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Saturday, March 30, 2013

Happy Easter!

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Hope everyone has a wonderful day tomorrow with family and friends!  I've made my favorite thing for Easter dinner--reservations! Th...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

More on the Acoma Pot

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Our monthly needlework group get-together was cancelled yesterday due to snow--boo, hiss!--so the Acoma Pot canvas and I went nowhere.  B...
Friday, March 15, 2013

Angel Progress: The Mane Event

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Q:  Does it really take four weeks to stitch the mane on a lion? A:  No.  It takes 2-1/2 weeks to practice creative avoidance and 1-1/2...
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Friday, February 22, 2013

Angel progress: garland, claws and tail

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Like the angel and the lamb, the lion, too, now has a garland of flowers.  The leaves were worked in satin stitch with two shades of green...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Acoma Pot, part 2

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The Acoma Pot canvas went with me to the monthly meeting of the local needlework group yesterday.  This design had taken a back seat when...
Friday, February 15, 2013

Angel progress: a leonine body

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There's a lot of Petite Very Velvet in this lion!  Not too surprising, since he measures nine inches from stem to stern and four inche...
Friday, February 8, 2013

Angel progress: facing down on lion

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I was referring to the lion on my angel canvas, but there's another lion roaring outside!  What's being hyped as the Storm of 2013...
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Anne Stradal
Massachusetts, United States
A needlepoint designer and stitch painter who strives to create a beautiful canvas on Cape Cod. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, I hold a master's degree in journalism from Ohio University. I've been stitching for 40 years and designing needlepoint canvases for 18 years. I write the "Making It Simple" column for Needlepoint Now magazine.
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