Looking to Start Doing Hand-Painted Canvas?
Updated February 15, 2019. If you are a cross stitcher, new to needlepoint, or someone who has been doing lots of charted canvas projects, you may be thinking that hand-painted canvas is the tippy top...
View ArticlePhoto Tour of Chicago Shops
Over ay Sheena’s Sweet Stitches, there is a great post with a virtual tour of five Chicago area needlepoint shops. Cheryl Roler Timko visited them on a recent trip. I am so jealous! Copyright secured...
View ArticleGood Customer Service Costs Nothing
Updated October 5, 2019. I’m bothered by what is happening to needlepoint because of a lack of openness and customer service in so many of our shops. From anecdotal evidence I’ve seen: Shops charging...
View ArticleOrlando Needlepoint Shop Visit
Kreinik visited The Black Sheep in Orlando Florida recently and did a video of their shop visit. I always remember this shop fondly because back in the early 1990’s I visited it when I was in Orlando...
View ArticleShops & the Long Tail
A reader asked why she sees the same canvases on every shop site she visits. It can often seem as if everyone is buying from a very tiny pool of products when we know there is lots more out there. I...
View ArticleeBay – Your Local Needlepoint Store?
Updated July 28, 2020. There are bazillions of needlepoint canvases out there and even the most well-stocked shop will only be able to carry a few. As shopowners they need to balance a ton of things...
View ArticleShop Tour & Eye Candy
When going to the grocery store is a Big Event, a trip to an actual brick & mortar needlepoint shop is an even bigger one. Sheena visited The Wool & the Floss in Grosse Point recently and has a...
View ArticleCrewel World – Past LNS
Updated January 1, 2021. Happy New Year! When I moved to California in 1980, I was lost for needlepoint. Yes, there were some stores in San Francisco, but I didn’t have time during my lunch hour to...
View ArticleNew Needlepoint Shops
Thanks to Ada at Eye Candy we have a wonderful list of new needlepoint shops that have opened in the past year. Time for some stash enhancement! Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2021Original content...
View ArticleDesigner Profile – The World in Stitches Randi Nelson
Our profile today is of Randi Nelson, the delightful owner of The World in Stitches. Find her eBay shop at: http://stores.ebay.com/twisinc Tell me a little bit about The World in Stitches, how is it...
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