts with an especially fine appreciation of needlework:
We’ve had things appraised as high as $50,000, said Colleen Barkham, a historical society member and organizer of the event. It was a needlepoint that came from England, 300 years old.
Sadly, no picture of the pricey point was included.
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 their friends in the Charming Illustration category. Next, I have “Banister”:
It will find a welcome home under my Home Sweet Home collection with all my other dandy decor depictions. After that, please join me in greeting “Beach Chairs”:
The perfect piece to stitch while relaxing in a beach chair under the brilliant sun. And now, introducing “Kitchen Utensils”:
As Benjamin Franklin once said, we need to all hang together. Last, we have “Shalom”:
And what a better way to end this blog post: Shalom, everyone!
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.
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 Pointseller.
I’ve visited needlework shops combined with knitting shops, with Judaica shops, and even with framing shops.
But a combination needlepoint and wine shop?
That could get confusing. “I’ll take two bottles of the Rainbow variegated, and 1 skein of the Sauvignon blanc, please.”
On one of my frequent sightseeing tours around the Internet, I chanced upon another meaning of the word “needlepoint” of which I wasn’t previously aware. I’m referring to an ink writing instrument known as a “Needle Point Pen”. Here is a review of the Uni-Ball 207 Needle Point Pen by Sanford.
Any business that involves a word that is ambiguous, is harder to find using Google or one of the other search engines. For example, if you are looking for a product for your nails, your search will turn up the other type of nails as well. Not everyone is savvy enough to type in “fingernails” instead of just nails. Needless to say, it isn’t good for business.
Our industry up until now has been free from this particular ailment. Let’s hope Needle Point Pens don’t become wildly popular. Searchers have a hard enough time finding our websites already.
On the other hand, it’s a perfect gift for a needlepointer friend!
